Birthdays

So... this week I was told the following statement (or rather along these lines): The point in our lives when people should stop expecting their friends and family to make a big deal over their birthday is 12 years old.

This of course, was while I was relating the events of my birthday celebration. So I was slightly offended, because to me, birthdays are always a reason to celebrate! I love celebrating my friends birthdays, because it is the one day a year that they get to be the center of attention, and really, who doesn't love a reason to party? And also, I am not someone who generally likes being the center of attention. On my birthday, I love being the center of attention, just for one day (or rather, on the day that I choose to celebrate my birthday, which this year was about 4 days early). So yeah... I believe it is OK to celebrate your birthday and want to have a small deal made about it, but really as long as you are willing to do the same for your friends. :)

So anyway- birthday celebration extravaganza shindig! It was awesome! Parag and I decided to celebrate together since we wanted to both do our things on the same night. We started with my part, dinner/drinks at Six Feet Under- west side. I was hoping to get some serious patio time in, but alas, it was an hour and a half wait for the patio and immediate seating inside at the bar. Bar it is then :) So that was fun, people came and went, had a drink, chatted. Parag and I had car bombs (which I smoked him at, btw). Good time. Eventually we headed to the Masquerade for Parag's half of the night- dancing. Surprise!

I have never been to the Masquerade before, and it was amazing! Two different rooms for dancing with different music in both, so a pick your poison kinda option. Good friends dancing, some people that I didn't expect to see but was a wonderful surprise. Erin, who loves to send text messages to people that are no more than at least 10ft. away from her sent me one at some point saying "I'll give you a dollar if you make out with _____________". Hilarious. At some point we completely lost Parag- in reality apparently someone finally took him home only about an hour or so into his part of the birthday shindig...

Eventually there were only five from our little group left: me, Katherine, Erin, Poole, BoBo, and Spears. We actually closed down the Masquerade after dancing there from around 11:30/midnight-ish until 3:30am. I didn't get into bed until 4am, then woke up three hours later to go to work, worked for 4 hours, then came back home and went straight into nap mode. Needless to say it took me all day to recover fully. Honestly, making it the best birthday. EVER. And it makes me want to go dancing again. Sooner rather than later.