Old As the Hills

So guess who is old as the hills now? You got it--yours truly--today I turned the big 2-7. YIKES! I absolutely don't remember signing anything saying I was okay with being anything older than 21...seems like I spent the first 20 or so years of my life always wanting to be older or looking forward to that next milestone. At this point i find the next milestone to be 30...to be honest, I can't say i'm looking forward to that with the same level of excitement i was about approaching 16 or 21! I figure the key is to have something planned for this milestone that makes me excited about getting there, right? The plan we've come up with (we being me) :) is to celebrate that milestone somewhere in Germany during Oktoberfest. Not a bad idea eh? Visit the homeland of my ancestors while partying it up appropriately with good friends. So far Hannah's the only one i've heard as excited about this trip as me, so it may be just me & hannah boozin it up with our German homies...but...the trip is open to anyone with the want to go, so if this is you--start saving! You have EXACTLY 3 years (minus a month or so). :)

Speaking of celebrating birthdays, several of us met up saturday night to celebrate mine & chet's turning 27 since our bday's are only a week apart...and it was so much fun! We played pool & spent the evening catching up, since those of us that went dont really get to see all that much of each other (hoping for that to change in the near future here...). Chet & I also spent the night proving we could still hang like the old days...or attempting to prove this. With the 2 of us taking turns buying each round, and a shot for each of us at each turn, I think we each ended up having between 6 and 10 shots in between the bud lights for him & coronas for me. My chosen shots were all sissy girly shots, easy to take & easy on the hangover the next morning...not so for chet's choice! OUCH!! I forgot how much he loves Jim Beam! :) When I went to bed at the end of the night, whoa nellie...i had to hold on to the wall to convince my body that the room was not spinning...what a night!

This morning i woke up cursing the day Jim Beam was invented....and wondering what in the heck i was thinking taking all those shots ...and hoping that Chet was as miserable as i was since he was half responsible for my condition--after all, he did buy half those drinks & shots! lol (i think it went "ugghhhh ... mmfffhatejimbeam ... ugghh ... imustbecrazy ... uggghhhh ... damnyouchet .... uugghhhh") Really though, I had a fabulous time & after a few ibuprofen & a bunch of water I was back on track. Definitely worth it for the amount of fun had by all. It was a great way to ring in my 27th year...I hope the remainder of the year goes as well as it started off! (this is not to say I want the rest of the year to go like a 5star hangover...want to be clear on that...) :)