Official me day!
Today is official me day! And it's bloody well deserved as well as this week has been a living hell. Work is horrendous what with me being the only Quality person left and there's an OfSTED visit on the way. In a perverse kind of way I'm thriving on working without a safety net because I know my stuff, I've just relied on my line manager but now I don't have one It's doing me good in terms of work confidence. It's also good because it's my last Uni lecture ever next week so that means I'll be done with two years worth of teaching. It's very odd and I haven't quite got my head around it all yeat but I'm quite excited about never having to do it again! Uni is the other reason last week's been hell. I've had my dissertation proposal to hand in yesterday every evening last week I've just been writing non-stop. Awful. However, I sent it off last night and it feels odd being able to enjoy myself without the guilt. 7000 words of doom - gone. And now I officially enjoy living in Leeds.
So yes, it's my birthday today and I am 25, that's a whole quarter of a century. I don't feel that bad about getting older because I seriously believe that I'm getting better with age. I don't really mean better looking (although I get more comfortable about how I look every year), I mean better in other ways really. I'm convinced that my 30s will be my time in a funny way, and the further I get away from my early 20's the better I feel. At first I did feel a bit weird about leaving that under 24 demographic but really, I think there's a lot to be said about the experience of age. I'm learning more with age and I think it's great.
I've had some great stuff so far. James got my a shushing librarian and The Librarian Quest for the Spear on DVD, which I'd never heard of but sounds amazing. It's like Tomb Raider but with a librarian as thehlead character, so it's basically my two favourite things ever! Julia got me and James some joint stuff. I've got a Mr Man T-shirt which I've wanted for ages, so I keep it until all the Top Man people stop wearing them and she's got us the Jonathan Creek DVD box set which is very much appreciated. Lots of cards too, hurrah! I know I'll have to wait until Tuesday for some of my stuff because it hasn't arrived yet! And some of my presents are joint with James so I'll have to wait until Monday to open them. Still, it stretches out the celebrations for a bit. I thoroughly recommend getting a boyfriend who's two days younger than you.
Today's plans are a trip to Tropical World (amazing) and then tea at Little Tokyo, one of the best restaurants I've ever been in in Leeds and then to the cinema tonight. Yay! It's odd having my birthday at home. For the past three years we've been in London for it and so we've never had to make an effort to celebrate our birthdays, especially since I always say 'let's go to the zoo!' on mine, but we've had to plan stuff this year round. It's odd but good.
On a different note, I've bought quite a few CDs lately that I need to listen to properly. I started listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeah's 'It's Blitz' but I've been so in love with Zero and Heads Will Roll that I've barely got past them, I just keep repeating them! I've also got the new acoustic Kelli Ali album (signed and personalised!), the Noisettes new one and Bat For Lashes. I blame Jools Holland. He makes it a very expensive season.
Yay for me!
So yes, it's my birthday today and I am 25, that's a whole quarter of a century. I don't feel that bad about getting older because I seriously believe that I'm getting better with age. I don't really mean better looking (although I get more comfortable about how I look every year), I mean better in other ways really. I'm convinced that my 30s will be my time in a funny way, and the further I get away from my early 20's the better I feel. At first I did feel a bit weird about leaving that under 24 demographic but really, I think there's a lot to be said about the experience of age. I'm learning more with age and I think it's great.
I've had some great stuff so far. James got my a shushing librarian and The Librarian Quest for the Spear on DVD, which I'd never heard of but sounds amazing. It's like Tomb Raider but with a librarian as thehlead character, so it's basically my two favourite things ever! Julia got me and James some joint stuff. I've got a Mr Man T-shirt which I've wanted for ages, so I keep it until all the Top Man people stop wearing them and she's got us the Jonathan Creek DVD box set which is very much appreciated. Lots of cards too, hurrah! I know I'll have to wait until Tuesday for some of my stuff because it hasn't arrived yet! And some of my presents are joint with James so I'll have to wait until Monday to open them. Still, it stretches out the celebrations for a bit. I thoroughly recommend getting a boyfriend who's two days younger than you.
Today's plans are a trip to Tropical World (amazing) and then tea at Little Tokyo, one of the best restaurants I've ever been in in Leeds and then to the cinema tonight. Yay! It's odd having my birthday at home. For the past three years we've been in London for it and so we've never had to make an effort to celebrate our birthdays, especially since I always say 'let's go to the zoo!' on mine, but we've had to plan stuff this year round. It's odd but good.
On a different note, I've bought quite a few CDs lately that I need to listen to properly. I started listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeah's 'It's Blitz' but I've been so in love with Zero and Heads Will Roll that I've barely got past them, I just keep repeating them! I've also got the new acoustic Kelli Ali album (signed and personalised!), the Noisettes new one and Bat For Lashes. I blame Jools Holland. He makes it a very expensive season.
Yay for me!