I'm 20 freakin' years old!
Enough said.
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Showing posts with label birthdays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthdays. Show all posts
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
birthday eve
Eiko says...
It's the 4th of March, which means that tomorrow is my Birthday. I've only got a few precious hours left to being 19, and I can't believe I'm at work, teaching English in a freakin' striped dress shirt! Oh, well. This is life.
My 19th year has been the best year yet, and it's such a shame it's coming to an end. I wish I could stay 19 a bit longer, but at the same time, I'm glad I'm finally going to be out of my 'teens'. I'm tired of my students freaking out over the fact that I'm not yet 20! When they are curious enough about my age, (being 19 is not something I advertise when I'm working at an office, teaching people older than me in suits and such) I usually get them to guess how old they think I am, and often, they go way off!! The number-one WORST guess really made me feel like running to the nearest mirror to check for any white hairs and extra wrinkles!
Student: Are you married yet? If so, than do you have any children?
Me: *cough* Yeah, um. I'm not really thinking about marriage right now. Same goes with children, really. I think I'll give that a few years.
Student: Really?
Me: Yes. Reeaally.
Student: Excuse me, but how old are you?
Me: Ah! Here goes. Well, how old do you think I am?
Student: Hm. 32?
Me: Oh my. *cough* No.
Student: 35?
Me: *cough cough* No, no, no.
Student: 38??
Me: No where near correct.
Student: Oh, my goodness! Are you in your 40's!?
Me: Geeeezzus, woman, NO!
Student: Oh.... wait.... are you still in your teteteeeeeens? Gasp! You're 19?!
Me: ....
Student: ....
Me: Yup.
Student: ...
You see. And that's when I felt like making a dash to the nearest mirror!! Aaaaanyhow. I really don't look that old. I think it's just the dress shirt and the way I have to hold myself since I'm in an office. Hm. Actually, the above conversation happened just the other day in a non-business setting. In a bar, actually. A group of middle aged, over weight men from Tennessee were drinking a table away from me and my boss. We all started talking and the guy nearest to me asked me straight out if I was married. I rolled my eyes to this and said no. My boss thought it was hilarious and asked the group to guess my age, and that they'd never get it right. I assume they thought I was much older than I looked, because when the guessing began, it went seomething like...
"Let's be nice. She's 32."
"What are you talking about? 28!"
"She's 33, the age Christ died for our sins!"
"She could be in her 40's, you know..."
OMG!
So, really, it's about time I turn 20.
And I feel like doing something outrageous! Any ideas? Well, tomorrow, on my Birthday, me and friends are going drinking to an Izakaya, and that's gotta be fun. But! I want to do something before I turn 2 decades old! Argh! Can't believe I'm at work, in this freakin' dress shirt! Ridiculous.
It's the 4th of March, which means that tomorrow is my Birthday. I've only got a few precious hours left to being 19, and I can't believe I'm at work, teaching English in a freakin' striped dress shirt! Oh, well. This is life.
My 19th year has been the best year yet, and it's such a shame it's coming to an end. I wish I could stay 19 a bit longer, but at the same time, I'm glad I'm finally going to be out of my 'teens'. I'm tired of my students freaking out over the fact that I'm not yet 20! When they are curious enough about my age, (being 19 is not something I advertise when I'm working at an office, teaching people older than me in suits and such) I usually get them to guess how old they think I am, and often, they go way off!! The number-one WORST guess really made me feel like running to the nearest mirror to check for any white hairs and extra wrinkles!
Student: Are you married yet? If so, than do you have any children?
Me: *cough* Yeah, um. I'm not really thinking about marriage right now. Same goes with children, really. I think I'll give that a few years.
Student: Really?
Me: Yes. Reeaally.
Student: Excuse me, but how old are you?
Me: Ah! Here goes. Well, how old do you think I am?
Student: Hm. 32?
Me: Oh my. *cough* No.
Student: 35?
Me: *cough cough* No, no, no.
Student: 38??
Me: No where near correct.
Student: Oh, my goodness! Are you in your 40's!?
Me: Geeeezzus, woman, NO!
Student: Oh.... wait.... are you still in your teteteeeeeens? Gasp! You're 19?!
Me: ....
Student: ....
