reminder that few but quality friends are better than a lot of sub-par friends. quality over quantity.

my closest and highest quality friends are currently Ellie, Amelie, Roxy, Kristen, and Dana.

by the way i'm 21!

okay so I guess i'm going to tell you about some of my adventures.

so since none of our Boston friends were free or cared enough Ellie and I took on the weekend by ourselves. it started the day before and we went to see Princess Bride for free, which was crazy because there were too many people and not enough seats, but we stuck it out and got seats. but then we had two hours to kill before midnight and somehow we made it. Ellie kept wanting to make friends and talk to people, but I was just like no...so instead I made up stories about people to entertain her. sometimes i'm in the mood to talk to people but then I was not.

finally it was midnight and we ended up at a hotel bar because we didn't want to wait in line. which was great because a slight intoxicated businessman paid for our drinks. that is after the bartender pretended that we had to wait until the night of our birthday. his joke went on way too long. but anyways we got our first legal drinks in the US and then went back for the night.

okay next day. started at IHOP, which was actually surprising good. and then we relaxed. then we tried to take the bus and then the subway, but the bus was so late that we ended up ditching it and just taking an uber. dinner was good and we had delicious drinks. and then we went to the Ingrid michaelson concert which jukebox the ghost opened up for and it was amazing and I love Ingrid even though the mics were out for a bit. but it was perfect. and then after that we ended up at Legal Harborside rooftop bar which we were out of place for. a while we were waiting to see if anyone would talk to us and buy us drinks. but it was just so awkward, finally we got a place to sit and I just bought us drinks. then we realized we were really out of place so then we decided to go to whiskey priest.

okay so whiskey priest once we got in was more our scene. there was a live band just finishing up when we got there. and it was packed but there was more room and it was more laid back. so we ended up basically just awkwardly standing there. we had to pay a cover to get in so I refused to pay for drinks. so we were basically hoping that someone would buy us drinks. and after a while we decided to call it in like 15 minutes, and then with 5 minutes to go two kids came and talked to us. one Asian and one kind of average white kid. once they found out it was both of our birthdays, the white kid, we are going to call him Matt because that is what Ellie said his name is even though I didn't hear/remember and the Asian kid's name is Joe I remember that one. anyways the white kid decided to buy us both drinks, and then Asian wow, hold on. anyways Matt decided to buy us both drinks and Joe acted like he was going to go with him but he just stood there and talked to his friend. then Matt came back and Joe joined to. and I was talking to Matt for the most part. okay here is what I found out about him. I can't remember if he said he was from Sharon or Athol, MA but he is from MA. he graduated from Fordham College (I think, it started with F and sounded like that so yes...?) and he works for PWC. and that day he just moved to his own apt in Cambridge out of his parents house. so exciting. anyways after all the information was communicated and we finished our drinks, we danced. which was kind of awkward and strange because he was like wrapped his arm around me and rubbing? dancing? against me and very shortly after we started dancing Joe said he had to go to the bathroom and didn't come back. which is good because he was a jerk and we didn't like him. anyways then it got kind of more awkward because then Matt was trying to dance with both Ellie and I. he was just a really nice guy I think.

but I just felt really bad that he bought two drinks for us and then he was offering to buy more. I was like nooo way. and we left soon after that. I gave him my number as we were leaving because I felt so bad. I felt like I had to go buy him a coffee or something. anyways for prosperity's sake here is the convo. he texted me at like 2:45am that same night.

"Hey Molly from Whiskey Priest. Very nice meeting you, hope you guys had a great birthday out. Maybe we'll meet up in the city sometime"

to which I responded at 1pm today: "Hey! Thanks, we had an awesome night! Hope you had a good first night officially living in Boston! And yes, I owe you a coffee or something!"

and I haven't heard from him since. which I shouldn't be bummed out about. because I don't really lose out, I got my free drinks. but I don't know. it would be fun? to talk to him. I want to hear his side of the whole situation and tell me about mine. and I think it would just be fun to go get coffee and talk to him. but we will see if he ever texts me back. his loss if he doesn't. then I realized I didn't really put a question or ask or anything in the text so he really has nothing to respond to. but we will see if he ever does. that would be fun though, right?

anyways now let me tell you my rant about bars. I don't really like them. you can't hear each other talk, it's loud, and packed. it's full of girls who either are trying to get free drinks or who want to hook up. and guys who will buy girls free drinks in order to hook up. so no thanks for me. it might have been more fun if we had another friend or two who were more used to go out to bars. I don't know. it was just so overwhelming. maybe if we went to a more laid back one with friends to just talk with them that would be better. but those crazy bar/club things are crazy. maybe it is for meeting people like I met Matt? but we will see if anything comes of that and I would rather meet people other ways, like through mutual friends, at events, idk, a bar just seems kind of sketch I guess.

okay now last topic I think for the night is the lack of effort our friends put into our birthday. I can't blame Amelie because she lives in LA even though we always give her awesome parties/gifts. she at least posted on facebook with pictures and a thoughtful post. Emily who is in Boston I think was busy all weekend, but she at least texted us at midnight. Emma and Greg were supposed to come to brunch with us on Sunday with Sarah. then Emma and Greg bailed because Emma was sick, but they didn't text us until 11:15 when we had reservations for 11. and neither of them messaged us to say happy birthday. so we were just kind of all around disappointed. what if we didn't have the other one? we wouldn't have anyone to do birthday stuff with...Emma, Greg, Edgar (who I don't think we got a happy birthday from at all), and Sarah all went to a different concert so we wouldn't have been able to hang out with them. I don't even know what Emily was doing. but I am very thankful for Ellie or else it would have been one lonely birthday.

okay now it is almost 8:15pm and I think it is time for bed.

oh you know who else didn't wish me happy birthday? Derek! like come on, kid. good bye to you then, don't really care as much about you as I might have once.

but birthdays are getting less and less exciting. my dad actually brought me out to a nice fancy dinner and gave me lots of gift cards. and Auntie Julie mailed me a card with cash. so both of them win in the family department. I think my mom and sisters and their exchange student from Spain are coming up next weekend so maybe we will have small celebration then. but I really just have to learn not to get my hopes up. because every time I thought "oh maybe it's a surprise" or "we will have a nice brunch with our friends" they are crushed. soooo no more expectations. then why the hell do I keep checking my phone?

to sum up. happy to be 21. happy for Ellie. birthdays are not that exciting. bars/clubs/night life not that great. boys are stupid. a few high quality friends are all that I need.

I have all the high quality friends I need. it doesn't matter that barely anyone posted on my facebook wall. I have all the high quality friends I need.

i'm just kind of sad after that weekend. I don't know. I had fun and it was a successful weekend. but it wasn't all that special. I guess that's life.