My birthday

Celebrating my 39th birthday today. went to the valley this past weekend...i know, i didn't want to, i HATED it, but i was feeling bad about getting older and Joel that it might help. It didn't. We gathered the family and had dinner at Cheddar's.http://cheddars.com/. Luckily they had something for me on the menu so i had the mushroom and tomato chiabatta sandwich. It was good..... Almost everyone in the family showed up except for Darren. It was a little uncomfortable for me because it was packed and we were all sardined in, but, oh well...

Earlier in the day i had coffee at Starbucks http://starbucks.com/. I guess i just assumed that she'd been there before but she hadn't and didn't know what to order, oops....othere than that it was great to see her again. We were BFFs during junior high and after our freshman year we lost contact because we had different lunch hours..so..but it was cool to see her after almost 25 years. It was kinda awkward at first but once we started talking there was no stopping us. I will definately call her next time i'm in town for a longer visit.

After dinner we headed over to mary's because she had made a pineapple upside down cake for me. we had cake, they sang happy birthday and took some pictures:

Susan, Mary and me

Me and Joel :)

After that we went over to Juan's because that day was his birthday and they were having a cookout that started at the same time as my dinner and we figured they'd all still be there drinking and partying...but they weren't. Yea, we were SHOCKED to say the least. they were already home and getting ready to call it a night. At 9:30. we bought him a bottle of Patron and everything, and the party was already over. We even took a case of beer and everything. We ended up just having a beer and chatting for awhile then left.

The next day we headed to Corpus Christi early. We had lunch at the park there and went walking on the beach for a little bit.

Now i have today and tomorrow off to enjoy on my own...aw...some peace and quiet.

Winter in full blast

Well, here it is, almost the end of January and of course it's been cold most of the month. Unfortunately, the mountain cedar has been really high so now it's affecting me and the oak season is yet to come.

The Asian Festival is coming up on Feb 5th, celebrating the year of the rabbit at the Institute of Texan Cultures. http://texasncultures.com. We were thinking of going but hadn't bought the tickets yet but last week Juli came over and gave us theirs because they aren't gonna be able to make it this year and they thought we'd like to go. I was, like, of course we'd like to go. Can't wait, but usually it's really cold around that time, so we've only gone a couple of times.

Tuesday we're heading over to the White Rabbit http://sawhiterabbit.com to see Escape The Fate http://escapethefate.com. I also got free review tickets from Renee from a PR firm. That's pretty awesome is you ask me, free tickets for a rewiew. Now we're talking.

March will be a busy month around here: I'm gonna go see Juanes http://juanes.net, Bon Jovi http://bonjovi.com AND we're gonna go see West Side Story at the Majestic http://majesticempire.com. Phew! Bring it on!

My birthday is coming up, my 39th! Scary if you ask me. It seems like only last night I went to bed and I was 18, now 21 years later, 39. Wow!

Happy New Year 2011

Today marks the end of the first week in January so of course it's cold outside, that's winter for you. but by this afternoon it should be nice and warm. That's Texas for you.

Last night we went out for dinner and a movie. Went to see Season of the Witch, the new Nicolas Cage movie. It was pretty good, i liked it, it was like watching an episode of Supernatural, which, by the way, does not have a new episode until the 28th, so i watched a recorded rerun last night.

Today i'm just gonna stick around and do some much needed work around the house, we've been so busy lately that everything else got put on the backburner.