hpapy bdiahrty

so today was my birthday. I awoke to 2 males and 2 females parading into my room and singing happy birthday while throwing balloons in my face. One of the males inexplicably tried to remove my blanket. He surely knows i don't sleep in much, and what makes it even more inexplicable is that the two females in the room were the wives of the two males. luckily i held on tight to said blanket despite my sleepiness.

we had a show at our bassist's old high school, which was super sketchy cause their sound system was crap. It was lunch time and nobody was in there when we started, and they turned the lights out so we couldn't see people coming in. It felt like nobody was there, but when the show ended we could see that there was a decent crowd. At one point Jer decided I needed to be sung to again, so everybody did. Apparently somebody shouted that I was gorgeous. I don't know if it was a male or female, but either way it's probably best that I didn't hear it. That kind of thing tends to go straight to my head.

in the late afternoon we went to see some of the greater Meadow Lake area nature and have a picnic. we saw some beautiful sites and wildlife, and finally found an ok picnic spot. This was tough because it was raining. I didn't know why we were trying so hard to have a picnic in the rain and mosquitos until after the hot dog roast, when i was sat down with a huge bag of presents. included were a pillow (because the one i've been using isn't great), a notepad and pen for journalling or whatever, nice new sandals which i needed, some peach like candy and some chocolate covered peanuts. it was a treasure trove. then there was even cake, black forest cake no less. Home made! and I was sung to again. and blew out all the candles in a single puff. not any of that blowing wildly in all directions for 30 seconds until no flame in a 10 foot radius has a chance. just one highly efficient puff. We also replaced frisbee with this amazing thing called trackball. I highly recommend it. I tell ya, being away from family for the last couple of birthdays, it's been a while since i've had such a good birthday. I thought I'd hear from a few more people than I heard from but then again my phone doesn't have reception in this town so maybe i'll have a few texts waiting for me. Cheers all.