happy b-day Ed McMahon and Shaq!

great b-day weekend (except for the whole year older, closer to death thing), here's the quick (or not) recap...

Friday, March 3

went with JK to Can't State to see a birthday gala for one of her old (and I mean old) profs...she didn't want to drive alone and I was free...and can't say no to her :-)
concert was ummm...interesting, one of those things you'd have to see to actually believe..weird music played on classical instruments and by a jazz band, a couple of very odd videos (one of which was an odd 70's Model UN club promo that you'd have to watch in high school government class), lots of hippies, then the old Egyptian prof guy danced on stage and sang to the crowd....
bizarre...
then we ate at one of JK's old Kent haunts

Saturday, March 4

the MI crew and the Toledo gang went to the Storm game to celebrate my b-day...
good game, lots of beer consumed...
had to repeatedly escape the clutches of Chach and Jim
I was kind of a prick and kept throwing popcorn at Rob and tapping Amanda's shoulder...not surprisingly they got away from us lunatics as soon as possible (who can blame them?)
Chach and Jim kept yelling at Brynn about her needing fluids or something...
a good time was had by all...well except maybe Rob and Amanda
then we ended up at Nick and Jimmy's after deciding not to stay at the frat boy meat market we tried first

Sunday, March 5

JK gave me the coolest b-day cake ever!! a baseball shaped cake with both the Cubs and Mud Hens logo...what an amazing girl, easily my favorite ex-gf :-)
mom and dad surprised me by taking me and JK up to Frankenmuth just to go to the Brewery so I could buy a case of the beer I'm obsessed with (the Steamwhistle taste-a-like)
we ate there too....JK and I had the 8 beer sampler, we filled out cards and ranked each beer in different categories....she traded me most of the darker stuff
we got pretty buzzed and ate entirely too much good (but bad) food
went straight home from there and passed out

Monday, March 6

my parents took me to dinner again (cause they are the best parents ever) to Mancy's this time....had a great meal and again ate entirely too much food
I'll be 250 in no time...
came out and got a cookie cake, a digital camera, and a cool England pullover from Chief in NY
found out that my older brother and his wife are expecting....hopefully it works out this time..

all in all, one of the better birthdays I'd had...hard to beat last year's trip to Chicago with JK and our unbelievable highrise hotel room
but a Cubs cake and a case of beer is pretty good too