Friday night, Tom and I hosted a pretty cool smallish birthday gathering. Drunk?Yes!, Katie, Jennifer, a bunch of our neighbors, and some of our new friends arrived. There was mingling, drinks, and a lot of fingerfood. Gifts included Joss Whedon's Serenity, The Tomorrow People, Set 1 and Alexandra Billings' cabaret CD from Tom, a great Pac-Man themed T-shirt from Chris and Stephen, a $20 gift certificate from our neighbors John and Marcella to Samuel French Bookstore, some lovely hand-woven coasters and Buddha pencil toppers from Susan and Ken, a couple trivia card games from Katie, a Spiderman toy and a Spiderman videogame from Drunk?Yes!, and an Augusten Burroughs book and Woody Allen's Love and Death from Jennifer. Couple that with the gifts from my folks, Tom's folks, Pam & Ben, and others en route from my brothers, I'm getting quite the haul this year.
Around 10:30, half the group left, and the remaining six of us then played this:
Hmmmm.... yes, the Buffy board game. My Buffy-mania is rather sick, I know, but it's a fun board game, and rather easy, too. If you can play Clue, you can play the Buffy board game. It breaks down like this: one person plays Evil, and the remaining players play the good characters: Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Oz. You have your choice of bad guys from the first 4 seasons of the show, and Evil tries to either just kill Buffy or kill Buffy and all of her friends. OR turn Buffy into a vampire. The Good players just try to kill the Big Bad guy. Pretty simple. The board is the map of Sunnydale, CA, the town where the show takes place. It's a crowd pleaser, I'm tellin' ya. So this time around, I was Evil, Jennifer served as one of my minions, and we fought Shawn (Willow), Tom (Xander), Drunk?Yes! (Oz) and Katie (Buffy). It went back and forth for a bit, but in the end, we killed Buffy. Evil wins, whoooooo!
At any rate, it was a fun party, and a great birthday. While work and money things are in the best place for me right now, a lot of other things are great. So, I'm going to focus on the good and do what I can to fix the bad. All in all, what more can you ask for?
Happy Birthday, old chum!
I had forgotten that our birthdays were so close together. Remember the awesomeness when we turned 21? Good times.
: )
Love, Shane
Posted by: Shane | April 24, 2006 at 08:40 AM
it was, in point of fact, a very fun party. and also of the happy. :) (even if you did kill me)
Posted by: katied | April 24, 2006 at 11:28 AM
and also i still owe you totally cheesy 80s, volume 3. :)
Posted by: katied | April 24, 2006 at 11:38 AM