Birthday (128/365)

[white_hart]

I often find my birthday a weirdly stressful experience, so this year I decided I was going to be as low-key as possible about it. I mostly achieved this by opening the small number of cards and presents from my family when they arrived, rather than saving them to open today, which meant that today has mostly just been a normal Saturday. I went for a nice swim in the rain, sewed foldover elastic on to one and two-thirds pairs of dragon-print pants, and we have a Rick Stein menu box as a slightly fancy dinner (given the weather, I am really very glad we didn't decide to chance going out for an outdoor meal somewhere). Not a bad day at all, really, even if I was interrupted by a panicked text from my head of department mid-afternoon saying that some key documentation for interviews on Monday morning hadn't been uploaded, and could I do anything to help? (I could. It took less than ten minutes. But even so.)

Comments

[mountainkiss]

Did you already know that your birthday is on day 128 in a non leap year or is that new info?

[white_hart]

I didn't know, because I never counted before!

[mountainkiss]

Also "I went for a nice swim in the rain" strictly speaking does parse, but.

[white_hart]

Swimming in the rain is nice. It's not like walking in the rain, because you're wet anyway.

[mountainkiss]

It’s very hard not to sing it to the tune of Singing in the Rain.

[white_hart]

I often do. Or sometimes Once in a Lifetime "water above, and water below".

[hilarita]

Happy Birthday!
And may your head of department step on some lego when going to the loo tonight.

[white_hart]

I'm less annoyed at her than I am at the person who was supposed to have uploaded the documents to SharePoint and hadn't done!

[cmcmck]

Glad you had not a bad day.

Likewise and the Sikh takeaway meal was excellent especially when we heard from the matriarch of the family that runs the food stall in our local market that she had had both her jabs and was pleased to hear we'd had ours which nicely knocked all the racist stuff that's being put about. :o)

[white_hart]

I'm glad you had a good day!

[callmemadam]

Belated happy birthday wishes!

[white_hart]

Thank you!

[nineveh_uk]

Belated happy birthday! A Rick Stein menu box sounds excellent, even without yesterday's appalling weather.

[white_hart]

Thank you! The Rick Stein meal was extremely nice. (I am very fond of fish, but Kidlington Tesco doesn't really sell any fish that isn't either battered or smoked, so it's a long time since I last had anything like this - possibly not since my work Christmas lunch in 2019, now I think about it.)

[alithea]

I'm glad you enjoyed your day the way you wanted to. I too have got to the age where I no longer feel obliged to have a birthdayish birthday if I'm not in the mood. This year Kev's working and I'm going back to my pottery class, so we will hopefully just have a couple of friends over for dinner in the garden at the weekend, which we'd probably do regardless.

[white_hart]

That sounds like a perfectly good way to spend your birthday!

[el_staplador]

Happy birthday for yesterday - and I'm glad it wasn't too stressful.

[white_hart]

Thank you!

[antisoppist]

Belated birthday wishes and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Swimming in the rain is excellent.

[white_hart]

Thank you! Changing in the rain is less fun but having a waterproof changing robe and a mat to stand on helps a lot.

[joyeuce]

Many belated happy returns. I'm glad you got to spend the day how you wanted.

[white_hart]

Thank you!