Anyone who knows me knows I looooove birthdays (especially my own, of course). And there is nothing that gives me greater joy than throwing someone a kick-ass party. For the last couple weeks myself and a group of friends have been scheming to throw my better-half, Curtis, his very first ever birthday party. Thankfully since he works away every second week the chance for someone spoiling the surprise was cut in half. I have never organized a surprise party myself but there was numerous times I had to stop myself from blurting out something party related (I just get so damn excited!). I will share a few of the things that I have learned from this experience:
1. If you are planning an obnoxiously loud party make sure you invite everyone that surrounds you that you're worried about annoying. We like some of our neighbors so obviously to avoid pissing them off/a noise complaint we added them to the guest list!
2. The party hasn't truly begun until someone pees on the carpet. In this instance it was our new puppy, Gracie, but still I'll count it.
3. It does not matter how much food you make, it will never be enough. 25 people demolished 40 burgers, 36 buns, toppings, veggie platters, salads, chips, cupcakes.. and we still had to order 2 extra-large pizzas later that evening. The only complaint we heard at that point, "You only ordered TWO pizzas?!". I know better for next time.4. Once guests start passing out the party is officially starting to wind-down. The only concern the birthday boy had the next day was whether or not he outlasted the 2 year old toddler that was in attendance at the party. Thankfully he did, but not by much.
5. Shooters always make a party better. Whether it be a wedding shower, stagette, baby shower or birthday you can always guarantee that the party will be bumpin' after a few rounds of tequila and jag bombs.
aggressive. Definitely still rent it for the party, just ensure you have made all the required safety precautions prior to this.
7. You can max your deck out to almost full capacity. If you're going to pile a whole bunch of people onto your deck make sure you constantly monitor the weight to deck ratio as to not have any major incidents.
8. Wing World may ban you from ordering from there if you text them "Fries and gravy. Stat lets go f*ck."
9. If the birthday boy wakes up and is still drunk for the remainder of the morning you know the party was a success.
The empties have been recycled, the garbage taken out.. the only remnants of the party we had on Saturday is the fact that Apollo Jump still hasn't come to pick up the Gladiator Joust that's in our backyard. If it's still there after work then I'm going to go round 2 on that thing and whoop Curtis' ass!
