Birthday Week

Monday 30 April 2012 - Today was the first day of my week off work. Tomorrow I will head to Ballina for about a week. The next day is my birthday. Here is a picture of my first 2 birthday presents from my lovely friends:

A giftcard from my favourite store, and a necklace to remind me that lots of people love me

Debbie and Kim shouted me dinner on Friday night at my favourite restaurant in Brisbane, La Quinta in Bulimba. It is a fantastic Mexican restaurant with great atmosphere and most excellent food. Recommended!

Saturday night was meant to be spent with Kim at the Brisbane Lions vs Geelong game, but it just rained and rained all day and night. It would have been miserable sitting at the Gabba in the rain. So instead, we had a 4 hour Game of Thrones Season 2 marathon, featuring the 4 episodes my Team Leader Brett was kind enough to get for me. Yep - big night Saturday!

I have been keeping the blog this year so that, at the end of the year (which as always, is flying by), I will be able to look back at all the GOOD things I have seen and done in 12 months. 

Sitting here trying to remember what has gone on in the past year, since my last birthday... I have come up with: 

• changed jobs, 
• had my heart... "tested", in more ways than one, 
• completed a women's self-defence course, 
• found some favourite regular Zumba classes, 
• started yoga, 
• taken a 6 week French course, 
• forgotten most of what I learned in my French course, 
• found a helpful counsellor to guide me through glitches in my life,
• went to Mum's 70th birthday party in Ballina, 
• seen Foo Fighters for free, seen Washington, Eskimo Joe, Lloyd Cole, Tim Freedman, Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, Grouplove and My Chemical Romance, 
• been accepted into the Flight Centre Business School, 
• gotten the hell off Facebook and onto Google+, become quite taken with Twitter and found some old friends on it, 
• re-connected with my first Goddaughter and her Mum, 
• had great times with my good friends, including a Gold Coast Girls' Weekend and New Year's Eve at the Hunter Valley
• Christmas with my family in Ballina
• booked flights for a trip to France and Spain
• discovered fantastic new TV shows Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, New Girl, Justified, Downton Abbey, Once Upon a Time 

...and the list goes on. So. It hasn't been all that bad really. From this birthday on I've decided I am going to have an amazing year, if you don't mind and thanks very much, Universe.