Birthday: Big Poppa

What a milestone today is. My very own big poppa turns the huge three-oh! Uh-oh! I don't have much planned tonight except for dinner to a restaurant that I happen to have a gift certificate to. Haha. Romantic huh? But you see, back in November, I began to concoct what I had hoped to be his best birthday evar! Because January was turning out to be quite the busy month for myself as well as for everyone else, it was decided that the plan would go down on New Year's Eve. He would never expect it! I was already sending out invites to people two months ahead of time just to get people to commit and locked in for that date. As days went by, my nerves were getting to me. There was just far too much time before NYE that so much could go wrong! Luckily, big poppa is as clueless as they come. Kidding! What I meant is that he's just so nice and trusting that it doesn't even occur to him to think that someone may be up to no good or have some sort of ulterior motive. So even though there were a handful of slip-ups, he never caught on to our deceptive ways. And good thing too! So I basically played hostess to his birthday party as well as a New Year's Eve shindig. What a frackin' EPIC night! Okay, it wasn't that spectacular, but it was an overall amazing time with friends money can't buy. After a few glitches, the big surprise was secured, and big poppa went on to pass out ten minutes before 2010. Good times indeed. I'm so thankful to all those who made it out. There's no better group of people to ring in the new year with as well as big poppa's big day. There were no less than three hundred fotos taken that night. It was so hard trying to choose which ones I wanted on my blog so get ready for a foto overload. Hope you had and have a wonderful birthday big poppa!

Musik Mundi: Mike Doughty

My mom and my sistar took my car all around town one day and when I got the car back, the mileage had gone up significantly (bad), the gas tank was nice and full (good), and in my CD player was an old burned CD with a playlist of music I hadn't listened to in some five years. Score for Musik Mundi! Cos dood, I haven't been keeping up with any new stuff since life has been busier. I don't know a lot about Mike Doughty except that he's pretty well traveled and is an active blogger. It sounds like something I should be reading and following! Anyhow, this is the only song that I have from him.

*photo courtesy of amazon.com*


Mike Doughty
Album: Haughty Melodic (2005)
Song: I Hear The Bells

Trippin': New York City - Charging Bronze Bull

26 Broadway
New York, NY 10005

When I say want to see everything in New York, I mean it! I had every intention of taking some fotos of and with the Wall St Charging Bronze Bull. When I knew we were in the vicinity, I surreptitiously guided my group to the area. First thing we saw were the bulls big ole balls. And like the immature folks that we are, we all got our pose on with the private parts.

Trippin': New York City - Bleecker St

I was in NYC for approx four and half days. Was this an adequate amount of time to see everything that I had wanted to see and taste? Abso-frackin-lutely not! Aside from the extra gazillion places that I wanted to eat at, there was a lot of areas in Manhattan that I would have loved to explore a bit more. West village, east village, greenwich village. Village, village, village. And they're not even close to being villages. Bleecker street is also one of those areas that I could totally see myself hanging out at on the weekends. Cool shops and bars with lots of character. I don't drink much but I like to go grab beer once in a while. We ventured to this area so that we could get some yogurt. Afterwards, we walked around for a bit and settled in at the Red Lion bar. Gau and Queenie taught us this drinking game called Seven. I won't get into the logistics of the game but let's just say that the only ones that kept losing were them! Hah! I don't think there was really a point in posting these fotos but I did it any ways.