It's my BIRTHDAY!!

By far the best day of my year!! LoL!! I don't want to seem super shallow, but I always feel good on my birthday. Some years I just want a quiet something with close friends and family and other years I wanna throw a HUGE party. I don't like planning my own birthday event and luckily I haven't had to I have a good husband, a best friend, and sisters that help out! I plan ALOT of other people's functions that I think a small form of repayment would be to think of me on my special day. This year was an off year...meaning I'm now 28. I like to do big fancy parties on milestone years...18th, 21st, 25th, and basically the round numbers after that...25, 30, 35. So being that I turned 28 I didn't feel like I needed a huge shindig. I got exactly what I wanted...time with my closest peeps and a pedicure!!

My day started off at work, cuz unless I'm traveling I don't normally take off on my birthday. My office was nice enough to sing Happy Birthday and we enjoyed a cupcake pull-apart cake. We celebrate everyone's birthday. I know some people are shy about it, but it's just something small to recognize them and a little break in the monotony of everyday humbug!

I did leave work an hour early. My sister picked me up and we headed out to get a little pampering!

The nail salon with patrons

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Nail spots always have at least one flat screen tv, some have a few and they have magazines to pass the time. But for me the BEST part of getting my nails done is going with my friends and chitchatting with them about whatever! One of my all time BESTEST friends in the whole wide world, SMiLEforME, treated me to a spa pedicure. This place (called AmeriNails, right next to Cattle Company in Waimalu) not only do they clean, trim, and scrape, but use hot wax on your feet and some sort of menthol rub on your legs. They pour the hot wax into a plastic bag, you put your feet in, and they cover your foot with the hot wax. You sit and let it harden then after about 10 minutes they peel it back and thats supposed to help remove even more of that yucky dead, scaley skin from your feet!! Very relaxing! Plus with my reunion luau coming up this Saturday already I decided to get my nails and eyebrows done also! My little sister was nice enough to pay for my nails and I paid for my own eyebrows...the cheapest thing I did today!

Afterwards my sister-in-law and Taei met us for dinner!!

Red Lobster

No this restaurant doesn't hold any sentimental value to me we were just hungry for shrimp and stuff and saw a commercial on tv when we were talking about something to do for my birthday! But I haven't come here in a fairly long time, so I didn't mind!! Of course one of our most favorite parts of dining at Red Lobster is...

Cheesy garlic biscuits

The complimentary cheesy garlic biscuits! They are SO yummy and seriously, I can make a meal out of just these and water! LoL!! I've attempted to make them at home, and they came out pretty good, but for your birthday you want other people to do the work! We started off with two appetizers.

Seafood fondue

The Seafood Fondue, $8.99, is like heaven in a sourdough bread bowl! It has chunks of shrimp and crabmeat mixed into to a creamy lobster cheese sauce! I'm embarrased to tell you we destroyed this! Ate the bread bowl and all!

Spinach and artichoke dip

We also go the Lobster Artichoke and Seafood Dip, $9.75. This was good too! Artichokes, spinach, maine and langostino lobster, and more seafood mixed in served with chips. I liked the fondue better!

Ceasar

All entree's come with a choice of Ceasar or Garden salad. Both are good, I actually prefer the garden, but they have about a gazillion different dressings and I wasn't in the mood to think so I opted for ceasar.

Seaside Shrimp Trio

Both Tiff and I decided on the Seaside Shrimp Trio, $18.99. It comes with Walt's favorite shrimp (just battered and fried shrimp), shrimp scampi, and shimp pasta. You get a choice of mashed potatoes, baked potato, fries, rice, or broccoli. I opted for the broccoli and Tiff got the baked potato. It was SO good...I finished my entire plate!

Lobster and Shrimp Pasta

My sister-in-law, Jolena, got the Shrimp and Lobster Pasta, I think this was like $15.50. This is her favorite, but I honestly didn't taste it so I can't say it was either good or bad! But it sure does look good!

Colossal Shrimp Platter

Emily got a the Shrimp Your Way Platter, $17.25, since she got 3 choices. Fried shrimp, jumbo shrimp, and shrimp scampi all with a baked potato. To me, you can never go wrong with a plate of shrimp!! Except for maybe coconut shrimp, I like coconut, I like shrimp, I don't like them together! LoL!!

Honey BBQ Shrimp and Chicken

Finally Taei got the Honey BBQ Shrimp and Chicken, $19.50. The sauce smelt SO good. Just the right combination of sweet and salty! The entree comes with mashed potatoes, plus you pick another side, so Taei is a carb lover and got rice!

Warm_Chocolate_Chip_Lava_Cookie

You know we couldn't walk away without dessert! It was my birthday!! LoL!! We got two of these, Warm Chocolate Chip Lava Cookie, $6.75. It was okay...chocolate is always yummy and the cold ice cream was a nice compliment to the oozing chocolate and warm cookie!! I forgot to take a pix so I borrowed this from the Red Lobster website. We also ordered their Key Lime Pie, $5.99, I forgot to grab a pix of that too. But that was really good! I don't normally care of "fruity" desserts especially when I have to choose between that and chocolate, but it was very refreshing!

It was such a fun night talking and laughing!! I normally love big parties and being the center of attention, but this year I wouldn't choose anything more than enjoying time with some of the most important people in my life!