The Looming Spectre Approaches or How I Celebrated My 30th Birthday

[12 Jan 2009 | Monday] 

Category: Parties and Nightlife 40 Days. In 40 days, I'll be 30. The countdown's begun, and I'm not quite sure how I feel about it.A lot of me couldn't care less about the looming prospect of becomingyet another year older. Then there's that other side that looks on atthis "milestone" as something extraordinary and awesome, something thatshould be celebrated in a manner reserved for Great Ceaser. Quitefrankly, I'mjust not feeling that. I'm just a regular guy who likesregular things. I'm not going to rent out the Bellagio and party likeit's 1999. That's not me (not to mention quite a bit outside of mybudget). Major details: Birthday 2/22, Party will be on Saturday night 2/21 So here's the big ideas of the day:   Dinner with family, followed by...     1.) Party at The Little Cave as per usual. Problem there isI'm worried that if I were to hold it on Sat that there might be acrowd and not everyone would be guaranteed entrance (though this couldall be a moot point as the economy might have hurt business for them.Anyone been to the Cave lately?). Could be solved by seeing if theycould get together a guest list or something of that nature.     2.) Rent the second level of Barney's Beanery in Santa Monica.A whole floor to ourselves with pool tables and shuffle board, beer,and liquor. Sounds like fun, but it's in Santa Monica and the placemight be teaming with douchebags.     3.) Rent out or simply have the party at 6940, a Whittier barwith a great selection of beers, but no real liquor to offer. Love theplace, love the beers, but it's in Whittier. Seems a bit of a drive forjust about everyone but me.     4.) Rent out or simply have the party at Miss'T's Barcade.It's an awesome little bar with arcade cabinets of old school games.Problem is they have a very small list of beers and no real liquoraside for saki. Small place and smaller crowds might result in me beingable to rent the whole place on the cheap, but it's also pretty crampedand without a good assortment of drinks, the crowd might get restless.      5.) Convince a good friend to allow me to throw my party at his house (by the way, I had a great time ringing in the New Year with you guys!). It'd save on money and really put the whole personal touch on it, but then again it's a lot to ask, you know? Still, it might be nice not having to worry about too much beside clean up at the end of the night. Honestly though, I wish we could do everything at my house, too bad that's not a possibility quite yet. However, 31 will be an awesome party! I'd like to fit Mexico in there somewhere, probably not in thesame week. Hell, as long as we did it sometime this year before thesummer really set on, I'd be happy. So what are your suggestions?