To Party or not to party that is the question

I'm thinking of having a little get together for my birthday this year, I have been toying with the idea for a few months, and i am starting to lean too having it. Only draw back is, a lot of my friends work at Lowe's and well I would have to work it so a lot of them could show up. The nice thing is, that my birthday falls on a Saturday, the bad news is, not everyone gets the weekends off. What to do what to do. I mean i don't want to buy a bunch of stuff only to have a few people show up or none at all. I guess I just need to buck up and decide what I am going to do. Hopefully people decide they like me enough to show up and celebrate me turning older. Any of you out there in blogger land want to come?