I have to say, since my last post so much has happened to me and I cannot believe that so much was even possible.

The 13th was my special day, and I finally made 18. I have to say, that my day was awesome. I ended up going to intern at the Chamber of Commerce from 9am-1pm, then I met my friends. We went shopping and went to my friends house where I hung out with more friends. I even got my own special cake! The cake was MAJOR! We all only ate one piece… As in we split one slice, and at it. After we ate we went to the mall where they had FREE hotdog on a stick!!! I felt so special! After that my brother picked me up and we went to Encore where we ate my family dinner. When that was done I spent the day at my grandmothers! My day was so much fun!

For my birthday, I got some dress shirts from my parents, bed sheets from my sister, a new bed, clothes from my friends, and an eraser board. The funny part was that the Pink American Eagle shirt that I have, was a joke. I told them that if they bought me a shirt that was pink, I would wear it. And that’s what my friend did… He bought me a pink shirt.

Other then that, like stated earlier, I started interning at the Chamber of Commerce. Its kind of fun, but I have my pet peeves. Currently, we are working on an agricultural event that’s going to take place in November.

The cool part was that part of the event is Car dealers on Hawaii. Because we are promoting economic sustainability we are pushing for the car dealers to promote their Hybrids and fuel efficient cars. I ended up calling Kia, and after giving me a run around, I found out that they wanted to Sponsor the event, and join the Chamber…. That was on my first day of work! That was crazy. My boss loved it.

That peeves of that whole situation is that I have to call agricultural vendors on the Island. Yet, they were not as open to the whole event as the car dealers were. A lady from a company even hung up on me. It hurt my feelings. After that, I was basically hoping that no one would answer, get an answering machine, or even have the wrong number.

After my 18th birthday, my family life has been quite tense. My mother didn’t approve of the fact that I partied on my 18th birthday, and after trying to stop me and failing it didn’t help much. I told her that I decided to go fu*k up my life since I was going to be on the island for the next four years and I had to pay my own way through college. It was so sad, but true. She hasn’t looked at me the same.

My mother finally talked to my father about the whole college then and such. It didn’t go over very well I guess… My mother told him that it was his fault for not listening to the situation and not having an open mind.

Last night my dad tried to apologize for the college thing and that I didn’t get to go. I told him I was pissed about the whole situation. He said that he and my mother had a communication problem. Then he tried to blame me for it, and that it was my fault for suffering. He told me to communicate things. Though I told him that I couldn’t help him when he and my mother had a communication problem.

I bet that this time next year, he is going to say that he didn’t know anything, and that we didn’t tell him anything. Then tell us that it was our fault for not telling him.

The situation was typical. He is always so quick to point fingers, and act like he doesn’t know anything. I’m over this college and life thing.

I can’t wait to just move out and do things on my own. After being let down so many times in my life, I feel like I can only depend on myself. At least that way, I won’t have to lean on anybody else.