Sarah, it's your birthday.

So incase you don't know. . . It's my birthday today!

Eighteen years ago, in this very city, I was born. Countless times have I heard the story of how my brother had to come in early from trick-or-treating with my Dad because they had to go to the hospital.

Time has past, and this is the first year I have been back to the place that bore me since I moved away.

I had so many things to say about today and Saturday, but I didn't know how I could write about it all. So I decided I would do:

Fifty things that made this birthday spectacular!

1. Friends.
2. Birthday presents.
3. Baby Bunting.
4. Four birthday cakes.
5. Getting cash.
6. Throwing a wicked birthday party.
7. Pass the parcel.
8. Robert sniffing Andrew’s ear.
9. Meagan. :)
10. Helium balloons.
11. Disney princess birthday hats.
12. Stickers.
13. Lolli-pops.
14. Sleep-overs.
15. Cowboy.
16. Shoes on a bag.
17. Popcorn in Psych class.
18. Mrs. Vanelli’s soda in Psych class.
19. Rick Maddigan.
20. The jealous stares of people in the UC as they watched my friends shower love and happiness on me.
21. Leah’s super-surprise party.
22. A bag full of Reese Peanut Butter Cups.
23. Awesome CD’s.
24. Cow horn for my neck.
25. Pictures.
26. ABBA, live at my house.
27. Andrew’s straightened hair.
28. Robert’s pants.
29. Robert’s birthday card. :)
30. My English teacher ignoring the class and talking to me in front of everyone about how I celebrated my birthday.
31. Trying to share my Psych popcorn with the people around me.
32. Seeing everyone’s name on MSN wish ME a happy birthday.
33. Waking up and seeing the balloons and decorations outside my house.
34. Finding out my friends drove to my house, put up the décor and left again all while I was sleeping.
35. Eating cake with everyone off the same plate.
36. Meagan not cooking me bacon and eggs this morning.
37. Having a special birthday dinner with my parents.
38. Getting an amazing card from my Nan Fudge.
39. Getting cards period.
40. Having practically four different celebrations for my birthday.
41. BEING ABLE TO VOTE.
42. Being legally allowed to watch porn (hah, I’ll definitely abuse that right).
43. Watching Robert run across the street to ask “a nice witch” if Day Light Savings Time had occurred.
44. Seeing blog entries dedicated to meeeee.
45. Having complete strangers wish me happy birthday (bathroom girl was my favourite!).
46. Celebrating with “Skipper Junior”.
47. Did I mention Meagan?
48. Have amazing, talented, musical people sing “Happy Birthday to You” (seriously thought I was going to melt).
49. Eating so much birthday junk food that I vomit.
50. Having amazing friends from all walks of life come together to celebrate with me.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARAH SMITH!

P.S. This is my 200th post, wowza.

18.

I got tree on my pants.

Sooo. The McWhiteson's and I. It's a deadly combination.

Let's look at Case Study #1, shall we?

Robyn's 18th birthday. I think I won't say what's going on in these pictures, I'll just let you decide for yourself.









Oh, and can't forget this video.

On to Case Study #2! Scrapbooking night II.





So those are my cases that I bring forth, thus concluding that the McWhiteson's and I can never be together again. It creates too much randomness.

Hey. SARAH AND SKIP'S MIXER TODAY. Wowza.

The bed is unmade, like everything is.

So today was. . . A day? I don't know, but for some reason I am leaving this day with a giant smile on my face.

I had my Political Science midterm today. Ouch. But the Prof is amazing, he didn't make us write an essay just an essay outline. His reasoning? Too much bull shit in an essay. Gee, couldn't agree with you more.

Tonight I went to Second Cup for a mini-Stephenville night. Dave, Jones and Nicole showed up. I love our nights, they make me realise that my friends (as sulky as they can be) are rocking. Way to go dudes. We also went to Chapters and I bought a new book I've been itching for. Paint it Black, wooooooot. I'll start you on Friday, promise.

Tomorrow? Nothing except study. Study. Study.

Right now? Nothing except study. Study.

I found a new band I really like, but I can't remember how I found them. They just happened.

Also for your viewing pleasure, is Canada the new Siberia? Please check it out.

Fun for three.

Girl's night pics! Woooooooot:


Pry, need I say more?


I got a huge bump (and now bruise) on my knee. Tables don't make good friends.


I bought brand new stamps for out special scrapbooking night!


