Okay! Herein lie the pics from my 19th Birthday, arguably one of my most interesting ones. Thankfully (?) my digital camera, uh...self-destructed during the actual party itself, so there are very few surviving pictures of that event. However, rarely am I ever not taking pictures, so there's plenty from the days before (i.e., the Pre-Party). There's a *LOT* of thumbnails here, as I'm too inconsiderate to break the pics up into multiple pages, so you may end up having to be a bit patient. Otherwise....enjoy, and may my family never see any of these.
Since many of you lack the cerebral infortitude to figure out why I would even take some of these pictures, let alone why you should think they're funny, I've decided to include a key for these pics. I'm sure it won't help in the least, but this page was already daunting enough as it was, I didn't mind adding even more nonsense to it.
Steak N' Shake!
1. Matt
2. Julie
3. The placemat...that Jim found so fascinating and DEMANDED that a picture be taken of....
4. Matt's Surge
5. Julie as Jason Mewes
6 and 7. Matt's plans for world domination, scribbled on the back of a placemat...how's that for a tip?
Meijer!
Top:
1. Julie, no doubt seconds before shoving a shopping cart into Jim.
2. The chip aisle, for those interested.
3. Matt displaying his stunning cart-wrangling skills...
4. Julie again, no doubt seconds before shoving a shopping cart into me.
5. Chip bag or crazy old lady? I'm not tellin'.
6. Julie and a cart again...man, I'm unoriginal. I'm pretty sure she threw the cart at me.
7. Just Jim and Matt talking...if you look closely, you can almost see Jim getting more and more bored.
8. Matt stops talking, Jim gets happy again.
9. Uh...I don't know why Matt is this happy. I don't think any of us want to know...
10. Matt makes a new friend!
11. Matt...loses a new friend!
12. This is a picture I took of Jim running incredibly fast backwards, while pusing a shopping cart. You can't see it as well in a photograph, but this was really stupid.
13. Matt and Christina.
14. There are so many things wrong with this picture, I honestly don't know where to begin.
15. Julie and...Pikachu. Judge not lest ye be judged.
16. Julie evidently really likes pillows...
Middle:
17. Julie and someone who I can only assume is a really old guy who drives NASCAR cars.
18. Uh...hoo boy. This one speaks for itself. I have no idea what it's saying...but it's saying it loud and clear.
19. Julie getting ready to kill.
20. Uh oh! She's been spotted!
21. Matt won't shut up about shoes. Ever. You'd think he makes them or something.
22. Matt and Raggedy Andy. Disturbingly fitting. I'm not taking Matt into the toy department ever again.
23. Julie likes puppets, evidently, solely for the fact that she can pretend she's sticking her hand up their butts. I'm also never taking Julie into the toy department ever again.
24. Matt, moments before drinking over a hundred gallons of water, fish and all.
25. Matt and I have decided that if we ever start a band, this is going to be the cover of one of our CDs.
26. To dance....
27. ....or not to dance? ...What a stupid question.
28. Matt and the only friend he needs.
29. Matt and his friend do a little dance.
30. Julie on a dolly. Your guess is as good as mine.
31. Spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!
32. The Robin, our state bird, eats its way out of Julie's skull through her eye.
Bottom:
33. I kinda like this pic of Julie. She's not maiming anyone, throwing anything, or even beating up Matt...she's just happy. :)
34. Matt can't abide happiness.
35. Matt the Farmer. Here he's being dazzled by the lighting aisle.
36. Now we know how Jim keeps his teeth so pearly white.
37. Julie, now in easy to carry compact size.
38. So tiny, in fact, she can hide anywhere!
39. The assorted lot of us, save me, because I had to take the picture...
40. Matt, about to strike.
41. We really shouldn't be allowed in stores.
42. Especially Matt.
43. This chilling image rounds out our Meijer adventure...the dolly evidently didn't take too kindly to Julie.
My Actual Birthday!
1. Sarah
2. Sarah thought it'd be funny to give me a "birthday makeover".
3. Here's the most visible results, I guess.
4. The apprehension grows as she proclaims dissatisfaction at "just" the nails......
5. Sarah's birthday is coming up soon. I think I'm gonna make her grow a beard or something.
6. Thus begins the assault on no less than my very hair.
7. Half a bottle of hair gel, people! HALF A BOTTLE! Madness..
8. Um...me with goopy hair. It's 5:30 am right now...I can't even muster what wit I've had thus far anymore. Um...Sarah gives good scalp massages, I guess. Don't really know what else to say.
9. Sarah again. Note the shirt. Very nice.
10. The ordeal is over (sort of...she made me keep the stuff on for the rest of the day). A reasonably happy ending. It pissed Matt off, too, which is always nice.
11. Speaking of whom....
12. No less than Matt Cuppett made a surprise showing at the party. He came because he'd heard there was going to be free food. Figures.
13. This is the last good picture my digital camera ever took. Ironically, it was taken immediately after arriving at the party house. Pictured from left to right are Katti, Don, and Torvan. I think Torvan broke the camera....
14. These are blurry, but still somewhat comprehensible. This is the pair of shorts I was later made to buy and wear for the majority of the rest of the night.
15. You can barely make this out, but I thought it was worth putting up. This is during our second (third?) trip to Meijer that night. Matt decided to crawl into a garbage can. Voila.
