totally low-key and awesome. matt, bill, wendy, amelia and i went to the racetrack during the day and bet dollars on horses. i bet $14 and won $70 (i even one $50 on a mistake bet at the belmont, while i was trying to bet on big brown just for the souvenir).in the evening, we had a BBQ at matt's....  read more

so, my 22nd birthday. drinking was old hat by then, but smoking weed was not. i worked with a couple black guys who could not get over the fact that there were white girls who smoked weed, so they'd give us big fat joints all the time. i was pretty high-strung then, having panic attacks and sh...  read more

we'd been so busy and traveling so much over the summer, i wanted to do something fun and stupid for my birthday. so we went to the leinenkugel's brewery, and then went bar-hopping in eau claire, wisconsin. it was so much fun.

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my parents moved to the chicago area because my dad was transferred. our house in addison was a little split-level whose basement flooded regularly. i had a bunch of awesome friends in the neighborhood, and i went to preschool and kindergarten there. my grandparents lived in milwaukee at the time...  read more

heather and i were supposed to go to europe for our 30th birthdays, but i got laid off a couple months beforehand. so we went to miami for the weekend. we stayed up all night so i could watch the sun rise over the ocean. more about it here!  read more