Beaches and Birthdays...
Well technically it's just one beach and one birthday but "Beach and Birthday" just doesn't have the same ring to it. Recently my wife and I and two other couples Shea, Mark, Sara Beth and Michael spent four B-E-A-Utiful days in Seagrove, FL at a nice little house not too far off the beach. I love that are more and more each time I go there is a little town area just West of Seagrove called Seaside. In this little town center area there is a book store, coffee shop and market that I would kill to have right here in Montgomery but instead they are at the beach how is that for convenient especially since I can't stay in the sun more than um 8.4 minutes without getting sunburned. We had a great time smoked some cigars, drank a few Jager bombs and Margaritas, and ate some really good seafood. Seafood tastes even better when you forget your directions and drive an hour the wrong way, get fed up and stop at a restaurant called the whale's tail(aka the Whale's blowhole) leave because the place sucks, drive back past the place you are staying to the restaurant that you were looking for and was only 3 minute drive from the house, that is when you have earned it :)
Now to birthdays. I wish a happy 25th to my wife who I love with all my heart. This birthday got me thinking though why is 25 such an important birthday, and not just to my wife. After a little contemplation and conversation I came up with the fact that it is the last time a birthday means you can or cannot do something. Unless you are gunning for a US political office in which case in which case at 25 you could be a Representative but not a Senator(30) or the VP or Prez(35). Think about it once you turn 25 you can now rent a car and no one can ever tell you you can't do something else because you are to young. It makes sense then that at that point everyone starts making fun of you because you old. 30, 40, 50 etc. are all birthdays where everyone has a laugh at the "old guy" the one that's "over the hill" or "that ninety year old". I don't feel much different already being 25 but I am sure I would have been alot more excited if I had realized this point last September. On to the reviews:
Barrel Fever (Dave Sedaris) - 2 out of 5 - first half of the book gets a 1 second half a 3 thus the 2 overall. This was a mistake on my part enjoying an authors latest book and jumping back to his first. I love his autobiographical stories and the first part was just fictional short stories. It was all worth it though in the end for the chapter titled "Santaland Diaries" where he tells stories about working as an elf for a Santa in a mall.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Dave Sedaris) - 4 out of 5 - More family stories, hilarious.
Facing Your Giants (Max Lucado) - 5.5 out of 5 - Amazing. David's life laid out wonderfully with parallels to our life, just great.
Well technically it's just one beach and one birthday but "Beach and Birthday" just doesn't have the same ring to it. Recently my wife and I and two other couples Shea, Mark, Sara Beth and Michael spent four B-E-A-Utiful days in Seagrove, FL at a nice little house not too far off the beach. I love that are more and more each time I go there is a little town area just West of Seagrove called Seaside. In this little town center area there is a book store, coffee shop and market that I would kill to have right here in Montgomery but instead they are at the beach how is that for convenient especially since I can't stay in the sun more than um 8.4 minutes without getting sunburned. We had a great time smoked some cigars, drank a few Jager bombs and Margaritas, and ate some really good seafood. Seafood tastes even better when you forget your directions and drive an hour the wrong way, get fed up and stop at a restaurant called the whale's tail(aka the Whale's blowhole) leave because the place sucks, drive back past the place you are staying to the restaurant that you were looking for and was only 3 minute drive from the house, that is when you have earned it :)
Now to birthdays. I wish a happy 25th to my wife who I love with all my heart. This birthday got me thinking though why is 25 such an important birthday, and not just to my wife. After a little contemplation and conversation I came up with the fact that it is the last time a birthday means you can or cannot do something. Unless you are gunning for a US political office in which case in which case at 25 you could be a Representative but not a Senator(30) or the VP or Prez(35). Think about it once you turn 25 you can now rent a car and no one can ever tell you you can't do something else because you are to young. It makes sense then that at that point everyone starts making fun of you because you old. 30, 40, 50 etc. are all birthdays where everyone has a laugh at the "old guy" the one that's "over the hill" or "that ninety year old". I don't feel much different already being 25 but I am sure I would have been alot more excited if I had realized this point last September. On to the reviews:
Barrel Fever (Dave Sedaris) - 2 out of 5 - first half of the book gets a 1 second half a 3 thus the 2 overall. This was a mistake on my part enjoying an authors latest book and jumping back to his first. I love his autobiographical stories and the first part was just fictional short stories. It was all worth it though in the end for the chapter titled "Santaland Diaries" where he tells stories about working as an elf for a Santa in a mall.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Dave Sedaris) - 4 out of 5 - More family stories, hilarious.
Facing Your Giants (Max Lucado) - 5.5 out of 5 - Amazing. David's life laid out wonderfully with parallels to our life, just great.
posted by John III @ 10:54 AM
1 Comments:
At 5:31 PM ,
Nick M. said...
If I am not mistaken that town square you talked about in Seaside is where they shot the movie The Truman Show. Check it out sometime (like where he stops at the little booth to buy the fashion magazines).
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