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.