i'm feeling very olympic today (...2 weeks ago)

I know, I'm late. I'm aware closing ceremonies are tonight and I'm about to tell you about my opening ceremonies party. I would apologize, but I'm not going to because things have been crazy around here. Between me trying to survive this stupid GRE test prep class, and have a social life with this cute boy who seems to like me, I haven't had time to sit down and tell you about other awesome things I'm doing. So here goes.

My family has always loved the Olympics, and you all know I love an excuse to have people over and have a party. Everyone brought food from their country of origin, and I provided vodka. There were also several events everyone had to compete in. One was best outfit (I dumbly thought I would win based on the amazing jacket I got from my grandparents house), best dish, Biathlon, and Ice Curling (a cross between ice hockey and curling). It was a blast!

 Gold medals were up for grabs!

 The amazing food!

See my sweet jacket? It's so old Russia is labeled as the USSR. And it's made out of paper or something. Clearly I lost best outfit...

The events got pretty heated...

And the gold goes to....

I got a gold because I was the only one to hit the bulls eye. That's right. I nailed it...but only on one shot...the rest were pretty terrible.

Next up, Ice Curling!

The gold goes to...

Best dish also went to Derrick which Katie was not happy about.

She broke his medal. Things got real.

I hope everyone has enjoyed these Olympics as much as I have! Check back soon for my Oscars party.

it's happened, i'm officially old

I have been crazy busy lately and haven't had a chance, until now (a second snow day! with no snow and not much ice...I'll take it) to write about my birthday. I am officially in my 30's, which sounds way older than saying I'm 30. But it happened, and it happened in a pretty awesome way.

It started with sushi at this awesome place that also does karaoke on Thursdays. I went with some friends, and the night ended with this nice old man pulling me up to the front and serenading me. The nice Otis Redding song ended with him sitting my lap. It turned a little weird towards the end...

It continued with getting some super sweet art from my friend Judy Paul the next day...

And the big party Saturday night started with a surprise on my doorstep. Gluten free, dairy free cupcakes! I think someone likes me.

So all my super awesome friends came over to my place and we waited for the party bus to arrive. The driver had called earlier and said we were getting an upgrade on the bus, and I couldn't wait to see what that meant! The bus showed up to my place and I started laughing at how massively big it was, and pink, with 2 stripper poles inside. As Ryan said when we got on, "Why haven't we always been traveling like this?"

On our way to Ego's with my besties in from Houston!

 At Ego's we met up with some more friends, and enjoyed the redonk people doing their karaoke thing. We signed up to sing, but sadly weren't called by the time we left.

From Ego's we jumped back on the bus and rode it to west 6th to meet even more people, and have a super fun dance party on the roof at 219 West. 

 Wait, I'm how old?

There were a bunch of dudes there in drag and the birthday boy said it was his idea, getting old is a drag....get it? Anyways, we had a lot of fun being silly and dancing with them until we were ready to jump back on the bus and keep the party going.

I'm 30! Let's do this!

The bus was pretty amazing! We drove around for the last hour and a half that we had the bus, just dancing and singing and swinging around on the poles. Surprisingly, there were no injuries! I'm not sure what that says about my friends and I...

Without a doubt, it was the most fun birthday I have ever had! Surrounded by my super awesome and fun friends, dancing and singing while someone drives us around? Doesn't get any better than that. If that's how this year, and my 30's start, it's going to be a good year. I think I'm going to like being 30!