My 18th Birthday

So, the dramatic transition from childhood to adulthood.  I assure you, I don't feel any different.  I'm still the same person.

Woke up to numerous happy birthdays from family, and several others over text.  I tell you, it was nice to know that people remembered.  Even though the signs weren't quite up when I came down the stairs.

School was nice.  I got several happy birthdays, even though I feel a lot of them were prompted by the fact that I was wearing the cape (for one of the last times too).  Still, overall, a remarkably good day at school, though moderately uneventful.

After school was a nice, easy rehearsal.  That was great.  All week, it seems all we have had is one intense rehearsal after another, and that's going to continue into the next two weeks almost nonstop.  Now, it's easy rehearsal yesterday, and today and tomorrow off, so we can completely regroup before the hard stuff really starts.  If only that didn't mean missing every single dance class...

After rehearsal, our whole family went out to dinner.  It was nice, and we all had a really good meal, even though it was a Lenten Friday.  Good conversation, and a nice atmosphere.

Then came presents when we got home.  I didn't really ask for anything, and I didn't really expect anything either.  I got some nice sweatpants, some shorts, a nice shirt, and then the present from A and V.

What A and V did was go through old photographs of shows that I had been in ever since first grade, and created scrapbook pages for all of them.  This had a huge range of time (literally ranging from 1st Grade's E-I-E-I-Oops! to this summer at PAC), and had a lot of pictures.  It was fun to look at all the old pictures, both of me, and of me with others (including AG and I in When Silents was Golden, and KM and I in The Wizard of Oz, and various other photos).  There are still more pages to do, they didn't quite finish, but it really was something special.

After that, I had a piece of cake, and went to bed as happy as ever.  It had been a good day, and had ended on a great note.

-NM

P.S. I find it extremely funny that for all the blogs I follow, everyone either hasn't posted in a long time, or their most recent post has apologized for how long it has been since they last posted.  I guess it's that time of year!