My AWESOME Birthday Shin Digs: 20090321

This was the best birthday EVER!!  Two shin digs, more love than you can wrap your head around, Hostess snack cakes, and vodka....a serious recipe for success if ever there was one!

The day started with breakfast in bed (Gail is a great cooker, by the way...if you ever get a chance to stay in this hotel, you should grab it!), and then it was off to the nail shop.  All my sisters in one place gettin' prettified...does it get better than having your feet and legs massaged with warmed lotion and hot river rocks while hanging out with your sisters?  I think not.  Perhaps the only possible topper was the Happy Birthday Serenade performed in Korean.  Perfect Nails is an all-service shop, that's for damn sure!!

Okay, to be fair, there was a second topper:  the newest inductee into the Sisterhood, the lovely Joanie Bonfiglio (she's in the yellow top) gave me the gift that keeps on giving, a gallon-sized jug of Tito's Handmade Vodka.  In case you have not yet picked up on it, Joanie's awesomeness exceeds all superlatives and she will be at all subsequent Sisterhood events.  She has also offered to be my designated driver when I head off to Betty Ford.....she's a keeper!!

Pizza and toes and vodka, oh my!!

The evening's festitives were ultra-fabulous too.  Greg arrived with two boxes under his arm and told me they both needed to go into the freezer.  Want to guess what the boxes contained?  Go ahead, guess...give up?  Okay, I'll tell you....the first box was bon bons...YUM!.  The second box was Flat Iron Steaks from Omaha Steaks.  The man brought me frozen beef!!  Do I have THE most fabulous friends in the world, or what?!?!?! 

Appetizers galore were provided by Michael and Erin Rodriguez (aka Fox Trot One and The Wife, respectively), so folks had plenty in their bellies before Uncle Tito made his entrance.  We ate, we drank, we played LCR...we had a blast!  Then Michael produced the piece de resistance (get your mind out of the gutter!); he hooked up his Wii and we bowled, played tennis, and boxed...well, tried to box, anyway.  I am the least athletic human in all of creation.  I am the anti-Michael Phelps.  Tragic, but true.

In the end, I had the best birthday I've ever had.  I got exactly what I wanted:  a rockin' great time with the folks I love that included great food and a semi-copious amount of vodka.  Birthdays are AWESOME!!!

With love, laughter, friendship, exquisite toe nails, frozen beef, and a gallon of Tito's,

JODI