First update since becoming 26...

I'm still not quite sure how I feel about turning 26, but I guess it doesn't really matter, yeah? Can't change the inevitable so might as well think positively. And as my girl Mariah Carey a.k.a. "I Can't Believe She Married That Fool" would say... I'm eternally 12 so this year is def gonna be so O.O.C.!

The birthday festivities started out with Mitch, Sarita & I at Smorgy's (where every birthday should begin) and even though Mitch & I vowed to come to Smorgy's at least once a month... we never wake up in time for the breakfast buffet, but what better way to start your birthday out than eating yourself into a coma? Exactly. Mitch gets SO mad at me everytime we go there because I always want to feed the birds, but they're not the harmless kind of birds that will take what you give them, bow and bother someone else... they're the kind of birds with fire in their eyes and a hunger to kill. So I innocently toss one piece of food to them and instantly dozens of birds flock towards you and give you the stink eye for more! As if that's not bad enough, Mitch shoots me a stink eye AND swats me on the nose with a rolled up newspaper!

So by the time we left Smorgy's, we're looking like some starved, bloated children from a poverty stricken country (Ironic, yeah?) and what do we do? Hit the beach! And according to the newest America's Next Top Model winner, Whitney, being plus sized is in and throwing up is out. I almost feel like the title "plus size model" is an oxymoron... but I'm getting sidetracked now... where was I? Oh yeah, we took our over indulged selves to the beach and tanned like Brazilians and not like... well, we tanned like Brazilians and I'll leave it at that...

After the beach, Sarita went to take her final and Mitch & I went to Changs for apps and drinks! I don't know if it was from eating so much earlier or from being in the sun so long, but the apps this time around were horrible! We tried the Edamame and the Poke because I haven't tried either yet and have been dying to... and then we also ordered the Crispy Green Beans! The Edamame had an unnecessary amount of garlic on it and the Poke was still frozen in the middle! And the Crispy Green Beans were good for a minute, but we decided to stick with what we knew with the drinks! I didn't realize it when I was ordering my drinks, but my first drinks being 26 was a Bloody Mary and a Dirty Martini! How grandpa am I?! After I realized how dusty I was being, I quickly ordered a Mai Tai (which used to be the drink I started out with when I was 25, but those days are ghost....) and got tore up from the floor up! It's funny because nobody that I work with has really met Mitch, but have heard so much about him so they finally got to meet him and, of course, they all love him and true to Mitch form, he knows within the first minute if he likes them or not! But that's another story for another time...

After Changs we headed home and as soon as I got home I fell asleep (Grandpas have to have their afternoon nap, you know) and woke up hours later with a hangover! So this is what old feels like?

Next day we woke up bright and early and headed down to Waikiki to grab something to eat and I really wanted to try the Well Bento because I am an avid reader on Yelp.com and everyone always left such good reviews about how healthy it is and how it's so scrumptious! I read about it when we first moved here in February so I have really been anticipating it! I ordered the grilled salmon w/ a side of Tempeh (fermented soy beans similar to tofu) and Mitch ordered the grilled chicken.
I really liked the concept because everything is served with macaroni salad (made w/o mayo), tahini gravy over brown rice and an assortment of vegetables including gobo, which I loved, but maybe only because I used to have it as a kid because Mitch didn't like it. Overall, the food was good, but it wasn't anything worth anticipating over and I don't think I'll be going back... not because the food wasn't good enough because it definitely was good, but just because there's so many good places to eat... but I would give the Well Bento 5 out of 10 stars, which, just like the place itself, isn't bad, but isn't that good.

After lunch we walked around Waikiki for a bit and ended up at The Big Kahuna! It has these huge fishbowls that you can get for $20 and they are so good! Of course I don't ever drink it because I will be instantly comafied so Mitch had it all to himself because he, fittingly, drinks like a fish!



My new drink is a Lava Flow! They are so amazing! Bubba Gumps & Mai Tais have THE best lava flows and everytime I get them somewhere else I am disappointed.... I think they put crack in theirs... say crack again! Crack!

Mitch had made plans for us to go to a friend of a friend's graduation party @ Chikos and that didn't start till around 9pm so we wanted to stay in the area so what do we do for the next couple of hours? Drink, Shop and Karaoke! 88 Tees is my new favorite store and will go there religiously from now on! There are only 3 existing locations and I can easily spend hours rummaging through their designs!

I had been wanting to try GS STUDIOS karaoke for a while since it looks really nice so we headed over there and got a room and it's exactly like the karaoke rooms in Japan! Even the remote control was in Japanese so it took a minute to figure it out, but they have so many Japanese songs and recent ones too! They didn't have too many English songs, which I thought was a bit odd, but I loved it!

For dinner we decided to go to Tiki's, which I've also never been to, and my girl Michelle met us up there and we had a really good time! They had a live band there and out of nowhere this haole girl gets in the front and starts hula dancing! She was actually pretty good... funny part was that she's from Texas! I guess that's how they get down over there...

So we left Tiki's and before heading over to Chikos we picked up a bottle of Malibu so that just in case it was lame we would be too drunk to know. So we get there and met up w/ friends and overall it wasn't bad, but just like Well Bento, it wasn't good. (ok... last reference to that place... promise! I was just really disappointed!) At one point I even said really loudly "I AM SOOO BORED!" and I didn't even mean to! And I'm not even sure if the ppl we were with heard, but there was definitely an awkward pause for half a second. So we dipped out of Chikos pretty early, but after drinking all day I was ready to go.

Saturday rolled around and Mitch had to work half a day so I had some time to recuperate... we debated whether we should go out at all, but finally decided to leave around 10pm and dragged NR with us (Your eyes do not deceive you! I did just refer to NR w/o the usual slits wrists comments that usually accompany his name, but that's another story for another time... back to my birthday betch) and we headed to Hula's w/ a bottle of Jaeger in tow! We met up w/ Sy there and after finishing the Jaeger we met up w/ my girl Liz who came out to celebrate! She's a super cool chick so I was glad she came! Between Liz feeding me birthday shots and the Jaeger and NR giving me a chocolate cake shot and several other drinks... I was pretty tore up and loving it! After a while we met up with some of Mitch's ppls and ended up walking to Fusion... Walking+Drunk=HotMess. Despite the trannies that we were we made it to the club and everything there was a bit fuzzy, but left there after a while and headed home only after I got me my new love interest... SPAM MUSUBI!!! I can eat those all day...

So that pretty much sums up my 26th birthday... started out eating and ended it eating and I would have it no other way! I definitely was apprehensive to celebrate being that I don't have the usual crew to get into things with, but I had a really great time thanks to Mitch and future crew! Cheers Betches!