4 eighteen year old girls; 3 drivers licences; 2 cars; 1 birthday

Sound wild?


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My birthday, I woke to a present at my door - but don't get too excited. It was one my dog left for me. Heat hung over the morning and thickened like a shroud slowly lowered, while beneath it all I scrubbed and cleaned and peformed other menial, unremarkable chores not usually associated with one's 18th.

My room effectively tidied, my sister Sleeping Beauty roused and perched with me, bleary-eyed, on my bed as I opened my gifts from my parents and her. Amongst the polka-dotted paper lay on my lap for a long moment the book she had lost ten years ago, my favourite book, an exact replica, surmounting another - a Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Italian. It was a touching experience.

From my parents, an '18' wineglass and collection of underclothes, which I sorely needed. No more dressing like an ill-begotten hobo for me!

Moments after, the girls, my wayward companions and confidantes - Ess, Tea and Jay, - arrived in Jay's family people-mover. Dragging with them two unicycles, two laptops, two pillows, and other large and lumpy things, they came up the deep honey coloured stairs and down the hall to my room. Here, after gift-opening and a bout of movie-watching, we departed for a round of op-shopping through Toukley!

We piled into the people-mover; Jay behind the wheel, me riding shot-gun, Tea and Ess etch-a-sketching in the back. We delved throught the treasure hoards and ventured like explorers through the book shelves and clothes-racks and countless obelisks of pre-loved paraphernalia of these nooks in the Toukley streets.

Finally, our tummies rumbling, our arms laden with swag, we headed home for lunch.

My room was a furnace; we sweleterd in its heat, sprawled upon the floor. We tried on costumes, feeling the need to shoot anything, everything, but were finally detered by the heat.

We drove off to my Grandfather's place to see his latest accquisition; a second-hand boat, which he had already inevitably begun to refurbish and polish. From here, we made our way in a snap-decision to my twice-removed old house in the country, for Ess had never seen it before.

The is a long and elaborate story surrounding the house, and I will not go into it. Needless to say, I looked on it from the road with much nostalgia.

Coming home, we ate dinner and savoured the birthday cake my sister had made for me; a cold banana cake with lemon cream-cheesie icing. We watched the first Star Wars movie; Episode 1, discussing and debating it all the while. {PN: OH ANAKIN, WHY??!} Then we talked into the night, and drifted off 'til morning.

It is still hot in my room and my eyes, though it is mid-morning, feel tired in the heat. For now I will end it as that, and detail our next-day travails when it is cooler, and I am more up to typing.


A bientot.


(IN OTHER NEWS: We recieved out University offers. I got into my course. :) )




The girls came around at about 9:30; Ess, Jay and Tea. We went op shopping, all around Toukley