Best Birthday

Update January 13: thank you all for emails and phone calls, I had two wonderful days and feel truly spoiled! So many parcels with beautiful words and gifts and more cool Moleskine notebooks and beautiful Fifties design books: all so inspirational!!! I’ve promised myself to start sketching again this year because it’s extremely relaxing and I’ve been neglecting it: pencil and ink drawings. There are a few more people I need to reply to which I will do this morning. Back to normal life again today *hehe*

The best year [and more to come]: I’m embracing it with a huge smile thanks to all of the wonderful people that are close to me. Thank you for making me feel blessed, thank you for being part of my life, thank you for all the wonderful gifts in any form or shape that I have received and that I’m still receiving today. I’ll try to reply to emails asap but things have been hectic today already: telephone and email-wise *LOL* And I promised a special someone to spend some special time on my special day so some might have to wait till tomorrow…

Sunday I celebrated with a movie at the Odeon in Leicester Square, a drink at the pub and Afternoon Tea at Claridge’s, what an amazing experience that was… There was friends, extremely tasty sandwiches, beautiful decorated cakes, I chose Jasmine tea, wonderful live jazz [piano and double bass] and the staff of eight even brought me my own cute birthday cake while the musicians played ‘Happy Birthday’. More about the movie in another post, it left a deep impression on me…

Claridge’s Mayfair the Lobby

Claridge’s Mayfair the Lobby

Claridge’s Mayfair the Foyer

Claridge’s Mayfair the Foyer

Having Afternoon Tea: delicious array of finger sandwiches

Having Afternoon Tea: freshly baked raisin & apple scones, tea-infused jam and Devonshire clotted cream

Having Afternoon Tea: a selection of sweet beautiful pastries

A special Cake accompanied by a jazzy piano and double bass version of Happy Birthdaypresented by the Claridge’s staff…

Energy Rush

I feel so energised today I have no idea what’s going on, perhaps because I came to terms with certain things thanks to a friend who reminded me who I am, bless him. I received a sweet unexpected email from him while he is somewhere out there on the road and it so made me smile from ear to ear, such a wonderful surprise. I have some energy rush and it’s such a strong one that I could face going to my favourite love-hate store today to buy storage boxes for some clothes.

I have a major moth problem this year that needs to be solved as soon as possible so there is a plan of attack which I started last week and today 3/4 of the plan has been accomplished: cleaning out wardrobes, drawers, reorganising them, putting clothes that I don’t wear in bin bags so I can take them to the charity shops and putting all the moth repelling products where they belong. Some of my good woolen garments have already been damaged by the little buggers, hence my drive to nip this problem in the bud.

Tomorrow morning I’ll be getting up at 07.00 to go to my first car boot sale here in London which will be at the car park of the hospital where I was hospitalised almost a year ago. I’m on a treasure hunt for nice English porcelain teacups and saucers with bright colours, flowers and wonderful golden rims, the ones that only exist in the UK and in fairy tales. I want different kinds, colours and sizes because each day calls for a different angle or view, I’m not a plain woman and neither will be my teacups *hehe*.

This Sunday I will be meeting up with an old friend from the Lowlands. We have been friends for ages while I was a teenager but we lost contact ever since I moved to Amsterdam to study and live there. I haven’t seen her in a long long time. She will be here to film/make a documentary and I’m really looking forward to seeing her for a few hours. She’ll send me the details of where she’ll be staying tomorrow so we can make plans, she wanted to see me on Monday as well after a shoot somewhere North of London.

Work is good and I’ve finished a lot over the last few days. I’m pleased with myself for making such good progress. I do feel that at times when you need to solve a problem [design-wise, coding-wise] it’s best to put it away for a while and try again later. I did that with some php files that I needed to adjust. I had been staring at them for days but couldn’t come up with a solution so I worked on other things in the meantime until this morning. I solved the problem in half an hour, two problems actually… Taoism *hehe*

Well I’m off to enjoy my weekend, have a good one yourself!