It’s My Birthday
November 12, 2007
Filed under Family, Food, Friends, Holidays, Places, Sports, Telivision
Tags: birthday 17 food family cake friends party
Well today is my 17th Birthday. Over the weekend I spent most of my time hanging around with family and friends to celebrate it.
On Saturday I went to my uncle’s place for my cousin’s Birthday party. He turned seven. He was born on the exact same day as I was, so naturally when we celebrate our birthdays we share the celebration. It was also the first time I had seen my uncle and some of my other relatives in almost a year, so it was really great to see all of them. We played poker, watched the Sabres lose, ate tons of food, blew out the candles on the cake, and opened gifts. My cousin got all these toys and I received a bunch of checks. I was very grateful cause I have been broke for a while now, so they pretty much made for the perfect gift. Seeing my family was probably the best part of the evening though cause I had not seen them in a very long time.
On Sunday I spent pretty much most of the day hanging around with my friends. We got to stay out late becuase we didnt have school the next day. Pretty nice Birthday present if you ask me, a whole day off from school. (Special thanks to all of the troops that served in our country’s defenses). So we ended up just hanging around and goofing off. We drove around looking for something to do and ended up at a party. It was good time and a nice way to spend time with some of my good friends.
So today, Monday November 12th, is officially my Birthday. I hope Mrs. Skotnicki does not realize that I wrote this blog about twelve hours late. I spent most of the day watching SportsCenter and the Fast and the Furious movies on the telivision. I did not have any chores to do and I was allowed to own the coach and the teliviosn all for myself for the entire day. I spent pretty much my entire Birthday being a coach potato. It was a great way to spend the day. Eventually my mom took me to pick out a Birthday present. We went to the mall and I picked out a nice chrome weight set and a new hockey stick. We headed back home and I went back to being lazy. My friends called me and asked if I wanted to go for dinner with them. I asked if they were treating me to a free meal and they said of course, it’s your Birthday. So of course I said yes to going. How could I turn down a free meal? I asked where they were going to be taking me and they said Hooters, but unfortunatly the only location that was around our area closed, and closest one is located in Pennsylvania. So we decided to scratch that idea for the sake of gas and time and looked for another place to eat at. So for now I am working up a big appetite so I can get all the food I want and make my friends pay for it.
So far it has been a really great Birthday.
Halloween
October 29, 2007 
Well Halloween is coming up in a few days and this will probably be the last time i ever go trick-or-treating. My mom has said for the past four years that I am way too old to go out and trick or treat, but of course I have to go out and get all the free candy that the neighboring people are willing to give to me.
Halloween is defiantly one of the best holidays of the year if you ask me. I love it when all the really good scary movies are on TV and the haunted houses are open in the old abandoned Ames stores. Plus the weather tends to finally go down in temperature so we don’t have to deal with 80-90 degree heat in school anymore. Plus snow is usually on its way and that’s always something to look forward to. Its just a great time of the year.
I don’t know what exactly I want to be for Halloween. I have saved every single mask and costume that I wore for Halloween since i was a young child. I have an old skeleton outfit, a devil mask, a cyclops mask, a werewolf outfit, so i have a lot to choose from. I don’t plan on spending any money on Halloween due to the fact that i am broke and cant really afford anything anymore now that college and a future car purchase are in the near future.
I was thinking about being Bag Man again for Halloween like I did two years ago. Basically the Bag Man costume consists of a paper bag, a towel, and some fireworks. I take a paper bag and cut holes into it for my eyes and mouth. I write Bag Man at the top of the bag just in case people don’t know exactly who I am. I tie a large towel around my neck to act as a cape and I use the fireworks as my “secret weapon.” Basically i attach some bottle rockets to the top of the bag and some firecrackers to my side. Unfortunately I had a little mishap with the bottle rockets two years ago. One of the bottle rockets did not launch and stuck to the bag when it went off. I did not realize it at the time but the whole left side of the bag was on fire while it was on my head. Fortunately my friends were around to have a good laugh and were nice enough to tell me that my head was on fire. So i ripped off the bag and threw it into the street and watched as the best Halloween costume ever burnt to shreds. Then a big pick up trick came and ran over the burning remains and that was officially the end of that. Hopefully if I decide to be bag man again this year I wont have any mishaps that ruin my costume.
Basically my plans for this Halloween are to help my family give out candy for a little while and then head out with my friends to collect some candy from trick-or-treating. Hopefully I will end up scaring some of my friends and get some really great candy that will last me until summer. I just hope i don’t end up on fire or in the dentist’s office because of a cavity.
