dude. my 21st birthday and new years should not be so close together.

after my birthday party, i told myself that i would not drink so much on new years. i would drink just enough to get buzzed and that was IT. right. wound up getting drunk again.

let's see... so we decided to celebrate new years at deb's apartment up in berkeley. celebrated with a good group of people. me, jo, deb, ha, chi, jacq, bobby, mike, david, steven, kieran, and ha's friend david. ha and her friend taught us how to play caps. resulted in me drinking an entire bottle of wine cooler faster than i've ever had to before. yes, it was JUST a wine cooler, but i'm not a big drinker to begin with so gimme a break. after that, we played the naked game where steven was already quite drunk. used only one word on the first round even after we told him he could use more than one word. after finishing the naked game (girls kicked guys ass, as usual), it was a few minutes before midnight and we all got a shot to ring in the new year. happiness!!

i'm not sure what happened after that. lots and lots of picture taking. more drinking, perhaps. let's see... what i do remember from the rest of the evening is calling ha a skank and nicknaming kieran jailbait (it was an accident. i meant to say sharkbait). i'm sure i said a lot of other stupid things, but i don't really remember at the moment. feel free to refresh my memory. oh yeah! i remember playing guesstures. although, it was more like me david and mike just going through the cards and teaming together to try to act them out. that was fun. sigh.

after that, we all kind of crashed. okay, so maybe i crashed first. all of us except for steven spent the night at deb's place. i slept on the couch. didn't sleep too well because i kept waking up. it was crazy storming last night. everyone woke up this morning around 10 or so. i just stayed on the couch and laid there like a vegetable until it was time to go.

now i am home. hungry, cold, and tired. but i just had to blog first. and actually, i want to take another look at the pictures i took last night. some of them are hilarious.

happy new year, all.

i am a lucky, lucky girl. i have the coolest, most wonderful friends ever.

okay, sappy moment over. last night, they all surprised me with a, what else, surprise party for my birthday. total complete surprise. if i was smarter and more observant, i might have figured out what was going on, but good for everyone that i'm dumb and clueless. ;) plus, everyone is just a really good liar, especially debra.

so yesterday, around 5 pm, deb picks me up so we can do a little shopping before supposedly having dinner with ha later around 630. we went to newpark and i STILL couldn't find a gift for steven. argh. but i did find a gift for deb. we were at hot topic and she saw these funny slippers with the abominable snowman from the claymation rudolph the red nosed reindeer. so i got them for her. :) i want to see her wear them next to joanna wearing her monster claw slippers.

anyway, after the mall, we start driving over to ha's house to go pick her up. supposedly. man, i'm so gullible. but that's okay. it was fun being surprised. ;D deb is just really good at deceiving her own daughter. ha called once on the way over and she totally made it sound like her mother called. we even started talking about how ha is always really late and wondering why that is. (ha says it's all been an act leading up to this very moment.) so we get to her house and ha answers the door and lets us in. i start "oooh"-ing at all the christmas lights and turn to look at their little christmas tree in the corner. this is when i see jason crawling on the floor next to it. he looks back at me with the deer-in-headlights look. it was pretty funny. but i didn't have time to wonder what he was doing there (and what he was doing crawling around on the floor) when all the lights turned on and everyone jumped out and yelled surprise. apparently, according to everyone else, i looked really frightened and jumped back. i don't really remember though. took a little while for it all to settle in. :)

after that... it was just party party party. well, we ate dinner and opened gifts first. had to go home and get all mine and my new digital camera. ;) but since i thought that we were going to have a party on the 29th and knew nothing about this one, i hadn't wrapped any of the gifts and the tags were still on all of them. plus, i still hadn't finished jacq and mike's scarves. but my ghetto wrapping (or lack thereof) was forgiven.

so... the drinking. i didn't actually have that much to drink. yet i was still surprisingly quite drunk. we played kings (or what helen would call "ring of fire" when i learned how to play it from her). i was already gone by then. i kept asking for more but ha fooled me into thinking my cup of juice was alcoholic when it, in fact, was not. why do people always do that to me? oh well. i just remember yelling a lot during the game. lots of weird things. called jacq a ho. hahahaha. sorry jacq. but i did call her a pretty ho. kept cursing at debra. seriously though, she kept taking all my answers!! i threw a playing card into a pitcher of alcohol. was very fascinated with all the cards and kept reading them all off, especially the one that said maverick. it was all very amusing for everyone else, i'm sure.

danced a bit. god, i have no rhythm when i'm drunk. it probably looked more like spazzing. with music. after that, i got pretty tired and had to sit down and started slumping all over the place. a short nap and many pees later, i was pretty sobered up. wheee... spent the rest of the time playing games and eating cheesecake.

sigh. it was tons of fun. i love my friends. got to see EVERYONE! yay! even the ever elusive san and di. it was a great night. :) thanks ha for letting us use your house. thanks deb for lying to me so well. thanks jo for planning my "birthday party." thanks jacq for running all over the place trying to find the alias soundtrack for me because i'm listening to it right now and it's making me all kinds of nervous. okay, this is too many people to thank. i love you all. thanks for bringing food and alcohol and making me feel special. and drunk. ;D