The Best of 2009 Series

Yesterday I decided I wouldn't blog for at least a week or two.  Then I found this and now my "no blogging for a week" idea is going down the drain.  While I most likely won't blog for all 31 days, I'll definitely recap MY "best of 2009" series.  Besides, it will be fun and I think we can all use a little "best of" in our lives right now with the winter weather ahead and the holiday shopping madness in session, yes?

YES!

So, here goes nothing...

BEST TRIP IN 2009

 I had to stop and think back to all of the places I visited in 2009: 

Boston, Vegas, Chicago, Washington, DC, Tampa, Atlantic City, Avalon, NJ, Pittsburgh, Detroit, NYC, Baltimore... and I think that's only half of the list.

While that may not seem like a lot of traveling to you, it was definitely a lot of traveling for me.  Especially since I managed to cross off some major cities I've never traveled to, like Vegas and Boston.

My best trip in 2009 was to:

Vegas, baby!

You can read the full re-cap of my trip here, but to sum it up - I went to Vegas for 5 days for a hockey tournament.  I drank four times my body weight, slept a total of 4 hours, won a hockey championship (and an MVP award), got proposition for a threesome, got mistaken for a prostitute, and spent five marvelous days with some of my closest friends.

Now I know why everyone says: "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."  It definitely goes down in my record book as one of the best. trips. ever. and I'm planning on going back in 2010.

reason #45786 why I'm an alcoholic:

I received an email from a friend today that said:

"...I think I'm having a baby."

My friend is 25 years old and unemployed.  And she still lives at home with her parents.  I think my head exploded after reading that email.

I can't even process that sentence yet.  Mainly because I don't want to process that because I know that IF she is pregnant, she's going to keep it and I don't support that decision at all based on her financial status and lack of employment... and the fact that she is just not ready to bring a baby into this world.  But I have to support her through this because it's what friends do. 

"...we all need mirrors to remind ourselves of who we are..."

(I apologize again, for the crappy post today.  I actually had a really great post to write, but then that happened and well... I had to vent about it.  Feel free to delete me from your readers now.)