Having taken Thursday and Friday off, I spent my Birthday doing absolutely nothing. Well nearly nothing anyway – I spent a little time working on a programming project I had intended to do last year, and spent about an hour on the phone to my brother, and talk to Lori, and read.
Friday saw me in the city, with the intent to meet Emma for lunch, and then spend the rest of the day reading, either in cafes or Glebe Park. As it turned out, Emma was sick, so I had lunch by myself, then went and sat in Glebe Park to read for a bit, before descending on her place armed with the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice – We managed to get through about four of the six hours of it.
Yesterday, I hosted the final tasting session for the Regency Gothic Banquet, and so spent most of the day cleaning, and trying to find a Sirloin Roast for my part of the cooking. In the end I had to settle for a generic “Beef Roast”, which the butcher assured me was “pretty close” to the same thing.
The evening itself was excellent, the regency food was very nice, and was then followed by large amounts of chocolate, as Donna brought her now infamous chocolate fountain (and made a friend for life out of Caitlin in the process). We finished up the evening sitting in the lounge room talking until just before midnight. Thanks everyone for coming, it was very enjoyable :)
Today was fairly slow, but pleasant, and I am now about to go take a glass of wine, and my dinner and sit and read for a bit and try not to think about the fact that I’ve got to go back to work tomorrow.
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