Dear Journal, Besides it being Friday, today also happens to be my eighteenth birthday I have been anticipating this day for weeks now, and it is finally here I don't have any doubts that today is truly going to be one of the most amazing days of my life After all, you only turn eighteen once Another reason that I know it is going to be a great day is that I am going to be spending it with my best friends, Ava Leal and Anna Carter, and my boyfriend of eight months, Adam Banks. After school today, Ava, Anna, and I are going to the spa to receive facials, massages, pedicures, and manicures. For my birthday/ pre- Homecoming dinner tonight, Adam, Ava, and Anna will be taking me out. The three of them won't tell me where they will be taking me, because they want it to be a surprise Even though I am excited about being celebrated on my birthday, I am even more excited about spending it with some of the people who mean the world to me That in itself is truly what makes birthdays and homecomings special.