i am a lucky, lucky girl. i have the coolest, most wonderful friends ever.

okay, sappy moment over. last night, they all surprised me with a, what else, surprise party for my birthday. total complete surprise. if i was smarter and more observant, i might have figured out what was going on, but good for everyone that i'm dumb and clueless. ;) plus, everyone is just a really good liar, especially debra.

so yesterday, around 5 pm, deb picks me up so we can do a little shopping before supposedly having dinner with ha later around 630. we went to newpark and i STILL couldn't find a gift for steven. argh. but i did find a gift for deb. we were at hot topic and she saw these funny slippers with the abominable snowman from the claymation rudolph the red nosed reindeer. so i got them for her. :) i want to see her wear them next to joanna wearing her monster claw slippers.

anyway, after the mall, we start driving over to ha's house to go pick her up. supposedly. man, i'm so gullible. but that's okay. it was fun being surprised. ;D deb is just really good at deceiving her own daughter. ha called once on the way over and she totally made it sound like her mother called. we even started talking about how ha is always really late and wondering why that is. (ha says it's all been an act leading up to this very moment.) so we get to her house and ha answers the door and lets us in. i start "oooh"-ing at all the christmas lights and turn to look at their little christmas tree in the corner. this is when i see jason crawling on the floor next to it. he looks back at me with the deer-in-headlights look. it was pretty funny. but i didn't have time to wonder what he was doing there (and what he was doing crawling around on the floor) when all the lights turned on and everyone jumped out and yelled surprise. apparently, according to everyone else, i looked really frightened and jumped back. i don't really remember though. took a little while for it all to settle in. :)

after that... it was just party party party. well, we ate dinner and opened gifts first. had to go home and get all mine and my new digital camera. ;) but since i thought that we were going to have a party on the 29th and knew nothing about this one, i hadn't wrapped any of the gifts and the tags were still on all of them. plus, i still hadn't finished jacq and mike's scarves. but my ghetto wrapping (or lack thereof) was forgiven.

so... the drinking. i didn't actually have that much to drink. yet i was still surprisingly quite drunk. we played kings (or what helen would call "ring of fire" when i learned how to play it from her). i was already gone by then. i kept asking for more but ha fooled me into thinking my cup of juice was alcoholic when it, in fact, was not. why do people always do that to me? oh well. i just remember yelling a lot during the game. lots of weird things. called jacq a ho. hahahaha. sorry jacq. but i did call her a pretty ho. kept cursing at debra. seriously though, she kept taking all my answers!! i threw a playing card into a pitcher of alcohol. was very fascinated with all the cards and kept reading them all off, especially the one that said maverick. it was all very amusing for everyone else, i'm sure.

danced a bit. god, i have no rhythm when i'm drunk. it probably looked more like spazzing. with music. after that, i got pretty tired and had to sit down and started slumping all over the place. a short nap and many pees later, i was pretty sobered up. wheee... spent the rest of the time playing games and eating cheesecake.

sigh. it was tons of fun. i love my friends. got to see EVERYONE! yay! even the ever elusive san and di. it was a great night. :) thanks ha for letting us use your house. thanks deb for lying to me so well. thanks jo for planning my "birthday party." thanks jacq for running all over the place trying to find the alias soundtrack for me because i'm listening to it right now and it's making me all kinds of nervous. okay, this is too many people to thank. i love you all. thanks for bringing food and alcohol and making me feel special. and drunk. ;D