Hello all. Like millions of people before me, I have decided to jump on the blog-posting bandwagon; however, don't get your hopes up that it will be too exciting because honestly I don't know how often I will find time (or patience) to write something. Maybe I will suprise us all... Anyway, I've just finished a rather long-winded and exhausting celebration of my 23rd birthday. I think at some point I will have to mature and realize that it is not practical, nor feesible to have a multi-day/week celebration every year.

So anyway, I was greedy and I did have 3 days of celebration for my grand-ole birthday and went something like this:....

Friday (the 7th, my actual birthday) Brad and I went to the Esks football game cause we have season tickets. However, this was not just any football game for me. First, I had a really BAD!!! day in traffic [2.5 hrs to get from Clareview to Westmount (25ish kms)], so the second I got home, I chugged a litre of 1:3 ratio vodka:cran. Then it was off to the game. Once we got there, we did a little chummin with some fellow co-workers of mine from BP's before heading to our seats. Shortly into the game, and well in to the beer, the entire stadium was under a big black cloud that very quickly began to downpour!!! So immediatley, just like the other 40,000 fans, including the teams, we ran into the semi-covered inside of the stadium to get out of most of the rain, but certainly not all of it. Anyway, long story short, the Esks won by 10 or so, I cheered and yelled a hell of a lot for which I can assume was the Esks, we got a little wet, I got a little (or more) drunk, and we had a lot of fun! And in the end, thats all that matters anyway . Shortly after the game, Brad and I arrived at the BP's that I work at. We were to be meeting Monika and people from the game there (cause we couldn't find the bus to get back) and in the meantime drank with others. Sometime, going to BP's feels like Cheers, I know a lot of people, except I can't say I really know EVERYONE's name (mainly because I am REALLY bad at remembering names). So for a few hours I had quite a few interesting drinks. Why is it whenever someone buys another person a drink or shot they have to come up with something unique or more likley disgusting?! So that is about where the night and my memory end. Needless to say, the next morning was BRUTAL!!

Birthday day 2: The morning and early afternoon was pretty slow, mainly rehydrating from the night before. Although I said to show up around 2 or three, most people (except Kent and Ellen) were running on Chris time which ment 2:00 turned into 4:00; atleast he brought a pool!!! So we set up the pool and took over the front of the condo main lawn to do so. We moved our bbq from the back yard to the front and entertained many of our neighbours. The pool was very cold at first, until we came up woth the bright idea of running the hose from our hot water tap for the washing machine, then we were in a pool of luxury...too bad by this time it was getting cold out. So we moved the crew, which seemed to be growing by the hour, inside. We finished the night with some drinking and some games.
Check out pics of our pool party at: http://g-spot7.spaces.msn.com/

Birthday Day 3: Well once agian, the morning and good part of the afternoon was slow and incredibly frusterating because of Jodi and my overconfidence to do man's work. We decided to install a ceiling fan in my room but after 2 trips to Home Depot, 4 hours, and many, many obstacles, we decided to say "fuck it", get help to put back the original light and be done with it.
Atleast the evening went better.
I headed out to Brad's sister Karrie's house for a family birthday celebration. Much like last year, because his neice Brooklyn and I share the same birthday, we also shared the cake (it's a good thing I learned to share). We had a bunch of good-ol family fun and opened a few presents before retiring to Bradley's house for a recovery from a busy weekend.

So all in all, I had an interesting and exciting birthday weekend from which I have many pictures, memories, and most important of all, presents (not really)!

There you have it, my first official blog. I wouldn't say I am as creative as some because I prefer to tell it like it is! And as my English 100 professor pointed out, I tend to write like I speak, fast, conversational, and long-winded!! :)