So after two whole weeks of honest work, I finally made my first paycheck! $192.08 of cold hard, computerized cash. Granted that is a horrible paycheck. I make $5.20 an hour working summer hire on a military base in a foreign country. I am 16, so of course I am not going to get a good job. But even for $2 below minimum wage, I can say that I have a job.

Working isn't always the most fun thing in the world, but at least you get money. I used to have to ask my mom for money to go out with friends, or pay for a date. I racked up over $200 dollars in debt in 9 months. So it's good thatI can finally buy what I want to buy, without having to ask for money. I can go out and have fun without worrying about how much I spend.

Now, I am not spending it all as fast as I make it. No, i put half of it into the bank for colledge (a CD that can't be touched until I turn 1 and half of whats left to my mom to pay back that $200 I owe her. And I have to save my last two paychecks for 22% in federal taxes.

So I won't be making a lot this summer, but at least I get something right?

So I got my best bro with me, and we are going to pull an all nighter. We went to the shoppette and practicaly bought out all of the energy drinks. They just got a shipment of Monster Hitman and Rockstar. These energy drinks are great for staying up, let me tell you. There is nothing I can't do on a load of caffeine.

So as we sit here drinking our third monster, we watch Tyler Perry's Madea Goes To Jail. This has got to be the funniest movie I have ever seen. Tyler Perry is a sheer genius. His work is outragiously funny. If you have not seen his films or any of his plays, I highly recomend them.

Anyway, I will be on all night. Peace out

When I was in 8th grade, I had this friend who would drink "Monster" energy drinks every day. I would tell him that it was gross, and was bad for you, until one day, he bought me a "Monster". Was it good? No, it was better. I had never felt so energized in my life. I found I could talk a mile-a-minute, and still make sense to myself. I loved the feeling of never running out of steam, when I normally would have.

So the next day, and every day after that for the rest of the year, I walked to 7/11 and bought myself an energy drink. I soon realized thatI needed more to get the same rush thatI did whenI first drank it. So I up-ed my dosage to two drinks almost everyday. And that's when I did it. On May 18, my birthday,I bought 10 Monsters from 7/11 and brought them to school. I drank three in the morning but I saved the rest for lunch.

When lunch time came around, I gathered all the people I could find to watch me do the stupidest thing I did that year. They watched as I shotgunned 7 cans of "Monster", throwing up a couple minutes later. Well thats all fine and well, but here is the bad part. A snitch went and told the nurse, and she got the paramedics to come to the school. After a couple hours of throwing up and heart monitors, the paramedics said I was fine. Then I was taken to the Principal's office. The conclusion was that energy drinks were banned from my middle school as a result of my so called "ridiculous stunt".

That didn't bring my hopes down though. I am still a strong user of "Monster" and I don't think anything can stop me. So yes, I am addicted, but who really cares, its legal cocaine to me.