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So it was my birthday yesterday… maybe it will make the lawyer happier when he gets back to know I’m a whole year older now . It was a great day, I didn’t sleep very well or very much the night before, but I woke up to pancakes with banana and maple syrup yum! Great way to start the day, thanks to flatmate K. She also bought me a beautiful set of mugs, which go perfectly with the little theme I’ve got going on with my mugs. I like matching sets for everything else, but my mugs are a random collection of single mugs, with a floral theme going on, and so the ’set’ she bought me are actually 4 different mugs, and all in the kind of floral design that I like.

Here’s the birthday haul (click on image to go to flickr, there are notes there):

I also got the most beautiful picture from a friend: 

It’s gorgeous and totally perfect for me, she knows me well! The butterflys are embroidered on, and the purple is silky fabric with the darker butterflies printed on.

I also went out to dinner with a couple of friends, and had lunch with the butterfly picture friend the day before, so lots of birthday meals and treats. Next weekend my whole family, brother included, are coming to visit me! I’m a little worried about the weather, we’re right in the middle of winter here, and had a massive storm over the weekend, with another one due this week. I’ll have to think hard about all the different things we can do. We’ll take it day by day, doing all the outside activities as soon as we can, and save the indoors ones for rainy days.

Last night, brother H text me and said ‘Happy birthday, hope it’s been good, haven’t bought you a present, any ideas about what you want?’. Only I had NO idea who it was. I have three other numbers for him, but apparently none of them are current. I knew it was family, because he called me by my nickname, and I knew it was close family, cos only my parents/brother/grandparents give me presents. But I just couldn’t think who it was! So in the end I asked, and H’s response was: ‘That’s ok, it’s only your brother’. Oops… I blame him of course, he should give people his new number.

I woke up at 2am this morning with a runny nose… guess who’s got a cold? Lucky me! At least it’s right in between my birthday and my family coming, it should be gone by the weekend, it’s not bad, just that annoying dribbly nose kind of cold.

And, last but not least, I have to shout out to Kari, who’s running an awesome raffle this week for a Flickr Pro account. I would totally love to win, but I’ll keep the game fair and encourage everyone else to link to Kari and let her know so you’re into win