Tornado

So on Thursday night we had a birthday bash for Holly. If you ever watch Gilmore Girls, and where they plan to do "21" things all night for Rory's 21st birthday, we did something similar (minus the 21 shots). Holly turned 23 on April 23rd! Which is exciting but not the point of this endeavor. One of the items on my list that we didn't get around to was to watch the first video that comes up when you type in "23" on YouTube. So I did it the next morning and it came up with a TORNADO video. A giant one that split into three sections at one point. That's right, I watched all five minutes and 26 seconds of it. And decided to revise my policy of never living in the Midwest. I could in fact live in the Midwest if I was a tornado chaser and got paid for it. Maybe I'd only live there during tornado season. Then I started watching more and more tornado videos. Never before have I watched more than a couple things on YouTube at a time. I think I'm addicted.

Ahem. Back to Holly's Birthday. Here is the list I wrote -the ones in bold are the ones we completed. The rest will have to wait til someone else turns 23.

23 “23” things to do for Holly’s 23rd Birthday on April 23rd.
1. 23 wishes with 23 pennies into a Derrel’s Mini Storage Fountain
2. Buy 23 things at Goodwill/Dollar tree
3. Get 23 ice cream samples
4. Get 23 guys’ numbers
5. Listen to 23 songs
6. All night ask people for 23 things (ice cubes, lbs of food, napkins, etc)
7. Give 23 hearts to 23 different people
8. Eat 23 bites of food
9. Make up a sentence with 23 words
10. Play the new card game 23
11. Call 23 people
12. Watch the first video on YouTube that comes up when you type “23”
13. Scream “23” at the 23rd hour (that would be 11PM)
14. Cruise down 23rd street
15. Blow out 23 candles
16. Pick 23 flowers
17. Put hair into 23 braids
18. Wear 23 things. Out.
19. Illegally tag “23” somewhere – even if it’s in sidewalk chalk.
20. Make a mosaic out of 23 magazine pictures
21. Convince someone you have 23 fingers and toes
22. Go to the “self-help” section and choose the 23rd book from the left and read the 23rd page
23. Enjoy being 23.

I think doing them all would have been more of an all-day Saturday type of outing, as opposed to an all-night Thursday outing. But we went the extra mile in the things we did do, such as tagging "23" everywhere we went in sidewalk chalk. And getting a balloon and tying it to Holly as part of the dollar tree spree. And reading several page 23's. And we ended up playing cards with five older drunk latino men, which in my mind was way more entertaining than getting 23 guys' numbers would have been. HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOLLY.