Friday, December 30, 2011

You only turn 21 once

I started this blog not too long ago. Like thirty minutes not too long ago and I figured I better get to gettin'!

My very first real blog post will be about 21st birthday shenanigans. 
My room mate and I turned 21 in quite a small time frame and there were some serious repercussions.
Casualties include:
1 Digital Camera
1 High heeled boot
2 Dignities
and we won't mention the money that was lost.

I was the lucky girl that turned 21 first. ON the first actually. December first to be exact, and it was lovely. I started around five in the afternoon and seeing as I had a fake ID for the past year this was nothing, if not an ordinary night of going out and getting chocolate wasted. Although, there were some moments in there that are definitely worth talking about. Like the moment that I almost punched my team mate in the face when I caught her trying to write her real weight on the fake that I had passed down to her, with a pen. My arm tallies told me I had already taken ten of the 22 shots I were to take that night and even as a drunk asshole I knew not to make a fake ID look even more fake.

That happened before we even left for the bar! We shoved seven people into a five seater and set sail for Bugsy Malone's with Rihanna screaming "SUCK MY COCKINESS LICK MY PERSUASION" through the speakers. I know you can already tell this is going to be a good night. We get to the bar and tried our hardest not to let the fact that it was just now my 21st birthday because I had been going to that bar for about two months before that.
However, that went on for about two hours and then people started buying me shots and we started screaming "21 BITCHES!"
A pretty severe fight broke out while I was gettin' down and dirty on the dance floor with my poor boyfriend watching helplessly from his bouncer post by the bar. Beer mugs started flying, tables and chairs were kicked over, but all I cared about was the girl kickin' ass at Karaoke! No one noticed her but me! Someone pushed me down and I don't know who helped me up, but I am 95% positive I poked them STRAIGHT in the eye trying to keep my drink from spilling.

This is when things got blurry. The next thing I remember is my head hitting the bar after taking straight Rumplemintz for my 22nd shot.  Apparently I puked and rallied around shot number 19 and was a happy camper when a freshman gave me a ride home. When I took inventory on my team the next morning, I found out some pretty interesting things. One of my team mates blacked out and another one of my team mates picked her up dead weight and carried her to a cab. Jimbo slice said he was impressed. He also said she was in heels, which is really admirable! Apparently, a different team mate knocked on the door about two AM with her DD and I answered buck naked. (But hey, if I don't remember it, it didn't happen!) The poor guy driving her around said that she came in, peed, took off her heels and ear rings, and left. Which explained why heels and ear rings were on my couch.
Pictures later revealed that I almost won the hoola-hoop contest in a skirt, and they also revealed that I was wearing lovely Victoria Secret panties! Later in the day I found VIDEOS! Which featured me on the bathroom floor crying about something that had gotten on my hands, my team mate taking a massive shit, and my best friend from St. Louis/camera woman screaming for said team mate to "pinch it off!" and never take a shit at a bar again ALL AT THE SAME TIME. Then we found a video someone took asking me how it felt to finally be 21. I proceeded to reply by thanking Jesus and the bartender for the best night ever!
The next day I found 22 tallies, a penis, and a few initials drawn on my arm. I slammed a hamburger and texas fries, and spent the next two days in bed. All in all I say that my birthday bash was a HUGE success for everyone involved. Don't worry, 100% of my shots were mixed and 95% of my impaired decisions are not regretted.

Now, onto roomies birthday celebration. This is a good one too.

