Sherry threw a surprise birthday party for me on Saturday! It was great fun, stayed up till 2 am and didn't even puke! Regina brought in way too much food from Guadalajara, but it was oh soo good.

Earlier in the day we had a party over at Pearl's house for the family, so I basically racked up in the present department. Then Shawn took me guitar shopping to pick out my big 30 year old present. I picked out the Epiphone Masterbilt DR500, and have been putting in some decent hours on it so far. Shopping for it was quite an intimidating experience, considering you are basically saying, I think I am good enough to need to move up from the beginner guitar to the midrange guitar. But Adam, the sales dude, was very cool about it.

Thank you to everyone for the warm wishes and presents.