A Look Back on My Birthday!

Yeah, it's been a couple weeks since it was my birthday (July 12), but I still wanted to share the celebration of my 34th with everyone!

During the afternoon my roommate Danny and I drank several tasty margaritas at this fake surfer-hippy, corporate-style California-Mexican restaurant up on Flatbush Ave.


The bartenders were really bitchy and stupid and they charged too much for their little drinks. But it was okay, no need to dwell on them - it was my day!

Later on in the evening, I left Danny at home so he could hang out with the guy who does heroin in our bathroom and then I met the rest of my kids at this bar I've been wanting to go to for a long time - Jackie's Fifth Amendment, one of the surviving old people's bars on Fifth Ave. in the Park Slope neighborhood. I've walked by here a bunch of times during my Brooklyn wanderings and wondered what it was like inside. It always looked like a Legion convention was going on inside and I was always a little nervous to go in by myself. Thank goodness for birthdays!


Brian, Todd, Carla, Maria, me, and Carol (We just happened upon Maria who was already hanging out here!)



Carol's present was her old Beaver Dam shirt! Go Golden Beavers! (my old high school team)!

Here's Jackie! (I think...)

Watch out...don't mess with her! She's wearing one of those Maxine t-shirts with the old lady with all the attitude!

Saw this on the road on the way home after a good night's worth of celebrating.