Birthday Weekend
Well, that was fun.
Proceedings started on Saturday afternoon, when veggiesu turned up bearing snack foods and alcohol, shortly followed by immortalradical, snowking and cellardoor28.
We swiftly moved onto the presents, despite it not being my birthday yet. Hoggy got me bongos! Dan got me this CD, plus an HMV gift voucher with the condition that I have to buy an album released in the last year. This is what I get for complaining last week that I was out of touch with the young people's music.
There was geeking and drinking for a few hours until we headed into town for tasty Chinese food. Then back home for, um, more geeking and drinking, me being rubbish at Soul Calibur, and Dan entertaining us with his Tom Mcrae Likes Tha Moon and the old but still funny Niall Meets Ryan Adams skits.
Got up on Sunday morning to find Dan wandering around in cowboy boots, shorts, t-shirt and coat. This is not a look I recommend to anyone. Played some Donkey Konga. Was better at that than I thought, or maybe it's just that everyone else except Hoggy was rubbish. Su cunningly won by not playing at all.
Headed into town, sans Su who had to get home, and had lunch at a Wetherspoons, where we gained a starofheaven. Then some shopping. Went to Music Zone and picked up the Complete Ballad of Halo Jones for £5. Dan bought the Vagina Monologues, and proceeded to read a few pages out loud, to general hilarity. Went to the Lego shop in the Bullring, and decided that no, spending £110 on a Star Wars snow speeder was not actually a good idea.
After we'd taken Hoggy and Sus to the train station, we went to the pub. Things got a bit odd. I think fatigue was starting to set in. We had a couple of drinks, wondered what the heck we were going to do about food, and then Dan accidentally spilt a glass of Pepsi which went all over my trousers. Fortunately I was in such a good mood I just found it funny, even as I got laughed at by barmaids as I went to the toilet to try and fail to clean myself up a bit. It's at times like this that being in a car is extremely handy, as Jane drove us straight home so I could get changed, then around Moseley and Kings Heath for about half an hour looking for a chip shop that was open. Ended up going to the Kebab Stirchley House. Back home, where we sang along to Aberfeldy, then watched Help. Dan and Jane left. Me and Aileen snuggled on the couch for a while listening to Ed Harcourt, then went to bed about 11.
Am feeling a bit rough today. Not hungover, particularly, but brain is working very slowly, and have yet to do any work whatsoever. But I had a good birthday.
Proceedings started on Saturday afternoon, when veggiesu turned up bearing snack foods and alcohol, shortly followed by immortalradical, snowking and cellardoor28.
We swiftly moved onto the presents, despite it not being my birthday yet. Hoggy got me bongos! Dan got me this CD, plus an HMV gift voucher with the condition that I have to buy an album released in the last year. This is what I get for complaining last week that I was out of touch with the young people's music.
There was geeking and drinking for a few hours until we headed into town for tasty Chinese food. Then back home for, um, more geeking and drinking, me being rubbish at Soul Calibur, and Dan entertaining us with his Tom Mcrae Likes Tha Moon and the old but still funny Niall Meets Ryan Adams skits.
Got up on Sunday morning to find Dan wandering around in cowboy boots, shorts, t-shirt and coat. This is not a look I recommend to anyone. Played some Donkey Konga. Was better at that than I thought, or maybe it's just that everyone else except Hoggy was rubbish. Su cunningly won by not playing at all.
Headed into town, sans Su who had to get home, and had lunch at a Wetherspoons, where we gained a starofheaven. Then some shopping. Went to Music Zone and picked up the Complete Ballad of Halo Jones for £5. Dan bought the Vagina Monologues, and proceeded to read a few pages out loud, to general hilarity. Went to the Lego shop in the Bullring, and decided that no, spending £110 on a Star Wars snow speeder was not actually a good idea.
After we'd taken Hoggy and Sus to the train station, we went to the pub. Things got a bit odd. I think fatigue was starting to set in. We had a couple of drinks, wondered what the heck we were going to do about food, and then Dan accidentally spilt a glass of Pepsi which went all over my trousers. Fortunately I was in such a good mood I just found it funny, even as I got laughed at by barmaids as I went to the toilet to try and fail to clean myself up a bit. It's at times like this that being in a car is extremely handy, as Jane drove us straight home so I could get changed, then around Moseley and Kings Heath for about half an hour looking for a chip shop that was open. Ended up going to the Kebab Stirchley House. Back home, where we sang along to Aberfeldy, then watched Help. Dan and Jane left. Me and Aileen snuggled on the couch for a while listening to Ed Harcourt, then went to bed about 11.
Am feeling a bit rough today. Not hungover, particularly, but brain is working very slowly, and have yet to do any work whatsoever. But I had a good birthday.