erika and tilly

well, @ the book club i've joined, i've met a really lovely lady there called erika. she's from germany!
knowing my birthday was sometime this month, she said "let's go out for lunch to celebrate." @ first, she suggested the glen, coz she knows we live close by it, but mother suggested the rochedale deli cafe, coz she'd met erika there once when the nice church ladies had taken her there once(mother ALWAYS STRESSES that it's the church ladies who invite her along, she's NEVER been the one to beg/nag/plead them to take her there :P)
so that's where we went! much thanks to erika who led era hold gently onto her arm; that just meant that erf was able to step past elf every time without problem.
i ordered eggs benedict with a choc shake, while mother ordered some steak and chips thing with coke. sorry, though, i didn't like mine; eggs benedict isn't supposed to taste SOUR! >< and i asked mother would she trade one chip for some bread, which she did. :)
of course, poor em copped some flak from mother, but that's to be expected. personally, i'm just glad she left dearest dad and everyone else alone. :) it's much easier to sit there and just absorb all the insults mother's hurling your way, but oftentimes, when mother starts hurling insults @ others (like dearest dad and aunty a, for example), i'm hard pressed not to speak up and defend them!
and, for the first time ever, i have a FEMALE teddy bear! :D (all my current teddies are male, don't ask me why :P) erika gave me this adorable clothed little bear who's name's 'tilly'. i asked mother to please put tilly on my bed, so bear bear, oem, voem and the others can all introduce themselves to her. :)
actually, for the past two christmas seasons, erika's given me PERFUME for christmas! last year's this one called 'sunshine', i think, and the one from the year before's either called '4711' or '5822'. :P lol, i usually dab a lil on before i head out for book club once a month. i'm not really much a perfume wearer. :P
last year, in july, i'd also missed one month of book club coz my dearest grandma passed away with lung cancer. when i came back for the august book club, useless me got somewhat teary because of that. much thanks to erika who found a tissue and wiped away my tears. then, next month, she bought mother a plant! i'm not really sure ... is it custom to give someone a plant after they suffer bereavement?
anyways, erika's just one of the lovely ladies that i meet every month for book club. :) there's jan, and margie, and penny ... lol, there's too many names to count!
next post ... think mother and i are going to have lunch with aunty tiffany and aunty vicky sometime this week? see you then!
cheers,
em. ^^