IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!

My birthday is a big deal in my world. Not sure why but every year it becomes a bigger deal than the last. So today I get to work and of course Steph and Mike went to great lengths to trash my desk. I get the normal crazy birthday presents from Steph. Colored sharpie markers (I think a hint so I would stop using hers), an assortment of stress reliever balls (which are quite popular around my office) and a misc of other gifts. Then my friend Phil strolls in, late I might add with his gift. Here is a picture. Keep reading for the full story. Sorry, I can't get it turned the right way.




For those of you in NWA you know the whole story about Acambaro. For those that don't....a few months ago there was some immigration issues with a local mexican restaurant. Long story short a bunch of people got deported, owners put in jail, buildings seized by the Feds and such. Anyway, with it being a right down the road from my office and the good food it was a popular place for us to go. As you can imagine we were sad when it closed. Well, as luck would have it it re-opened not too long ago. Don't know if new owners or what but I didn't really care as long as it was back in business.
So the day that it re-opened Phil, Step and I take our salsa craving bottoms to this place. The smell when we walked in should have been our first clue. Not really sure what it was but the best way to describe it is take a 50/60 year old building filled with spoiled food, close it up for a few months, come in the day before you plan to re-open, throw away all spoiled food, leave for the day and forget to air out the place and then open for business the following day. Nasty is an understatement to say the least. Against better judgement we stay and are seated. While placing our drink order I'm pretty sure that I can't stand it anymore so I'm trying to hold my breath so not to inhale the toxins I'm sure that's in the air. Drink orders placed, the chips and salsa come out. Now this is what I've been waiting for. They have (or should I say had) the best around! Said salsa is placed in front of us. The 3 of us kinda look at each other and think to ourselves..uuuhhhh! I don't remember the salsa before looking like this?!?!? Basically take something red that resembles salsa, add 3 parts water and 1 part red mixture and that is what was served. It would have been easier to take my straw and suck it down than to try and eat it like a lady with a chip. It was that runny!! Ok so now we have the smell, runny salsa and we are thinking and speaking to ourselves that it can't get much worse. Oh yes it can. Our food comes out and I guess the only chef that knew how to cook the food was one of those that was deported because it was gross! After a few minutes of shifting our food around our plate to at least make an attempted at pretending we ate we give up. It's just one of the times that no one is really saying much at the table because we really don't know what to say that this point. I look up and out of the blue with a straight face say, "Well that left me less than satisfied." I thought that Stephanie and Phil were going to fall out of their chair laughing. Not really a funny comment, or at least I didn't intend for it to be. Oh well, I'm just glad that I could provide comic relief durning a desperate time. So we are joking that I needed a t-shirt with that saying. It would be funny because we are the only 3 that would really get it. As you can see it can be taken in so many different ways and just the 3 of us are the only ones that know different.
So that's what Phil got me for my birthday. Wrapped it and everything. Way to go Phil! Our own inside joke told to the entire web and I'm pretty sure that anybody reading this is not thinking that it is as funny as we do!!!