Dayzed and Confused

You know those days when you can't keep your eyes open? When you can't stop stuffing food in your mouth (particularly gummy candy)? When no matter how hard you try, your body temperature just won't stay even? Heater on...heater off...window open...scarf on and heater on...EVERYTHING OFF.

Today is one of those days. I started my morning with a kickass skeleton hand filled with Halloween candy. I made myself wait to eat any of it. After a nice lunch of spicy crab rolls and asparagus however, the candy was pleading with me to be eaten. And now I'm sugar crashing. Sometimes I wish we still had mandatory nap time on a tiny square of rug. Sometimes I wish that? Who am I kidding. I ALWAYS wish for nap time.

And a new year begins

I just finished a long weekend of celebrating 33 years of living. There was much eating, drinking, laughing and dancing involved.

A few good memories, if you will:

• Friday night battle with an oversized flower power bday balloon. Walking through nyc streets with the wind gusting me this way and that. I think my balloon molested more people than Michael Jackson. I particularly enjoyed the nasty looks which quickly turned to smiles on the subway every time someone got bonked in the back of the head with Mr. Flower.
• Saturday evening torrential downpours. Watching the rain come down in buckets while seated at Paddy Maguire's bar, shooting tequila and talking smack with coworkers.
• Saturday evening, post-torrential rain, dancing in my pjs to Bruce Springsteen and shooting more tequila. I had to use my salt grinder and drink lime juice from a plastic "Real Lime" bottle. Class act all the way. I was soon joined by my roommate. Garlic pizza, singing loudly, dancing like a Wild Thing and drinking the bottle dry.
• Walking to our Sunday birthday brunch at Fada, we were wished a "happy burrrzday" by a strange frenchman. Joined by friends and loved ones. Gifts of wine, books and bath soaps. Kind of perfect.
  
• Free "dragonfly cocktails" at The Abbey bar while "2001: A Space Odyssey" played in the background. Marble pound cake with bday candles; stuffing all 6 of us into the photo booth; free noodles.
• Lovely fall evening walk to Lodge while the sun was setting over the city. Meeting Scooby, the uber-cute miniature schnauzer who was eating street pepperoni. Settling in to munch on the best veggie burger in the city; ordering red sparkling wine and being served champagne instead; bitching about the bad waitress until she brought us free chocolate-pecan pie/cake with candles. Helping my roommate walk home semi-straight and taking photos of her 1/2 in normal dress, 1/2 in Halloween dress and birthday crown.