It’s official, I’m 28 years old now. My birthday blew goat balls.

I woke up at 7am because I heard and McKenzie playing. brought them over for to babysit. I got up and went to the living room because I wanted to play with them for a little while. I went outside to smoke a cigarette and saw a cop parked right outside the house. I asked what was going on and she said that someone stole her car from the driveway.

I was like WTF? Mom’s car was parked by the garage, Randy’s truck was behind it, and my explorer was behind his truck. My car would have been easier to steal, but (luckily) I have an alarm. I would have been on the warpath if my car had been stolen (especially on my birthday.)

I had to listen to Mom vent about her car, which under normal circumstances would have been fine, but it was my birthday and the last thing I wanted to do was listen to her bitching all day. I played with the girls for quite awhile. McKenzie and me are getting used to each other again.

Around 11am I heard my alarm clock so I went to my room to turn it off and I stepped on wet squishy carpet. I was wondering where the water had come from when I felt drops of water fall on my head. I looked up at the ceiling and there was a big leak. My stereo table was directly beneath the leak. The table had several puddles of water on it. My speakers and stereo were soaked. The AP magazine with GC on the cover was sitting on top of my stereo and it was drenched as well. Normally, I wouldn’t have been too mad about the magazine, but that particular copy had been signed by all of GC. I was LIVID. I picked up the first large thing I saw, which happened to be a huge bottle of Gain, and threw it across the room as hard as I could. I cussed up a storm while I was at it.

I ranted and raved for awhile and then decided I needed to start the day over, so I went back to bed. I hoped that when I awoke things would be better. No such luck.

I had a nightmare (I can’t remember what it was about, but it was a bad one) and woke up with adrenaline pumping. I laid there trying to calm myself down for a bit. I looked at the time and remembered that I had a lunch date with a guy from at 3. It was 2:15.

I jumped up and started getting ready. I went to check on the girls and I couldn’t find them or Mom. I looked outside and my car was gone. That royally pissed me off. Mom took my car without even asking. She would have come unglued if I did that to her. I ended up missing my date because she didn’t get back with my car until almost 3. So that pissed me off again.

I was playing with McKayla, hoping she could improve my mood. It was starting to work and then Jess showed up early to pick her and McKenzie up. Apparently, the building Jess works at was evacuated because there was a bomb threat. Geez, my birthday sucked for everyone.

I guess it could have been worse. On my birthday a few years ago there was an F5 tornado that leveled the entire town of Stroud.

After Jess left I went back to bed for a couple hours. When I woke up, I was still in a bad mood, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as before. called to tell me happy birthday. I told her about how the day had sucked ass. We decided to go to the bar. She said she would be designated driver since she doesn’t drink at all anymore. She hasn’t drank any since New Year’s Eve.

We went to Cockleburz. It was the first time either of us had been there since New Years. Only a couple of the regulars that we are with were there. We knew the employees though. Cole, the bartender, hooked me up with a double jager. Dena (my cousin) was working as well, so we were all sitting around bullshitting. Tori bought me a few shots of jager.

About an hour later, Mom and Randy showed up. Randy bought me two shots of jager. After the last one he bought, I decided I had enough. I was more than tipsy, but not quite , which is right where I wanted to be. When I’m I don’t have much control over myself.

After a couple hours we went home. Tori and me stayed up pretty much all night talking and stuff. I missed her. I haven’t seen her much the past month and a half.

I didn’t see , but I talked to him a few times. His best friend’s birthday is May 3rd, the same as mine. They partied together the night after, which was a Friday. I partied with Tori, Amber, and that night. The next night, celebrated with me. He had me go pick him up from his friend’s house early Saturday morning.

I was extremely disappointed with Nick. He didn’t take me out at all for my birthday and what made it worse was his choice in a birthday gift. He got me tiki torches. TIKI TORCHES!!! For my birthday! WTF?!? I didn’t even pretend to be pleased with the gift. I know it’s supposed to be the thought that counts, but I don’t know any other females who would be happy if their boyfriend gave them tiki torches as a birthday gift.

All my friends and were giving him shit for it. I started to feel bad for him. Later, when we were alone, he told me that he thought I would like them and put them out back by the pool. I told him I would have liked them if they were a housewarming gift, NOT a birthday gift, which is true. I told him I would count them as a housewarming present, and give him another chance to give me a better birthday gift.