surprise

it is almost my birthday and i am very excited. i always intensely enjoy looking forward to things and so this is fun. on sunday night jason even had a surprise birthday party for me! and i didn't ruin the surprise...which is a relief. i remember my seventeenth birthday - what a nightmare...

my sister had left that same day for india and other places far, far away - and she wasn't returning for six months or so. i was sad. and antisocial. not a good night for a party, but then i didn't know there was going to be a party...so i told my friend who was driving me home from the airport where we had said good-bye to andrea to just drop me off at home. we got in a fight because of course i wasn't supposed to be at home yet since the party-goers were just arriving, but to make a long story short i ended up getting my way (selfish girl!) and ruining the surprise. poor friends. they were shocked to see me welcome them to my own surprise party - 'you're not supposed to be here' and all that.

so after that bit of not so fond remembering, i will recall more pleasant times. one of my favorite parties was in grade two. i remember not being able to sleep for what felt like a long time every year on the night before my birthday. then the big day arrived, and i got to bring ten other little seven-year old girls home with me after school. we got to make balloon creatures (not by folding up balloons or whatever clowns do but by taking a regular balloon and sticking eyes and feet and stuff on it) and just generally have a giggling good time. even having my little brother hanging around couldn't ruin the fun-ness. and i got lots of cool presents that year. i kind of remember in a fuzzy way some kind of fairy doll thing that came with a big swan which was her faithful steed i guess. and of course my mom was wonderful. i don't remember which birthday it was but my favorite cake ever was this one she made with pineapple and cherries on top. very yummy.

so this year i was just lounging around in my oldest and comfiest sweatshirt (used to be neysa's before which it was bernard's i think) and eating ice cream when there was a quiet knock on the door. before i could get to it i heard people coming in - what's going on? i thought to myself. and in came jen and craig and rod and janelle and their baby kamryn, and a few minutes later nathan and brieanne, and it was such a perfect surprise! what a super husband i have :) but the best part is that even after the party i'm still looking forward to my birthday because i have the day off from work. how awesome.