Birthday
I had a rather nice birthday! Lots of surprises.
Yesterday my Mum and brother came up, and we had lunch at Nando's. Had an interesting chat about education, politics, jobs... I mentioned my parachute jump to my Mum and I think she took it rather well. She's worried, understandably, but is supportive.
My brother bought me one of those cool little indoor helicopters :) Y'know, like the one Dave has? I haven't had the chance to try it out yet, I don't have a 9V battery.
Del was over the entire weekend, spent lots of quality time together. She bought me a silver bracelet - though I don't know whether that's the masculine name for it. Last week she took my ring to get it engraved for Valentine's as well (I didn't even notice it had gone :/). I'm all kitted out, jewelry-wise :)
So after Del went home this morning I was feeling a little down, and so I went to the kitchen to make myself a cup of coffee. Then Stef (a friend on my corridor) came in and said hello, then asked me to come and kill a spider for her in her kitchen (which isn't particularly out of the ordinary, but I guessed what was coming). So I follow Stef to the other kitchen and it's bursting with people who broke into "Happy Birthday" as I walked in. There was a cake with candles that Stef and Liz had baked for me (and as I understand it they went to an awful lot of trouble, given that we don't have ovens!), camera flashes going off left right and centre, laughing... They made a massive card full of pictures and signatures. I was given a bottle of wine as well! After spending about an hour (or more... no idea) in there chatting with everyone, it was time to get back to work, so I went back to my room to find another surprise on my desk. Monika had written me a little card wishing me well, containing two cinema tickets as well. So sweet.
Ahh... if I were (any more of) a girl I would have cried.
20 years. Not all that long, really.
Yesterday my Mum and brother came up, and we had lunch at Nando's. Had an interesting chat about education, politics, jobs... I mentioned my parachute jump to my Mum and I think she took it rather well. She's worried, understandably, but is supportive.
My brother bought me one of those cool little indoor helicopters :) Y'know, like the one Dave has? I haven't had the chance to try it out yet, I don't have a 9V battery.
Del was over the entire weekend, spent lots of quality time together. She bought me a silver bracelet - though I don't know whether that's the masculine name for it. Last week she took my ring to get it engraved for Valentine's as well (I didn't even notice it had gone :/). I'm all kitted out, jewelry-wise :)
So after Del went home this morning I was feeling a little down, and so I went to the kitchen to make myself a cup of coffee. Then Stef (a friend on my corridor) came in and said hello, then asked me to come and kill a spider for her in her kitchen (which isn't particularly out of the ordinary, but I guessed what was coming). So I follow Stef to the other kitchen and it's bursting with people who broke into "Happy Birthday" as I walked in. There was a cake with candles that Stef and Liz had baked for me (and as I understand it they went to an awful lot of trouble, given that we don't have ovens!), camera flashes going off left right and centre, laughing... They made a massive card full of pictures and signatures. I was given a bottle of wine as well! After spending about an hour (or more... no idea) in there chatting with everyone, it was time to get back to work, so I went back to my room to find another surprise on my desk. Monika had written me a little card wishing me well, containing two cinema tickets as well. So sweet.
Ahh... if I were (any more of) a girl I would have cried.
20 years. Not all that long, really.
posted by markrian at 6:04 pm
