you know it's a good birthday when...

• you start celebrating at 5pm on Friday and your birthday isn't until Monday
• your friends, favorite bartenders, and two regulars at your weekly happy hour bar buy you three margaritas and two shots of Patron
• you wear a sombrero on your head
  
• you fall asleep at the bar by 8:00pm from too much birthday fun
• you fall asleep again mid-bite of your pizza due to too much birthday fun
  
• it takes you 45 minutes to walk 10 blocks home
  
• you wake up ready for another day of birthday celebration- there's no stopping this birthday girl
  
• you start round two of the birthday weekend at 8pm on Saturday
  
• you have a B-themed party full of birthday, burritos, booze, bruises and blisters
• your "birthday cake" is served in a BIG glass and is called a Mudslide
  
• you dance on a bar with your friends
  
• you end round two of birthday partying 8 hours after you started- at 4am (5am due to daylight savings)
• you reflect on your birthday party and know that you and your friends had a lot of fun
  
• you actually feel well enough to go to the gym after two days of birthday celebration
  
• you can return to the bar where you fell asleep on Friday for a beer on Sunday (and to flirt with the cute bartender)
• you wear your "It's not my birthday shirt" on Sunday so that when people ask if today is your birthday you tell them, "No, it's tomorrow"
  
• you wake up Monday morning on your actual birthday to find birthday wishes in text messages and emails
• you know that you still have the rest of today and possibly the rest of the week to celebrate your birthday
• you tell people your birthday was very "tex-mexcellent"
  
• you turn 27 and you realize you are happy