Wow spring break and almost another week are over. Last week we had spring break for Western. I started the week off with my birthday on Monday, this was also the first day of spring break. That day I got to go shopping and hung out with my friends. Later that night my family took me out to eat at Drugan's. It was me, my mom, her husband, and my grandparents. I was very excited because Drugan's is one of my favorite places to eat so of course I had to pick that for my birthday dinner. The meal was delicious and so was the cake. After dinner I met up with some friends and just hung out for the rest of the night. The rest of spring break was pretty laid back. I mostly just hung out and relaxed. Most of my teachers did not give us assignments, thank you! Now that we came back to school this week my teachers have given me plenty of homework. One exciting thing this week held was the start of intermurals at TC. On Monday night I played on my co-ed volleyball team. We won our first game in three matches and we got a win the second game because the other team didn't show up. Then on Wednesday night I started co-ed basketball. This was a little different from co-ed volleyball. There is way more contact and way more males than in volleyball. My team consists of all boys except for me. We also only have six people on my basketball team so that means I get pretty tired. We ended up winning the first game we played and ended up losing the second game. Both games were pretty good games. Tomorrow I need to go to the post office and get my passport for my trip to the Dominican! I am getting so excited for it to finally get here. That means school will be out and I will be getting tan. I then finish the week up by working this weekend. Not looking too forward to that but I have to make money somehow.

Not much has happened this week once again. My spring break has started well it doesn't actually start until Monday but I don't have classes on Friday so it started on Thursday for me. Unfortunately I am not going anywhere or spring break but in a couple months my trip is coming up. I have to work this weekend and not looking forward to it. I have to work Saturday 12-9 and Sunday 11-8. It is kind of nice because I get to sleep in but not so nice that I have to work that long and that late. I guess I can't complain too much I didn't get scheduled the 2-11. I am very excited for Monday since it is my birthday. I will be turning 20 and am very excited to celebrate. A lot of my friends also have birthdays in March. A couple years ago a group of my friends and I surprised all of our friends for their birthday with something different. It turned out that out of that group of friends four of us had birthdays in March. All of them around the same time as well. It was kind of ironic actually because I was dating one of the guys and his birthday was in March and my other two friends that had birthdays in March were dating each other as well. We ended up having to give everyone surprises because we couldn't leave someone out of it. That year my surprise was a large group dinner and I got a gift card to Metropolitan Spa. My friends thought that would be a good gift for me since I absolutely love getting back massages. After a while my friends all learned that if I say I will give you a back massage if you give me one and I say they have to give me one first that I won't give them one back. This is why they thought this might be a good present for me. A newer friend that I met this year has his birthday in March as well. It is two days before mine so hopefully we will all have fun celebrating our birthdays together again. It will be nice because most of my friends will be back from college so we can all hang out like old times and celebrate our birthdays together.

So another week is flying by. Not much really happened this week so far, pretty boring. I am looking forward to this weekend. Not too much planned but its not my weekend to work so that's always better! I did end up picking up a three hour shift on Saturday from 3-6 just to get a little extra money since I need to start saving up for my trip to the Dominican. It is getting so close to May and that means the end of school and my trip is coming up. Another thing that is exciting that is happening soon is my birthday. My birthday is falling on the most perfect week this year, SPRING BREAK! My birthday is March 16 and it is on a Monday but we don't have school that week so it doesn't matter. I'm not sure what I have planned for my birthday but one of my favorite traditions is going out to eat with my family every year. I usually go to either Drugan's or Tequila, my two favorite places to eat. Another tradition I get excited for when my birthday comes around is that my grandma usually makes me my favorite meal; hot beef and lefse. My family is Norwegian so for holidays or birthdays she usually makes that. We call them Norwegian tacos. We take a piece of lefse and put butter on it and then we put the hot beef on the inside and roll it like a taco and eat it. Some of my family put beets or other things inside of it as well but I just like the simple hot beef and lefse. My grandma also usually has an assortment of pies: coconut creme, pumpkin, apple, cherry. Wow I am really making myself hungry. Can't wait until my birthday so I can get all of my favorite foods!