♥ Celebrating mine and Justin's fifteen year dating anniversary.
♥ Visiting Lisa, Andrew and Luna at their house with my sister and Nick.
♥ Spending a random Sunday just bullshitting, eating and drinking with Day, Toni and Liz.
♥ Having a mini Super Bowl party at Toni and Tom's house.
♥ Seeing Alma and Chady even though the circumstances surrounding their visit sucked.
♥ Booking brunch and an escape room for my upcoming birthday.
♥ Hashing out some details for Bianca's sweet sixteen.
♥ Discussing future vacation plans with Justin.
So aside from being Memorial Day weekend this past weekend, it was also my sister's birthday weekend and as you can probably guess, we did a whole bunch of celebrating.
My sister's birthday weekend celebration started on Saturday evening with twenty people (Yup, you read that right... We were rolling twenty people deep) bar hopping locally here on Long Island. We hit up a few bars until we found one that had a DJ playing good music and we just danced for hours.
Eventually we got tired of dancing and decided to move along to another bar, where the crowd that was left had a few drinks before someone asked me to convince my sister that it would be a good idea to go to the local diner for a very late night snack. As you can probably guess it wasn't a very hard thing to do, all I did was say bacon a few times and she was totally in the mood for diner food.
We made our way to the diner where we had the nastiest waitress ever (I was dead sober so I can honestly tell you, she was a miserable old lady) who was totally mean to us, but the majority of the group was drunk so they didn't notice.
After eating our over priced diner food ($9.75 for six mozzarella sticks?!?!!) I drove my sister, her boyfriend, Toni and Amanda all home and didn't get into my own be until about 4:30AM.
Sunday was her actual birthday. So after spending the morning recovering from the evening before at our respective apartments, we met up at our parents' house with our significant others and went out for an early dinner at a local seafood place.
After filling up on our early dinner, we headed back to our parents' house to relax and digest before diving into her cake (Which thankfully wasn't a chocolate chocolate chocolate cake because that's what she normally gets and I hate super chocolatey cakes).
Over all it was an extremely successful birthday weekend with no drama (Well I hide the one bit of drama from my sister so she wouldn't freak out -- Her ex-boyfriend left a message on my Facebook status about being at the first bar that I had to delete so my sister and her current boyfriend wouldn't see it) and she really enjoyed herself, which is all that I care about.
If you saw my Doodlegraph post from about two weeks ago, you know my friends and I were planning a huge Mexican themed Fat Kid celebrate. Well that celebration was supposed to take placed this past weekend and boy did things fall apart.
Three of my friends got sick, one so badly that they are currently in the hospital. One's mother told them out of the blue that they needed to attend a family party that day. One's job decided that they needed to stay because an inspector was coming, so that meant that person and their significant other weren't coming. Another one got held up, so on and so forth...
So yeah, our big epic kid-less booze-filled fiesta turned into a way smaller gathering, with children.
I mean, we still had a blast those of us that actually attended (Because there was no way in hell we were cancelling because we bought and prepped food, etc.) but it was just so sad because we spent all this money buying decorations and props. So hopefully we can have a do over in the near future when people are feeling better and hopefully weird things don't pop up.
But yeah the handful of us that did attend did as we normally do during Fat Kid; ate too much, drank too much and had way too much food left over because we always make more food than we should. So we had a great day but it wasn't exactly the day we had planned and we missed the people who couldn't be there.
I feel so bad for my sick friends, especially the one currently hospitalized because they were so looking forward to this Fat Kid. Hopefully everyone gets better soon, especially since we planned another boozy brunch in New York City in a few weeks.
♥ Fat Kid Dinner at Toni & Tom's house.
♥ Hanging out with my college friends and day drinking in New York City.
♥ Friday the 13th dinner and horror movies with Justin, Phil, Rob, Alana, Erin and Nick.
♥ Finally playing Quiplash with my friends.
♥ Bi-monthly dinner with Nicole, Eileen, my sister, Erin and the kids.
♥ Having a sleepover party with my college friends while Justin was away.
♥ Wine night with Day & Toni with a little Facetime action from Chas.
