Chocolates

For all of you out there who either don't know me or don't know about my blog here, you may have missed my birthday on monday. That's right folks I am finally old enough to stand at any American bar and order a drink. I am old enough to go to any concert I want and stay ot as late as I please. It's a pretty interesting feeling even though I expected to feel a longer sense of relief when it came. I think that is is probably the fact that my birthday fell on a monday this year and I just simply had too much work to do for tuesday to really go out and enjoy my new freedom. I was stuck with my guilty pleasure of one beer and then I was done.
I didn't get off without a celebration though and it was a good one. I tried to keep my party low key this year as I knew that if I made it in to a party then it wold turn in to one much bigger than I wold have really wanted. I invited some friends but asked that we not drink. Of course everyone laughed at me but they still came and we just hung ot and ate lots of chocolates that my girlfriend brought home from the candy store where she works. Eventually I think everyone was replacing drinks with a chocolate in hand, as they seemed to be inserted or held during many conversations around the hose at any one moment. I thought it was kind of a funny sight to be seen, all of these college students having lots of fun not drinking while gorging themselves on gourmet chocolates and conversation.
This weekend I am going to be swinging the pendulum the other direction though so please come ot and chill with me. I can't say where I will be, but for the first time I will be out there and I am sure I will run in to yo if yo look long and hard enough in those cloudy rooms and smokey bars all across town.