had a nice birthday yesterday....mom and pooky took me to buca di beppo for lunch - oh my god we had soooooooo much food! had the baked rigatoni special and chicken cacciatore (whoo hooo, i spelled it right on the first try!!!!!!)...

buca's a "family style southern italian" restaurant, so the dishes are huge and meant to be shared - two entrees is easily enough for 7 or 8 people, so we had buttloads of leftovers...next time i'm gonna make sure to leave room for dessert!

turns out pooky's gonna get the saturn from circle city, the place he didn't even want to go to in the first place! *8-) maybe i should look into getting a car soon - the toyota's almost paid off and it seems now's the time to get a car, what with all the dealerships having really soft sales and offering really good financing rates...but damn, it's nice only having a $135 car payment...yeah, the car ain't too pretty, but the bitch gets 30-35mpg and hasn't had any major problems with it...*shrug*