Wednesday night I had the opportunity to attended an advance screening of M. Night Shyamalan's newest offering The Visit (2015), which I was super excited about being invited to because the trailer for this movie looks awesome.
Writer/director/producer M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs,
Unbreakable) and producer Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, The Purge and
Insidious series) welcome you to Universal Pictures’ The Visit.
Shyamalan returns to his roots with the terrifying story of a brother
and sister who are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm
for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple
is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances of
getting back home are growing smaller every day.
Shyamalan produces The Visit
through his Blinding Edge Pictures, while Blum produces through his
Blumhouse Productions alongside Marc Bienstock (Quarantine 2:
Terminal). Steven Schneider (Insidious) and Ashwin Rajan (Devil)
executive produce the thriller.
Genre: Thriller Cast: Kathryn Hahn, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Ed Oxenbould, Olivia DeJonge Written and Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan Produced by: M. Night Shyamalan, Jason Blum, Marc Bienstock Executive Producers: Steven Schneider, Ashwin Rajan Rated: PG-13 Release Date: September 11th, 2015
Seeing as this is an M. Night Shyamalan film I don't want to go into too much detail about the movie, but what I will say is that it totally wasn't what the three of us (Myself, Nick and my sister's boyfriend Erik) were expecting and because of that we loved it more than we would have if it was what we thought it was. Does that make any sense?
If it doesn't, just know that we all really enjoyed it. It was ninety-four minutes of pure entertainment in my opinion, as well as that of the guys.
It's the kind of movie where if there is a good crowd (That is if you're into an interactive crowd. I am when it comes to horror/thriller type movies), it'll be even better. There were lots of people jumping back in their seats, screaming and making comments in the theater (I love me a well timed "OH HELL NO!") and it was just golden.
Overall I'm super happy with M. Night's newest offering to the World, especially since the last film of his that I saw was The Happening (2008) and I was not a fan of that one. I'd very much so recommend The Visit (2015) to anyone that enjoys M. Night's films or the thriller genre in general.
Last week my cousin Lisa got married and here are some of the random pictures I took...
It was a beautiful wedding and we all had a great time, which is why there aren't more pictures. I was too busy drinking her signature drink, a jalapeno margarita, and dancing to take pictures. But I will leave you with this gem from their PHHHOTO booth...
Wednesday night I had the opportunity to attend an advance screening of Seth MacFarlane's newest offering Ted 2 (2015), which I was lucky to get enough tickets to so that I got to see it with my sister, cousin Nick and one of my other friends -- Which I'm noting to all of you because the four of us have varying taste in movies.
Seth MacFarlane returns as writer, director and voice star of
Ted 2, Universal and Media Rights Capital’s follow-up to
the highest-grossing original R-rated comedy of all time. Joined once
again by star Mark Wahlberg and fellow
Ted writers Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild, MacFarlane produces
the live action/CG-animated comedy alongside Bluegrass Films’ Scott
Stuber, as well as Jason Clark and John Jacobs.
Genre: Live Action/CG-Animated Comedy Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried, Giovanni Ribisi, John Slattery and Morgan Freeman Director: Seth MacFarlane Writers: Seth MacFarlane & Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild Produced by: Scott Stuber, Seth MacFarlane, Jason Clark, John Jacobs Executive Producers: Alec Sulkin, Wellesley Wild Rated: R Release Date: June 26th, 2015
As I stated above, I went to this particular screening with three other individuals and we all walked out of the theater thinking the same exact thing "That movie was fucking hilarious!" All four of us were in total agreement that Ted 2 was the funniest movie we had seen in a while. Literally from the minute the movie started until it ended, we were all cracking up.
That all being said, I must note that I am a fan of Seth MacFarlane's work. I love Family Guy (1999-Present) and I really enjoyed Ted (2012) and A Million Ways To Die In The West, so if you don't enjoy him and his body of work I don't know if Ted 2 will be your cup of tea. But like I said, the four of us have varying taste in films and we all really really liked it. I mean, how could you not like a movie about a pot smoking, beer drinking stuffed bear that came to life that wants to be considered a person.
I liked it. I recommend it. I'd legalize Ted.
If any of you go see it, I'd love to know how you liked it.
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