A Happy Birthday Wish

[Iggy McSnurd]

Into the room walks Iggy Elf.  He is wearing a vest that it a riot of
colors, seemingly woven of 2" wide strips of fabric with no two strips being
the same color or pattern, thus creating the loudest, most colorful article
of clothing you have ever seen.  Iggy's socks seem to compliment his vest
rather nicely in an odd, psychedelic sort of way, being knitted from odds
and ends of leftover yard put together so as not to waste them, but being a
blazing assortment of colors themselves.  He seems to be ticking off items
with one hand as he pushes a large trolley with the other.  Looking at the
items on the trolley, he gives a satisfied nod, and begins to set up the
room.

Streamers and confetti, making the room look much like Iggy's wardrobe, come
first.  Then are the baskets placed on the tables with an assortment of
crackers, accompanied by a dishes, with a different flavor of ice cream in
each, stacked to form a pyramid.  Last, comes the cake.  It is done in soft
pastels, and each layer has a different color, and pattern... ranging from
spots or stripes, to checkerboards, and even one with a paisley pattern.
The whole thing looks like something designed by Dr. Seuss while watching
'the Yellow Submarine." Pitchers of pumpkin juice and large tubs with snow
(how did he get snow in July?) that hold chilled bottles of butterbeer,
Keldon's Krispy Kreme soda (it tastes like a Krispy Kreme glazed donut) and
Fripper's Forty Flavor Fizz (you never know what it's going to taste like
with each sip... but always delicious) to drink.  Tablecloths in an array of
colors but strangely enough (well, for this event at least) without
patterns, cover the tables, with stacks of colorful plates and eating
utensils completing the arrangement.

Looking around the bizarre (and, you begin to think, possibly color blind)
Elf gives another satisfied nod, before reaching up and pulling a crumpled
wad of paper out of his left ear.  Smoothing it out, he clears his throat.

*ahem*  "I would like to announce the birthday of Anne/Silverthorne. (Owls
with birthday greetings may be sent to her at:
silverthorne.dragon at verizon.net )  I encourage all to at least raise a glass
briefly in toast of this special occasion."

With that, he raises a small glass of pumpkin juice in a toast and downs it
before waving and toddling off to his other duties.