She is a trooper and took six shots at one in the afternoon while I was at my work out. So when I got home we were all stuffing our faces with frozen pizza and getting ready for the night ahead.  The plan was to start at a bar/grill and end up at another bar. Now, keep in mind my room mate is a pretty significant party girl and has accumulated A LOT of friends along the way. A good forty people showed up at the bar/grill and she had all 21 shots bought for her with documentation each time to boot. She was barely starting to feel it and since she was peer pressured to start over because it had been so long since the first shots, her arm tally meant she had 27 shots by nine PM. I stayed sober and witnessed the drunkeness in all of it's beautiful glory. We got 5 warnings to be quiet or we were going to get kicked out, and by that time we downright just didn't give a shit. Several buffalo dips, and fish bowl margaritas later a handful of people walked out on their checks and headed to the second location.  Of course Miss Center of Attention tried to get everyone to ditch and start a different party at her apartment that wasn't all about someone else, but everyone made it back to the bar within thirty minutes. After the minor melt down a couple of the girls that loathe Miss Center of Attention had, it really started to pick up. It is Christmas break and unfortunately I ran into a lot of people from High School and after Jimmy showed up I was tired of being the only sober one sitting in a bar. Roomie was on shot 40 and I figured I better get food in her STAT. I don't know how I did it, but I rounded up about 11 drunkards, and got them to Steak n Shake around midnight. There was screaming about seat arrangements, screaming about drunk driving, and screaming about needing cheese fries. One guy at the end of the table kept trying to start a fight with two guys two tables over. He also kept talking about how much he admired Jimmy's muscles. Which was a bit awkward. Three girls at the end other end of the table had tobacco in their lips and were trying to spit into cups, and another girl was asking the waiter if she could dance on a table for a free milk shake. I felt it to be a good trade but it was a no go.

Roomie lost her phone, found it, disappeared into the bathroom for a little too long, and then we made it back to the apartment. Sadly I passed out from dealing with drunk asses all night and apparently the girls stayed up watching a movie and raiding the fridge. I woke up to find a good friend on the couch and she had stolen MY comforter. I made pancakes for breakfast and then we all went back to sleep. My room mate went to a basketball game and then came back mid afternoon and slept until the next morning. She is borderline alcoholic, but I guess most people are around the age of 21.

Soooooo that's that.
Too much alcohol and a lot of birth celebration. Complete successes on both occasions.
I will never, EVER show fore mentioned videos to anyone. So don't try and google them because YOU WONT FIND THEM.


The always exciting: About me!!

Soooooo, my boyfriend blogs. He is really good at verbalizing his thoughts and feelings, alongside lifting information, and I thought WHAT THE HEY! I'll make one too! The funny part is I am not going to tell him. Writer extraordinaire I am not. Telling him about it would be CRAZY! You're crazy if you think I am ever going to breathe a word about this blog to anyone I know and love.
With that said, HERE WE GO!

