Bad at Keeping Up...

Hello,

I'm getting to be bad at keeping up with this blog... need to try harder.

Anyway, big news of the week: I'm finally 18. I am very pleased to say I survived the whole birthday weekend without getting completely hammered. In fact, for my birthday all I did was order a glass of wine with dinner. It was lovely and actually quite liberating; knowing the province will let me do whatever I want now. Something I plan on acting on: I'm going to be using this status to my advantage to accumulate money so that I can leave home at some point hopefully soon. I've been roped into doing my undergrad already, so I'll save as much as I can in the next 4 years and then I'm going to get out of the house. The plan right now is that I want to make my way back to Paris and find a way to stay there for a while. I was so inspired while I was there... I just need to get back there and soon. I'll find a way to do it.

Other than that, I purchased a lottery ticket on Thursday (my birthday) and I await the Sunday paper (tomorrow morning) to see whether or not I won anything. My friend has been winning straight free tickets, which is fun.

Other than that I now realized that I can now go out and buy whatever liquor I please, something I plan on doing soon. I have a few things on my list which I would love to try, not the least of which is bourbon. Also: raspberry tequila. Lots of fun to be had, in moderation, of course.

So... that's been my life this week. Just preparing for the big day and then going through with it. Thursday I took my ladies out for dinner and today I had all my friends over and we nerded it up over a 6-way game of Magic the Gathering and Black Ops. I kind of wish I knew what my brother did to get the XBOX out in the front room, 'cause I'd like to get hooked up to XBOX Live for some wager matches... I'll be seeing if he's still awake to help me.

Have a good weekend people!
~Alexandra