My birthday was August 12th. I turned 32. Jerry presented me with my gifts first thing in the morning like he always does. He bought me a new purse (the one that carries everything that your see online) and an hour at the spa. He asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday so we made a plan to go have lunch, go
, go out to for dinner, and then see a 
. Welllllll it didn't happen. We decided since it was so late in the day that we would have lunch at the bowling alley to kill two birds with one stone. After searching on the computer for an hour to find one close to us we finally left. Arriving at the bowling alley we walked inside to make sure it was kosher. Since no places allow you to smoke inside anymore
we decided to go back outside and have one. While standing there I looked to my right and saw a tattoo parlor. http://www.brightideasaz.com/home.htmlThat is when I looked at Jerry and said.. "That is what I want for my birthday. I want a tattoo." Thinking about it I looked at Jerry again and said "Better yet I want YOU to get a tattoo." Instead of getting the uh I don't think so look. He got the I wonder what I should get look. Which really surprised me. We finished smoking and went inside. Looking around and discussing it, we both decided to get a tattoo. I was dead set on either a lions head (being that I was born in August) or a chinese dragons head (being that I was born in the Chinese new year 76). He wanted something reptilian. After about 2 hours we came to the decision of what we wanted and how much it would cost.
Jerry wanted a coral snake like Jeff Corwin has from Animal Planet has on his left arm.
Unfortunately we were unable to find a good enough picture of it. So he settled on a rattlesnake. Jerry and the tattoo artist, Mike TV, looked online forever looking for the perfect picture. I was hoping that some of his own pictures that he had taken would be found and used. But nope, used someone elses. 
My tattoo was a little easier. They had little snippets of tattoos on a poster board flip log. I chose one that was a sun dragon. Its mane is the flames of the sun.
(except the one i was looking at was straight on). My artist, Justin, talked me out of it and showed me something WAY better. He went to the computer and brought up the picture. I was in love instantly. After printing off the image and sketching it out this is what it looked like. 
Now I was nervous. We had our picture, it was sketched, and now for the pain.We both had to wait as both of the artists were busy with another customer. I kept going outside to smoke and texted everyone. My first text said guess where I am? For the ones who replied I sent them this
. When they would ask what I was getting I would tell them they have to see me to see it. I paced the whole sidewalk outside that shop. Jerry just sat inside and skimmed through pictures while talking to the various levels of staff there.Finally it was our turn. We both walked in sat down and flinched. In all honesty it did not hurt as bad as I thought it would. There were a few moments I tensed up, but that was because he was hitting on a bone. Jerry did the same thing. I finished before he did. Justin, my artist, and I walked up to the cash register and I paid $270.00.
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When Jerry was finally done they placed a piece of saran wrap on our tattoos and said have a great day. We both walked out the door and that is when we felt the pain. OUCHY. We drove straight to
and purchased the soap and lotion. It was now late and we decided to just go home. On our way out of the parking lot we stopped at 
for food. There was my birthday dinner and lunch all in one.At home we immediately put the soap on it, which burned like hell. Then we put the lotion on it. That burned too. We ran into the living room and put our arms in front of the fan. Did not alleviate the pain . So we started yelling "blow" at each other. This lasted a few days. We were constantly looking at our tattoos and at each other's. Now two months later our tattoos are looking good and we have no regrets getting them.
If you can't guess who got what then you don't know us!Instead of having 2 separate birthday parties I decided to throw it all together on one day. Of course Jerry had no idea I was doing this. I started telling everyone about it in the beginning of August while he was on a camping trip with my brother.
Of course I had to wait til he got home to contact the people on his phone. I had set it up for the last weekend of the month but before his birthday. It was a pretty good turn out. I had Yo-Yo, Jen and hubby
, Dev and hubby,
my brother and his girlfriend
. Then hubby had his friend Matt with wife
. Plus a friend they brought Angelina
. And then Jimmy
. I found out at the party from my brothers girlfriend that Jerry had known the whole time. I had sent a text to my brother inviting him to the party. For some stupid ass reason he was reading his text messages to my husband. Well he was not prereading then telling him. He was just reading and in came my message and out came the surprise. DUMBASS!!! Jerry invited some people from work since he knew about it but they did not come. A lot of people that I had invited did not come either. It is actually a common thing. Neither of us drank a lot. People tried though. I did give him a couple birthday presents early. I told him I was on vacation from Monday until Sunday and I gave him a new shirt 
. Our next birthday party will be on Saturday August 24, 2009.On Monday we both left for southeast Arizona for a vacation. I was prepared for anything. We were going to stay in a motel and cruise our favorite herping sites. We had called before we left town to the motel we were going to stay in. Jerry prearranged a room that had a refrigerator. All we had to do was pay when we got there. Hours later we finally arrived and there was no room waiting for us. She didn't even know who we were. Because of this we ended up with a room that does not have a fridge in it. We need it for his medication. Thankfully I had packed the medical bag that would last us a day keeping everything cool. The associate told us one would be available at noon the next day. So we went to the room and left immediately dropping the air conditioner down to almost 60 so that our stuff would be cold. Apparently us too once we returned. At 11am we had moved everything back into the truck. Went to the front desk and got a surprise. We found out that there was a room with a fridge available and that he was not the only Jerry Far that stayed there. I guess there are two other guys too. One comes every couple of months.
