Birthday fun.

This has been such a long week!  Sunday seems like forever ago.  I'm not really sure why.  I guess a lot has happened.  Saw my best friends twice in a week, went Christmas shopping with my mom, started a Pilates regimne (which actually going really well!  Its free on Exersice TV OnDemand...only problem is, tomorrow is that last day its available, so I gotta come up with a plan, quick!).  Also I worked a bunch of days, went to a concert and celebrated my little brother's 21st birthday.

Which was pretty awesome.  I mean, I can't believe my little brother is 21.  I mean, what does that make me?  Old, that's what.  Old, in a 22-year-old kind of way.  But the party was great.  We took him out to dinner at this place in DC near my sister's apartment called District 2.  I got a great burger, but they only had like 5 sandwiches on the menu, and that was it.  Mike bought us a round of "Dirty Bong Water" shots, which, sorry, looked and tasted like latrine water.  Then we drove over to the 9:30 club to see fun.  That's a band.  I'd never been to the 9:30 club before.  It was sketchy.  In kind of a this-is-where-teenagers-go-to-do-ecstacy-and-rave-in-the-movies kind of way.  Like graffiti and stuff.  But it was cool.  I can dig that scene.  I really liked the band, the lead singer was super energetic which is great.  I don't dig singers who just stand there.  Its like, I paid to see you, not just hear you.  So keep my eyes and my ears entertained!  Plus, like, aren't you excited to be up there on stage?  Jump around, act like you're enjoying yourself.  fun. had that down pat.  They also had an awesome sign that lit up in awesome neon colors.  Stay tuned for pics.

But probably my favorite part of the concert was up on the balcony.  Partway through the show, my sister pointed out to me this kid, probably in his late teens who was going cuh-ray-zay.  He was leaning over the balcony waving his arms like he was conducting a symphony and singing at the top of his lungs.  It was nuts.  I seriously though he was having some sort of religious experience.  I for realz wanted to YouTube that shit.

After the concert, we found ourselves back at the District 2 bar.  We had a terrific bartender who made us one good shot, one bad one, and one in between.  But he was super nice and didn't charge us for practically anything.  Plus I got a free drink for knowing who sings "Pieces of Me" (Ashlee Simpson).  After the bar was a round of kings, then bed.

We all drank quite a bit, which is what you're supposed to do at a 21st birthday party.  It was a pretty great night.  There were pics of dead rats, and a great one of AJ squatting on a curb which I shall post soon, good music, a delicious giant cookie and some of my favorite people ever.  I did spill half a Capt and Coke on myself at the bar, and woke up with two suspicious stains on the knees of my jeans (not trying too hard to remember on that one), but on the whole, I think it was a success.  So happy 21st, AJ!  Glad you weren't too cool to spend it with your sisters ; )