So I hope to post a little bit more, so I hope to talk to you all soon. :)

Happy 21st?

So here it be. My 21st birthday has come and gone, and I survived. How weird is that? I didn't drink as much as I thought I was going to last night, but I have decided that if I am going to drink beer from now on it is going to either be Rolling Rock or Fat Tire. I don't really like other beers, so I figure I might as well act the snob for a while and make mandate. Oh, and if I am going to do shots? Triple Sec, Orange Liquer. All the way baby.

In other news, I am waiting for it to be May. I love my friends up here, love the people who are more like family to me up here, but I am more than ready to get started on our new life down in Phoenix... I would say more but really that is all that is left to say about that. I want our apartment and our animal (he wants a cat, but I want a puppy).

L.

Go not posting

I don't even know if you read this anymore, pops, but I figured you might and if you do I might as well oblige you.

You are getting home from England today, and for that I am jealous and all that jazz. It reminds me though, of how much I want to travel someday. I want to get on a plane with the person I love and just travel around willy-nilly until we get lost and/broke and have to call my loving father to get us a ticket back to America from Timbuktu.

I want to adventure with my children, show them the places in the world that there is still real beauty in. I would say I want to take them around America but I am pretty sure that my dad is going to do that to them.

Elizabeth

My brother is getting married next weekend. Let's just revel in the weirdness of that for a minute.

http://www.brandonbird.com/walken_letters.html

Okay, so I have to say that this just made me laugh so loud I am pretty sure I woke up my mom and the dog... down stairs.

I would say that my New Year's was good, but I think that might be a lie. The thing was? It wasn't bad per se. Just not the fantastic journey I thought it would be. Though I do have to say that my friends are fun and random. Just like me.

New Year's Resolutions:

Lose weight
Gain happiness
Actually get some quality writing in
Sleep.

Peace out, Players

New Year's Eve

I have always had a love hate relationship with New Year's Eve. Growing up it was this weird dance that centered around getting to stay up until midnight. I remember as a child it always seemed like something big was supposed to happen at midnight, huge and life changing and magical. The first year I was up for it, I remember leaving the night incredibly sad that nothing popped out of the ground, the room didn't swirl, and (other then the yelling of my siblings) no noise heralded the huge change of date.

As I grew older it was not only the dance to stay up until midnight, but also the hope of getting to stay out until midnight that made me anxious each year. It wasn't until I was 18 that I could stay out that late, and after only one year of that I realized how unsatisfactory even that was. My 19th New Year's was spent playing a board game called Scene It and watching the ball drop with Dick Clark.

This year, I had decided to give the adult thing another shot. I decided I was going out, and I am. I am partying on the streets of Tempe and I am going to really give it all I have. Maybe I will find that all the hype really is true for once, that it really is worth is to stay up until midnight. The problem is, having talked to all the adults in my life, the adult thing apparently is to stay in and go to bed early. Sounds quite nice, if you think about it. Maybe that will be my next year's plans.