This past weekend was Andrew’s birthday. However, this post is not about the day of his birthday but about the eve of his birthday in which we had a pizza adventure and everyone partied into the night leading to a very happy and content birthday boy.
Let’s start by talking about Andrew. Andrew is my boyfriend of more than 1.5 years. We discovered love over the summer after having taken one year of Japanese classes together at UF. Ever since we got together in the beginning of August of 2010, we have shared our desires, struggles, and development with the Japanese language.
Andrew is a very shy person, but once you get to know him and help him open up to you, he’s really funny and dorky and just a really nice guy to be around. Even if you don’t know him, he’s a very nice guy and is willing to go above and beyond to help someone in need. This is why he makes the best and worst computer tech guy. He’s super helpful in making sure your computer problem is solved and will go to lengths that most computer tech people working from abroad don’t even bother to try to get to, BUT because of his kindness and knowledge, sometime computer-illiterate people take advantage of him, leading him into a dark unrelenting grip of I-have-another-computer-problem-please-drop-everything-and-help-me-now.
Anyways, as Andrew is a 人見知り（ひとみしり）, or in romanization, hitomishiri kind of guy, meaning that he’s a shy guy who only opens up his true nature to you once having established a friendship. Anyways, parties aren’t usually his thing. Last year, I helped throw him a birthday party with our mutual friends and some friends from his work and high school with jello shots, cake, and video games. It was just ok. Kinda meh. Not super exciting or high energy. Non-video gamers got bored. Andrew was done with the party before it was done. Whatevs.
This year was different. The party was to be held at 7 pm in our shackmates’ house instead of ours since they have a room to spare for entertaining guests. We invited some friends who came to Japan with us from UF, and I invited one of my good friends who lived at the dorm with me last semester, Ryan P. Before the party started, shackmate, Tina, and Andrew and I rode our bikes for 30 minutes to the Costco in the SNOW. UPHILL. DOWNHILL. BOTH WAYS. lol
I feel like I’m telling that grandpa story… Anyways, we bought 3 ginormous square pies of cheese pizza and strapped them to the back of Andrew’s bike. We bought juice and 24 cans of Coca-cola among other things and loaded them into the baskets and rode back in the cold night for 30 more minutes. The pizzas only fell off once, but with minimal damage to the goods. Oh man, I am in no way physically in shape so this was a very arduous journey of endurance for me…whew!
As for the party itself, it was a blast. It had a slow start with a few friends trickling in with just some simple chatter and catching up, but as soon as most people invited came over, we got to drinking and eating pizza. So good! About an hour or two later, Marissa, a friend from UF, texted about how to find our shack, and when I went out to meet her, I saw that she had brought not only Ryan P. but also some other friends from seminar house. This was unexpected, as we didn’t expect so many guests, but they were definitely a welcome addition. ^___^ They joined the party, and we played more card games and continued the good times. Everyone got along fine, and we probably didn’t finish til about 2 am at least. I mean, this wasn’t some wild party, but a really nice get-together. We had cake, Adam juggled, we huddled by the heater and got comfy under the kotatsu, and just generally had a nice time. Andrew really enjoyed the party and made friends with the people from seminar house and had a pretty happy birthday. All in all, success. I was really happy to see that I was able to help throw a party in which no one was bored and Andrew was content and happy.
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