New Year

So Texas was a lot of fun for the 10 days I was there. I hung out with Buster, my dog, a lot, saw my friends tons and had a badass birthday in Austin. I actually had two birthday dinners, one in Austin, one in Houston: both were BYOB. I got as drunk in Austin as I did in college--I ended up throwing up AT Dizzy Rooster--I haven't thrown up in years. I think.

New Years was at this big party in downtown Houston thrown by a Bellaire guy. I knew kind of a lot of people, but not to where it was annoying. Pretty much stuck with my friends: it was me, Court, Rachel (Rosen), Emily, Justin, Bryan (Hagle), Morgan C., Bonnie, and her boyfriend Mike. One of my good friends from high school was there too, which was cool. The after party in our hotel in downtown Houston was really fun: we drunk ate like champs...then Rachel mooned us. Hah.

The strangest thing happened. Bryan and I walked to the parking lot together the next day (the 1st) to find that his truck had been stolen! The police found it like a week later in the ghetto, stripped down. Houston can be so ghetto-fied.

Being back in the city was a drag at first, I was really tired from my 10 days of doing nothing/going out. Last weekend Merna, Laura and I stayed in Friday and drank wine by ourselves. I swear we are cool. Saturday night, Mern and I went to dinner at a (what else) BYOB place near my place, then met up with Laura, Spies and some of their friends. We ended up at Libation, and I heard one of my friends and I might have made out with the same guy...who happens to be a mutual guy friend. However, since no one really remembers, I assume our guy friend also is unsure....so I am going to say that it's just funny.

Last week Courtney and I looked for apartments and found one on the second night! It's a little further uptown than we are now, and than I would like to be, but it is still pretty close to the subway and not too bad of a commute to work. The good news is--it is super cute and very private for both of us. It's a two story apartment, we basically each have a floor--with our own bathrooms! We don't really have much of a living room, but our rooms are both big enough for sofas. However, I think we might get a small sofa and tv for the common area anyway. Anyway, I will post pictures when we get it all cute. We can move in Jan 25 and our lease here is up Feb 1st so it will be nice to have a few days to move. Yay!

Thursday Rachel and Andrea came to visit me. They were my neighbors growing up, and Rachel was basically like a little sister to me. I see her everytime I go back to Houston and we keep in touch pretty well...though she is 18. Andrea is also one of her best friends and is 19. So I had some youngins on my hands. Thurs night we just went to dinner b/c I had to work Friday. Friday night we saw a Broadway show, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." It was really cute and funny. After that we went to Union Square because I wanted to take them to the famous (at least, to my friends) Coffee Shop for dinner. I didn't even think about the fact that you have to be 21 to get in at night since there is a bar there (it was like 10:30). That really pissed me off, but we went to Steak Frites instead--a place I have been wanting to try for like a year. We just came back here and watched Dane Cook, who I found out Rachel is obsessed with too. We really are scary alike in some ways, even though I have not had direct influence on her since I was 18 and lived 2 doors down. We sort of re-discovered this this weekend.

Saturday I took the girls to Chinatown, where they both bought way too much stuff, thus making it a successful journey. We then walked to Soho and ate a late lunch at Lombardi's, the famous pizza place. After that we walked to Magnolia Bakery in the west village, only to find the longest line there I have ever seen. We settled at a random cute cafe on Bleeker where we had coffee and dessert before heading home...to get ready to go to dinner. Needless to say, it was a fat day.

Dinner was at Milon, the BYOB Indian place that I always rave about. It looks like a permanant birthday party in a trailor, the food is good, cheap, and the atmosphere and birthday song they sing are awesome. 9 of us went to dinner: me, Rach, Andrea, Courtney, Justin, Chris, Stephen, and Shannon and Allison (from Bellaire), who were in NY for the weekend as well. It was a good time. I was planning on going home after dinner, but Jared texted and told me that he could get "my underage girls" into this bar. Of course they wanted to go, so Rach and I decided to get more drunk by making strong bacardi diets which we chugged, then decided to chug wine from the bottle. Our plan worked. Rach and I were wasted when we got to the bar. This resulted in drunk dancing and making out at the bar, which seems to happen when Jared and I are wasted together. I am such a good example for the kids. Hah. At least I left with them around 2.30 instead of staying late or staying out all night. When we got back, I ordered Ziggiz but Rach and I passed out before it came. Apparently Andrea heard the doorbell but didn't get up. We never answered! Now Ziggiz hates us, for sure! We are moving...but they don't even to deliver to our new apartment! I already know that we will be making cabs stop there on our way home on ~those~ kinds of nights.

The girls left today. I would say they had a pretty badass trip. It was nice hanging with them for a long time. Seriously haven't hung out with them that much since we were kids.

Tonight (Sunday), I wanted to go out since we don't have work tomorrow, but no one else really did. I guess it's better this way, I can try to be productive tomorrow. Though my friends want to do brunch, which usually means drinking. So we will see.

I go to MIAMI this weekend for work! It's like 80 there. I want to lay out...I have all day Sunday to do so, weather permitting. I also have some guy friends who live there from college, who I plan to meet up with. I am excited.