Nov
9
I had a wonderful birthday this weekend! Seriously, it wasn’t just a birthday. It was a birthweekend! We went to dinner Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Opened presents Friday. Went out to the bar with friends on Saturday. And relaxed, watched some Buffy, and enjoyed my actual birthday on Sunday. It was great! I feel so much older and wiser now that I’m 28. Two more years till the big 3-0! Can you imagine? Yowza! Thank you so much to everyone for your awesome birthday wishes! It really means a lot to me. Here are a few pictures to share. I’m not sure why the quality isn’t all that great, but you get the idea.
Here I am opening presents whilst wearing a ridiculous hat:
It wouldn’t be a birthday celebration without argyle:
And more argyle:
Me and Amanda.
Me and Mom:
Tonic! Whatever will I do with it?!
Maybe this cellophane-wrapped bottle looking thing will help:
OMG! Tanqueray! Scratch that. The biggest bottle of Tanqueray I’ve ever seen!
So big that it requires a handle!
Happy Birthday to me!
It wouldn’t be someone else’s birthday if Amanda didn’t wear the special birthday hat:
We were too full from alcohol dinner that night to have birthday cake, so we had it the next morning. Reese’s Peanut Butter ice cream cake!
I could tell you my wish but then I’d have to kill you. But then again, what if I wished for your death?
Mmmmm…death cake.
And now I’m just a normal person again. Not only is it Monday, but now I have to come down from the high of it being my birthday. If people are mean to me I want to be all like “Don’t you know who I am? I’m the birthday boy!” But that wouldn’t fly, because the day after your birthday you’re back to just being a normal person. Life goes on I suppose. But boy was it fun while it lasted!
November 9th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Peanut butter ice cream cake sounds divine! Happy (belated) birthday.
November 9th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Yum! I love birthdays! Actually, I don’t like other peepz’s birthdays, just mine!
But I’m still glad you had a nice birthday weekend.
My birthday ALWAYS falls on finals week. And this year, I actually have a final scheduled on my birthday. Yay me!
November 9th, 2009 at 8:02 am
You have tell people that missed your birthday that it was over the weekend so that take you out to lunch today!
November 9th, 2009 at 8:04 am
If you tell me what you wished for, then you’ll have to kill me.
But it is also true that if you tell me what you wished for, then your wish can’t come true.
Therefore, if you tell me what you wished for, you can’t have wished to kill me, it had to have been something else.
Thanks, Craig! Just what I needed for my next logic midterm!
(Oh, and happy birthday, 364 days early.)
November 9th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Sounds like a super weekend and cake for breakfast is perfect. Although when you need a handle to deal with the size of your bottle of hooch, it’s too big.
Have a great week.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:04 am
Tam, I’m sorry but you can never have a too big bottle of hooch.
Craiggers, I was hoping for some photos of when you went out with your friends to that bar. Still wearing the hat, one hopes. Then you could have told everyone, “I’m the birthday boy, buy me a drink!”
I supposed getting your birthday spankings wouldn’t have been a problem then either, eh?
Glad you had a great one!
HUGS…
November 9th, 2009 at 9:34 am
I’m just wondering what Michelle is going to photoshop in place of you pretending to chug that bottle…
November 9th, 2009 at 9:40 am
I’m glad that you had a great weekend. I really like that you have to wear the birthday hat — I think that’s my favorite. Well, that and the fact that you were wearing an argyle sweater while opening argyle sweaters.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:46 am
john: There is another photo of me chugging the bottle, where I put my other hand between my mouth and the top of the bottle, so you can’t see that the cap is still on. Let’s just say it came out a bit too (unintentionally!) graphic for posting.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:51 am
If I position my browser window carefully, I can see four different argyle patterns at once. Is Craig McAnally the secret identity of Argyle Man? Does he become weak and powerless when dressed in plaid?
Enrico: Since my birthday comes one day after yours, I know what that is like. In undergrad, my birthday was always in or around finals week. At the beginning of grad school, my birthday fell in between an awkward period between finals and when I flew home where many of my friends had already left. Now that my friends have finished classes and are working on research full time, things are more normal.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Craig: I can’t think of anything that you could do with an unopened bottle that would be more graphic that Michelle M.’s video from last week.
November 9th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Craig, did your parents get divorced? I can only assume so since there is no reference to him in this post. I am so sorry…I hope they are happy.
November 9th, 2009 at 11:59 am
LOL. No, Dad is still around of course. He just had to work Friday and Sunday nights. But was at dinner on Saturday. Plus we tried to go to the movies on Saturday morning, but a traffic accident and subsequent police investigation made us turn around after an hour of sitting in traffic.
November 9th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Happy Birthday!! Looks like your birthday was totally argyleilicious, glad you had a great weekend!
Enrico & Cupcake: My birthday always fell in the first couple of days of school after winter break, which always sucked ’cause people were always too frantic about classes and school work to really party it up.
November 9th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Yay for your burfday! But oh no about the Tanqueray! Now you’ll be able to sniff me out and say “What did you do with him today?”!!!
November 9th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Happy Belated Birthday! Wow, all of us cool people were born in November! Woot!
November 9th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
I am glad you had a nice birthday weekend with your family. The celebration of your birth isn’t quite over just yet.
It looks like the photos are suffering from too much compression. Perhaps the camera settings got changed.
Your blog readers love it with you show a bit of leg.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Happy (late) Birthday, Craig! I was in awe of that huge bottle of Tanqueray…with the convenient handle so one doesn’t throw one’s back out while lifting it!! ENVY!!
November 9th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Craig – you’ll always be the birthday boy to me. 28 is a great age to be. Enjoy!
john – this was the first thing to cross my mind. I don’t have any idea what you had in mind…
http://mmckee.net/pictures/birthdayboy.jpg
November 9th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
LOL Funny Michelle.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Michelle: I lurrrve the crying post-Party In the U.S.A.ing.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
OMG that is amazing Michelle!!!
November 9th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Michelle M., how many times must we tell you, you NEED a blog of your own to display this type of brilliance!
HUGS…
November 10th, 2009 at 3:29 am
Belated birthday wishes! I’m enjoying a G&T for you tonight. Glad you had a great weekend.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Late Happy B’Day!! I love your birthday and Christmas pics, it’s the only time you show us some leg.
Which reminds me of a straight “friend” who used to say he was going out on Saturday night and “get me some leg”. Leg?…..Really?….and exactly what are you going to do with it?
Anyway, Happy Birthday!! See, it’s Tuesday and you’re still the Birthday Boy!
November 10th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Happy belated birthday, Craig. I fully believe in week long celebrations.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Your Mom’s hot.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Happy Birthday Craiggers! Hope you get everything you wish for.
November 12th, 2009 at 4:06 am
Happy birthday, sorry this is late! Were you closer you know what I’d give you – a bottle of gin – probably my new FAVOURITE type – Hendrick’s (distilled in Scotland and absolutely divine – you garnish it with cucumber rather than lemon).
November 12th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Sorry so late here. But catering to the depraved sexual needs of a 23 year-old just has me so distracted. Glad you had an awesome birthday weekend. Those are the best. I think the rest of the world must be suffering from an argyle shortage, as you seem to own the entire supply.
November 15th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
A belated happy birthday!