My birthday was successful. I had a great time. At Gordon Biersch, I ordered a Fettuccini and sun-dried tomato dish and drank multiple glasses of Dunkless beer. They gave me a complimentary slice of birthday cake which made it o.k. to open my birthday presents when Holly arrived. I received an “O.A.R.” and a “System of a Down” cd. I also received an iTrip, which is a FM transmitter for iPods. Now I can listen to my iPod in the car. Awesome. And lastly, Gavin gave me an “Incredibles” DVD. After Gordon Biersch, we drove home and laid around watching “The Incredibles” and eating the super awesome, tasty cake that Mary made for me; a chocolate lovers dream. The only unsuccessful part was that after taking only 4 pictures, the batteries died on the camera. So there are only 4 pictures here. One of the cake and 3 of Gavin enjoying the pleasures of a knife. Hmmmm.

Ok, so today is my birthday. I have received phone calls from my dad, mom, sister and grandmother. After waking, I went downstairs to find a large 10 oz chocolate bar waiting for me for breakfast. Mmmmm. Lindt chocolate. Anyway. I’m off to Gordon Biersch for a lovely evening of beer and garlic fries. I will post pictures at a later date. Bye.

When your mother sends you an email like this, should you be worried? > This is hilarious! Be sure to read the warning at the bottom. I didn’t change a word! I’m not messing with the Sex Fairy!

> > 1. Sex is a beauty treatment. Scientific tests find that when women make love they produce amounts of the hormone estrogen, which makes hair shineand skin smooth.
> > 2. Gentle, relaxed lovemaking reduces your chances of suffering dermatitis, skin rashes and blemishes. The sweat produced cleanses the pores and makes your skin glow.
> > 3. Lovemaking can burn up those calories you piled on during that romantic dinner.
> > 4. Sex is one of the safest sports you can take up. It stretches and tones up just about every muscle in the body. It’s more enjoyable than swimming 20 laps, and you don’t need special sneakers!
> > 5. Sex is an instant cure for mild depression. It releases endorphins into the bloodstream, producing a sense of euphoria and leaving you with a feeling of well-being.
> > 6. The more sex you have, the more you will be offered. The sexually active body gives off greater quantities of chemicals called pheromones. These subtle sex perfumes drive the opposite sex crazy!
> > 7. Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. IT IS 10 TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE THAN VALIUM.
> > 8. Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourages saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque buildup.
> > 9. Sex actually relieves headaches. A lovemaking session can release the tension that restricts blood vessels in the brain.
> > 10. A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.

This message has been sent to you for good luck in sex. The original is in a room in the basement of the Dwight House Pub. It has been sent around the world nine times. Now sex has been sent to you. The “Hot Sex Fairy” will visit you within four days of receiving this message, provided you, in turn, send it on. > > If you don’t, then you will never receive good sex again for the rest of your life. You will eventually become celibate, and your genitals will rot and fall off. This is no joke! Send copies to people you think need sex (who doesn’t?). Don’t send money, as the fate of your genitals has no price.

Well, here’s the plan. Holly graduates in December. Mary doesn’t. She is taking a sabbatical all of next year so she can go to school full time. In order to take her sabbatical, she has to return after her sabbatical and work for 2 years, no exceptions. We do not plan on staying that long. In December Holly will be applying for jobs both here and on the mainland. If she can score one here for a year while her mom is in school that would be great, but the goal is to get a job on the mainland and move out of Hawaii and into our own house. So if all goes according to plan, we will be moving out of Hawaii in the next year and a half. If all goes well.

Well, to conclude the situation in my previous post, I will be letting the creepy, crazy new employee go this weekend. I have gotten nothing but creepy, crazy reports back from the other employees and managers. Better off that way. And it will save me from having to kill him. Yesterday was a stressful day. I started it off by working for Karatedepot. That was ok. When Gavin went down for his nap, I forced Holly to work on the WCC Aerospace website she was hired to do. But ended up doing it all myself. Oh well. It went faster that way. Almost done with it. Then her mom came home. She had lost her ATM card and was going ballistic over it. Everyone must get up and look for the things that she lost. We had to look for her old purse (that is where she thinks she might have left the ATM card). If we didn’t the it is all our fault. Everything. This is when I recalculated the number of days before we move out. Then, since it was Monday, I went with them to class so I could go to the open mic night at Volcano Joes. I was super annoyed with Holly’s mom the whole way over and didn’t want to be sitting next to her. It didn’t help that she kept trying to tell me how to drive. I hate when she does that. I finally dropped them off at the school and headed to Ward Warehouse so Gavin and I could eat dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory. It was really good. Then Gavin and I went across the street to the beach for a while. It was a nice day for it. The water was a perfect temperature. There were a lot of people at the beach which made it more fun somehow. Gavin had a blast running in and out of the water with hands full of sand and rocks. After a while we went to shower off and change so we could take a ride back up to Volcano Joes where Holly’s mom was waiting for us. I then got to play guitar (which I sucked at that night) and wait eagerly for my wife to come strolling through the door. When she finally did, my heart starting thumping. I love that she still does that to me. We left before I really wanted to, but then again it was almost 9pm and we needed to get Gavin into bed. Next week, since Mary is not going to be taking this class anymore, I should be able to take Holly to class and enjoy a full night at Volcano Joes. That will be fun. It has gotten so that VJ’s is really the only guitar playing I get now a days. Nate is in Florida for vacation and Gabe seems to be working 7 days a week. Our band is on a hiatus. So sad. But we are still a band and will get back together and be awesome. You wait and see.