I'll be legal in an hour

oh wow.

i feel kinda old.... (haha i bet i'll laugh about being old on my eighteenth birthday down the road)

i have poison ivy. or something else that makes you pink and itchy everywhere. i don't know how you catch poison ivy at the beach but i don't know what else it could be. a crazy part of me thinks it could be a rare and deadly disease. a crazy and fantastical part of me whole-heartedly believes it's the plague.

oh yeah, that's where i was, btw. i was at the beach imitating a beached whale as i lay on the sand reading and lathering on a gallon of sunscreen. i was with a friend's family. she is so skinny and eats like no other. i'm positive she eats about 3,000 calories a day. but she burns it off dancing and jumping around like a wild thing. i wish i were like her- energetic and thin. her name is birdie, ironically. she got the name as a baby, but no one knew she would grow up to be the type of girl with delicate bone structure and a heartbeat strong enough to fly her up and away. 

i didn't eat as much as she did, but i still ate my fair share on this weekend away. it's cake day tomorrow, but i don't think i want to use it as an excuse (to myself) to eat anything i want.

finished: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

reading currently: Little Bee by Chris Cleave

both are excellent novels. i highly suggest them.