Caitlin Mackenzie Chapin is the name and being insanely immature is my game.  I am loud and proud, and some would say I have a bangin' ass! (I don't agree, but that's neither here nor there)
I have been an athlete since early childhood when I used to climb onto high objects and JUMP OFF OF THEM!
Sport of choice is softball. Thinking about it recently I don't really know if I chose it as a child or if I just did it because I was good at it. However it happened, that's what happened.
I went through phases of loving and hating the game. I started competitive travel softball when I was eight years old. It was new and exciting and we went to places within two hours from where I lived. We always left early in the morning so I could sleep in the car and avoid my ADD. Then junior high showed up and I was getting to the point where I was old enough to toss play dates out the window and "hang out" with friends on the weekends. BUT, I was playing on the weekends so I felt like I was missing out. WHICH I WAS NOT HAPPY WITH! Soon High School barged into my life and I realized since Missouri high schools play softball in the fall season that I would hit my peak of AWESOME skills right around district and state championships. It was beautiful.
HOWEVER, junior and senior year rolled around and playing for fun became playing for a college scholarship. Which blows.
You may think it is just a dumb sport, but ask anyone, if you've played it all your life winning or losing decides how you feel about yourself for a solid week.
I traveled all around the stinkin' United States in a Honda CR-V playing in front of college coaches just to get an offer from the school in the city next to where I lived. Funny huh? I had another offer from a Division 1, but  my father and my aunt are alumni from this school so he pushed me for the hometown glory of it all. I friggin' love my father so I went for it! It wasn't a bad idea, but it wasn't a great one!
Freshman year I was culture shocked because I wasn't the ringor anymore. I sat the bench while three other freshman started. Ego=Blown.
Soooooooo that resulted in a catty uproar of team mates who gossiped and left miss Caitlin feeling left out. I became fed up right before summer vaca and called them out on it so of course it was squashed.
Sophomore year things were looking up! Team chemistry was good, physical fitness looking pretty decent. Then my potential position was SNATCHED from me in front of my very eyes, by a freshman with a golden glove. Ego=Double Blown. To top it all off, I was salvaging my dignity working my proverbial ass off as a back up catcher to pretend I wasn't PISSED OFF, received a severe concussion and declared by the Springfield News-Leader "out for the rest of the season". It was sarcastically wonderful.
ENTER Coach Jeremy Frey, formerly the number one power lifter in the world. This guy is an ass hole and a half but a pretty funny person once you get to know him.  Not only did he bring a can of ass-whoopin into the weight room he also brought SMOKIN' HOT interns with him! This is one of the people that kept me from throwing in the sweaty towel and trying my hand at being a regular student. Summer between sophomore and junior year I decided to get down and dirty. (In other words, Coach Frey told me to) No more failing grades, no more feeling sorry for myself, no more injuries. I was going to become a softball goddess if it killed me. After all, I am getting paid to go to school for it. Might as well be good at what you do right?! Low and behold I lost 20 pounds, quit smoking cigarettes, FINALLY passed a run test and brown nosed THE SHIT out of my coaches!
Landing me where I am today! WHOOT WHOOT!
So there ya go, the complete background of how Caitlin Chapin became a broke as a joke student athlete at Missouri State University.

Don't get it twisted. Some of what I have written on here may put growing up an athlete and collegiate athletics in a bad lighting. It is actually pretty darn great. If you count the numerous life long friendships and memories you make. The pride of being something greater than an ordinary person, at least that's what we like to think ;). As well as the accomplished feeling you get after all of the successes you accumulate. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I just want you all to know that no one really tells you how F*&%$#@ HARD it is.

Anywho, right now I am recently 21! In my second semester of Junior year working toward an Exercise and Movement Science major. Don't bother asking me what I am planning to do with it because I have no frickin frackin clue. I live with one of my best friends from High School in a two bedroom apartment on the south side. I have a ridiculously good looking and obnoxiously polite boy toy who is an intern in the weight room and a door man at my favorite bar. Unfortunately, the whole intern thing put us in a sticky situation with Frey a few months ago but that is another story for another day. He tells me I am beautiful often, and gets REALLY cranky when he is hungry. So naturally I adore him. It has been really great, he showed up right after my life took a nose dive into the abyss sophomore year in college. During that whole "lost my position, got a concussion" thing. So don't tell anybody but he really saved my butt during that one. Kept me smiling through it all.
I have a beautiful all american family. My mother is a teacher here in the city, my father is a financial adviser at a local bank, I am a division 1 athlete and my older sister is in her last year of Law School. Isn't that precious! I drive the CR-V mentioned earlier and her name is Sally. She runs like a piece, but I love her unconditionally. It is all wonderful/jam packed/stressful/beautiful. I am an emotional wreck and MAJOR drama queen most of the time so I think this whole blog nonsense might help me sort some of that out.
I like to think of myself as a fairly funny person, and I crack myself up on a daily basis. Just ask my Jimmy boy he laughs with me too, sometimes even at me!
I hope who ever has taken time out of their day to read all of the words that I typed into this New Blog Post box, enjoyed the time they more than likely wasted.
I enjoyed telling my partial life story. I am pretty sure I touched on all of the important things. Things you will need to know if you intend on reading any other of my award winning entries.


Don't get too excited. This blog has absolutely no rhyme or reason to it. It will more than likely be rants and raves of my every day life.

There it is.
About me, in all of it's shining glory.
Glad you stopped by.
See ya later alligator,
CC

Post Script: Please forgive the multiple misspelled words and incorrect grammar you might come across.