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ah…there should be a new bday celebration every weekend. marisol organized a small drinky drink last nite for my bday celebrations (you rock!). i strolled to candela on union sq, where marisol, betty, sally, alice, terence, paulie, and 2 of paulie’s friends had jus started ordering rounds. i was running on empty since i was blading with pho after work and didnt have din, so we got calamari and a spicy tuna roll along with our first rounds. liz shows up later…and after having a second round, we migrated to drinkland for some rockin’ and ass-shaking. u kno, i dont remember ever not having fun at drinkland…woo! we start with drinks of course…at the bar marisol hands me a drink…and then alice hands me a drink. uh oh. hopefully the sushi, calamari, and that mochi i had b4 leaving my apt was enuf to hold back the bad bad drunkiness. highlights of the nite include getting jiggy with the best of the 80’s, the cute dj groupie in the dj booth, and toni basil’s mickey en espanol.

met alice, terence, and betty for lunch today at kum gang san…basically pigged out on yum korean since the only reason i even got up today (groggy) was b/c my stomach was telling me to feed it. we headed north after lunch to chill in central park. we hit sheeps meadow, the great lawn, the castle, and turtle pond…very chill. we head out of central park around 6…i had to make my way back to my apt to wait for my sis and her bf to get into nyc. knowing my sis…i fig that she’d be late. she gets in around 8:30…right. we have din at yokocho’s and order 6 yakitoris, bbq grill, and spicy tuna in a bowl. damn their spicy tuna’s good. afterwards my sis wanted to still see my apt, so we grab their car and try and find parking around my apt. 15 minutes later and still no parking spot, she drops me off and heads off. *shrug*

big props to greg down in austin, texas! he got me one of the coolest bday presents ive ever received…he travelled down to my old town along the gulf coast in texas, took 2 rolls of film, had them developed, and then sent them to me in time for my birthday. you rock greg! we had actually discussed this off hand months ago, after i had seen that he took a road trip to hope, texas (from the sandra bullock movie hope floats) for a friend of his. so i mentioned off hand that itd be coo for him to trip down to my lil boonie town in the middle of calhoun county (pronounced cow~hooooon). i passed him info on what i could remember of the two towns i lived in (point comfort and port lavaca)…the addresses i thought were my old houses, some sites that i could remember, and left him to his own devices. and he came thru…even tho i got both my addresses wrong. whups. and even tho i got reminded jus how boonie my town was, i still got all teary-eyed from seeing the lil shack of a house that we called our first home in america.

01, 02 | the half moon reef lighthouse – symbol of port lavaca along the matagorda bay
03 | the old baptist church we used to attend in point comfort
04, 05 | my old elementary school in point comfort…they still have the same hexagonal merry-go-round i used to play on!
06 | the playground near the waterside at the back of point comfort
07 | my first home in america
08, 09 | our second home in port lavaca…the big tree thats been hacked apart in the front lawn? we planted that apple tree right before we moved
10, 11 | the twin dolphins theater…saw e.t. there
12 | the big h.e.b. supermarket…hey, its one of the few non-home, non-school memories i could remember
thanx a shitload greg. very coo.