Me: Yup.
Student: ...
You see. And that's when I felt like making a dash to the nearest mirror!! Aaaaanyhow. I really don't look that old. I think it's just the dress shirt and the way I have to hold myself since I'm in an office. Hm. Actually, the above conversation happened just the other day in a non-business setting. In a bar, actually. A group of middle aged, over weight men from Tennessee were drinking a table away from me and my boss. We all started talking and the guy nearest to me asked me straight out if I was married. I rolled my eyes to this and said no. My boss thought it was hilarious and asked the group to guess my age, and that they'd never get it right. I assume they thought I was much older than I looked, because when the guessing began, it went seomething like...
"Let's be nice. She's 32."
"What are you talking about? 28!"
"She's 33, the age Christ died for our sins!"
"She could be in her 40's, you know..."
OMG!
So, really, it's about time I turn 20.
And I feel like doing something outrageous! Any ideas? Well, tomorrow, on my Birthday, me and friends are going drinking to an Izakaya, and that's gotta be fun. But! I want to do something before I turn 2 decades old! Argh! Can't believe I'm at work, in this freakin' dress shirt! Ridiculous.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
It's called being nineteen
Eiko says...
I had a fantastic 19th Birthday.
It was very relaxed and enjoyable. I did end up cooking my own "Birthday Dinner", but it was no biggie since I was cooking something I personally wanted to eat, and also since we had the ingredients for it. Dinner was a tomato-based chicken pasta, and it turned out quite decently! Dear Boris made desert, (check out the photos!) which was melt-in-your-mouth delicious! I ended my relaxed Birthday with a bottle of wine, a few chu-hais and Shrek 2.
If David Cook magically appeared out of thin air, and sang "Always Be My Baby" to me with his angelic voice, THEN I would have been sinfully happy.... it would have been WAY too sinfully perfect, it would have been WRONG!
I really like this song.
No, my Birthday was perfect as it was.
All those of you who contributed to it being as wonderful as it was by remembering my Birthday and called, or skyped me, or wrote me, or prayed for me, or even simply thought nice thoughts about me, THANK YOU! *Hugs and more hugs*
With the last minutes before I turned 19, in my slightly tipsy state, I was looking back on my 18th year and noticed that it was the most relaxed and laid-back year I had in over 5 years! Year 12 was iffy, 13 was purgatory, 14 was hell, 15 was that and a bit more, 16 was weird, 17 was getting better, but 18 was quite relaxed (bad-emotions-wise) and even enjoyable! In fact, 18 was a fantastic year! It was generally void of bad emotions like depression and I also wasn't obsessing over or recovering from stupid, life-draining, depressing eating disorders--something that was a very big part of my teen years.
I have a feeling this year will be better though. Definitely challenging and not without it's difficulties, but happy and better. We'll see, I guess.
You know, sometimes I wonder why I tend to be such a baby about certain things, or immature, or childish, (or whatever you wanna call it) when I'm already 19 and blah blah blah. Mom and Dad are like, "Wha?! You're 19? Reeeeaaaaally?" But then I realized that it's probably because I spent my pre-teens, and early teen years being down-right depressed and boring and mental! Now that that stage is over, it's time to start LIVING, and experiencing and feeling! I'm making up for the the teen years I missed!!
Now, that doesn't mean I don't want to grow or mature this year. I'm sure I'll be doing a lot of maturing up. But maturiety comes with experience, and experience comes with age. I've missed a few years of expereince by being a mental case, but with time I'll catch up.
You'll see.
I had a fantastic 19th Birthday.
It was very relaxed and enjoyable. I did end up cooking my own "Birthday Dinner", but it was no biggie since I was cooking something I personally wanted to eat, and also since we had the ingredients for it. Dinner was a tomato-based chicken pasta, and it turned out quite decently! Dear Boris made desert, (check out the photos!) which was melt-in-your-mouth delicious! I ended my relaxed Birthday with a bottle of wine, a few chu-hais and Shrek 2.
If David Cook magically appeared out of thin air, and sang "Always Be My Baby" to me with his angelic voice, THEN I would have been sinfully happy.... it would have been WAY too sinfully perfect, it would have been WRONG!
I really like this song.
No, my Birthday was perfect as it was.
