Last night as I hinted in my last entry, we took Dani out clubbing to celebrate her 18th birthday. The night started when my Dad dropped me and Tiana off at Dani's place where everyone was meeting beforehand for some pre drinks. I was feeling pretty off from the night before so went slow and just had one Canadian Club and soaked in the atmosphere.

Eventually time passed by and the next thing we know is that we are on the 150 heading into Queen Street. The bus ride was mildly entertaining with Benji showing just how comfortable he is with his sexuality by coming onto some dude to try and get him to move away from us on the bus. It succeeded in giving laughs and Benji reclaiming one seat, but failed in that he now started to crack onto Amy and Nani. This time it wasn't me, but Benji who needed to empty his bladder, one stop after we got on.. He however, has amazing pregnant women skills and was able to contain himself until we reached the city.

Upon arriving, our little group which consisted of Natalie, Nani, Amy, Dani, Mel, Michael, Shane, Benji and I heading towards The Victory. We were hoping to see if Dani could get in a few minutes before midnight but after discovering the line was huge, we decided to just walk into the valley. After some really bad Maccas, the group sorta split up on our trek, with Benji, Nani and Amy actually skipping Birdies and heading straight the Mustang Bar, whilst the rest of us listened to an ex-boyfriend be a tosser and get somewhat lost on some streets after a few bad turns. We went to Birdies, which I'm personally not a fan of. After about 10 minutes, I slinked out with Yeatsie meeting me outside. He had just finished a 'work' Christmas party and was pretty smashed and still with a full wallet. Without any hesitation, we headed straight to the Mustang Bar to meet up with Benji, Nani and Amy.

Still taking it easy, I decided to start hard with a Long Island Iced Tea. It went down ok, but just wasn't really in a mood. I recon'd the others from Birdies and brought them to the Mustang Bar. We went upstairs, had a few drinks and relaxed around the bar before going downstairs to the dancefloor. I decided/realised fairly fast that my $40 wasn't going to get me far so I began to scull everything I got for maximum effect. Canadian Club's, Bundy Draughts, Firetrucks and more Long Islands all went down in seconds and then it all started to hit me.

Much crazy dancing and the normal hoorah associated with me, alcohol and the Mustang Bar ensued. Now I'm pretty proud, originally Dani, Tiana, Michael and Mel all wanted to spend lockdown in Birdies, but the good old Mustang Bar charm kept them inside the doors until about 4am where we headed out to the bus stop via the kebab shop and maccas. Somewhere between me not being drunk and 4am, Mel and Shane left early because of reasons I really have no clue about. Eventually we got to Garbo and then Dani and I gave our dad's a call to pick us up. Dani's dad took Michael, Dani, Natalie and Amy back to Dani's while my Dad took me and Benji to Dani's and Nani back to mine.

Me and Benji executed the perfect mission which granted us access to Dani's house. After a few minutes, Benji decided that he wanted to go home to sleep so he ran home at about 5am in the morning. Waving goodbye, me, Amy and Dani chatted for a bit in Dani's room before we all passed out for a good 6 hours or so. We showered and then wandered out to Dani's pergola where all her relatives where arriving to wish her 'Happy Birthday' and sink a few drinks and have a feed.

Benji, Adam, Michael and Cam arrived to make me less of the 'cool girl with short hair' and restore the gender balance. Originally Dani mentioned that there would be drinking involved so Cam arrived prepared with two six packs, one of Canadian Club and other of Premium Woodstock. Cam carried the flag today, downing all his booze and managing to steal a few extras towards the end of the day to quench his thirst. After a lunch of Nandos, salad and fruit, Benji, Cam, Dani, Natalie, Mel and I went for a swim and played a game of 'don't let the other gender get the ball mixed with hot potato' (there is a name for it? 10 points to whoever tells me!) for about an hour, hour and a half. After seeing Mel's ass, watching Cam whale dive and just general ownage by the males, we eventually hopped out ready for the cakes!

After a Aria winning Happy Birthday song, supported by Cam on backing vocals, we downed some cake, and was just generally entertained by Cam's drunkness. The afternoon wound down and slowly people left, including the relatives. The afternoon died down into Benji, Cam, Dani, Mel, Natalie and me watching the OC and taking it easy as were rooted from swimming and the night before. Cam left us about halfway through the episode and continued to drink with Dani's parents, probably giving them all a good laugh.

And that's the story of a girl and how she lost her clubbing virginity as told by someone who was too drunk to properly blog the details of the night. Happy 18th Dani!

