Birthday

I spent all of March 25th being 24. Never done that before! :op
As cheating as it seems i’m counting this as a genuine new thing! Hah!

Partying with the best of them

Most people would think that with my birthday party being on day 21 and in my own home I wasn’t going to have time to do any new things. WRONG! Bwahahaha! Due to careful planning and prior arrangement I cooked a meal for eleven people (well, ten and a half as Keira’s only a munchkin). I’ve never cooked for that many before and was a tad stressed (though mostly because drinking the night before hadn’t been such a good plan as it left me a bit tired) but everyone ate it with every sign of enjoyment so it must have come off well!
No photos of this. I don’t know why but I didn’t take a single photo throughout the whole 20 hours people were around and celebrating. Not having a camera helped that one but I’ve managed to chronicle everything up to this point on my camera phone and it seems foolish and slack to have stopped just as there were things worth photographing going on. Idyit that I am.

Oh yeah, I cooked a GIANT chicken casserole (and a mini quorn one) and side dishes of roast potatoes and sweet potatoes. Three of my very favourite things!

Familial Fun

Saturday 22nd March my Mummy, Stepdaddy, Nanna and Grandad came to visit for the day to see my shiny new house and deliver my birthday gifts. This took up my entire day and in the evening I went to the pub so no new things happened. Or at least no new things that i intended to do and remember at this late stage- I think I tried some new drinks but a) I can’t remember and b) I’m not sure that counts this has to be firmly relegated to the “Off Day” category.

Back to School

Before I explain what I did on the Friday (day nineteen and the 21st March for those wondering where we’re up to) we’ll need a bit of back story.

When I picked up all my stuff not so long ago I found a series of books that I used to love throughout my entire childhood and my teenage years. I hadn’t read them since I was nineteen for the simple reason that I hadn’t HAD them since then and I was extremely excited when I came across them again.

I was doubly excited for a series of books set in a girls boarding school in Austria, Guernsey, England, Wales and finally Switzerland over a period spanning from the 1920’s to around about the 1960’s is clearly NOT the sort of thing I’m usually found reading these days. However as it’s a series of 62 books I wasn’t sure about committing that much time to one project. After some pondering I therefore decided to allocate three new things to the Chalet School books. One for each of the three main periods as I see them.

Day nineteen saw me firmly in the middle of what I think of as The Jo years. The Jo years span from book one where she first starts at school (as it’s first pupil) to book 21 where the Jo centric adventures first move out of school and she starts to spend more of her time mothering and writing than fiddling in school affairs. Not that she stops being around and about the school, or living next door, she just becomes firmly relegated into the “Grown Up” zone, a process that begun a few books prior when she’d thought her husband dead from a u boat attack.

So on this particular Friday, knowing I had a majorly busy weekend up ahead, I settled down and read my way through books three to seven. I’m further on now but the problems with this project are a)my English has become a bit on the old fashioned and slightly pretentious sounding side which is causing David occasional fits of giggles (naughty David) and b)I’ve had to throw away five of the books as they’re so old they’ve fallen apart to an unsellotapeable and unreadable state and am now having to re buy them off amazon. This means occasional periods of waiting when I don’t realsie there’s a gap coming up ahead!

Continuing in the Beautifying line of things…

Day eighteen took me to Boots to talk to a lady at a make up counter about something that has long puzzled me foundation and in particular face powder. After an exciting few minutes discussing and having various things dabbed on me I came away better aware of what I was looking for and mooched away to the cheaper cosmetics area where I purchased what I needed.

Rather delayed…

There was lots of birthday joy and stocktaking etc so I’ve got a major backlog to catch up on and will try and keep it brief. There are photos and I will add them but I’m going to get the verbal spewing over with first.

Day Seventeen I decided to dye my hair a lighter shade than usual and went all red. I’ve done it in the past but not for aaages. I like it a lot but it’s washing out really quickly and my hair seems to growing incredibly fast if my, darker than I remember, roots are anything to go by. So there might be more hair changing going on soon.