- My life is good, I am lucky, I am blessed... whatever you want to call it or label it, good things happen to bad people.
- I surround myself with people who make my life entertaining, otherwise it would be quite boring.
- I need a new key chain.
I guess the celebration started a little early because what started out as happy hour on Friday turned into a night of random drunkenness. Me, Annie Oakley, Pirate Jenny, and Principal McGee started the night at Frog, Bear with half-priced Stellas. After about 3 rounds of these, I moved to the staple (Patron on the rocks). We move the party to the Patio, where the real randomness begins. K-Rock is bartending and I continue with Patron (I really need to come up with a name for this). We go inside and Annie gets directed to a table of guys, who turn out to be guys I went to Miami with and/or played hockey with. We drink with them. Then people from work show up and I drink with them. Then Uni-1 shows up with some of her old softball friends. We drink at the Patio for a while, drinking shots, beers, etc. Finally, Annie and McGee want to go home. I'm in the zone, so I don't want to go home yet. Pirate Jenny and I end up going with Uni-1 to the Polo Club. By this point I'm a lot drunker than I allow myself to believe. All I remember from the car ride there was that I felt ill. We get to the Polo Club and I immediately vomit upon exiting the car. At the Polo Club, I drank water so I could drive home. Friday night ends. A fun night that was pseudo-reminiscent of my 21st birthday in which I ran into everyone and their mother and got retarded-drunk.
Saturday starts with multiple phone calls between 10 and 11 wishing me happy birthday but I'm way to hungover to move or try to answer my phone so I let them all go to voicemail. Thank you to whoever called. Pirate Jenny and I wake up around 12 but continue to wallow in hangover for 2 more hours. Finally, we begin to move and make are way to Cincy. We get to Cincy around 4:30 even though we had planned to be at the casino by 4. Oh well, if you know me then you should know I'm probably going to be late. We get to the casino around 6:30 and I immediately go down $150 in blackjack so the night isn't looking to good, but let's be honest I'm Bryan and this is my life. I find my brother at the roulette table so I sit down next to him and get $50 in chips. Again I go down and I'm down to my last $15 and I put it all on red. Boom, it hits and then I go on a streak. B-Rad, Jose, and K-Fed finally make it to the casino, we say hi, and they go to the craps table. At about 10 everyone is up and ready to cash out, keep in mind this is about 3 hours after we had planned on leaving but you can't mess with a good streak. We leave for the hotel, check in real fast, drop our stuff off, and leave. Somewhere between the casino and the hotel, Jose gets a phone call and is put into a mood. He doesn't make it out. The rest of us go to Hoffbrahaus, where we consume large steins of beer and glasses of liquor. We close down the bar. Back at the hotel, K-Fed informs B-Rad that Moo's friend was "talking shit" so he goes into drunk fight mode. They yell and push but K-Fed and I convince B-Rad to go to White Castle with us because for some reason a Crave case sounds amazing at 4am. For some reason it took 45 minutes to get 30 hamburgers but we get back to the hotel. Moo and her friend are leaving. B-Rad has calmed down by this point and tries to apologize but Moo's friend won't have it. Drama ends when they leave. Everyone passes out and I proceed to try and 'finish off' my birthday in the smallest shower known to man, doesn't happen.
Ok, so how did this mess all amount to 3 confirmations of my life? 1) Seriously, who wins that much at a casino, who can run into random friends where ever he goes, and who has as many good things happen to me and as few bad things as me? 2) Kind of going along with 1, my life is easy, it is rarely difficult or unbearable, but it is also pretty textbook. If it weren't for the ridiculous people I surround myself with, it would probably be pretty boring. 3) As Ben Harper wrote, "With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about just one?" A million thanks to everyone that called or texted me birthday wishes. I really do appreciate them all. I'm so lucky to have each and everyone of you as a friend. To everyone that was there to help celebrate my birthday, I had a blast. Pirate Jenny, I have nothing but love for you. You are the main reason my birthday was what it was and I hope you know how much I appreciated it and how much it meant to me. I hope you know how much you mean to me!! You rock and I wish I wasn't retarded. With that said, with all the birthday wishes I received you would think I would completely content and happy but alas I was not because there was still one call that never came. I think it's time to finally let go, find a new key chain, and walk away....
