my fabulous 25th birthday. perfect combo of class and craziness.

in first photo, we have destiny, abi, and rob. in the background is logan echolls look-alike christian. below is brandon, tied with abi as my second favorite logan's bartender (sorry guys, but josh has gotta be first. he'd be sad if he wasn't.).

so i had a really fun birthday this year!

morning/afternoon
i started the day with 1/2 day of work, which is so much better than a whole day of work. my officemate gave me these really cool burned copies of bands he likes and i listened to them on my unexpectedly long drive home. there was some sort of craziness where they closed like 2 blocks of craig up by fifth. so traffic was a frickin' disaster. but i made it home and jp told me what he got me (because he didn't estimate shipping correctly and things weren't in yet). he got me a banana guard, which is a plastic container to hold bananas (check it out at www.bananaguard.com). mine always get squashed at the bottom of my bag, and i always complain. so yay! he also bought me an interior design book on color. plus my itunes gift certificate. and he did most of the dishes (better than most presents!). so i was really pleased. we played super monkey ball for awhile but i totally sucked so it wasn't much fun. i read, he played more video games. i took a short nap and woke up to hurriedly get dressed and go with jp to pick up shannon at her place and will at work downtown. traffic was an awful clusterfuck because of some broken down car on grant. took forever...but eventually we get will and go to kaya.

dinner and a show
it was fabulous. we had girly drinks, mussels and plaintains as an appetizer, and i had tuna. it was so amazingly yummy and so amazingly rare. why is raw fish so good?? plus it came with this really weird wasabi-infused roe. i love wasabi and i love roe. what a good idea. unfortunately, no dessert because we have to go to our show! yay to culture! along with a ridiculous calendar about cats, will and shannon bought me a ticket to 'forbidden broadway' done by clo's cabaret theatre. it was so so fun. super funny, and the venue is amazing. you sit at a 4 top table and ours was front row, as stage left as you could get. you even have servers who bring you things. we all ordered coffee and bailey's. the show was 4 actors mocking every major musical production that you know of. the 'les mis' routine was probably my favorite.

the night continues...
so then we end up heading out to gooski's in polish hill. my little bro and my friend from high school, g, meet us there. we sit for awhile, drink some drinks. will and shannon didn't have their car and needed to go home early (yuck to working at 8 on a saturday!), so jp decided to drive them home and not come back out. erik was leaving to hang out with colleen (who is very unfortunately only 19), so that left me and g to continue the night. we decided to go to logan's. call various other people with the plan and we leave.
get to logan's and sitting at the bar is my best friend from senior year of high school, abi. she immediately buys me a drink and a shot from the familiar looking bartender and then tells me that she's getting her linguistics degree at pitt. and taking phonetics with claude this semester. brian, leeann, and katy show up next, followed closely by destiny and jenna (!) who i haven't seen in months....since the wedding i think. somewhere in all this, i realize that the bartender is brandon, josh's best friend, who i've only met once. so i was all excited and asked him if he remembered me and he's all "freya, i knew who you were when you walked in the door". and i felt dumb, but he just laughed. leeann gives me my birthday present, it's this amazing sparkly bag, a yummy candle, a halloween tote bag, and the softest, fuzziest socks ever. i immediately put all my stuff in the new bag. yay! rob, brett, and andrea show up too and at this point, i feel like i know everyone at the bar. lots of hanging out and trying to find men for abi. we do manage to find someone who looks exactly like logan echolls from veronica mars. so i go to talk to him about it and he doesn't watch veronica mars. i try and convince him to, but i'm not sure the message really got across. gotta find my converts when i can.
everyone trickles out and it's down to abi, destiny, jenna, rob, and i. we end up finally leaving around 2:45, and i drunk dial the whole way home. i definitely called colleen and talked to her. i think i may have left zac a mean message for not calling me on my birthday. i woke up with the guilty feeling that i had. and also a big headache and some dizziness. that was around 9:45 and i was up for about 1/2 hour before going back to sleep and awakening at 1pm. yikes! now, is that counted as sleeping until then, or is 1/2 hour awake enough to make 10:15 - 1 a nap?
oh well. all in all, a wonderfully perfect day.
and i promise, there will not be binge drinking for a long time after this. between last weekend and this weekend, i am done.
dammit, we have halloween parties to go to. hopefully, i'll have recovered by then.