My birthday....

[annwfyn]

...was mostly painless.

OK. That's not fair. It was mostly wonderful. It started with ksirafai appearing to give me not-birthday presents on Friday night (a comic with the goddess of hedgehogs! This is cooler if you are me or Ginnie or have heard some of the odd and ongoing conversations we have had about hedgehogs) and has kinda just got better.

I had lunch in London on Sunday with a group of lovely people, including Gemma, who is one of my best friends from school. Even if she did rather scare me by asking me whether I was planning on marrying pierot and why she felt weddings were always a good idea. The evening was Cirque du Soleil - Dralion - which was just magical. The aerial pas de deux will stay with me for a long time. Two people spinning around in the air, held up only by two blue silk scarves - it was wonderous.

My actual birthday, on Monday, involved lunch with my sisters and my almost-brother-in-law and then birthday cake in the evening with isalani, pierot, lanfykins, wildrogue, and imnotagoth. A vaguely bleak mood began to take me towards the end of the evening, mostly in an irrational way. I missed Mum. I felt very lost and very loose - without grounding - as if everything was floating and I was floating with it. A bit of me just wanted to float away.

Jez hugged me and did his best to be soothing. He did pretty well considering the fact that he was dealing with something that wasn't actually a problem anywhere other than my head. Today I am feeling a hell of a lot better. I wish I did have something resembling stability in my life, but I'll get that one day. I will keep working towards it and that's all I can do. I want to do well in this Masters, and then I want to get a job and a house. Those shall be my goals. I shall keep missing Mum, but I'll live with it.

And overall I had a really good birthday. That is something to be thankful for.

Today I'm back in Oxford and trying to make sense of assorted manuscripts. The Byzantines did write on an awful lot of random objects, you know.

Comments

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad that worked out for you. We would have liked to have made the birthday lunch but had another birthday commitment in Hampshire. (*thinks for a moment*)

HAHA. Spring Fever babies! That's why the plethora! :D

I think we might try and make the Ozzy celebration over Easter Weekend, so we'll have to make arrangements to pay you a visit. ;D

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

It would be fantastic to see you. And there are so many February and March babies. Tis quite scary.

Glad you had a nice weekend wherever you were!

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

I think you find babies around when you are born... I know almost no Spring babies, but a tonne of July & August ones, and my birthday is on the 2nd of July.

[ksirafai.livejournal.com]

Glad you had a good day (for a given value, plus or minus wibbling... :P) yesterday - was going to call, but decided to sleep loads instead. ;P

Take care, have fun, and I'm going to have to abandon you tomorrow for a bit - for a interview with the Agatha Christie-relations-work-thingy. *GLOATS*

Ahem.

;P

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! You have an interview! Oh good luck good luck good luck good luck good luck!!!!!!

Shall be keeping fingers and toes and bits of hair crossed for you. I may get funny looks on the hair do front, but I think it will be worth it.

Hope it goes well.

[ksirafai.livejournal.com]

Hey, plaiting works really well and has loads of crossing. ;D

*nodsnods* So do I. It may also stop me getting random phone calls from people at Angela Mortimer who, though lovely, are largely trying to sell me on 'it's your job, but... bigger?', which confuses me slightly when I've explained in small words that I'm leaving this job because it Kills My Brain. Though, to be fair, it is really quite sweet to feel all popular and Phoned a lot. ;)

Aaanyhow. Take care, have fun with the Byzantines, keep me entertained if you can be bothered, and see you tomorrow. :P

[melsner.livejournal.com]

would you really look stranger than normal?

Awful lot of Random

[melsner.livejournal.com]

So, Sally, are you saying that the Byzantine are... well, byzantine?

Glad you had a mostly painless time.

[headinclouds.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you survived it without too much trauma.

*hugs*

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

It's February. That's always a dangerous time to try anything social. We know that. I think I survived quite well, considering the numbers of demons that were out, waiting to pounce.

[headinclouds.livejournal.com]

February is a dangerous time to try anything.

*tries not to think about hospital badness*

[ksirafai.livejournal.com]

How can demons get anywhere near? There are too many people in the way. *grins* with two-b'-fours.

Or four-b'-twos, which is a confusing manner of speech, but as workable. ;)

[cristobel.livejournal.com]

happy birthday!!! I was going to send you a text, but I thought it was the fourth and had a fight with imagesandwords who said it was the seventh. Huh, it appears he was right, don't tell him or he'll get smug!!!

hope you had a good day!