My Girlfriend Says I Talk Too Much

Birthday Recap – Year 27 Begins April 6, 2009

No longer am I in my mid-twenties. Weird, I know. Yesterday, April 5th, I turned 27 years old.  I can remember as a kid I never wanted to be older than 25. Anything older than that was too old. Even at 27 I still agree with the younger version of me. As a kid birthdays are the greatest thing ever. As an adult, it’s just been a reminder how little I’ve done thus far.

But enough of the moping. I still had a great birthday.

I got up early so that I could take my dog for a walk. I knew I’d be in DC all day and I wanted to get some exercise in for him. Once he was done burning some energy, I headed over to my girlfriend’s  and was greeted by the greatest gift of all time…a homemade pecan pie! It was delicious. Nothing is better than warm pecan pie. Nothing. And she didn’t stop there. I got homemade pineapple and chicken pizza as well. I was a happy, happy boy.

After digesting our food for a bit, we headed down towards DC to see the Cherry Blossom trees in full bloom. The trees were GORGEOUS. I didn’t have to do anything yesterday but for one thing…bring the camera. Well, I brought the camera, but I brought a camera without a charged battery. I was so annoyed.  Not only were the trees ripe for picture taking, but they had the prettiest tulip garden I’ve ever seen. All was not lost as my girlfriend has a phone with a pretty powerful camera(which I’ll post as soon as I get them off her phone), but I could have gotten some truly great pics. Oh well. I decided to look twice as hard and store the pictures in my brain.

To end the night we decided to try a new bar in this really cool town nearby. This isn’t your  typical Bud and Miller Lite type of atmosphere. Sure, you can get that, but you can also try some delicious microbrews. I went for their dark stuff. Jav-ah and Smuttynose Imperial Stout. The Jav-ah was borderline nasty. I don’t know enough about beer to tell you what flavor I didn’t like but something in there wasn’t jiving with me. On the other hand, the  Smuttynose was great stuff. When the bartender handed me the beer he said “just to warn you, this is 10% alchohol”.  I kind of laughed it off, but boy did that beer hit me hard. It had a different taste. I kept coming back to pine needles, but I really enjoyed it.

Birthday 2009 was a success. Of all my birthdays, I think I’ll remember this one for a long time to come. Here’s hoping this upcoming year is more productive than the last…

How was your weekend?

-DS82