BIRTHDAY!

So as an early birthday gift I checked my banking account online and saw that the charges on my card added up to $1.00. This was strange considering I spent $30.00 on gas yesterday. Sure enough the $1.00 charge was from KWIK TRIP. My rationale is that God wanted to give me $29.00 for my birthday. Hopefully my ignorance of the situation doesn't land me in prison for credit fraud.

To commemorate the day of my birth I will produce a detailed summary of every birthday gift I have ever received. But not really.
When I was 12, I got a life-like baby doll from Roxanne's Doll Shoppe. My mom worked thier at the time and I remember going to visit my baby in the "nursery" as I liked to call it, before I took him home. I distinctly remember naming him Micheal, but because all of my old baby clothes were pink or floral, Micheal looked like a girl. I remember taking Micheal everywhere with me and trying to convince strangers in the grocery store that he was real. I would tell them that he was born 3 days ago and that he was my child. Both of these statements didn't help sway many people, considering Micheal had long blonde hair and I hadn't hit puberty.
When I turned 9, I received a beautiful purple bike complete with a water bottle holder and clickable gears. I was ready for the roads and quite possibly mountain terrain. In the video taken on my birthday, It shows Shannon, my younger sister of 2 years, riding gracefully on her hot pink bike with beads in the spokes and light-up handlebars. My mom shouts encouragement to Shannon, praising her accomplishment. Because as a child I found it necessary to always be the center of attention I dutifully stepped in front of the camera and busted out my purple mountain bike, while sporting a glittery "birthday girl" tiara and scratched up knee pads. As I hopped on and rode shakily down the driveway my mom narrates, "Oh, and Natalie just learned how to ride a couple of days ago!"
The average child can ride a bike without training wheels at the age of 5-6. Now, when I watch my younger self on screen, my thrilled expression and proud grin indicates that I was completely unaware of my developmental lag. But, I was a pretty weird kid. I suppose some things never change.

and that's pretty much it...