All those of you who contributed to it being as wonderful as it was by remembering my Birthday and called, or skyped me, or wrote me, or prayed for me, or even simply thought nice thoughts about me, THANK YOU! *Hugs and more hugs*
With the last minutes before I turned 19, in my slightly tipsy state, I was looking back on my 18th year and noticed that it was the most relaxed and laid-back year I had in over 5 years! Year 12 was iffy, 13 was purgatory, 14 was hell, 15 was that and a bit more, 16 was weird, 17 was getting better, but 18 was quite relaxed (bad-emotions-wise) and even enjoyable! In fact, 18 was a fantastic year! It was generally void of bad emotions like depression and I also wasn't obsessing over or recovering from stupid, life-draining, depressing eating disorders--something that was a very big part of my teen years.
I have a feeling this year will be better though. Definitely challenging and not without it's difficulties, but happy and better. We'll see, I guess.
You know, sometimes I wonder why I tend to be such a baby about certain things, or immature, or childish, (or whatever you wanna call it) when I'm already 19 and blah blah blah. Mom and Dad are like, "Wha?! You're 19? Reeeeaaaaally?" But then I realized that it's probably because I spent my pre-teens, and early teen years being down-right depressed and boring and mental! Now that that stage is over, it's time to start LIVING, and experiencing and feeling! I'm making up for the the teen years I missed!!
Now, that doesn't mean I don't want to grow or mature this year. I'm sure I'll be doing a lot of maturing up. But maturiety comes with experience, and experience comes with age. I've missed a few years of expereince by being a mental case, but with time I'll catch up.
You'll see.
Friday, March 5, 2010
I stole her blog...just for today
Boris Speaketh:
As you can see, I have kidnapped Eiko's blog for the sole purpose of showering her with flattery and adulation on her 19th BIRTHDAY!!!
My love, (Eiko)
You are to me what chicken is to a vegetarian. No wait! What VEGGIES are to a vegetarian. And you are arguably the ONLY ONE who smells good doused with cologne.
Your beauty astounds me! Every morning I see you and vow, "The man who claims your heart is the first man I shall circumcise and asphyxiate!" You are too good to be wasted on those fellows....wahahahhaha!!!
I am your biggest fan! I stalk you like a pervert stalks his ..... prey. But if I find another man stalking you...I shall circumcise and asphyxiate him(again).
Am I scaring you, my love?
Because I am scaring myself.
But that is the extent of my love for you!
We are jumping on the love trampoline together! And we never get tired. NEVER. And if you get tired, don't worry, I'll carry you.
Your love, forever and always.
--Boris
As you can see, I have kidnapped Eiko's blog for the sole purpose of showering her with flattery and adulation on her 19th BIRTHDAY!!!
A love letter
My love, (Eiko)
You are to me what chicken is to a vegetarian. No wait! What VEGGIES are to a vegetarian. And you are arguably the ONLY ONE who smells good doused with cologne.
Your beauty astounds me! Every morning I see you and vow, "The man who claims your heart is the first man I shall circumcise and asphyxiate!" You are too good to be wasted on those fellows....wahahahhaha!!!
I am your biggest fan! I stalk you like a pervert stalks his ..... prey. But if I find another man stalking you...I shall circumcise and asphyxiate him(again).
Am I scaring you, my love?
Because I am scaring myself.
But that is the extent of my love for you!
We are jumping on the love trampoline together! And we never get tired. NEVER. And if you get tired, don't worry, I'll carry you.
Your love, forever and always.
--Boris
Happy Birthday!
Here are the pictures I took of you today.
They are hanging on the walls of my boudoir!
Here are the pictures I took of you today.
They are hanging on the walls of my boudoir!
Monday, March 1, 2010
18=>19
Eiko says...
I've only got 4 more days till I will no longer be able to say, "I'm only 18, okay? Gimme a break!" Because on the 5th of March, I will be turning 19 years old. Oh my, my, my! 19 sounds like it will be a very awkward, odd year for me, that with the Change Program going on, and me not being either 18 or 20 and all.
