I would like to say I made it through the first birthday in like 3 years without shedding a tear. YAY me! 
My birthdays depress me, I’ll admit it. But, yesterday I didn’t dwell on getting older, I just tried to enjoy the day. My mom and dad took me out to Prairie Meadows during the day. I didn’t win, but it was fun none the less.
Came home, listened to the kids fight and Pato telling the kids to get their stuff done so we could leave for my birthday dinner. Threatened to cry if the decibel level didn’t go down soon, but I didn’t. We went to the Iowa Machine Shed for supper. It’s one of my favorite places to go. We don’t go often because it gets quite pricey over there with a family of 6. Pato would take me more often if I asked, but I feel the mommy guilt about spending that much on one meal. Last night though, I didn’t worry about the price and just ordered what I wanted. (Will you tell me why I stress over money so much when Pato doesn’t stress at all? Probably because Pato doesn’t stress at all.)
Be patient with me as I get used to my new camera. These aren’t my best pictures. The new camera is so much smaller than my older one. I had to hold that with both hands, this one fits in the palm of my hand.
My drink – a caramel cream martini with crushed butterscotch on the rim. YUM!
The fried mushrooms – these are heaven in a fried coating. I had fried mushrooms twice yesterday, these beat out the casino’s by a long shot. And I’m sure my arteries thank me. I have to start worrying about that stuff soon don’t I?
Country fried steak. This is why I go to the Machine Shed. For real. When I was pregnant with Alyce we went to Arkansas for vacation. What is in every restaurant in the south (I swear)? Chicken Fried Steak (and sweet tea). I came back from vacation (after eating it every day in Arkansas because it was so good) and called every restaurant I could think of. I craved that so much during my pregnancy with Alyce. Now I get it once a year because … well look at it. That would go straight to my butt. I actually only ate about 1/4 of it because I filled up on mushrooms and bread before my meal even got to the table. It’s in the refrigerator waiting for me to eat it for lunch. Yummy!
And the crème de la crème?
My birthday apple dumpling with cinnamon ice cream that came out accompanied by about 5 servers singing me happy birthday – Machine Shed style. Something about the farmer down the road, birthday…that’s what we were told..no working…ya di da. I don’t know it’s fun.
And my kids helped polish that puppy off very quickly. I think I got 3 bites. Christiano, strangely enough, didn’t like it. He took a bite and said, yucky and went back to his macaroni.
After that we went off to Sprint to tell them that I cracked the screen on my cell phone (Palm Pre
They ordered me a new one. First time in 6 years I’ve used the insurance I pay $7 a month for on my own phone. I can’t wait for it to get here. The crack makes me mad. I’m not even sure how it happened. It was in my purse and I pulled it out to see it was cracked one day. So sad.
Then we went to Wal-Mart so I could grab stuff to make bird bread. While there I found a pair of fleece Tinker Bell pajama pants I had to get.
Then we came home and I went to bed. Cuz I’m getting old. And that long day just wore me out.
Tee hee
Actually, it’s because I got up really early with Junie (she had to go go go) and couldn’t get back to sleep. Just tossed and turned.
So, that was my birthday. I’m not giving out any pinewood trophies for best birthday ever, but it didn’t stink too much. I’ll chalk it up as a good day. How was your day yesterday?
I hope it is wonderful today!
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