This post is waaaaay late, but in true Karen fashion,
I figured a month late isn’t too bad. On May 6th, I hit a huge
milestone in my life. I finally turned 21! I mean being able to order Woodchuck
on draft at Buffalo Wild Wings now is nice, but that’s not the reason I’m
excited. It seems that when I say I’m married at 21, I don’t get nearly as many
weird looks as I did when I said I was married when I was 18. You’d think I’d
be used to it, but I’m not. First question is something along the lines of, how
old is your baby. Apparently the only explanation of being married young is
because of an unplanned pregnancy. Sorry to let everyone down, we just got
married for that whole love thing. So I’m so happy to say that I’m married, and
when they ask my age I can proudly say 21!
My day was great in that it was my first birthday evvvvver with Matthew home. It
only took 3 years of him either working or being deployed or out of state for
him to be home on my birthday! It was also my first birthday in Louisiana! Here
is a little Karen fun fact for you guys. Age 18: Lived in Indiana. Age 19:
Lived in Georgia. Age 20: Lived in North Carolina. Age 21: Lived in Lousiaian.
Yep, how about that for well traveled. It’s nice to know that I’ll live in
Louisiana for a while, so this year was the first of many birthdays here.
We live very close to a large casino, literally 1.2 miles.
My parent and grandma sent me some cash to have a drink and gamble a little for
my birthday. Another Karen fun fact, my maiden name is…. Gamble. I thought the
odds were in my favor for that one, they were not…. not even a little bit. So
sorry mom, dad and grandma, I lost all of your money.
Matthew took me to my favorite place, Buffalo Wild Wings. I
don’t like beer or whiskey. But I do love Woodchuck and Bdubs happens to have
it on draft. I was beyond excited. I finally got to taste of Woodchuck on
draft, which I have to say, it tastes so much better than out of a bottle. I
also took the opportunity to have a black cherry mojitos. It was all right, but
I will be sticking to woodchuck.
Now, onto presents! Since I was 16, I’ve rocked out a 4gig
IPod Nano literally since I was 15. I never delete music from my iTunes, but as
you can imagine I’ve added a lot of music in the last few years. It got the
point where I could literally only keep 1/8 of my library on my IPod. Talk
about frustrating. Luckily, my amazing husband picked up on my frustrations so
that was my birthday gift this year, a lovely 160 gig IPod. I have so much
space that I don’t even know what to do with it all now.
As I mentioned before, my parents and grandparents gave me
some cash for the casino as my gift. But my in laws got me something I
desperately wanted and felt like I needed, a hair appointment. It’s perfect for summer and I’m excited to see
how fast my hair grows now that I have my dead ends cut off.
Well, there you
have it guys, my birthday even though it’s over a month late! Keep a look out
for my posts about my parents other gift to me and also my Memorial Day weekend!
Until next time!
-K
