My 30th Birthday Party
May 15, 2006 | FUN!
We had our first party on Saturday night in honor of my big three-oh. It was so wonderful to have the house full of all of my favorite people.
Look at my patio! During one of my house tours, I took this picture from the guest room window.
My friend JP brought me this hat. It says, “All hail the birthday princess.” Of course, when he gave it to me, I all was all freshly dolled up. He said I didn’t have to put it on right away, that he knew I would in about 6 beers. He was correct.
At one point, I think there were more babies there than adults. Two friends I worked with at a summer camp in college brought their three week old, who was soon unseated as tiniest baby when the occupant of the belly cast arrived, ONE week old Rowan Jack. SB joked at one point, ‘The invitation said bring your own beverage, not baby.’
Here is SB with cute baby #207, making my ovaries hurt.
When my friend arrived with her wee three, the first thing the middle one said was, “where is your birthday cake?” I had to tell her that I didn’t have one. Shame! She didn’t seem to understand a party without cake.
Never fear, Lovely Friend left and went and got me two birthday cakes. Here, she struggles under the weight of ALL THOSE CANDLES. By the way, Lovely Friend, those must have been some powerful candles because my job related wish came true the very next day!
I don’t think I have ever posted a picture of my BFF who lives in Portland. She has driven up here (2 hrs north) for the last three weekends for various events. I owe her a few trips down south. She will henceforth be referred to by her blog code name, Loll, a famous mis-pronunciation of her real name by an old, drunken, college professor. She rules.
More fun partyness:
I was wishing that I had put ‘no gifts’ on the invitation because I hate the part where everyone looks at you while you open presents, but I am not sure it would have worked anyway. I never listen to that, I can hardly expect others to. It was fine, though, because I waited until the end and I was drunky enough I didn’t much mind.
Speaking of drunky, in my old age I have developed a taste for Old Lady White Zin. With ice, no less. I am mocked for this, understandably, but that’s some good shit! I was given a box of Franzia by two such mockers, who included a nice bottle of rose’ to soften the blow. Guess which one I will drink first?
It was an excellent party! I have even managed to avoid the post-party, hyper-critical, self-anylization I usually subject myself to*. I did spend the following day suffering from an 8 on the hangover scale, thus I have had my, oh, thrice yearly reminder that alcohol is NOT MY FRIEND.
* Uh, except for that one glamorous friend who arrived after I was well and truely trashed whom I fell upon while trying to navigate the patio chairs. Awesome.
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January 12th, 2007 at 2:33 pm, Zesty Enterprise » NYE in NYC (also, SB is 30) Says:
[...] The whole point of this trip was to do something epic for SB’s 30th. I got to have a big party and we wanted to do something different for him. This trip was definitely everything we wanted it to be! And there’s still a day and a half of fun to recount! [...]