Mandy Turns 15!

Last week I'm afraid I neglected to talk about Mandy turning 15 as my mind was full of comparing Clannad and Enya. However, I'll do Mims some justice and talk about her birthday and the events surrounding it.

A few days before her birthday, Mandy began carefully watching the mailbox and looking for birthday cards. Regarding presents, Mom and Dad have promised to buy her a new cellphone, which she has been wanting for a while, and they also gave her the computer game "Fitness Dash," which we have been playing for the past week, and a t-shirt that says "I saved Latin. What did you ever do?" or something like that (sadly the shirt arrived late i.e. yesterday the 12th). Seth's gift was taking her shopping at Rue 21 (which we did last Monday and which I will detail later). So, Mandy received most of her gifts on Friday afternoon. It is a tradition every birthday for that person to choose a restaurant to eat at, and Mandy chose Atlanta Bread Company. Seth drove us there, and now we come to another event. Seth has not driven much in rush hour traffic on Lawrenceville- Suwanee (which is horrible between 3:00 and 7:00), so he was nervous. We were driving down the road when Mom suddenly pointed out a place he could turn in to get to the restaurant. Seth was going a bit fast and made a sharp turn, which caused him to run over the curb. As soon as he had cleared the concrete, we could tell that something had happened. It felt as if a tire or two had been popped, so Seth pulled into the nearest parking spot. We got out and found that indeed our left front tire had been popped and that something else had changed because now whenever we open the driver's door it makes a creaking noise it didn't make before. Anyway, we decided not to think about the car and enjoy dinner. We walked to the other end of the parking lot to meet Dad, informed him of the accident, and then went inside to order our food. Mom and Dad ordered soup, but we kids ordered sandwiches. We laughed and talked for about an hour. Afterwards, we went to look over the van. Dad pulled it into another parking spot, and then we piled into Dad's car (we're not kids anymore, and now we have to squeeze to get into the back seat). We went to Blockbuster, as Dad wanted to find "Sixteen Candles," but we couldn't find the movie and couldn't decide on what we wanted to see. We left the store without a movie and went home to watch something there.

On Saturday, Dad, Seth, and Mandy went to get the van's tire fixed, so Mom and I stayed home until the van was ready. Then we went to clean up the church. Saturday was busy, as I was busy trying to get all my homework done and study for a science test on Monday. Thankfully, I did finish it all.

On Monday, after much pleading from Mandy, Seth finally took her shopping after school. Rue 21 had some cool outfits, but it took Mandy a while to figure out what she wanted. I tried on a cute shirt there, but it was too small (and it was a large size), which made me wonder how Mandy can buy stuff from there, but I'll leave that to her. Mandy finally decided on some pants and three t-shirts that were on sale. One of her shirts has a rock, a sheet of paper, some scissors, and says something about picking one of them. Another one has a lemon sitting next to a glass of lemonade and saying "this is so wrong." The last one has a glass of milk and a cookie on it and says something about friends being together. While Seth was paying, Mandy spotted some cute socks and added them to the gift. She is very happy with her new clothes, including the Latin shirt. It is funny that while we shopped, Seth stood there, looking around nervously and avoiding the underwear section as much as he could. Poor Seth. He hates shopping, but he survived it.

And that is Mandy's 15th birthday. Oh, I nearly forgot to mention her cake. Mom made it on Thursday and took it to school on Mandy's birthday. A few pieces were saved for me and Dad. It was a good cake, made up of normal batter, frosting, and then strawberries. I wish there was more of the cake, but the students at Geneva can be thanked for that :) I've currently got another idea for a music topic, but I'm thinking of waiting until late March to write it until I see the show, which will be helpful in writing it. Anyway, I need to get off and get back to studying for my psychology test that I'm taking tomorrow during the day.