17th B-Day!

Its hard to image that 17 years ago I was introduced to this mixed up world . Time has been flying by for me and I still have memories of times when I so desperately wanted to be older so that I would have all the luxury's of being older such as working, responsibility, driving, and best of all finally being tall. Waking up this morning, I really did not expect to get anything special just because it was my birthday and I didn't get much this year as I thought. Usually what happens is my parents might throw me a very small family party at a Asian restaurant with my mothers side of the family and I would get lectured about how I need to get my marks up from average marks to straight A's (like all the other Asians) if I ever want to be able to get into British Columbia's top schools. I didn't even get a lameass family get together.
This year my dad snuck me $140 off his check a day before my birthday as a present but told me to keep it a secret. That ended up turning sour on me when my dad went out drinking and my mother found out (once again caught in the middle! lie for father for money but get yelled at until submitted to a insane asylum or don't take money and live in peace?). Later on I left the house in search of my dream monitor for my computer because I had one of those days where I felt like I had to treat myself to something nice. I had to measure out all the dimensions of the space in my vertical shelving unit at home and had a 17" flatscreen trinitron screen in mind. On the way to the mall I stopped by the gym to talk to the girls who worked there because they are always so kind so me and especially because I love the massaging chair and the magazines they've got laying around. While in the gym, I struck a conversation about my diet with a friend named Meireg, he is a middle aged man with a strong European accent and always seems to be enjoying life. After exchanging updates on each others well being he just happened to ask me if I was currently employed on the weekends and offered me a job starting at 12 dollars a hour in cash! He told me to start tomorrow @ 7am and I have the slightest clue as to what I will be doing.
***Anyways I am going to wrap this up with a quick happy ending. I left the gym feeling over joyed about my new employment and I bought my monitor which is a flatscreen 17 incher and took a taxi cab back home with the monitor which I am very satisfied with and it looks very sleek and even a tad sexy to the computer geek ;) ****