I Suck At Celebrating My Friend's Birthday

today is my friend's (kelley) birthday. too bad i suck at celebrating my friend's birthday. happy birthday kelley!

out of all of my friends who i see regularly, i have known kelley the longest. i attended the same elementary school with kelley. in fact, i believe i was in her third grade class... maybe. my memory is a little foggy when it comes to details about the past. hence, that is why my friends joke about my selective memory. my memory, or lack thereof, is also one of the reasons why i sometimes fear that i will forget about my son (braden).

anyway, i didn't really get to know kelley until she started dating my friend (marc). up until then, she was simply someone i knew who hung out with so-and-so. i never really talked to her much. i just knew of her.

marc and kelley eventually got married... and now both karen and i see them quite regularly now. hence, wednesday nights are usually dedicated marc and kelley nights... unless of course something comes up to alter the schedule.

since i started hanging out with kelley, we have done a lot of silly things together... all in the name of alcohol. in fact, marc likes to refer to kelley and me as drinking buddies. kelley has a reputation for drinking a lot, and when she does... she gets silly. since i'm likewise a goof when i'm inebriated, combining the two of us is probably not a good thing.

one of my fondest memories of kelley takes place in town. both kelley and i worked in boston at the time. i think we both convinced each other to leave work early for the day and meet at a restaurant in town for a late lunch. the restaurant was the now defunct peking tom's, which closed june 16, 2007. i think the restaurant that is there now is called kingston station or something like that.

so, we ate our lunch. naturally, as we are prone to do when we are together, we decided to get drinks. after our first round of drinks (which were mai tais), kelley said that she would stop so that we could both leave and get home at a good time. then came round two. then came round three... eventually, we both got a little silly. in fact, it got so silly... that we had to call marc to come pick us up.

(the following video was quite popular at the time, and i may have repeated a few lines from the video out loud while inebriated.)


needless to say, it was not a good day for marc. marc came to pick us up... no problem. the only problem was... marc went to pf chang's to pick us up. we were at peking tom's. so while marc was waiting and waiting and wondering where we were (and getting more annoyed by the minute), kelley and i were being silly with booze. for some reason, the cellular reception was not that great so we could not communicate with marc after we initially called him. of course, that may have been due to the booze too.

eventually, marc found us. he was not happy. making matters worse, of course, was that i had to pick up karen later on as well. as i was in no shape to be operating huge machinery, marc also picked up karen so that she could drive my sorry butt home.
ah... good times... things seemed so much simpler back in the day.

needless to say, kelley and i don't imbibe as much as we used to these days. but those were some fun times.

anyway, happy birthday kelley!