THE BIG 2-3!

Ladies and Gents. Introducing, my 23rd Weekend Bash!

2 Words: Worth. It.
1 Word: Epic.

I would like to just capitalize on my birthday night (for everything else was quite good, but a lot more low key).

First, I wake up to my 2 brothers singing me "Happy Birthday" in their deep, deep Baritone voices (can you blame them? It was 6/7AM). And for those who know me...you may ask...where was the 3rd brother and the father? Well...Padre was probably sleeping...hard. And my eldest brosky was out of the country having a great time in the sun with his wife. I don't blame them....no need to call from the British Virgin Islands (too much work, haha).

Then, my friends and I decide to play the lotto at the local bodega. Although our bodega seller was a little sheisty with whether we wanted to pay for a $1 game or a $2 game, it was still invigorating since I had never played the Lotto before!

We head back to the house and all of a sudden...word of an EPIC snowstorm kills my birthday buzz! Really, weather? Really? (haha...) Although... I was not laughing at that point. After a little pity party, we got out the house and headed to 42nd street to meet another best friend of mine to see "Invictus" (good movie...kind of anticlimactic though...but good, nonetheless).

We head back home..and now...the storms are raging...a friend who wanted to go partying with us (and on whom we depended for a car to get to the club) was a little unsure about going out to party.

LET'S BACKTRACK FOR A SECOND: the reason why I threw a pity party earlier was because my only wish for my bday was to go out partying with the ones I love with a GOOD DJ. (This year has been plagued with too many bad DJs...which kills even the slightest buzz...ugh.)

Back to our featured presentation: So...as we sit uneasily on the couch waiting for our friend to confirm if he was going to brave the elements and come pick us up, my friends said the magical words: WE WILL GO WHETHER HE GOES OR NOT. WE WANT TO PARTY SO THAT IS WHAT WE WILL DO. (you see..all day I had wanted someone to tell me this...but I didn't want to be the Princess and force my friends to do something they may not have wanted to do...)

FROM THAT STATEMENT ON...we prepared for the festivities (see Facebook pictures). And guess what? Our friend with car...he decided to come out too!

ALL THIS TO SAY...from our best friends sexy pre-club photoshoot, to slipping and sliding on the roads of Harlem to 42nd street-Times Square, to bottle service, to the world's greatest DJ (he played the greatest reggae and soca mix), to being swooned by the head of security at BBKings (ending in a confirmed date), to walking through an even worse storm to get back to the car, to slipping and sliding on the roads of 42nd street back to Harlem...we could only mutter 2 phrases with snowflakes in our mouths and on our eyelashes:

WORTH IT!

EPIC!

and that's what it was.

A toast to the best friends in the world who know how to be selfless on a day that means the world to me. ::clink, clank::