Sunday, August 13, 2006

Woke up around 12:30pm. Mark was getting ready to leave; he was going to his dad's house to drop off our old scanner for Marcus, who's visiting this weekend. I had another slice of my birthday cake. It's not that bad, actually. I wish I'd had a slice when everyone was here so that they could SEE me eating birthday cake, but I had Mark take a picture of just that last night, so they could see it someday. ;-0)

I think I was a little short with my best friend Mollie last night. She seemed really kind of out of it most of the night, which had me worried, but she said she was just tired from...lack of sleep. I had wanted to play a hand of Euchre on my birthday, and I wanted Mollie to play, but the game kept being delayed, and I had to keep running all over the condo. It was fun, but it was weird having to run all over the place and make sure everyone got some attention. Adam, Mollie & Carrie stayed downstairs when a few of us went upstairs, and they played a game of Uno to help pass the time. Some guests told me that Mollie, Carre & Adam were bored. I didn't understand why they didn't come upstairs with us... But I told everybody we'd play Euchre as soon as Mollie was done playing Uno, because I knew she had to work early today. Then I went down and told Mollie, Carrie & Adam, but they were all screaming at each other about the Uno game ("Did you just skip me bitch?") and punching each other other for making the others draw cards, and they only stopped for a moment to explain that they were bored, and when I asked why they didn't join us upstairs they were again lost to the evil Uno. So I just left them to it, as I wasn't getting any feedback. And I figured they were having fun now; they sounded happy. But when they were done they said they were leaving, which annoyed me a bit, because Bryan & I had been waiting for them to finish so we could play the 1 game of Euchre. But as soon as I caught the annoyance in my voice, and the look on Mollie's face, I banished the base emotion from the room and ruffled Adam's hair, hugged Carrie & Mollie and thanked them all for coming. And it all worked out, as I played with Mark, Bryan, and Jeremy. Jeremy & I lost, but Jeremy did great. And it was sweet that he played as he hates the game. ;-0)

So, if there's any lasting bitterness at my moment of crabbyness, I just want to apologise to Mollie, Carrie, and Adam. And if anyone feels they were slighted, I just want to say that I was trying to pay attention to every person there, and it wasn't possible for me to do that with everyone all at the same time, and I didn't even try, because I knew that all my friends are friendly people and didn't need to be guarded by Bald Jason to have a good time with one another ;-0) My friends rock! And for anyone reading this, who wasn't invited to this gathering, this was meant to be a small thing, that would be a warm up for the REAL party that will most likely be celebrated in September. If you want to come to that party, don't hesitate to e-mail me and let me know.

The rest of the night was all fun. The JENGA game was just insane!!! I know a lot of pictures were taken too, which helps with my mandate of MORE pictures this year. The last couple of years, I've had 3 rolls of film developed over the coure of a year, with random photos taken at random events, but this year I've been really good about documenting lots of moments and times. I thank Mark for helping me with that. He recorded a lot of party video too. We got this video camera for our friend Kevin Clark in case he wanted to send out any message to people from his hospital room, where he was discharged a few days later to die in his home. Mark & I then said we'd use it to capture as much time as we could, only we haven't, so we've recently taken it up and started recording stuff. Good. Good. ;-0)

I think I'm going to eat some more, and maybe read. I work tonight, 7-close. I have Monday off, then work 1-5:30pm on Tuesday, then have Wednesday off, then I work 1-5:30pm on Thursday, then I have Friday & Saturday off, and then close the store on Sunday. My sister Janice and I are visiting our father on Friday. Those are my plans so far this week.

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