29 x 6

Ah yes, another year bites the dust. I know, how many times can one person turn 29? I will let you know... Last-last Saturday, the girls took me out for my birthday. I wanted to keep it simple and low key so we headed to one of my faves... Mama D's in Manhattan Beach. We got dinner, then went over to the Side Door for drinks, then tried dancing at Beaches (the DJ was booty so we left shortly thereafter), and then more drinks at Towne. All in all, a fun night. Any time I'm with the girls, it's a fun night.

Once they shut down Towne, we decided we were done, but on the way home, stopped at Diana's for a wet burrito and tamales. Nothing like a burrito and tamales at 1 am. That's right. 1 am. Not too late eh? Sadly, I am so old that on Sunday, I was still rendered useless. I attribute part of it to the fact that I had been travelling Thursday to Saturday. I manage to hit Seattle and SF in those days. I was lucky enough to spend some time with my favorite chubster, Charlotte. She's such a good girl!

Then, this past weekend, was of course, Thanksgiving. It was the usual. Lots of shopping the day after. On Saturday I went to Detroit (the bar, not the city) with the guys. The music was just so-so, therefore we took off and got 3 rolled tacos. I know. Not the way to lose 10 lbs. However, I did pick up DDR for my Wii on Sunday and have been playing it as a form of exercise. The first few levels were so easy, and then they start throwing in hand gestures and stuff like that, which I must be doing wrong as it's not registering with the game. However, they don't provide examples as to how to do them correctly either! Well, I've got a hand gesture for you! Now, I just shut the damn "hand markers" off. I nearly beaned myself with the nunchuck cord a couple of times, so I figure it's safer this way for now.

And finally... tonight my parents took me out for a birthday dinner. I wasn't really expecting one, as it is a Monday (plus Dancing with the Stars finale was tonight), but we went for a quick dinner anyway. I ordered a wine and didn't get carded. Good thing she was a really good waitress, because her tip nearly went out the window right there. I got some e-cards, e-mails and text messages from friends and relatives so I feel very loved. I even got THE funniest phone call tonight from a friend, EH, who was inputting numbers into a new phone, and his gf wanted to confirm that I was just a friend. Talk about hilarious! I hardly hear from this guy (though I did just run into him recently), and then I get a call on my birthday. I'm thinking, "Wow - he actually remembered? I didn't even think he knew when my birthday was!" Well, he didn't know it was my birthday, he was just getting permission to keep me in the phone. I even had to talk to the girlfriend. bahahahaha. BEST birthday present ever. I'm still laughing. bahahahaha. Of course, I had some wine with dinner and was a litle giddy, so I was totally giving him sh*t. I get to hold that one over his head for YEARS. =D

BUSY BUSY

I guess all that vacation blogging took it's toll on my blogging will. I nearly forgot I even had a blog. Anyhow, I've just been working mostly. I had to travel to Seattle and to St. Louis for work, and to San Francisco for Charlotte's baptism. Lots of miles! woohoo. I'm getting near that gold status. I have to fly to St. Louis and San Francisco again next week, then to New York, so I should hit gold before the end of the year. I'm fairly obsessed with the miles at this point. I was willing to fly somewhere just for the heck of it, for the sake of making gold. I even check my miles regularly online. I know. I have problems.

Speaking of problems... I've been quite the eating machine lately. Last night I went to Houstons and ate an entire rack of ribs! OK, I gave two to Lin, but I ate the rest. A whole rack! I've never done that before. And no, I'm not working out more. Sadly, quite the opposite. I'm thinking of taking pilates again, maybe get my butt moving more often. I try to make it to spin, but sometimes it's such a chore just trying to get in to the class.

Last week, I made it to the gym early enough to get into the spin class. I look through my gym bag...two shirts, windbreakers, sweatshirt, two towels, two pairs of socks, and sweats... no shorts! I had to buy some freaking shorts at the gym. Luckily they had a 30% off sale, because you know their stuff is not cheap. I bought a pair that looked ok on the hangar...and omg, they were tighter than biker shorts. My butt looked GINORMOUS in them, but at this point, I just tied the windbreaker around my waist and went to class and changed into the sweats after. Why not spin in sweats you may ask? It'd be way too hot. Plus, these were the velour sweats, not real meant-to-be-sweat-in sweats.

Hmm... what else is there... nothing much. Didn't do anything over the weekend because I was so tired from travelling. Just hung out at home, read some books, and watched a lot of football. No wonder I'm single. I'm a hermit. Well, I will make an effort to be more social by going to Dennis' birthday party this weekend. He and a couple of his friends even rented a mansion to celebrate their combined birthdays at. You take a limo they provide to the mansion and the bar is open. woohoo!