Birthdays

I turned 30 last friday.
And for the first time in many many years, my birthday wasnt crap!
Nearly every year, something will happen to make it suck. Or more likely, something will NOT happen, which makes it suck. Expectations are a killer, and as much as you'd like your family and friends to do cool things for you on the Day, inevitably they just wont have thought of it, and youll be disappointed.

Fortunately, that didnt happen this year, and everything went like clockwork.
Admittedly, I organised pretty much everything I wanted to happen this time around, but because my friends are far flung, and MrFiji is not the best administrator in the world if I didnt do it there would be no hope of a nice day.

So, I organised my workday to be mostly non contact, got a hair cut (a drastic one - about 8 inches of hair chopped off), then when MrFiji came home we went to a nice restaurant (That I had booked) and a movie. On Saturday we went to Akaroa for the night (Also booked by me) and today (Sunday) we went on a wildlife cruise around Akaroa harbour (Yup, booked by me too). It was great! I have done all the things I wanted to do, and had a lovely birthday. Its cost a fair bit of money but I dont care.

The Wildlife cruise was cool, we saw Hectors dolphins, little blue penguins and a lonely looking yellow-eyed penguin who had become separated from his buddies and started moulting, so wasnt able to swim away to join them again until he finished the moult. Poor guy.

My lovely friends and family all phoned me to say happy birthday, I had a more than respectable pile of pressies to open, and nothing went wrong at work.

I cant remember the last time I enjoyed a birthday this much. Possibly when I was 9 and mum organised everything! My new rule is going to be that I organise all my birthdays from here on in. Screw the whole concept of leaving it to anyone else.