the 25th year on planet earth

ha, so it seemed as if 1 day to o days left went fairly quickly considering it was a weekend..lol and weekends for some reason happen to go either waaay to fast lol, or waaay to slow.

Saturday - It felt like something that was so vital to my world and my life before turning as they say.. "a quarter of a century". So early in the morning I fed the homeless out in Ventura, CA at some Catholic Center that my mom normally helps out at every 2nd Saturday of each month. It was my first time being able to feed the homeless, be face to face with them minus the phony homeless (that may be a totally different blog altogether). So I actually went to sub for my mom because she had something to do. I'm incredibly greatful that I was able to do that the day before my 25th b-day. So after I did that for a few hours, I went and hung out with my mom and bro when they were home. Then my mom showed me the Virgin Mary that was chilling at the house, yeah kinda random..but her face somehow was outlined in a blanket that was on my mom's chair. lol, got the pics for proof..anyhoot, lol then somehow I was sleeping off and on throughout the day watching tv and created the 'bomb bueno' homemade pastrami sandwich..good stuff right there! Then all of a sudden before I knew, it was like 10pm, lol so I headed home - no pre-bday partying or anything, just went straight home and went - to - sleep!..lol man, what an oldie move right there. lol oh well, I'm preserving for the party on Friday night. hehe..

Sunday - YAY. was the day - my 25th bday. I met up with my mom and brother at a church in Westlake Village and saw Vin Scully, you know, the famous 'voice of the (L.A.) Dodgers.' I was so stoked especially considering I really didn't want to be there in Church. lol, I have my own issues with the institution called 'church', but I'm certainly religious so I tried to make the most of it. I found it to be quite entertaining..like a church scene straight out of South Park. With the big pastor or priest at the front of the church with the britney spears mic (the headset mic), lol with a little mini-fan next to the holy table thingy. lol it was pretty funny. Anyhoot, so we did the church thing and then we were off to the scrumptious brunch my mom had planned at Viva Pasta in Simi Valley where my Tatie (my aunt) happened to be in town and brought her daughter/my cousin.

Later that day, I went to my dad's house and enjoyed a b-day appetizer/dinner with my step mom, dad and brohams with a cool homemade fudge chocolate cake. it was soo good. lol, then went to dinner with a couple of my buds and called it an evening. One of the buds wanted to stay out partying later, lol but I promised I would party with them on the 19th - night of my party.




..FAST FORWARD to the PARTY....
Friday, Dec. 19th - Needless to say, my party had as many parties do what I like to call um, a "rough start." LOL. Either way, I was going to party, drink and have a splendid time as I did. We had my 25th party in the Plush Lounge which is the downstairs area of the famous Key Club on the infamous sunset. lol DJ Brooke was rippin it on the 1's and 2's with the fresh 80's & 90's tunes once we got everything set, lol and kicked that terrible band out and off of the stage.

Soooo, my friend is one of the Plush Lounge/V.I.P. Bar (whatever they're calling it nowadays) bartenders. He introduced to me what would perhaps be my demise of the evening, the 'Chocolate Covered Cherry Shot'. lol what we will now call the CCC..it tasted like Chocolate cake, it actually did. But of course, my taste isn't always agreed upon by most..the general belief was it tasted like dimetap/robotussin..lol and a bit of Chocolate. To make drinking a bit easier, for those that wanted to drink with me, I just said, give me the CCC! lol, the CCC! lets do a CCC! wooow did that somehow backfire in the middle of the party. I was still good by this point, and then my friend I had promised I would drink away with was there so of course I needed to somehow keep my word. I was doing well. haha, then my broham Chris comes in with his peeps - one of the guys wanted to be a 'good guy' and do the celebratory thing and of course buy me a shot. lol and i said..of course, give me the CCC!..and they said "Nope!.. Lets do something else......Henny!"...oooh HEEEELL NO!..and somehow that Hell No became a Hell YES. Mis.Led was performing, doing her thang....aaaand About 2 minutes later it was a wrap and 3 quarters. ha, I ended up in the bathroom of the Key Club re-enacting a scene of The Exorcist. It was absolutely the most blasted, wasted, drunken frame of mind I had ever been. ha, I literally ditched my own party to puke all night long. ha and of course it was the CCC aaaaaaall night long! hahaha. Either way, before and after I had a blast. I appreciate everyone that went it truly meant a lot to me. And if you were concerned about where I "disappeared" to that night, haha no worries I didn't escape with some hot guy or anything - I'm alive and wanted to spear everyone so I escaped to the bathroom. haha, then I went upstairs and sat outside of the Key Club like a homeless tweeked out person, lol it was hilarious looking back on it. Thanks to my bud Mitch for being an awesome friend and taking me home. lol and to my dad for taking me back to my car the next day..HAHAHA.

So what did we learn, haha, if we're going to drink, don't follow it up with henny. eew. lmao. just thinking about it again is making me a bit eeesh. lol but I can honestly say, the last time I got close to being that bad was this past New Years Eve and THAT wasn't even THIS hardcore. lol. maybe 2 different versions of a hardcore instance. Anyhoot, it was a great way to bring in 25 believe it or not. So thank you again to everyone especially Sean Healy for massively hooking me up, DJ Brooke and Mis.Led keeping it live! .. and Happy Holidays. :0)