Yesterday one of our friends turned 25, and to celebrate a whole quarter century of being alive, she decided to throw a fancy party wherein everyone dressed up and brought their favorite wines. To ensure she didn’t end up with 20 bottles of Two Buck Chuck or something, she made there be blind tastings with prizes for the best red and best white.

At the end of the night, there were many different bottles to sample, but in the end the red that Dave and I brought won the best red, so we received a book of cocktail recipes as a prize. There weren’t nearly as many whites to choose from, as it turned out, so the fact that we won among so many others is pretty cool. We almost lost out to some box wine though, because some people of course thought it would be amusing to vote for what is obviously the crappiest (and thus I suppose awesomest) wine.

This party also lasted until late in the night, which included one of our friends in attendance to bust out a guitar and start serenading us with songs, until he picked ones that everyone could sing along to, which was pretty fun.

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Yesterday around noon, Dave and I went to a Solstice party at the house of a friend of mine. He puts on this party every year, and tons of people come throughout the day, as it begins around 10am and goes until about midnight. Some people leave to do other parties, see the parade, visit the beer garden, etc, but since the house did not close up for a few hours to go downtown like it did last year, a few of us just stayed the whole time.

There was lots of delicious food (and of course my cupcakes, although there were also some red velvet cupcakes in attendance), and this year saw the new addition of a hot tub, which just got installed the night before, although pretty much only the kids took advantage of it.

There was also Rock Band set up again, which of course we partook in. We wound up staying until a little before midnight, making it once again a truly all-day celebration.

At any rate, today is Father’s Day, and so I am off to drive home to surprise my Dad with a quick visit and join my family for dinner!

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Last night a few of us went bowling, which I don’t believe I’ve done since my birthday. We paid by the hour and when all was said and done, we bowled 2 full games.

I was having an off night or something because I only got 75 on my first game, and while I did slightly better the 2nd game, I still barely got over 100. After bowling we congregated to play some board games. We wound up playing Simpsons themed Clue, and I could’ve won, but I didn’t want to risk guessing when I was only 95% sure and so I was beat to the guess. Still, it was fun though.

After returning back home, near midnight, I started baking some chocolate cupcakes with vanilla frosting (from scratch of course) for today’s Solstice party that I will be leaving to attend in a bit. Should be a lot of fun if it’s anything like last year! Hopefully people like my cupcakes.

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Last night a few of us went to the Joyce to hit up karaoke night, at least in part because one member of our group had talked to someone the week prior and the guy had mentioned he might be there this week as well.

Anyway, we went, got some drinks, did some karaoke, and talked to random foreign people from England and Switzerland and generally had a good time. The guy in question never came, but it didn’t really matter. I did, however, almost get burned alive by a giant birthday cake with 30 candles for one guy’s birthday, because they carried it right past me as I was getting off the stage after doing my song. That would not have been good.

Since we enjoyed hanging the evening, we are contemplating making it a weekly event. We shall see.

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Yesterday Dave and I did absolutely nothing. And it was fabulous.

I had fun showing off the town all last week, and it was nice to get out and walk around a lot. But, after all that time just doing stuff, it was nice to sit around the apartment and not do anything. Well, I did do some cleaning up that had been neglected during the week, but other than that, nothing!

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