It's been awhile since I blogged and surprisingly it's not that I haven't done anything in the past one and a bit weeks, I've just to been too drunk/emo/lazy to blog about it. So here you go, the last one and half weeks:

• Sunday 3.12.06
• During the day I went to the coast to recon Dani from the ex. Plans went astray and I never actually saw Dani at the coast but instead, I met two chicks, Laura and Sam who gave me a lift to Surfers Paradise from Main Beach in their rather sexy looking Lancer. I had some Maccas and what not then walked back to Main Beach (about 30minutes) and drove home.
• Picked up Dani from home and went to Cam's pool party (read benji's take on it). It was fun, sorta over by the time I rocked up but nevertheless, the water was good and um, the cold pizza?
• Went home, was emo and wrote my Merry Go Rounds entry.
• Went and saw Borat, which blew. I'm not a fan of the 'put on a dickhead accent and I am funny ya?' sorta movies, had some moments though.
• Monday 4.12.06
• I don't remember. According to my bank statement, nothing. I'm guessing I just worked and bludged all day.
• Tuesday 5.12.06
• I went to Loganholme with Cam and probably made him spend a good $100 or so while I got Strapping Young Lad - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing and Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape ($29 for the lot?).
• At night I went to the gym with Benji and we met up with Mel, Shane, Adam and Dani there. I did a personal best on the treadmill running for the full ten minutes at 12km/h. Go me. Yes I am unfit.
• Went back to mine to watch OC to find that I taped the wrong channel so we hauled ass over to Mel's to watch it using Dani's tape whilst making banana, choc chip, milo and nutmeg milkshakes.
• Proceeded to get Benji hooked on the OC (more later).
• Wednesday 6.12.06
• Don't remember, bank statement not helpful either.
• But I think this is the day where Mum bought a exercise bike so I rode on it for an hour and half whilst watching Rock Star (the movie, not the lame TV show).
• Thursday 7.12.06
• I picked Mel up and went to Loganholme on a mission to shop for Dani's birthday present. We failed, but along the way got Mel's retainers from her dentist because she got her braces off
• I bought INXS - The Years 1979-1997 for $24.99 from JB.
• I worked the night.
• I woke up at 3am and picked up Amy, Mel and Claire from South Bank after their girly night out (photos).
• Friday 8.12.06
• I went to Dani's for the day
• We watched the OC, Rock Star and Almost Famous, chatted and got slushies and then went through her Dad's CD collection.
• Worked the night, but didn't get home until 12.30 as I ran into some old mates who used to work at Brodies just as I was leaving (at like 10? was a shit night).
• Went home and had a few drinks to ease myself into the weekend.
• Saturday 9.12.06
• Went to the coast with Yeatsie, Benji and Cam and mucked around at Main Beach, got some milkshakes then headed off to Robina Town Center.
• Yeatsie spent $160 at JB, Cameron stuck with his budget ($20 I think?), Benji got nothing and I got Led Zeppelin III which is fucking awesome!
• Dropped the kids off and went to the bottle shop, got myself a six pack of Woodstock then headed home to clean the car, drink and get ready for the night.
• Yeatsie picked us up, I was a little intoxicated and we headed to Sizzler for Dani's pre birthday dinner. I ate, I was drunk, then sobered up towards the end of Sizzler for bowling. Corey Parker (from the Broncos) was apparently eating near us too.
• I sucked at bowling, I got a few strikes but nothing amazing, I think my scores were like 90 something and 113. It was fun though. Night turned a bit emo towards the end of bowling, combination of tired/feelings and sms's that I probably shouldn't of read.
• Did I mention I sobered up hard? Original plan was to head back to The Shack and keep drinking but Yeatsie, Benji and Cam and I were just too rooted to even think about it so we headed home.
• I got home drunk a bit more eventually passed out.
• Sunday 10.12.06
• Brendo's day of sulking and doing nothing but listening to Snow Patrol and other easy sorta going bands and drinking more Woodstock.
• Towards the night Cam played shits and giggles on me and told me I slept with some random from clubbing. Confused and a little worried but still pretty fucking sure I didn't due to a number of reasons I smsed her to find out the deal. Turns it she gave me a dodgy number but in return I now know Natalie, who's 19, lives in Sydney and hopefully is going to show me, Benji, Dani and Mel around when we head down in January.
• Monday 11.12.06
• Me and Mel attempted to find Dani's present yet again but failed.
• Me and Mel went to Naughty but Nice, which was fun, interesting and a bit weird when the lady (who was wearing a shirt, Vodka - Connecting People) asked that if wanted to try any of the costumes on that we just had to ask and she'd organise it. In the end it just made me and Mel mopey that we didn't have a significant other to play sex games with, so we left and I went work.
• Came home, drunk again, this time vodka on the rocks.
• Tuesday 12.12.06
• Still a bit emo, just bummed around home exercising and watching That 70's Show (hmm forgot to mention that I spent most of the other days watching this in my free time too). Played guitar a bit but nothing too crazy.
