Oh what a life!

Entry number one: Where do I begin?

Everything is so perfectly strange! I'm wholly convinced that I'm the most blessed 21 year old on the planet. This will affirm itself in the future, you'll see.

I just acquired a disc of the photos from my friends' birthday party this past Saturday night. Madness ensued! "Dirty Thirty" was the theme and, apparently, getting shitty was the idea. No exceptions that I'm aware of. I had no idea what to expect going in but, naturally, I had to arrive with a 30 pack of beer. Did you know PBR comes in thirty packs now? This was a great social advancement in my community. This party had it all: copious amounts of alcohol, dear friends, drum sessions, accent parties (where are you from?), hat-switching parties, barking seals, and lots of wookies. Not to mention, the man I've had my eye on for months.

It was still relatively early into the evening (I think so, that is) when the first round of wrestling madness took place. In the hallway! Another party patron, Nick, decided he ought to break it up. Nick is a big guy. They listened for about 2 minutes before starting up again. I stood by with my infamous loud-laugh and enjoyed the view. What's not to like? Men being MANLY in their testosterone. It was pure bromance, I assure you. No hard feelings involved. Entertainment value at it's very best.
Bradley, how does your arm contort like so? He's Juan Don Ellis, that's how! Proof of bromance below.
I'd like to take a brief moment to sing the praises of these two men. They're amazing and I love them. Period.

Night goes on, I'm mingling with the crowd. Laughing hard, playing drums, flirting boy. Finally, it's been announced: 3 am on the lawn, the "real" match is on! Stu and Brad have been hyping this wrestling match for months. It's going to be an epic battle, it's obvious by their brotherly shit talk. I wanted to photograph it! Turns out, camera could not be found in the mess that is my vehicle, oops. (Thank you for capturing this, Miles!) I did get a good kiss out of the whole deal though. hehe.

In the meantime, neighbor girl is getting married and celebrating with a bachelorette party, Naturally. Over the fence we see a boy in his undies with a riding crop in hand. He gets invited over, and I get the pleasure of whipping Bradley's ass 30 glorious times. Happy Birthday! 23 must have been a good year, I think that's the one that broke the whip. Get busy judging me, I'm really a nice little girl! A couple stolen kisses later, and it's 3 am.. and it's time for the real shit.

Bradley and Stu, sizing each other up.

The wrestling match was beyond epic. There might as well have been theme music playing. Round one, Stu did really well. Pinned Brad good a couple of times. All in all, the mixture of the alcohol (lots) did different things to both of them. It essentially made Stu's reflexes a little slower and turned Brad into a vicious machine! Round two, and things began to really heat up. In attempts to coach and motivate Stu to push through, Tyler Crow shouts "I HAVE MONEY!" I think the translation to that actually meant, 'I have money riding on this.' (whopping 9 dollars).. come on Stewie!

I was rooting for Stu, naturally. How could I not? Lookit that grizzly beard!

Things started to get ugly quickly. At one point, Brad picked Stu up off of the ground and threw him down, adding the force of his body weight to the fall. The audience members all thought it was hilarious, but it was certain there would be some aching bodies in the morning.

Tyler Crow, attempting to pull Brad off Stu. He's got money [on this], after all!

Wrestling match died down and as a consolation prize, I awarded the loser lots of kisses. Though I'm not sure as it was a prize for him so much as it was for me. Apparently he was really drunk. But I wasn't! I climbed into a cab and left my pretty pumps at the party somewhere. This all seemed perfectly acceptable. In hindsight, it still kind of is. Endearing, if nothing else. The hard part was calling the cab in the morning and doing the same thing again!

Wow. That was a really fun night.