Hope everyone had a fun and safe night last night! For it being my first New Years’ Eve being 21, I didn’t go out and party with friends. I actually went to dinner with my mom, aunt and cousins while we were in Denver. My aunt wanted to stop by the Liquor Barn in Englewood so we’d have some alcohol to drink, but we decided not to go, lol. Seriously, what kind of Greek/Italians are we if we didn’t drink any liquor last night? Especially wine with our dinner!

Funny story, actually.

OK, my aunt wanted to pay me somehow, so we went out to dinner last night. We were going to go to Olive Garden, but there was a very long wait, so we decided to go to a local Italian restaurant. This is where my 12-year-old cousin comes in. He’s 20lbs underweight for his age, very scrawny, but is a first-degree black belt in karate. Well, he decided he wanted an adult-sized plate of spaghetti with one meatball and one sausage (this was homemade spaghetti, sausage and meatballs, mind you! The spaghetti was thick and heavy and the sausage and meatball were pretty big). He ate the sausage and the meatball and already felt full. My aunt dared him if he ate half the plate, she’d give him a dollar. About 10 minutes later, since he still hadn’t eaten much, she dared him if he ate the whole plate, she’d give him five dollars. Chris was determined to eat it all to get that five dollars. We told him he really didn’t have to and that it was a joke, but he didn’t care, he wanted that five dollars. Crazy enough, he ate the whole plate.

We ran to the new Target Megastore and the first thing Chris did when he got out of the car was walk right up to the closest trash can and threw up a little. About ten minutes later, he ran to the bathroom twice. Poor kid was sick for the rest of the night as well as today. He woke up at midnight last night to try to find something to settle his stomach, but I couldn’t find any Peptobismol and we didn’t get him any Sprite, so he just went back to bed with his stomach feeling as crummy as ever.

We were making fun of him this morning asking if he had nightmares of being eaten by spaghetti.