The Daily Sabs

today was randall's birthday -- i've been calling it his barkday -- and to celebrate, i took him across the bridge to sushi ran. we pigged out, at least we were going to. actually we were pretty good, i let birthday boy call the shots, if it had been me we'd have eaten at least one more roll. probably two.

for his birthday i decided to get randall a copy of piero ventura's book of cities. it's an old children's book from 1975, that they recently reprinted. i took one look at it and knew that randall would love it. okay actually i saw a tiny one inch thumbnail in a magazine and knew he would love it. he's into intricate little line drawings, and well we both have a thing for kid's books.

ps. yes, that card on the table is of a dog wearing a birthday hat and driving a car. that is more or less randall's idea of awesome. (when i asked whether or not that statement was true, randall said it would only be awesomer if the dog said he was moving in and also if he could make great lattes).

pps. juju and wes got randall a pretty amazing gift courtesy of the ivory weirdo.

meet mr. moneybags, he used to be called "my baby tree" but he's gotten rather large and has outgrowned the baby name. we picked him up at ikea a few years ago when he was tiny, desktop sized (about the height of my hemline), and lived in a really small pot. now i should fess up, i'm not a great gardener. i tend to forget to water plants, and i definitely don't give them any extra nutrients. so what is the deal with this guy? he is humongous and won't stop growing. in fact i have nowhere to put him because he can't go too close to a window, and there's no space for him to hang out in the corner. so now he just sort of sits in the middle of the room demanding all of our attention. i'd complain, but if a money tree does well, that means we're gonna be rich, right?

in other news, the sweater i'm wearing is identical to one that angelica has. i know because i saw her wearing it, asked her where it was from, and went to the store at lunch and bought it (don't worry i asked her if it was okay first). bonus was that it on sale for 35 (down from 130!), plus i had a reward thing and so got it for 15. see? it was sort of impossible not to buy it.

ps. did you know that adult swim is showing episodes of look around you? you should give it a watch if you haven't already.