Three girls + 10lbs of nachos = sick girls


Robyn is attacked by Meagan's massive comforter!


We made cinnamon rolls for breakfast!


Here I am looking quite a fright with my cinnamon roll. . . roll.


And of course, no night is complete without little bo-peep-Andrew!

Dell equals the plague.

So as my vague post this morning indicated, Dell has once again screwed me over. Some of you might remember that earlier the year my adapter died and I could not charge my laptop. They sent me a new one, but it still sucked because it took like a week.

Last night my second adapter died. Ugh. I phoned Dell around 10:30 in hopes that the waiting time would be lessened by the late hour. I didn't get off the phone until ten after twelve. Dell, you suck.

I "should" have my new adapter by Friday, but in the mean time I have to limit the use of my laptop, thus less time between blog entries. Sigh. I'm using the school computers right now.

Weekend update (I'll do a picture post of the weekend when I get home, you can put the text and photos together in your mind):

Friday we went to Marie Antoinette (read, worse movie in the world). Please people, don't waste your money. All I have to say about it: what in the hell was up with the music?

Saturday was the super special girl's night at the McWhiteson's. We scrapbooked, to the MAX (Leah, I thought of you the whole time :( ). We also ate about seven pounds of cheese and nachos. . . Each.

I had super amounts of fun, including: McDonalds-ing, crafts shopping, cinnamon roll baking, putting hats on Andrew-ing, hugging my statue-ing and Love Actually watching.

We went to church in the morning and I protected Robyn from her current guy, although we both ended up passing out in exhaustion.

Speaking of which, today is Robyn's birthday. . . Happy Birthday Robyn!

Tonight is sure to be full of fun and grocery shopping. Yee haw.

P.S. Somebody remind me to post those pics later?

Quick newsflash.

Brief Note: Blogging world a la Sarah might be very sparse over the next few days. Dell has once again pissed me off.

The SECOND adapter I've owned from them malfunctioned last night and I spent a lovely 74 minutes on hold to talk to them.

So yeah, Dell sucks, blogging is broken (unless I use the computers at MUN).

But a spoiled little prince I was not.

I'm updating, hardy-har.

Right now I'm in the library with Meagan. She's obviously the one with ADD.

Today is Friday, although it doesn't feel like a Friday. I used to not care for Friday's because more often than not, I had to do a stupid close at McDonalds. Now they rock. Tonight I'm dining with half the McWhitesons. I have to bring something, what compliments lasagna?

Then we're going to go see a movie. Yay, for spending a million dollars at Empire Theatres. LOLZ.

My life this week has been me sleeping. That's about it. Last night Robert and I went to the poster fair, but it closed twenty minutes early. So we grabbed some donuts (but not before almost getting mugged by drug thugs) and headed over to visit the busy Physics-doer Meagan.

Hey, Leah, we should work something out for Christmasss. Something that involves me seeing youuu. Either you come in here, or I'll go out there. Or both. :)

I can't decide if I should go out for cap and gown or not. It seems like such a waste of effort. Thoughts?

I am now off. To Poli Sci. Tee. Hee.

When I'm tired of giving.

I have a Canadian Poli Sci midterm tomorrow. It's safe to say that I will fail.

Everything seems super overwhelming right now, I have one of those stomachs to deal with.

I really don't have much to say. Except: Referendums, Aboriginals, sovereignty, Louis Reil, constitution, Meech Lake Accord etc.

Holy crap, it just got realll warm all of sudden.

Watched some episodes of Punk'd today, a show I usually don't enjoy. But mannnn, how they got Elijah Wood.

No bones about it.

My body.

My mind.

Feels likes absolute mush.

And there's nothing I can do about it.

Wake up, Sarah!

A new dawn, a new day.

This weekend has been bust. Just like Blogger, what up with that?

Sooo, what did I do this weekend? Friday night for some unknown reason, I let Robert drag me to The Grudge II. Um. No. I hate scary movies, I'm actually a big wuss when it comes to seeing movies like that.

After that we went to Robyn's and Meagan's home. We decided saran-wrapping Rob's head was the way to go. He also got a bonus microphone and glasses cord with that. TOO FUN.

Saturday was spent trying to study and hanging out with my relatives. Cool cousin is pregnant. Oh my. I bet you she won't be Gameboying with me after the kid comes along.

Saturday night we went to Nana Bhnisch's house for Stephenville/Family Guy marathon night. It was rockingggg. We got through about 6/7 episodes and still had time to watch amazing Muse videos.



