Twinless and 35
Mar. 31st, 2005 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathanyThe twins are due back this morning, having been parked in Harston since Easter Monday.
We dropped them off on our way back from Center Parcs. Specifically, we arrived mid morning and then had a birthday lunch with my parents (we all sang "Happy Birthday" to my mother and ate her chocolate hedgehog birthday cake). Then we came on home and spent the evening making the most of the absence of twins. This included eating chocolate eggs (none had come away with us - it's the first Easter where I haven't had chocolate egg before Monday), catching up on LJ (which was unsurprisingly quiet), tidying away toys and watching Firefly (borrowed from my mother).
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bateleur return to work whilst I did a few little jobs (paying off a credit card bill, sending off photographs, the handwashing) and then alternately wrote book four and played (finished) Baldur's Gate : Throne of Bhaal (Druid main character, Minsc, Jaheria, Imoen, Anomen and Nalia) which I found (unsurprisingly) easier than previously. In part because I've finally figured out that Jaheria can wear non-druid armour. The evening involved 24 (which I'd irritatingly managed to tape with the Telewest menu over the bottom of the screen) and more Firefly.
Wednesday itself was my thirty-fifth. There were cards and roses and kids books from Amazon. When I was little I saw thirty-five as being "half-way". When I worked in infant mortality I planned to have my kids by thirty-five (a milestone I wish I'd hit in a different way). Now it seems really young still. Giving it some thought (whilst still sober) I decided that thirty-five is a fine age to be. I spent it doing more chocolate eating, more writing, more LJ browsing and some kids book reading. Also my mother rang and put both twins on the phone. They each sang "Happy Birthday"; Bea used the normal words but Ryan made a few creative replacements. For the evening, making the most of the twinlessness, we became mobile and went over to seefrax and cardinalsin. It being my birthday, we decided to go out for a meal at chrestomancy and TheHattedOne's restaurant (called Yun Kim - an oriental "fusion" restaurant). There was duck and honey chicken and many other wonderful dishes. Plus I shared a decent bottle of rosé with cardinalsin. Afterwards there was chocolate-marsala cake which was very fine indeed (poll-tickers take note!).
Today I'm still feeling full and happy. However, I'll have to move away from the computer at some point as there is lunch to be bought and a house to make twin-safe again.
We dropped them off on our way back from Center Parcs. Specifically, we arrived mid morning and then had a birthday lunch with my parents (we all sang "Happy Birthday" to my mother and ate her chocolate hedgehog birthday cake). Then we came on home and spent the evening making the most of the absence of twins. This included eating chocolate eggs (none had come away with us - it's the first Easter where I haven't had chocolate egg before Monday), catching up on LJ (which was unsurprisingly quiet), tidying away toys and watching Firefly (borrowed from my mother).
Tuesday saw
bateleur return to work whilst I did a few little jobs (paying off a credit card bill, sending off photographs, the handwashing) and then alternately wrote book four and played (finished) Baldur's Gate : Throne of Bhaal (Druid main character, Minsc, Jaheria, Imoen, Anomen and Nalia) which I found (unsurprisingly) easier than previously. In part because I've finally figured out that Jaheria can wear non-druid armour. The evening involved 24 (which I'd irritatingly managed to tape with the Telewest menu over the bottom of the screen) and more Firefly.Wednesday itself was my thirty-fifth. There were cards and roses and kids books from Amazon. When I was little I saw thirty-five as being "half-way". When I worked in infant mortality I planned to have my kids by thirty-five (a milestone I wish I'd hit in a different way). Now it seems really young still. Giving it some thought (whilst still sober) I decided that thirty-five is a fine age to be. I spent it doing more chocolate eating, more writing, more LJ browsing and some kids book reading. Also my mother rang and put both twins on the phone. They each sang "Happy Birthday"; Bea used the normal words but Ryan made a few creative replacements. For the evening, making the most of the twinlessness, we became mobile and went over to see
frax and cardinalsin. It being my birthday, we decided to go out for a meal at chrestomancy and TheHattedOne's restaurant (called Yun Kim - an oriental "fusion" restaurant). There was duck and honey chicken and many other wonderful dishes. Plus I shared a decent bottle of rosé with cardinalsin. Afterwards there was chocolate-marsala cake which was very fine indeed (poll-tickers take note!).Today I'm still feeling full and happy. However, I'll have to move away from the computer at some point as there is lunch to be bought and a house to make twin-safe again.
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Date: 2005-03-31 09:20 am (UTC)I'm amazed I never before seem to have noticed that you share your birthday with my dad <makes mental note for the future>
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Date: 2005-03-31 04:52 pm (UTC)I have a cunning Birthday Book I bought a few months back so I'd stop forgetting people's b'days, UNfortunately I haven't
wastedspent enough time recently to actually write in it....*sigh*. Glad you are feeling positive, anyway. (I got teased by
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Date: 2005-03-31 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-31 05:37 pm (UTC)(Urg, I am so bad at birthdays...)
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Date: 2005-03-31 05:47 pm (UTC)Happy Birthday!
Date: 2005-04-01 12:37 am (UTC)Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!
Re: Happy Birthday!
Date: 2005-04-01 07:56 am (UTC)And Happy Birthday to you.