ripping it up like it's 1994, and we are at youth group.

Being unaware of the surprise birthday plan, I made my own birthday party. Throwing a truly surprising surprise party is hard, people always arouse suspicion with their heightened level of excitement, and the act of transporting the surprisee to the party location invariably is littered with clues, or simply contrived enough to tip your hand. In fact, there's really only one way to do it without telegraphing your plans, and it's still not a perfect solution.
Really, if you really really want to surprise someone, you have to go to their house to watch tv or a movie late ish on the afternoon of the party, and while you are there you have to spike their drink with Dimethyltryptamine or a ton of cough syrup, let them trip wildly then drift off to sleep. Then you dress their unconscious body in their party finest (be sure to put lot's of makeupon them, for boys or for girls) and lay them in comfortably lined casket, like the kind people die in. The dimethyltryptamine and the casket may be hard to source but are available if you look hard enough , and that's totally part of the fun. So anyway, load the casket into your stations wagon (you will also need a station wagon or a van for this) and then wheel it and them into the living room at who evers house the party is at and gather everyone around it. Set a small homebrew time released aerator in the coffin to breathe wake up juice onto your friend, then start playing some music and wait for them to stir and throw back the lid of the coffin. Everyone will be shout surprise and you should probably have a banner made as well, or some balloons or something. When they wake up and shake off the sleepy clouds they will be so happy they aren't dead that they will be sort of dazed anyway, that when they realize that everyone has gathered to celebrate their birthday they will not be able to regulate their emotions and will let themselves be overwhelmed with happiness. Ideally this is all done at least 4 months and one year after the actual birthday you are celebrating, so they really don't see it coming.
Plus after cake everyone can ride the coffin down the stairs like a bobsled team. Cool Runnings!

The next best option is just to gather everyone somewhere, park them all down the steet and hide their shoes away from the vestibule, and then have me drive them there, because I am cool as as cucumber, and frankly, I'm very likely to forget as we drive that their is a surprise party waiting at the other end. Or just don't tell me at all. yeah, that's probably easier than the dimethyltryptamine, just don't tell the driver about the party. That's how the CIA would do it.


ok, so my party here was supposed to be board games and pizza and a low key night, and it was. I was amazed at how many people came, we watched friends forever and ate candy and then we played a few games.

Greg and Rayme and Josh had all seen Melt Banana the
night before and all bought Melt Banana shirts, seen here.


Rayme was quite taken with Friends Forever. The way
people react to Friends Forever tells you a lot about that
person. Not necessarily good or bad or useful information,
but a lot of information nonetheless. I can't believe spell
check lets nonetheless pass as a word.


Gord came! He brought Settlers of Catan! He's an a guy
we need to hang out with more before he goes to Uvic.


I challenged Josh to the African stone game, but I kind of
forgot how it worked so he kicked my ass.

You can't see it, but he has a Melt Banana t shirt on
underneath. I didn't go to Melt Banana because it's just
too far out there for me.



Oh yeah, I'm fat and have a beard now. Happy birthday
me, farewell to boyish charm.

Kat took this picture of Kerry, it's kind of adorable. I was
worried that's too gay to say, but Rodrigo gave me a oil
massage and some chamomille and I felt better, then we
talked about how much we love vaginas.

Rita also loves vagina, but just hers.

I'm sure Nicole loves hers too, but I don't think we'd
ever hear her say anything so unmannered. Cool as a
cucumber,that girl.


Thanks to everyone who came, we'll play Catan more now that we understand the mechanics.