Saturday

I kind of forgot about writing my article for The Odyssey that is due tomorrow night so if any of you have any suggestions for that please, PLEASE, let me know.  Today I probably walked a total of like 5 miles just around and I'm actually really tired.  I am leaving in like an hour (still have yet to shower) for Emily's birthday celebration!  We're going to Oakbrook and eating at the Cheesecake Factory.  The Cheesecake Factory always reminds me of birthday shopping.  From the time I was probably 5 or 6 until my 18th birthday, my Aunt Bertille has taken me, and all my cousins, birthday shopping.  This was a $100 shopping spree and dinner out.  We would spend the afternoon and evening together shopping (something I was always done with pretty quickly due to my pure hatred for the task) but it was still fun and then we would get to pick a restaurant that we would eat at together.  I think it was my 9th or 10th birthday I chose the Cheesecake Factory because cheesecake was my favorite cake ever.  That has since changed but I am still a big fan.  On our 18th birthdays she would take us and our parent to Lawry's for prime rib.  I absolutely loved this year because I had never been to restaurant like that and the food was absolutely delicious but the whole time I was worried about getting back to my friends at my house that I had left doing math homework at our kitchen table.  Senior year, Courtney, John, and Zach would come over almost every day and we would do our math homework together because we had the worst teacher in the history of the world.  There were times that I would come into my house and find John watching the Sox game with my dad or Courtney hanging out with my mom in our kitchen.. I miss those days that they would come over and eat dinner but I don't miss the math at all.  It's hard to believe it has been almost 2 years since all of these things have happened but time flies when you're having fun!