Personally though, I like to think that I've lived my worst years out in my pre-teens. I know that's a very optimistic thing for me to say, being that I've only been on this Earth for less than 2 decades, but honestly, if life could get any more insane then those particular years I've experienced, I really don't see how I could go through it. ( alive, anyway)
Anyhow, I'm predicting that my 19th year will be very odd and random and awkward, but at the same time, it won't be depressing or bl
eh. In other words, it's going to be weird, but good.BTW!!
Ken, Sam, and Ai beats everybody in giving me my earliest, 19th Birthday present! They surprised me during my short stay at Lodge Home! They're all sweethearts! xoxo
Well, I've got a very limited amount of time left to my 18th year, and I'm thinking about a variety of exciting things to do to make these last days memoriable.
Exciting!!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Happy Birthday Family!!
Eiko says...
Through the good times and the bad times, through thick and thin, here the Family still stands and fights on. It's quite the impressive sight. Woo hoo!
We celebrated over plenty of pasta and wine! Yum!
Through the good times and the bad times, through thick and thin, here the Family still stands and fights on. It's quite the impressive sight. Woo hoo!
We celebrated over plenty of pasta and wine! Yum!
Boris and I split the bottle of wine. It's not much, but it was better than nothing, and besides, I like wine!!
Saturday, February 6, 2010
omg. . .
Eiko says...
SAM!!
Happi Baasudei!
You are all of our favorite oldest brother, and we are all in respect and awe!!
Have a good 30th year!
This conversation happened today, on your Birthday, while walking through fresh snow with Boris.
Me: Boris, fall down on your back and make a snow angel!
Boris: No effing ways! I'm going to get wet!
Me: Don't be silly. It's powder snow! You know you won't get wet!
Boris : Fine!! How about my butt will freeze? And even if Johnny Depp carved his initials on my butt, I wouldn't feel a thing!!
Me: You want to feel something?!
Boris: Duh!! It's Johnny freakin' Depp!
whatafa?
SAM!!
Happi Baasudei!
You are all of our favorite oldest brother, and we are all in respect and awe!!
Have a good 30th year!
This conversation happened today, on your Birthday, while walking through fresh snow with Boris.
Me: Boris, fall down on your back and make a snow angel!
Boris: No effing ways! I'm going to get wet!
Me: Don't be silly. It's powder snow! You know you won't get wet!
Boris : Fine!! How about my butt will freeze? And even if Johnny Depp carved his initials on my butt, I wouldn't feel a thing!!
Me: You want to feel something?!
Boris: Duh!! It's Johnny freakin' Depp!
whatafa?
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Happy 54th Birthday, DAD!!!
Eiko says...
My Dad turned 54 today. Boris and I made sushi for a special dinner party, and as a collective present from all of us, we gave Daddy the gift of a "listening ear". This gift meant 1 full hour after dinner dedicated to listening to Dad talk without any interruptions or hurrying from us. Those of you who know my Dad well should know that this would make my Dad the happiest EVER!
To Dad:
You should know that you are a wonderful father, and that I love you. Wishing you the best and that your crazy dreams will come true!
Muah!
My Dad turned 54 today. Boris and I made sushi for a special dinner party, and as a collective present from all of us, we gave Daddy the gift of a "listening ear". This gift meant 1 full hour after dinner dedicated to listening to Dad talk without any interruptions or hurrying from us. Those of you who know my Dad well should know that this would make my Dad the happiest EVER!
To Dad:
You should know that you are a wonderful father, and that I love you. Wishing you the best and that your crazy dreams will come true!
Muah!
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Happy 13th Birthday, Akari!!!
Eiko says...
What can I say? You're a smart, adorable, sweet, funny, witty, artistic, and musical 13 year old!
You're thoughtful and caring and mature, and despite your adolescent ways, you always have a way of making me smile, even if it's a smile I'm smiling inside as I correct you and give you more quiet time assignments!! Heh!
Your future is bright, sweetie! May this year be your best yet!! Muuuuuah!
What can I say? You're a smart, adorable, sweet, funny, witty, artistic, and musical 13 year old!
You're thoughtful and caring and mature, and despite your adolescent ways, you always have a way of making me smile, even if it's a smile I'm smiling inside as I correct you and give you more quiet time assignments!! Heh!
Your future is bright, sweetie! May this year be your best yet!! Muuuuuah!
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