Not getting to sleep until like five this morning caught up with me though. I ended up conking out for a couple hours this afternoon, thus me not studying. Just when I got home this morning too, my relatives came for breakfast. Family overdose.

Tonight (after the relatives had left after coming up for supper as well), I downloaded about fifteen episodes of Degrassi. Yummmm. Got to love Degrassi. I already got through like nine of them.

This week's top story: Sarah dies in tragic Canadian Poli Sci mid-term explosion.

P.S. Incase you haven't seen it, Newfoundland has a new "logo" (picture plant). This is the commercial that goes with it, and for some reason, I love it. The girl singing is only fifteen. I also like that it looks like the whole commercial is done in watercolours. Very cool.

Oily marks, appear on walls.

As promised: Weekend Recap Part Two.

Sunday evening, Holly lovingly came to Corner Brook to pick me up. I then was forced with the task of having to pretend to like her dog. I entered her home and shuddered when I heard the little yip. And down the hall came this:



ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Frigging cutest dog in the world. Loved him even more after he practically pooped on Holly's foot.

Then Holly took me to see my Nanny. Geee. I love my Nanny so much and when I walked in the look on her face rocked. Ditto for the Poppy look. We went out to supper with my aunt and uncle and five cousins. It was an adventure.

Before I left Poppy slipped me an obscene amount of cash and I made plans to spend time with my cool cousins when they come back to St. John's.

Then Holly and I ventured to Leah's. Leah. Oh man, I love Leah. When I got there I saw one lone balloon on the floor and I asked Leah whose birthday it was. "It's yours!" she said, and I felt so special that she had blown up three balloons for me.


Later on she came out with an amazing birthday gift (crafts and Arthur, oh my!). I felt like the luckiest girl in the world. Then when I came out of the bathroom she showered me with a birthday cake! It was shocking, and I couldn't believe how amazing Leah is. I owe you one!


Lots of people came out for the birthday shin-dig at Leah's. It was really nice to see Joey, Archie and Mike. And super cool to gossip about the trumpet section with Nicole. I was just really happy to see everyone. Even Josh.

In the morning Leah, Joel and I made breakfast for everyone, and even though I scorched the eggs it was wicked. Then I had to say goodbye to Leah. :( I hope she comes out here ASAP. I need my Claire Accessories Best Friend.

That's about it for the S'ville trip, I was only out for about fifteen hours. Thanks to Leah and everyone who made my early birthday so special, yay for friendsss.

I am a war, already won.

Weekend recap part one (part two will be my night in Stephenville):

So everyone knows that I and the McWhitesons headed across this great province of ours for YC et al.

The trip began Friday morning when the five of us somehow magically managed to fit into Meagan's little car. I'm not sure how I didn't die because usually on trips like that, my legs just stop wanting to be attached to my body.

The trip was really long up until Gander but then Robyn and I found really awesome ways to keep ourselves occupied. Good times.


So YC highlights for the goers and non-goers:

• Starfield owns me. I've liked them for years now, this was the fourth time I've seen them in concert (amazingly). They are just a great Canadian band. We went to a panel discussion they held and I fell even more in love when they said "One of our big influences are Our Lady Peace, they are a great Canadian band." :)

• Newsboys did the one big fancy concert. I didn't like them going into YC, and I pretty much didn't like them coming out. Plus it was just one giant flashback to the 80's. Shows how much I know about contemporary music, since they're like the highest ranked Christian band of all time.

• Desperation Band. They have three singers? That's all I have to say. It worked completely though.

• Tree63. The lead singer plain owns me. From his singing to his amazing pants, I want him to come live with me. I super love this band and their accents and everything about them. They're put together so well.

• Danny Williams popped in for a visit.

• Mike Yatojaofhaifhski was soooo cool. I'm sure I'll tell you his homeless story at one point but if not, check out his book.

• Fireworks are cool. Sharon Snow isn't.

I also got to meet some of Meagan and Robyn's friends and hang out with some of mine. They were all very nice and I got to bond with their really good friend Heather over our shared love of scrapbooking. That's always nice.


Driving home today was super better because of the room in car. Lesson I learned though: Do not pee in a super sketchy rest room at a sketchy gas station, where the window in the bathroom leads into another room instead of outside. Ew.

Arriving home tonight I accomplished nothing. Why am I not surprised. Do I not realize that 15% of my grade in English is due on Thursday and I don't have it started? Smart.