So this is what 31 feels like..

Been a flat couple of days after my birthday, but that’ll change tomorrow when Sophie and Tamara are round for drinks and snacks!
My ‘big day’ itself wasn’t really all that ‘big.’ With work involved I couldn’t make huge plans and I think that made a nice change. I’ve got so used to trying to out-do previous birthdays every time a new one comes round that I end up pushing it too far instead of stopping and thinking about what I’d really like to do. This year Philippa and I just stayed in with a takeaway and a bottle of wine! And it was wonderful! Tonight we’re off to watch ‘The Theory of Everything’ at our local multiplex (which, it turns out, isn’t actually all that local to us at all, but never mind. Good films are worth travelling for).
I have to say I’m in  a very good place at the moment. (and I’m not talking about our kitchen, I’m speaking metaphysically)
Dedicated readers of this blog will know that I tend to wallow a bit during the darkest months of Winter, but this year I don’t seem to be struggling at all. I’m content and settled at home, at work and in my head, and after years of thinking “I’m nearly thirty and I’m wasting my life” I’m now thinking “I’ve got most of my life ahead of me and I’m looking forward to all of it!”
Especially tonight and tomorrow.

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