I Suck At Birthday Parties

On Saturday, Karen, our seven month old baby daughter (Briana) and I attended a birthday party. Now, I suck at birthday parties. The special occasion, however, was for my friend (Sam) and his two children.

Sam is in the armed forces. He and his wife (Tara), who normally live out of state, were making their semi-annual trip up to Massachusetts. It just so happens that in the month of October, their children were celebrating their birthdays. Sam and Tara have two twin boys (Alex and Ben). And the big birthday celebration was for their first birthday.

For Karen and I (and Briana), this was our first time meeting Alex and Ben. Because Sam and Tara live out of state, we have only seen pictures of their two boys. So it was good to meet their little ones on Saturday.

Interestingly enough, the birthday party for the twin babies was held at Blue-22 in Quincy. For anyone curious, Blue-22 is a bar. Normally, I would think that having a baby party at a bar is somewhat peculiar. It just so happens that all of us are childhood friends of one the owners of the bar (Garv). And since Sam and Tara live out of state, I can understand how the party ended up at Blue-22.

Regardless, it was a good time celebrating Alex and Ben's birthday at Blue-22. Joining in on the festivities were Sam and Tara's respective parents, Tara's sister, Garv, my friends (Marc, Kelley, Leeann, Cass, Ellen, Aimee, Jim, Aimee and Jim's children, Scott, Ofelia, Scott and Ofelia's son), the parent (Peggy) of one of my friends, and some of Tara's other relatives. It was a motley crew of sorts.

Sam and Tara got a little present for Briana, which was very thoughtful. Attached to the present was also a specially selected Little Mermaid PEZ dispenser in my honor, which I thought was pretty funny. Speaking of which, Aimee also cracked me up. She gave me this ginormous gummy bear from Yummies in Maine. The gummy bear was absolutely huge. It made me laugh. It is moments like that which make me thankful to have the friends that I do.

Needless to say, it was a fun time to hang out with everyone. Speaking of which, following the birthday party, Karen and I ended up at Marc and Kelley's house to meet their new cat, Jack/Jackson. The cat is very cute and very active. Also meeting the cat for the first time were our friends (Andrea and Steve) and my BFF (Kerry). Andrea, Steve, and Kerry were in town and met up with us after their own little excursion for the day.

All in all, it was a nice day of just hanging out with friends.

I Still Suck At Casting

one of the topics of conversation that came up on saturday while i was hanging out with my friend (aimee) is who would play her signficant other (jim) in the movie about all of us.

jim is a great guy. of course, i have to say that because jim could whup my butt simply using one finger (he takes martial arts). seriously though, he is great and i'm glad he's with aimee. plus, what is there not to like about a guy who loves video games (in paticular... city of heroes)... and dungeons and dragons... all staples of geekdom.

anyway, i still suck at casting. for my choice, however, i decided to go with leonard roberts of heroes fame. i'm sure jim would love the reference to a television superhero as well... it's part of the fraternity of geekdom. (for anyone curious, leonard roberts was also in the movie "drumline". the reason i bring that movie reference up is because karen at one time really wanted to watch drumline... which we did... and like most movies karen wants me to watch with her... they are hardly ever good... like kirk cameron's "fireproof"...)

(pictured below is leonard roberts as jim.)


leonard roberts, by the way, also played a character on the greatest show ever: buffy the vampire slayer. he doesn't appear until season four though. hmm... i wonder if i'm starting to see a trend in my casting choices...