So we got our new keys and went to the new room. I was downstairs trying to grab stuff to carry up. He went upstairs to open the door. The key refused to work. Jerry ended up going back downstairs and getting another key. By the time he returned I was sitting at the door waiting. Finally we got in. I immediately put his medication and some soda in the fridge. I then put our ice bricks in the freezer. We immediately left again. We saw a few reptiles that night but not as many as Jerry had hoped for. We stayed the night that night and left in the afternoon the next day for some more adventures.
August 30 Jerry turned 35 and his day started with bithday sex. That is how every birthday should start anyways. He had discovered a
on one of our outings and I had bought him a $25.00 gift certificate so it worked out. I laid out his clothes with another new birthday shirt. It was a good day too, cause we both saw a life lister and a cool reptile. 
The next night we went out and came home fairly late as it was raining and getting really cold. We went to the room and the key card did not work. We both tried it for for 10 minutes. He went back downstairs to the front office while I tried different techniques to get in. I was starting to feel like I was having sex with the door. Push in, hold wait pull out. Pushing it in and out really fast. Pulling the door, pushing the door. Pulling door and pushing key in. See what I mean. I kept thinking that someone else was in our room. Our curtains were closed and the curtain kept moving. I know I had left it open and the ac was off. I finally gave up and went to see what was taking my husband so long. He was standing outside the office door on the phone. Another gentleman was also on a phone. I knocked on the glass door that enters into the main office, knocked on the night window that they talk to you through, and rang the doorbell. Jerry walked in and told me that he had done all of that too.
I guess so did the other customer. The other guy left eventually. Wish we could have. I walked back upstairs and tried the key again for another 5 minutes. Now I was getting pissed. Finally Jerry got upset and called the police. They told him they would attempt to contact someone and to stay by the phone. Jerry went to try the key again himself. It was his turn to have sex with the door. I walked back inside and tapped on different areas of the inside glass to find a soft spot. I then knocked heavily on it. I learned from TV that causes a louder knock and a vibration. About a minute later someone came out. 
You could clearly tell she had been asleep.
She had a sleep line across her face where it looked like she had fallen asleep on her arm, or on a balled up piece of clothing. I had to tell her 8 times what room we were in. While she was drowsily trying to figure out how to operate the computer the police arrived. I was calling Jerry back down to the office when he walked in. The officer waited around for us to get another key that worked. She made one.... that didn't work. Finally after about 45 minutes and 2 keys, we finally made it into our room. Jerry decided that we would just go home. So instead of sleeping for a few hours we packed everything up and got into the truck. As I was grabbing the sodas and his medication out of the refrigerator I discovered one his sodas had exploded and one of the pens of medication was frozen. I was livid, while he just wanted to leave I wanted a discount. This medication is expensive. Like $100 plus expensive. Giving in I finished packing and we headed home. It was a long exhausting ride.
When we walked in the door at our house he found one last present waiting for him. I had bought him
.I was not ready to end our birthday vacation adventures and I needed to even out my tan so on Saturday we went to the
. We got there so late and it was hot. Alot of the animals were hiding in air conditioned housing units and most of the snack vendors were closed by 3pm. Of course Jerry had a sugar drop and for once I had not brought any candy. We walked around forever thinking at least one would be open. There were not even any staff anywhere. So here we are in the middle of the zoo, no animals, no associates, and no food. Not only that we were being hounded to get out because the zoo was closing. Who closes a zoo on the weekend at 5pm? That is incredibly stupid. As we walked out the gates I walked into the office and bitched. After waiting quite awhile the manager of concessions came and had a talk with us. He gave us free water and popcorn. Like that makes up for the coma the situation could have put my husband into. Jerry said that I was being over dramatic about it and told everyone else that we talked to about the situation. I don't care that is the love my life your messing with. Actually it is the life of my love your messing with.Well that is the story of our birthday adventures.... Hope you had a good read!
