Another year older...

A good friend phoned me on my birthday and imparted some birthday wisdom, "You're only a day older than you were yesterday, but it's been a whole year since anyone cared!"


That's so true. Actually, in my case there are really only 5 days per year that I think about how old I am - my birthday and the next four days after that. As my hubby Steve's birthday is five days after mine, I have 5 whole days where he is only one year older than me. After his birthday, we go back to "normal" for the rest of the year, where we don't pay any attention to how old we are.


As usual, we had a combined celebration. When I say "celebration" I mean we went out to dinner. Nothing fancy - just dinner at The Fullmoon Hotel at Shorncliffe. I can definitely recommend the Wagyu beef Potpie with roast veggies. Mmm Mmm.




You know you're getting "old" when you only get a couple of presents. Quite unlike the carload of gifts my darling daughter Cheyenne received for her 5th (of course, it helps to invite nearly the entire kindy class, but that's a whole other story!)

My mother made me this lovely Japanese fabric bag (pictured above). The colours are just gorgeous and I love the tiny hummingbirds on the pocket.

I have recently bought myself an "Amorica" bracelet and I'm slowly adding charm beads to it to reflect my personality. Steve bought me two more beads for my birthday (camera and seahorse) and I chose the filigree heart as my present from Cheyenne. My mother-in-law gave me money to buy another bead, and so I got my coffee mug charm. At the moment, the particular jewellery store has a deal going where you received a gift card if you spent over a certain amount. This meant I could afford another charm - I chose the music one with the treble clef - and that brought my total to 9. With my loyalty card, when you buy 9, the tenth charm is free, so I chose the one with coloured CZ crystals, as it's one of the more expensive ones. For those of you who counted my charms and found an extra (making 11, rather than 10) - the dolphin is a ring-in from another jewellery store, but I had to have a dolphin, right?

My best friend Kaylene sent these cute little guys to me. I haven't quite decided whether to put them on a shelf inside, or whether to hang them on the outside wall, under the deck, near my garden. Maybe, since there are two of them I could have one inside and the other outside...

My other gift was a 250GB portable hard drive, from my brother. It is what it is, and as such, is not really worthy of a photo. It will, however, be immensely handy for backing up all the photos on my computer, so it is, by far, the most useful of all my birthday gifts.

I really should get onto that, but as usual, I'm procrastinating.