morning world. and what a world it is. this morning i woke up, rolled over and started reading my latest church book. once i started, i kept putting off my shower time and now elicia's the early bird that got the worm. ah well. sunday is the only day i really read the book, but i don't know why. it makes a slow go of it. i have so many books vying for my attention.

an hour and a half later i ambled into the living room with a bowl of left over pad thai (that's what i had last night at heather's birthday dinner at thai house). karey and elicia were both already there talking with linda who gave us all these cute dark wood chopsticks in little printed cloth cases complete with little wooden elephant. she also gave us three bangles each. we had to take turns choosing. elicia was in front of me in chose time and she took lots of the ones i liked, but i said to myself "self, just be happy with what you get." so i am. i mean i could have no bangles at all. there are lots of people in the world without a bangle to their names. and isn't it nice that elicia be happy with her choice of bangle? i have lots of bracelets in which i am well pleased.

sarita is sitting behind me struggling with a talk on grandparents. he he

karey's struggling with rachel's veil, asking everyone their oppinions about the different kinds of stitching.

me myself, i struggle with what to wear today.

last night i put off getting ready for heather's birthday dinner until it was too late for my hair. i had to put it up and then i didn't like the style of hair with the style of outfint i had to wear. i suffered consequently. i kept telling myself to forget it, who cares, but i kept catching sight of myself and subjecting said self to the critical stare.

at the restaurant heahter asked the waiter to make her red coconut curry extra extra mild and karey asked for no spice at all. that was exactly what they wrote down, and it was on the bill too. heather's came to her with lots of kick and she had to send it back. when it did come back it was much more mild. it was served in a hollowed out coconut and it's what i would have chosen if i had not chosed pad thai. mark who was sitting beside me got a seafood platter with large mussels and scallops (that's the first time i noticed the shell of a scallop. it's quite pretty). elicia and i were the last ones to be seated because we had been looking at these cool bags (diesel. i'm always drawn to diesel) and missed the rest of them going up. so we were seated at the end of the table. it was 'ight.

sarita tried to make heather a lemon layer cake, but it was burnt on the edges and it fell apart , so it was lumpy and generally not too presentable, so we ate it ahead of time with whipped cream and karey told randy to buy a cake and he obeyed. it was white cake with white icing from safeway. i pretty much decided from karey's birthday that i hate that kind of cake. it's sugar on a toxic level or something. so i didn't have any. instead i contented myself with what i do like--icecream. everyone left around 10 and i borrowed sarita's movie called the price of milk. i watched and karey slept. it was cute but very odd. then i watched the life and times of randy bachman. interesting. then i went to sleep. now i need to shower.