So yes its been over a week but I’m finally getting around to posting about my birthday. It started off not so well but ended up as a very good birthday. It got off to a not so great start because I had a hard time sleeping the night before so I only had a couple of hours of sleep. This made me made at myself cause I knew i was likely gonna be tired and grumpy the rest of the day and not appreciate my birthday gifts. Also although it was friday because of an architect coming into town I need to go into the office instead of my usual work from home. So I headed into the office. Thankfully the meeting with the architect was early in the afternoon so I was able to drive home early so I wouldn’t be stuck in all the afternoon traffic and finished the day from home.

For my birthday Nicole was making me a prime rib dinner. I was very excited for this since we didn’t have prime rib when we were at home in hawaii at Christmas. Nicole’s effort in buying my prime rib is a story in itself since she ended up getting the meat on super secret sale. Nicole went to Safeway on wednesday to buy the meat in advance of my birthday so she could save time on friday. However when she was there the butcher told her that the cut of meat she wanted would be on sale $6 lb instead of the usual $9. When nicole got there on friday she had to ask the butcher working then and he didn’t even know it was on sale and there were no signs up around the place. So it was super secret since not even the workers knew about it .

My 6lb prime rib

It’s all done. time to carve it

Smell all that goodness

Feeling jealous yet?

Nothing left by the time i got done

So nicole came home early from work and made me the prime rib the way Mom makes it home which means it was covered  in hawaiian salt and garlic (yum). Not only was she making me prime rib but she also was making a batch of chocolate mouse. On top of making a wonderful dinner she got all dressed up and put on her makeup too so I got to have dinner with a gorgeous lady.

While we were waiting for the prime rib to finish cooking I got to open all the gifts from my family. This birthday was one of the few times that there were a bunch of electronics that i wanted that weren’t too expensive. So my mother got me a new universal remote that I’ve wanted for awhile. It’s super smart and can control both the tv and tivo but it is also able to control the computer next to my tv when it’s in media mode. The only thing it can’t do right now is control the ps3 because that requires blue tooth. Nicole got me a new wireless keyboard for the same computer. this is good since we dropped cable and are doing streaming. This makes navigating to websites much easier to do than remoting into the computer. Scotty got me a new headseat for my computer so i can talk to people when i am playing my game on line. So all in all i got a lot of new toys.

Me and my new remote

And of course my night ended with nicole giving me another birthday gift .