November 18th, 2005 - "harpier cries 'tis time 'tis time"

tonight is the night.

god.

i'm excited. nervous. and nervously excited.

i hope all goes well. all i wanted for my birthday was to get everyone i love (or even like a lot) in one place, at one time - since i have never been able to fully accomplish that goal. so i decide now that i'm of age, why not get $650+ together, and throw a super ill 21st? the limit of people is 150. i know i invited about 100, plus guests... that's what makes me nervous. everyone i have talked to told me they would be a bouncer, or take care of something that needed to be taken care of if need be. i just hope more like 80-100 rather than 100-150. they already wanted us to rent-a-cop. all set with that.

so my actual birthday was awesome. at midnight me, keegan, erin & casey condon, chelsea, ryan c, jen p, jen a, briana, and nick all went out to the british beer company. i had my first drink (which ended up being a typical sex on the beach with strawberry stolie). then we continued to have more drinks, and do little drink shots of raspberry kamikazes (which are my new fave i'm pretty sure). they stopped serving at like 12:30am. we were pissed, so jen p and jen a scurried over to the blue anchor, and ordered drinks, and waited for us. when i got over there the mean bouncer kept telling me "tomorrow, tomorrow". nick asked him what his problem was, but he was scary so i just went outside to smoke a butt. as soon as i lit it - nick yells that he got me in. i had a few more drinks with all those fine folks, and at 1am it was time to go the fuck home. drunk in an hour - haven't done that in a LONG time.

the next day i got up early to get to the rmv and renew my license. the woman told me i didn't have to get a new license pic, that i could keep the same one for 10 years. so i opted for that. it was the shortest amount of time i have ever spent at an rmv - ever. so by about 11am we decided we were gonna have a serious group lunch celebration. so i managed to gather up keegan, ryan, briana, zoe, erin o, jen a, jeni, jeni's lil sister jordan, justin, and jen p for a lovely lunch at the 99. i tried my first martini - a passiontini. blech. too much vodka - and i do not like too much vodka under any circumstance. so i pawned that off on ryan and got myself a barbados breeze. which was delightful. then jeni bought me a bacardi blue. it was delish - but too creamy to drink with a meal. after stuffing ourselves, the majority of us went back to my house. we hung out for a bit. then later i went to my first liquour store (waterwheel across from my work). i went to get erin o something - cuz they had nothing of interest to me. the store was too small. but i got erin some UV vodka cus i liked the bottle, and she said to get whatever. so i did. turns out i didn't do too bad. then after all that went down, keegan and i went to my parents out. he proceeded to not say one word, not one single word. my mother - whom i thought would make some sort of dickish comment, said nothing either. well - she talked to us, but didn't say anything rude suprisingly. my brother bought me a cute white red sox hat. my sister got me nothing. i will remember that on her sweet 16 in january. humph. so basically keegan won't speak to my mother - and she didn't speak to him - so there was this wonderful awkwardness that made me feel weird. after leaving there, him and i went to the bar at friday's. nice atmosphere. i got a raspberry kamikaze - keegan got a regular kamikaze. then i got a raspberry lemon icetini - keegan got a long island iced tea. then i got a strawberry daquiri - keegan got another long island iced tea. to finish off the night, we both ended with a kamikaze shot. then headed to erin condon's house. i picked up a fantastic cake she had made for me a day or so earlier. it was a mint chocolate chip (green monster red sox mint) ice cream cake, with a nice chewy brownie crust, and whipped cream frosting. my god it was sinfully delicious. that bitch can cook lemme tell ya! i also realized after leaving friday's that i was coming down with a cold. perfect. so since that night i have progressively gotten worse. i have been taking aleve cold & sinus 12 hour relief, which really helps. i did not smoke a cigarette ALL DAY yesterday, and only like 3 the day before. i'm really taking care of myself so i can have the best time tonight.

i bought a larger bottle of white flower. it really does help you breathe when your sick. swear by white flower folks. its good stuff. on the real, yo.

as far as presents go - i got a good sum of money from a good sum of people. it didn't pay for all the party, but it certainly helped. and chelsea got me a awesomely wild array of toe socks. she even got me a pair of what they call thumb socks... basically mittens for your feet. i'm stylin.

so i hope to see ALL OF YOU there tonight - it will in fact mean everything to me. i also hope that my stereo is loud enough, that the bar takes credit cards, that they don't catch any of my underage friends drinking or doing something they are not supposed to, that we find a stick for limbo-ing, and that either ryan doyle gets here early enough to bring me a mic and amp, or that my crazy mother lets me borrow her cheerleading megaphone/microphone thing for the cause. oh yeah - the 'rents are soo stopping by. weird.

that's pretty much it. i mean- we all know there is much more, but you could pretty much read chelsea's livejournal if you think i forgot something. heh. love youz guys. <3>