Happy birthday to meeee

Hi!

Please don't post birthday related things on my wall.

It's not that I don't appreciate the sentiment, I just have never really been a fan of the social media impersonality of the whole thing. I don't do it for other people's birthdays, and it's not necessary for them to do it for mine. 

Thank you!

If you want, you can read something I wrote, strike up a conversation that I won't respond to until 3 AM that probably won't last more than 3 sentences back and forth, eat some mangos, make spaghetti, doodle, look through all of my recent irrelevant posts, take a nap, play some music, I don't know. 

I'm going to nap for a bit though.

4/30/2014 3:39 AM 

Yet hour after hour ticked by, faster than I could ever imagine, breaking to unrepairable pieces beneath me. I couldn't hold them, I was only permitted to stare and regret I had not made them stronger. Seconds blew away into the wind, and I could not breathe them into my lungs so as to keep some form of reminder; I was powerless. The world laughing as it stole precious moments that I was too foolish to see until they were slipping far from my vision. Each of my fingers grasping for the memories already lost. 

---from Facebook---

Things I have done...

1. Graduated high school

2. Got into college

3. Worked a few jobs

4. Tried to be financially responsible

5. I didn't become a pregnant teen.

6. I didn't get into a car accident ever. (the slight tap from the safelite autoglass person from behind didn't count because there was no scratch and it was all fine and we didn't even exchange numbers)

7. I got 1 speeding ticket. 

8. I've paid for my car insurance since I was 16. Minus the one payment because I didn't have a job at the time. Or a car. I still don't have a car but I still pay... because... I have a job again.

9. I did some really really stupid things. But of course none of them were "normal teen mistakes." But I learned. Don't touch wildlife. Don't drop cellphones in the bay multiple times. Don't forget a pillow when moving to college. Probably bring a light blanket in the car next time and sit on the side away from the sunshine so you don't toast.

10. Bought myself things. (Ipad, Ipod, food, clothing, computer, music, you know the necessary things.)

11. Learned how to ride a skateboard. Tiny board to be exact.

12. Written a lot of college papers.

13. Written a lot of emails.

14. Helped a club.

15. I've been featured a lot in the school newspaper. (nerd)

16. I went to some amazing concerts.

17. I took some awesome photos, which I probably haven't shared.

18. I've played in a marching band at the Jaguars Stadium.

19. I made it through middle school. 

20. I've been out of the country for school.

21. I went to NYC, DC, New Orleans, all over California, and have driven through a lot of southern states.

22. I did a ton of creative things. And after two years I still haven't posted my senior year 3D portfolio. 

23. I changed in my "style" from middle school to now, like most people. I still look the same though.

24. I grew... maybe 3 inches... probably less.

25. I changed what I wanted to be when I grew up a thousand times.