• Felt like shit from the vodka, it gets to you, trust me, so I bailed on gym and OC and watched it by myself (first time in ages!).
• Had a bit more vodka, mixed with juice this time so flavour and a less of a, 'get fucked' factor.
• Thought about patching things up with a certain someone but passed out before I could even start messaging.
• Wednesday 13.12.06
• Awesome day.
• Lots of confusion the night before, unreliable shitty phones and communication breakdowns led to Amy, Dani and Mel having to stay at home, but Nani, Kyle, Josh, Yeatsie, Cam, Benji and me continued our trip to the coast (originally Springbrook Falls to play in the rock pools, jump of waterfalls and what not).
• Met at Maccas and then headed out. Benji and Kyle exchanging hi fives at 110km/h between cars was the main highlight of the trip down.
• Went to Robina JB (the best, by far) first and spent some dollars. Benji headed across to Kmart and got all the OC Seasons, can you say hooked? Cam stuck to budget again and got some Maiden, Dream Theater and Killswitch. Yeatsie stayed down and got a few Pink Floyd cd's. I got Jeff Buckley - Grace, Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin, ACDC - High Voltage and Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance which marks the most I've spent at JB in a while
• After our shopping binge, paying nani out about being a midget and explaining to her that she was the honorary 'cool guy with long hair' for the day (a role normally assumed by the lovable Amy), we headed back up the Motorway to Main Beach.
• The beach was awesome, and after spotting a topless sunbather, we swam for an hour or so. Josh lost his thongs to the sand demons a few times and nani made the mistake of letting her top fly open giving Kyle a nice shot of nipples.
• The waves were great, caught a few of them, highlight was when we all caught the same wave and rode it into shore then the usual hi five swapping afterwards. I also managed to catch a massive dumper and steer between Yeatsie and Cam only to fly over the top of Cam and poleaxe him.
• Eventually the lifeguards ruined our fun (probably in exchange for our safety) and told us to get out of the surf cause conditions were changing. We scoffed, then headed to Cavil for some food, and then hit up Surfers Paradise beach (oh after blaring ACDC down the main strip).
• The beach was again awesome, more thongs were lost, dignity was fought for in the sumo ring and then we tackled the waves again. This time the sea claimed Nani's sunglasses and poleaxed every single of us countless times. We left the beach when the lifeguards packed up and ushered everyone out of the water and headed home.
• The day wasn't over. Nani got lost after dropping Kyle and Benji off so crashed at mine for awhile. Yeastie then brought of my new ping pong table (sickkkkkkkk) so we played that for awhile then we headed up the 'vale for some drinks.
• We picked up Kyle, Benji and Yeatsie and eventually met up with Yank.
• Canadian Club and Dry tastes like ass, infact, even ass would have more flavour. Steer clear! After a game of pool in which Yeatsie won we headed home aka, the 'vale closed.
• The night still wasn't over. We set up in my garage, much to my parents disguist, and played ping pong and drunk for awhile whilst listening to INXS and Yank's random cd. Everyone got pretty drunk/tipsy so my Dad kicked us out (fair enough he had work at 6am).
• Not wanting to end the day yet, Nani, Kyle, Benji and Me headed to The Shack to exorcise a few demons and just to continue our drinking. Yeatsie and Yank were keen to call it a night, so they went home (tsk tsk Yank driving under the influence).
• Halfway to The Shack, we get a call saying Yank has stacked his car. Being friends, we ditched our coke, bundy and glasses and started running to the 'crash scene' only to have Kyle pass out halfway and Yank come hooning up the street laughing his ass off. We saw the funny side, kinda, I did after I urinated on his car. He deserved it!
• We recon'd our supplies from the bushes and piled into Yank's car for The Shack. Yank then went home, so we went down there and had a few more drinks. Nani was surprised at our fully sick architecture skillz and then we all semi passed out until Amy and Loren said they were here. Benji recon'd them and then it was one big family in The Shack
• The night finally ended after me and Benji's game of ping pong with swords as bats and Nani copping a kick to the jaw or something similar.
• Benji and Kyle walked home. Me and Nani walked home and Loren and Amy drove home. What's wrong with that picture? THERE WERE STILL SEATS IN THE CAR! *tears*
• Me and Nani chatted then eventually passed out.
• Thursday 13.12.06
• Nani apparently left at like 8am this morning, I was still out of it so didn't notice her leave and woke up at 9am going, where the fuck did Nani go? Meh, I now could spread out, so I went back to sleep

And that's my roundup. Yeatsie got out of work today so now Kyle, Yeatsie and me are about to hit up the coast again, who can say no to the fucking awesome waves and the even better weather I like the coast, I love the beach and I love just floating on the water. It really clears your head, makes it seem like everything is ok! Stupid reality and city life.

