Happy birthday to

dusted_rainbow, who shares today for growing old.
1 1/2 hours left of being a teenager (I was born at 4pm).

 

Being a teenager has had it's ups and downs for me. I suffered the loss of my grandfather when i was 13/14 which led to two years of suicidal depression and becoming a somewhat pathalogical liar which ended up in a few friendships changing as a result - I have gotten over both since and no longer wish to kill myself or to lie.
But as my life enters its 20's I've decided to treat it as an adventure. I'm practically on my way to Australia next year, and I've decided that I want to apply to NYU to do a creative writing degree - I've always wanted to study in the States so it's just one plan I have.
I've wasted my teenage years and I don't plan to waste the years that are to come. Part of me has this feeling that I'm going to die young - not sure why but it's something that I've always felt, but life's going to be good from now on
One thing I didn't acomplish when I was a teenager was to become a published author by the time i was 20. It would have happened had the deal not been a scam but give me a couple of years and I feel as though my writing will be strong enough to get published - it's already changing now for the better.

Thanks to 

aliciad86 and  [info]englishstrawbie for your birthday wishes  

Parents really surprise you. This year I've had my ups and downs with my dad but he seems to be in support of me travelling as it's something he did when he was my age and he's even offered to help me sell my Halifax shares (worth around £1,400) and this morning he offered to buy me a wireless laptop to take with me. 
I was trying to save up for my own and would have happily paid for it myself as I learnt along time a go not to ask for anything and when people make big gestures to me it never sits well with me as I always feel they didn't have to do it, so I don't know if it is going to happen but i'll be offering to pay for some of it as I don't like people spending lots of money on me - never have done, anyone else like that?
But the shares belong to me anyway so it'll be nice to add them to my travelling money but if I can get a job till the time I'll leave I hope I can get a couple things that I might need.

This is still all speculative though as I've not heard about my visa yet, it was two weeks a go today I applied, so I've got another two weeks in which to hear about it.

Had applied for assistance in getting a J-1 Visa from CICD website and they email back to say that they're not currently processing applications for LA Splash magazine! 
So I've just finished applying for a load of intern jobs that I found online - nothing will probably happen but one can hope.