maybe itâs the joy on my face or maybe itâs the fact that i know exactly what happened for this picture to occur, but, man, i love it.
nothing like being 21, drunk, and sweaty staring at all of your friends from your apartmentâs alley and getting a half-eaten slice of homemade cake shoved in your hands. i had called my friend who left the party bc he got too high and was scared of all the people hahaha. he never did end up coming back.
this is still a night iâm very grateful for and iâm happy to have this moment captured.
thank you, stringbean501
Apr 9, 2024
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I have so many of these because I hoard my favorite moments like a dragon. But I've limited myself to one.
This is a disposable camera photo of the first birthday party / dinner party I threw myself in college. My roommate, two of my friends, and my cousin all came early to help me set up and finish cooking things. Whirling around getting dressed and setting up with that small group was so fun. And of course the party itself was a delight although I think my social battery died a little too quick after spending most the day prepping. But even then it was still nice to be surrounded by people who wanted to come to my birthday party and all the food me and my friends made. I was very proud of it.
I don't usually do anything big for my birthday because I like spending it just doing little fun things for myself I've been meaning to do like trying a new place or buying a limited edition ice cream flavor or something. And things like this can be a lot of time and energy. But I like getting friends together and so I went for it that year.
I also had to wait so long for these photos to come back because I had to use up the film roll first. And then CVS said they could only give us the photos on CD and I didn't want to hunt down a CD reader on campus so I mailed it out to a company that emailed me the photos. So by the time I had the rolls developed it was already kind of a nice throwback with photos from that night that I had never seen before.
Apr 7, 2025
I celebrated my 21st in January
Thereâs a bar near my university that has âwine Wednesdayâ which is $5 for a really heinous bottle of wine. Most ppl go regularly already bc thereâs pool, cheap drinks, and itâs within walking distance of campus. Vibes are less than great but thatâs beside the point lol. My 21st fell on a Wednesday, and all I knew is that I did not want to get my expectations up. That would only lead to birthday blues. So I figured I would just invite my inner circle to come celebrate with me at wine Wednesday. Which turned into me inviting anyone i thought was cool/ wanted to be friends w. My close friends also brought their respective friend groups.
I got dressed up cute, got to the bar at 10, and throughout the night got to say hi to ppl as they came and went. it took all the pressure off of me to entertain or make sure ppl were getting along. bc everyone had their own peeps to talk to and different activities to entertain themselves w. The bartender gave me free shots and the DJ let me play whatever I wanted. It was a great time and way more ppl than I thought came through.
i corralled my close ppl for a group pic and after that everyone had their own fun time
Allowing me to Irish exit to partake in some more illicit stuff and I ended my night drunk beyond belief tagging in a train yard w one of my friends
I will be celebrating in this style going forward, it was great, and now there are at least a dozen train cars that say âhappy 21st birthday Sophiaâ w my or my friends tag :D
ALSO IF NO ONE YAKS ON UR 21st U DIDNT DO IT RIGHT
Jun 7, 2024
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14âHeld my party in a private underground bar with speakeasy vibes, because it was underneath the opera house where I did community theater and it was where weâd had our cast parties. My mom knew the guy who owns basically the whole block and he was surprisingly okay with letting us use it for a teenagerâs birthday lol. My âHappy Birthdayâ banner still hangs from the ceiling, last I checked!
15âtwo of my friends surprised me at my bedroom window at midnight, and in the afternoon we drove out to a camping spot along the river. There, we lit a campfire and wrote stuff on slips of paper that we wanted to burn to get it out of our lives. Before that, we ate the cake that my friend had made me, but in our infinite wisdom we forgot forks or plates, so we ate it with our hands like cavemen lmao
19âMy first summer living away from home, so I was nervous that I wouldnât have anyone to hang out with since my friends had moved back home after our freshman year, leaving me alone in our college town. I enjoyed my speech and debate teammates but I didnât feel that close to them outside of the activity. That changed after they invited me to the farmerâs market with them and then back to the house they were renting. They made me a banh mi inspired pizza (flatbread with the spicy mayo as the âpizza sauceâ and the tofu and pickled veggies as toppings) that is still unrivaled in my culinary experiences. We played several board games and had a lot of funâI felt really loved by these people who didnât really have to do this for me! One of them had graduated that spring and passed the team presidency onto me, and I just adored her. I felt so happy to be hanging out with her on my birthday. We dated a couple years later after she and her high school sweetheart split, but I ended up getting my heart broken. That makes this memory a little bittersweet, looking back on a now ruined friendship. But it is memorable anyway so I had to put it even though it isnât 100% happy lol
May 27, 2025
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