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Ha, yeah a few days late and I'm sure you've already read about my Tuesday from Benji or Amy, but if you haven't don't stress, I'm about to give you a third take on the day. For me, Tuesday was a huge day. I started work at 10 for our Melbourne Cup catering. It was pretty fucking easy, so when 2 rocked around I couldn't believe I just snagged $50 for doing shit all.

After I got home, and eventually showered (read: hours later), Adam gave us a call saying come to the Jindalee Hotel for drinks with his workmates inbetween something about a newsagent chick and 'don't worry bro, I can get you in'. I bailed on that, considering I was already going to the gym with Dani and Mel, but I did offer my services as a DD to pick him up. He took me up on the offer and next thing I knew I was bailing on gym and driving with Amy through Inala and Oxley looking for Adam, who thought it'd be great to 'pub crawl' through these dodgy suburbs. Haha, and just for something random, some dude staggered up to Amy's car at some intersection and slurred some shit about a road, stupid bastard, he had too much metho I think, 'Green means go Amy!'. Haha. Nevertheless, we found Adam at some pub that didn't look too dodgy at all and then he directed us back to his mates place so I could pick up his car. Heh, it was fun driving his car, it's alot quieter then the Chazza, so I have nfi what it was doing half the time. I've also concluded that dual 12" subs don't cut it for metal!

So anyway, after a trip to KFC, I went and picked up Dani from the gym and took her back to her's to get her phone and then we all, Amy, Mel, Dani, Adam, went to back to Adam's and watched OC Season 4's first episode. I reckon it fucking owned and has set the season up decently, but I guess we'll see as time goes by.

After leaving Adam to get some beauty sleep (heh, need more then 6 hours for that mate ), Amy and I dropped off the kids and went back to mine. Yank was driving around so we got him to pick me and Amy up and then we drove around with a new crew, Yank, Kyle and Benji. We went to Slaughter Falls which was fucking closed for some odd reason, but on the way, I'd just like to point out that U2 fans suck ass?! There we were, hanging out the civic with horns going up kessels road screaming 'YEAHHHH U2' at all the fans leaving the stadium, and what did we get? Jack-fucking-all! Metal fans pwn U2 fans, that's all I'll say.

Anyway, after our eventful (read: scariest thing was an owl that nearly sent the civic to heaven and it's occupants to hospital) cruise, we got home at about 1.30am before Yank decides it'd be fucking awesome to head to the coast to watch the sunrise. Now, considering I had an exam that I had to pass, it was probably a stupid decision, but after 15 minutes of rounding up Snow Patrol cd's and some clothes from Benji's and mine, we were off down the M1, through an eToll without a transponder ($19 fine ftw Yank) to the coast. Yank was like a truckie driver with all the nodoze and sprite recharges, but we got there in one piece, parked at Cavil and wandered to the beach.

Haha, there was some zombie dude walking straight down the beach towards the birds, yes, I believe his name was Tim. We walked down the beach for a bit, made some ass grooves and just laid down for a bit. Benji was hyped up on air or some shit, running round like a headless chicken so that was mildly entertaining admist him giving Yank balls and burying Amy's legs and mine and Kyle's feet. Then fucking, it started to rain, what a bastard! So we headed back up to the Civic to watch some metro get the shit beat out of him by two guys, then stumble across the road and throw a bin onto the street. Haha. So yeah, I went to go watch a sunrise that was never going to be thanks to the clouds and all I got was a drunken fight. Meh.

I got home about 6am, slept for a few hours, then got stuck into my Red Eye Platinums, holy shit do these things work a treat! It's like your mind becomes a sponge, I then studied networks till 4pm ready for my 60% do-or-die exam at 5.30pm. Surprisingly, I think I owned it! But we'll see, exam marks come out December 4 apparently.

And there you have it, one huge reason why you should blog more often, because otherwise your post becomes so long that it's highly doubtful that anyone actually reads the whole thing or rather reads (skims) to a bit that's funny then decides to comment on that ignoring the rest of the article.