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My Birthday has happened. I am eighteen. And in token of turning eighteen I am now supposed to be working a lot more hours that I’ve doing in the past. The past on a “good” week was 7 1/2 hours a week. Last week I worked a little over 15 hours and my muscles were really hurting and I got sick on Saturday night but I’m feeling better today. So I’ve kind of been too busy and tired to write about my birthday party and so forth. But I shall do it now!!!

I had a wonderful birthday! I got lots of presents which, in my way of thinking equals wonderful birthday. I really don’t feel like it’s my birthday unless I get enough presents to cover one of the couches in the living room. Even if I hadn’t purchased for myself a large box of presents I think I could have done it:) It was very fun. I got DVD’s and Dolls, Formal Dresses, jewelry, lots of surprises and ribbon, and some very fun toys.

Present at my birthday party were my three brothers, my parents, the fiance of my eldest brother and the wife of my next eldest brother. That was Saturday. On my birthday I went shopping and I got to eat desert and Mom surprised me by purchasing sugar free cookies and they were really good and they probably had something to do with my becoming a bit ill on Saturday.

I could tell that I was sick by the fact that Mom and I went shopping Saturday afternoon and I didn’t enjoy most of it. TFor me not to like shopping either means I’m in a home decorating store or I’m sick. However, on the shopping trip I got a really fun toy that I like though it was very extravagant of me to buy it. It was $30.00! That as much as I expect to get in interest from the CD I started on my birthday when it matures in April. However, the toy I got is a very fun little handheld game where you can play with a little character and feed it and buy stuff for it and so forth. The little world on the handheld is a house for the character and a mall right next door to go shopping in. The perfect world! I had to have it, and I got it:)

Apparently I’m beginning to recover with my writing. For the past month or so I’ve hardly done any writing at all. I was pretty much just too tired to do it. But I’m beginning to recover. I actually wrote a few paragraphs on a story and now I’m writing this post. The story I wrote on today was “The Next to the last of the Muffins” which I think is a very interesting title. I like it and so far I like the story/plot of the book so far.

I was veery pleased to learn last night when talking with my brother Andrew that my creativity had not wholly gone done the drain as I was beginning to worry that it had. He was talking about something and said, “You know it would have been funny if” such and such and had happened. And I said, “You know what would be really funny, if twelve penguins tap-danced to the William tell overture!” and Andrew added, “being played by a prune eating weasel with a chain-saw.” Ah, one should always reflect back on the great comic strip writers of one’s time. If you are wondering what comic strip has tap-dancing penguins I have less of a clue than you have but I was referring to the Prune Eating Weasel with a Chain-saw. I think all of my brothers would know who I’m referring too so you just may have to wonder, or go read Dilbert comic books searching for the elusive prune eating weasel reference.

Anyway, I think this post is over. I shall attempt to be writing more and posting more in the future but no promises.