please just don't play with me my paper heart will bleed

Mood: Actually, I'm kinda bitter. But I'm SO FRIGGIN TIRED.
Listening To: "Paper Heart" by The All-American Rejects.
Reading: Book of Mormon and my monologue, "Fieffer's People" by Jules Fieffer.

So, my birthday has come and gone, and I had THE BEST birthday a girl could ask for. First, Kenzie calls me at midnight. I didn't have my cell phone with me, and my home phone didn't ring, but I finally got to my phone and listened to her voice message. She sang "Happy Birthday" to me. So sweet. So I called her back and showered her with my love and excitement, then finally went to bed. In the morning, I went to church, got cards there, plus an anonymous letter from this sweet girl in my ward, then I came home for an hour (during this time, Travis called and sang Happy Birthday), then my parents took Lindsey and I out to eat at Applebee's (and during this time Rikki called and wished me a Happy Birthday), and then we dropped Lindsey off at home, and I took my mom to Home Depot. Afterward, when we were going from Home Depot to Wal-Mart, Kenzie calls me. I freak out trying to get the phone out of my pocket, then I finally got it on speakerphone, and my mom held it while I drove.
"Where are you?"
"Taking my mom to Wal-Mart."
"You need to be at your house, like, right now!"
"What for?"
"There's just... a surprise there for you."
"Where are you, Kenzie?"
"Uh...home."
"Right. Okay. I'm coming home."
We turn around at Wal-Mart and head back to Overlake, and Kenzie calls again right as I'm about to turn.
"Where are you?"
"We're turning into Overlake right now!"
"Okay!" Click.
When I get home, I open my front door, and Michael and Makenzie are waiting with a homemade cake. It was so cute. Part of the B in birthday was mashed in, and it was a classic homemade cake. All smushed in with love. =3

So we ate cake, and they had to leave, and I was just so full of love for the world that the warm fuzzies DID NOT GO AWAY that night.

At 8:40-ish, Tiffany called and sang "Happy Birthday" to me. I love that girl.

So, yeah, I had a GREAT birthday.


But on a different note, we had our Purple-White game today for water polo, and we tied. I'm really happy about that. I thought we'd lose. And then came auditions for the competition one-act, "Haiku". I got cut with the first group (like I always am. It just doesn't hurt anymore), and went home and got stressed out because of lack of sleep, and I don't understand math, and my mom's freaking out at my dad, and my dad's freaking out at my mom, and I'm just trying to fold clothes like a good little girl and stay out of it...

So I'm just frustrated right now.

But hopefully things will turn up.

"Oh, those are Willum's. Willum has a pair like that. Probably."

-Tansy about flowered boxer shorts, from "The Nerd" by Larry Shue.

<3 = brittany