My Disfunctional Traditions

Honestly, the thought that this would be considered a tradition never occurred to me until recently. For starters, I have five roommates who all love to drink, I guess you could consider my home a frat house of sorts. We have several traditions but the most obvious would be how on every one of our birthdays, at midnight, we all do a shot of the worst tasting liquor we could find. This is just something we feel we have to do, no matter what, no matter where we are. On one occasion two of my roommates were in San Diego and had to be up for some meeting or another at 5am. They both felt pretty bad about not being around for the "midnight shot" and apologized several times before they left. For simplicity sake, I'm going to refer to the three of us at home as Group A and the two roommates in San Diego as Group B. So, the day before Group B leaves to San Diego I hide a small bottle of Rose Vodka (The most disgusting thing I have ever had by far) in Group B's bags. I think it was my birthday, but I don't recall. Either way, at 11:55pm Group A calls Group B and tells them about the hidden bottles and at midnight, over the phone, we all toast to the birthday and dreadfully down the shot of vodka. As bad as it was, its our tradition. It's something we have all done since we moved in together and something that we will hopefully do for many more birthdays to come, despite how far away we may be.
Another tradition is that every Monday my roommate Mark and I come home from work at around 8pm (We worked our schedules out so that neither of us will be working past 730pm on Monday, little sad when you find out why). I buy a pizza pie and he buys a six pack. We eat, hang out, and wait for 9pm to come around whereupon we sit in front of the TV and watch Heroes. This is something we do every season. It may seem like its stupid, but honestly, its the little things in life that make people happy. We celebrate the little things as much as possible.
These little traditions don't seem like much to most people, but to us it means a lot. Its things like this that makes us as close to family as can be without actually being blood related. (It also could mean we all have a drinking problem, but I choose not to look at that aspect of it...) These are the traditions that we identify with and that make us who we are as a group.