Bottom Of The Barrel

38 years go by pretty fast

38 Years
456 Months
13,880 Days
331,120 Hours
19,987,200 Minutes
1,199,232,000 Seconds

Has it really been that long already?

Labels: Birthday

Suprise

Saturday at 2:30 PM, I pulled into my neighbor's drive way and for a split second she was giving me that look that said we do no have time for this. Just then she released that there were 50 people standing in the driveway waiting to say SURPRISE! Her mouth hung open for several minutes as she first tried to get her head around all of the people there to help celebrate her 40th birthday [which we will be in Hawaii on the day]. Not being the planner in the household, she really thought I wouldn't be able to pull something like this off. Well guess I can. After weeks of planning, emailing friends and family we really got her.

The afternoon was beautiful [thank you god for a nice non-thrunderstorming day], food was delicious, the beer and wine was flowing, the music was oh-so-80's and the laughter, smiles and love was mighty. Once the sun went down, we retreated home to prep for the night of dancing to our long-time friend Chad LaMarsh. On a side note, Lisa and I met at a bar in Boston on a night when Chad was playing and his booze cruise of 1996 was the excuse Lisa's girlfriend used to get her to her wedding shower, so it was more than appropriate Chad was part of the big 4-0 party.

All-in-all, it went better than expected and as great as I had hoped. Thank you to everyone for their help [Lisa is right, I really couldn't do it alone], especially the hosts - you guys really made it happen for me - and thank you, thank you, than you to everyone who came, it was the surprise I was hoping for and the party she was dreaming of.