So now I am 25 - and for all intents and purposes I shall remain the tender age of 25. I learned a few things over this past weekend - the pearls of wisdom that come with age

(1) Saturday night I went out and decided to live my life like it was straight out of a Ke$ha song - glitter included. It was remarkable and amazingly fun, however the next morning when I woke up, the world was not quite as fun and cherry as I remember it being before going to bed. My body just does not respond to booze the same way. It now takes me all day to recover from a night of excessive drinking. I have noticed that there are people that are in their 30s, 40s, and 50s who can do this - multiple times a week in fact - and somehow manage to get up and function like everyone else. I'm not really sure how they do it; then I learned that they have been doing it their entire lives and their body has just learned to adapt over time.

(2) I learned this weekend that Fed-ex Kinkos could possibly be one of the worst-run businesses in the world. My roommate Jes, creator and producer of the Uitlity Players, called Kinkos one clandestine night to make copies for us when they dutifully informed us that they were unable to print anything ... but ...you're Fed-Ex. Isn't your primary responsibility, as a business, is to provide me the means by which to print things? Isn't that like "In & Out" saying that you can't get a burger because they don't have meat? So Jes and I had go down their ourselves and when the printer we were using jammed and stopped working, not a single employee would come and help us - one even went so far as to walk right by us as we told him the printer was broken. Perturbed, I walked over to the counter to find a band of incompetent morons discussing their break time. Eventually, Jes was able to fix the printer, with no assistance from the wonderful staff at Kinkos. Dear Kinkos, you suck at life, merge with another company please and suck even more.

(3) There is something about four men playing "The Golden Girls" that is so epic it defies explanation.

(4) People will surprise you with their gratitude, thoughtfulness and love on your birthday in ways that are truly beautiful.

(5) The rapture did not happen; try explaining that one family Christian radio. I guess your math skills are really atrocious. If the rapture did happen, I do believe the good lord came down, put up his/her feet and watched the show, and said "well gosh, that is some quality entertainment right there".

I really had a wonderful birthday weekend with so much love and blessings I cannot wait to see what the next 25 years of my life bring me - oh that's a scary thought.