Birthday party

Today I had a so, so day at work ... building some website, using exponent (an excellent cms tool, that I highly recommend to end users) and doing some admin stuff to help out. At least it went through quickly and I was on to bigger and better things.

Yay, I had some sort of social event in my life. Today is my step sister's Glen(long story) birthday. To celebrate that all important date in history, we were out to dinner with "our" family and her kid, the ever-shining Sunshine.

Glen and Sunshine are vegan, so we entrusted the choice of restaurant to them. We went to Sprouts - a little vegetarian restaurant in hindmarsh square. This restaurant actually has a long history in the family. Glen used to own it for years but had to give it up. Luckily for her, it stayed vegetarian even after changing the owner and is still a good place with an excellent atmosphere to go to.

The food was absolutely divine. For all people that think vegetarian food is all about green things, they have bad memories about from their childhood, I can say one thing - I thought the same. Now I have to admit I knew nothing. In all honesty, the meal was somewhere in the top 5% of bestest meals I've ever had. I had a mushroom/tofu steak, which was really spicy, with nice garnishing of feta cheese, zucchini and baked potatoes in chilly tomato and capsicum sauce on the side.

To top that up, I had a astonishing desert - chocolate lasagna. You probably know what lasagna is - layers of tasty, cheesy sauce, separated by layers of pasta. Well, the chocolate lasagna was onto something way more brilliant. It had layers of chocolate ice-cream and coffee flavoured chocolate moose, separated by layers of chocolate and nuts. I can't even begin to express how tasty this was. For everyone that hasn't tried it already, this is one thing you would want to write down in your "100 things to do before I move on from this world".

Before you start thinking I'm totally obsessed with food (which I'm prone to be due to my zodiac sign and all), I'll veer off to the left and get back to the rest of the evening. We all had good time. Sunshine was particularly hyper (and if you know her and how hyper she is with her normal disposition, you would know what I'm talking about). Lots of joys to be had with a little, tired, hyper girl, running around and playing with everything. She was very happy because of her mum's birthday and the excellent day she's had with her. She even skipped school to celebrate.

Anyway, I think Glen had a good time, as we all did in a good company. We talked about good books and other joys of life in general. Everything was high spirited and will leave me recharged for the rest of the diminishing working week.

Now back to a newly discovered bad habit - Anime (Full Metal Alchemist at the moment).

tata, that's enough for one day. The rest of it maybe tomorrow ... maybe never ...