April 28th - 29th 2012

My mam's birthday was yesterday on the 27th of April. She turned 46. Me and my brother Dean (aged 12) did not know what to get her and it's the same every year. My dad took 10euro off us to put towards like a food processor which was like 40euro. She seems to really like because it does like 8 things in 1. My dad also brought her to Blanchardstown and she picked out like tops and shoes and other things that she liked. When I cam home from school on Friday she was all dressed up and I thought that we were going out or something but she pampered herself because it was he birthday. She had a shower, put a colour in her hair put make up on and wore a new top. I saw the effort that she put into doing herself up but if that was me, I would not spend that much time pampering myself, even on my own birthday. Later that night before I went out my dad brought home a Chinese from our favourite take-away; Choys. I had my usual, chicken balls, chips and curry sauce. Truly my favourite Chinese meal ever!

On Saturday 28th, My mam, dad and brother Dean went to Punchestown, but I stayed at home because horse racing is not really my thing so I just told them to go off for the day have fun. I stayed at home and did ironing for hours, then when they cam home like 5 hours later I just went out with Brian and his friends, even though it was cold and rained occasionally we still managed to have fun. His friends are so funny, despite them being like 14 and 15 they know how to make me laugh and I have fun with them. Brian's friends are Lee, Tom, Andy and Craig. Even though I've only known them for like half a year, I like to think of them as my own friends. Everytime I go up to Grattan Court; where Brian and his friends live, we all just go Spar like 2 minutes up the road.  For the rest of the night, we usually just play football or sit on a wall and talk. Brian then walked me home at 10:30.

On Sunday 29th, Me and Brian were going to Liffey Valley to get my dress for Grad night. We were meant to be getting the bus at 2:50 but I hadn't finished my dinner or gotten ready yet and Brian came to my house, so he had to wait for me to finish and get ready, so we were going to get the bus at 3:50 but then my mam said that she and my dad were going to visit my nanny (mam's mother) in the elderly home so they would drop us on the way. That was grand they dropped us right at the door and we went to Boots first because Brian wanted to get some lip balm :L Then we went to New Look and I was nervous because I wasn't really sure if they had the dress because I seen it on the New Look website, so I hoped they had it.I walked into the shop with hopes of them having it in the right colour and my size. I found it! They had this particular dress in all different colours like red, pink, green, blue, purple, white and black. I got a size 6 and 8, because I wasn't really sure. I couldn't get into the 6 :L I tried on the 8 with my purple heels that I brought with me and I looked at myself for ages and took my hair down to see what I would look like on the night. I liked the dress a lot so I bought it. It was only €9.99 so I bought it. I was so happy that I got it, so now all I needed to get was 
tan but I'd get that later on in the week.

After I got the dress, me and Brian went and got a McDonald's. I got the usual; large chicken nugget meal with coke and curry sauce and Brian got like a double cheese burger with a milkshake. We eat up, went to the toilet and went to M&S because Brian wanted to buy cookies. We were waiting at the bus stop for a good 30 minutes and when we were on the bus, it was so packed, me and Brian we weren't even sitting beside each other. A few minutes later my dad called Brian's phone asking where were we. My mam and dad were in Liffey Valley and were offering us a lift home. We decided to stay on the bus and when we were coming up to Celbridge me and Brian ended up sitting beside each other and it was starting to rain. When we got off he bus we went to my house because I left my phone at home and I was going to get an umbrella. My dad gave me and Brian a lift up to Grattan Court and even though it was raining out we still met up with Brian's friends. After a while when everyone was getting fed up of being wet out in the rain. We ended up going into Brian's house. We scrolled through the music channels for a bit and Brian's friends were all commenting on how girls looked in their music videos like Nicole Sherzhinger and Jessie J. We then watched like a nature programme which was like fish of the sea and how there are so many that are venomous and I remember there was a jellyfish that was so deadly it could kill a human, but it was the size as a fingernail. I got a lift home by my dad at 10:00.