It's My Birthday! + A Surprise

Hello, lovelies!

Today is a very special day. I bet it won't take you long to guess why because I may or may not have spoiled it in the title of this post. (Oops!) If you haven't guessed . . .

It's my BIRTHDAY!

(The traditional Hank Green celebratory gift was definitely necessary.)

It's so crazy to me that I'm turning seventeen this year. I've read about characters who are my age or younger who are off having adventures, and, in one of my favorite books, someone gets engaged at age seventeen. I wouldn't even DREAM of doing half the things some characters have done by this age. When I was younger, I thought being seventeen was so old, and that I would basically be an adult having tons of boyfriends and going to boatloads of parties. Oh, silly, baby Seana and her false expectations of teenager life, haha.

Everyone always asks if I feel older, and the answer is always the same: nope. There's no time warp during the night that makes me suddenly feel like a senior citizen. However, I have come to a horribly sad conclusion: I CAN NO LONGER SING "I AM SIXTEEN GOING ON SEVENTEEN" AND HAVE IT BE TRUE. *cries* But I suppose if that's the only thing bad about turning seventeen, I'm okay with that.

I started this blog when I was about twelve-ish years old, and I believe I was in sixth grade at the time. Where did the time go? This blog is four years old now (I missed my blogaversary this year, which is tragic), and I'm five years older. So just for fun, I've decided to put a little side-by-side photo comparison of little me vs. me now. Of course, as it's my real face, I'm going to do that thing where I add a little "click here to read more" tab just so that you have to put in a little more effort. (: Can't have it be TOO easy, now can we?



And voila! You've clicked the "read more" thing, and now you're going to see my face for the second time on this blog with no blurry concealment or anything. I couldn't find a picture from me when I was exactly in sixth grade, but I found one of me in fifth grade, where I was probably ten or eleven years old. Either way, I think you can easily guess what I my favorite color was at the time.

That's my one of my older brothers pictured with me on our old trampoline. I'd just like to take a moment to appreciate that not only was I wearing all pink (pink shirt, pink floral headband, AND a little bit of my glasses was pink too, oh yeah), but I also thought it was a great idea to wear pigtails and do that thing where you use a hair tie to tie off part of your shirt when it was too big. It was trendy at the time, I promise! Also, I still have that shirt, and it still fits. So either the shirt was ginormous, or I really am a real life hobbit. You can probably see that I'm rocking some pretty great spectacles. I know I probably should still wear glasses, but I need to get a new prescription since the pair I have are equal parts hideous and not working out for my eyeballs. Perhaps I should get working on that.

So yes, there's my little baby me and seventeen year-old me picture comparison. Maybe I'll bring back that all-pink outfit trend someday (although I don't know if I could find something like my old fuzzy pink sweatpants and sweatshirt combo). I'll be spending my birthday working (boo), and spending time with my family eating cake (woo!) and doing who knows what else.

I love you all, and I hope you have a fabulous day, even if it's not your birthday.

That is all.

Cheers,
Seana