question of the week:

what's your favorite birthday memory?(#26 in 2006 at Dave's house in Benicia)

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i have a few that stand out in my mind:

for my 5th birthday i got to go to pistol pete's pizza and my friend lindsay from preschool came,
and we sang "bad, bad, bad, bad boys" by gloria estefan in the van on the way there.
it was awesome. (i was going to link to that song but i just realized
the lyrics are totally inappropriate. why did i know this song when i was 4?)

i really loved my 15th birthday because i got to get my driver's license.
that's right, in albuquerque we got them at 15. isn't that scary?
i was a freshman in high school. yikes.

my 19th birthday was a good one. it was my first birthday away from home so i was a little worried about it. i went to dinner with my brother and his girlfriend holly, and jessica and her boyfriend scott at the outback (courtesy of my dad...without his permission, and notice i was even the 5th wheel at my own birthday party) and holly made me an AMAZING chocolate cake with skor bars crushed on top. i was nervous about it being a bad, lonely birthday but it turned out i had good friends and good family to help it be a great day. my old roommate val's birthday is 2 days after mine so she came down from idaho to hang out with us and a few days later. we went to t.g.i.fridays and the waiter tied balloons in our hair so that our hair stood up. we had a fun few days of birthday celebration that year.

my 18th birthday was really fun. my nephew hunter was born the day before, on st. patrick's day. my mom was out of town so i asked my dad if i could skip school and go see hunter at the hospital--he said no. my mom totally would have said yes. okay maybe not, but that's what i told myself. so i went to first period, then decided to leave and go to the hospital. surprise, surprise, my dad was there when i got there. whoops. he didn't bust me though. how could you bust someone when such a sweet, new baby was in the room?

the other reason my 18th was memorable is because of my birthday list. i was listening to the radio as i made it and garth brooks' "two pina coladas" came on. so on my list i wrote "two pina coladas". then i added "a bottle of your best wine" and "jack daniels". as a joke, i swear i didn't drink. my mom was flying home from her trip that day (or maybe the day after?) and so, also as a joke, she ordered jack daniels on the plane, thinking she'd get one of those cute little airplane bottles to bring to me. no. they brought her a shot of jack, at like 9:00 in the morning. i'm sure the stewardesses had a good laugh about the 50-year-old lady alcoholic. anyway, my mom cleared it up for them and they got her a little bottle of crown royal instead (no tiny bottles of jack on hand apparently). so that night as i'm opening presents, i open a bottle of wine, an airplane bottle of crown royal, and pina colada mix from my sister alice. it was hilarious. my dad was so confused (apparently he hadn't seen my list). i swear i was the only 18-year-old on the planet whose mom trusted her enough to buy her alcohol (and know she wouldn't drink it). that birthday stands out in my mind as my most memorable (and funny) so far.

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what's your favorite birthday memory?