Yesterday was my birthday, and concurrently my 5th wedding anniversary. Amongst all the birthday busyness I spent a small part of the day trying to remember a little of all the 38 previous birthdays, perhaps because I'm now only a year off the big one, and ended up diging out the last 10+ years of diaries to refresh my birthday memories.
Incidentally, how is it that my diaries have got smaller and smaller when incrementally I have more and more to do, and less braincells to remember it all?
I do remember long-to-your toes party dresses being fashionable a la Hollie Hobbie at those earlier birthdays, along with Cindy doll outfits and butterfly buns. Drinking my body weight in booze was popular at some of the middle ones, which might explain the poverty of birthday recall. I vividly remember Fiji on my 30th, sunbathing on a tiny spec of an island thinking I'd never felt so relaxed, and of course in 2006 I was in Rarotonga getting wedded. On the less exotic side apparently I ran 18 kms on my birthday in 2001, went to Alton Towers in 1998 and studied all day long for an exam in 2007.
Though I'd love to jet off somewhere exotic as always, even going to a restaurant for birthday lunch was requiring of more energy than I really wanted to expend on my birthday, when I have the licence to do what-ever the hell I like, in theory anyway. Thanks to the getting-lovelier-every-year hubby I had a great time opening gifts in bed and eating chocolate for breakfast, socialising and scoffing at lunch with friends and dinner with the extended family, but secretly all I could think about was sleep! Sleep, beautiful, sleep. Soft, warm, comfy sleep. Long, deep sleepy sleep. Sigh.
I decided that next year I could stay home and sleep if I want, and to hell with the social niceties. Except the hubbys keen on my idea of a big holiday to match the BIG birthday next year. YIPEE!
We already have New England, Tahiti, or Tasmania on the possibilities list. HURRAY! All I need to do is make sure we book a quiet place, with a giant feather mattress and complementary earplugs, just in case!
These days these sort of things make my birthday/anniversary very happy, if not permenantly memorable!
My faves; still attached to their roots
The transition from one week late present still in the plastic carrier bag from the shop it was bought in, to this beautifully presented number over 5 years has been miraculous, well done hubby you x
J'aime les Macarons soft as pillows...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Ah, yes and...
My op-shop gift to the hubby!
You can't beat a board game by the fireside of a winter when you get to our age aye?!
Oh, and of course little Miss Sleep Stealer herself
Happy Birthday! Happy Anniversary!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday and Anniversary to you! Man those macaroons look AMAZING!!
ReplyDeleteHow cool is your husband giving you such a beautifully wrapped pressie...mine usually come (and I kid you not)wrapped in newspaper with my name scrawled on top. It's not that he doesn't love me it's just the way he does things (thinks gift wrap a waste of money etc)
ReplyDeleteI can't believe a Bargain Hunt game exists. What a fab find. I watch the show, although it really annoys me how the "experts" always give cr-- advice.
Glad you had a nice birthday Max. Here's to lots of sleep next year...
Hiya
ReplyDeleteI’m just sending out a quick message to let people know their Faith Hope and Charity Swapping partners. Days of spreedsheet fiddling I tell you, if this works it’s going on my CV! I won’t have access to a PC from Tues 31st until June 6th – so any questions will have to wait til I get back I’m afraid. I’m going to put up a quick post on the rules before I go, but for now you can check out your partner’s blog and start figuring out what they might like.
Your swap partner is Helga Von trollop
http://helgavontrollop.blogspot.com/
Thanks for playing along!
Lakota
OMG that creepy Bargain Hunt man has a game?!
ReplyDeleteHi Max,I'm Helga!
We're to be swap partners;I see Lakota has already let you know!!!
Hurrah!
O,my email is helgavontrollop@yahoo.co.nz , so we can exchange addresses!
ReplyDeleteI DO love an excuse to go shopping!
:)
And now returning despite the RSI in my fingers to say Happy Birthiversary! Good wrapping skills Mr Blackbird - you have trained him well ;-)
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