Bing Bing Bing Bing!

Finally, my awaited 18^th birthday, and so far it was more than I could have ever asked for! Friday night I had to work, but then Ellie and I ended up watching the Game Plan at her house until the early morning hours. It was much better than I expected it to have been; both of us ended up crying out eyes out at the end. The next morning, she finally slept in until 11 (shocker, I know) and then she went into crazy date mode. She took me home around 2:45 and went to her date in Novi, which apparently went really well! When I got home I spent some quality time with my brother, which is always rare nowadays. It is always nice when I get to spend time with him, because we both have such busy schedules that always seem to clash.

Anyways, I went to work that night and did not enjoy it one bit. I absolutely despise working with John and Joren, not only for the fact that they are still stuck in the post-dating, pre-redating thing, but I’m really beginning to think John is not a huge fan of me. Jessica eventually came in to close with me at 7, and things went alright from there. For some reason I felt the horrible urge to prove myself to John, to somehow change his mind about me? I ended up cleaning the entire kitchen, practically by myself until close. Jessica and I were beginning to get on each others nerves, which isn’t much of a rare thing these days. Although the whole situation is getting to be a little old, I’m quickly losing the patience to keep dealing with it.

After work I came home, Ellie following right along, took a shower and got all cleaned up. From there we headed out to Brad’s cousins house, which is way out in the middle of nowhere. We had a ton of fun, well that is until I decided to flip out on Ellie for absolutely no reason. I felt really bad afterwards, mainly because she just broke down into a complete drunk sob, but at the same time I don’t. It just gets really old when that same type of phrase continues to come out of people’s mouths, and they are always directed towards my best friends.

I ended up driving her car home at like 2am, and we passed out pretty quickly. Woke up at 9 with anticipation and excitement practically bursting through every pore because today was the day that we got to go to the CASINO! Got ready pretty quickly, well… I did, and headed home to meet dad and Leo. We pulled into the parking lot, and dad got “his” parking spot, which ironically someone was just pulling out of right when we were pulling into the parking lot. As we walking into the front doors, Ellie and I just kind of stopped and stared. It was as if we had just walked onto a movie set; everything was dinging, blinking, and lit up. By the end of the night I had began with $87, got up to about $200, and then lost it all. $87 in the hole!