So  the  snow  that  caused  me  to  alter my birthday  plans  actually  showed  up, and apparently  was enough  of a nuisance  to  close schools, too.  Sadly, board  games at our “local” bar (which was plan B) were  also out of the question, since  it was (ugh) live music night. Which in most cases at this bar, means crappy music. Some raspy  voiced guy with a guitar  was on the mic on this night. Still nice to hang with Mike, Brad and Dave. I wanted my birthday  gathering  to be just my closest friends (whom also happen to be my trivia teammates). Side note, my birthday  is same day as Dave’s  ex wife, Jen. So I jokingly  asked  if he’d  bought  her a birthday  card… (ahem).

The night’s events started with happy  hour  at the Weber’s Inn lounge. It was.. very…nice! One of the bartenders remembered us from last time, even though it had been years since our last visit. Always  such a classy  joint! And with my birthday  coinciding with Webers’ all day happy hour, all signs pointed to ” yes!” Bar seats  filled up quickly  after we arrived.

I “entertained”  an older  woman  sitting  by me when she asked the bartender  to  change  the channel  on the TV, but I’ll  get to that more in a bit!

When  we  first  arrived, Dr. Phil was on, and his “patient”  was a chunky girl with long dirty  blonde hair and braces. I gathered  from  the  subtitles  that  she  was an out of control  teenager.  I joked with my husband  about  her braces   – “Her braces  are annoying me – can they PhotoShop those out?” Then, thankfully, Dr. Phil  was over and Family Feud  came  on. No more teenage  girl braces  in my face yay!

Looked  like some white trash family  going toe to toe with African  American  family. Unsure  who won….because older  woman sitting  by me showed  up and asked bartender  to change  the  channel. Why didn’t my husband  and  I ask to do this ?  Maybe  we were worried that someone  else  at  the bar would get all pissy if the channel  were changed (you  never know). The new show was “Return  to Peongchang,” so Olympics “reruns.” I like Olympics!

When  the channel  was changed, I said aloud, “Yay Olympics! I was getting  annoyed  with  that out of control teenager on Dr. Phil. If I wanted  to  look  at out of control  teenagers, I would have had my own kids.”

And that was when that older woman sitting  by me bust a gut…

Sometimes  it’s  fun  to make  strangers  laugh!  We had a pretty funny banter going for a bit there…

Overall? 4.5 stars out of 5 for this year’s  birthday!