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| close up of the ring |
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| swatches of the nail varnish (left&right) |
Anyway, starting on (well, continuing and redirecting to) a happier note I ate the birthday cupcake my friend got for me when we were in town yesterday for breakfast and I got some lovely gifts from my friends when they came to my house yesterday. I got 3 things in total and they were all so thoughtful and just so me. I love them! So I got a Pandora ring that I saw in the shop a while back when I was out shopping with my friend and I really wanted it but I couldn't afford it on top of the other stuff I bought and my friend suggested I get a different ring (which I did). I don't know why but I just fell in love with it when I saw it, its a tiara with a heart in the middle and a crystal embedded. She even managed to guess the right size for me! Next I got two Topshop nail varnishes that are really pretty. The clear one with the unusual silver glitters just really fascinated me when I was looking but I didn't really want to spend any money that day so I didn't buy it. (Although I ended up buying a new outfit that day because of the heat and I sat in bird poo.) The second colour is also really pretty and I really like it. The third thing I got was a photo frame with a picture of the three of us in it. I hadn't seen this photo since it was on my friend's camera and she deleted her facebook. It's a really cute picture and the frame again is really pretty. I love floral print and whenever I see it in shops I lust over the item so clearly my friends know me very well and put a lot of thought into the gifts. They'd also written a nice message on the MDF back in sharpie so it's also going to be a nice memento. There's also a red envelope with Chinese writing on it in the photo. This is from my mum and those red envelopes are handed out, filled with money on 'special occasions' like Chinese New Year, Christmas, weddings etc. It's not that I don't like money or something but in stark contrast you can clearly see the amount of thought put into both gifts. Personally I would've preferred a thoughtful gift costing a fraction of the money I got. Especially after the year I've been through.
Moving on, I celebrated my birthday with my friends yesterday with lunch at Zizzi and talking and watching movies in my room for a few hours. I had a nice time and enjoyed seeing them. Today, I went to sleep around 1am this morning because I could hear my brother talking through the ceiling and couldn't sleep. My brain was so busy that I contemplated taking a walk outside to clear my head but realised that it wasn't really very safe. So I dried my tears and just sat in my bathroom (where the murmuring from my ceiling was muted a bit) for a while then started reading my book. I've always loved reading - escaping into another world and almost living another life where things always seem to work out and despite whatever is going on in the protagonist's life there are lots of people supporting her/him and they fall in love and live happily ever after (I mainly read romances). After a while I calmed down a bit and started to feel a bit tired so I went back to bed. I woke up this morning not feeling much better and was disappointed when I didn't see any birthday wishes. I just assumed that they forgot and so did my mum, like last year. (The messages trickled in later.) Then my mum came in and asked if I wanted to go to Tesco to go grocery shopping. I said yes because I was running out of food. When we were paying my mum seemed to realise it was my birthday after digging around in her bag and finding the red envelope. She asked if I'd remembered it was my birthday and I told her I was waiting to see if she'd remembered. She gave me the red envelope and said happy birthday then asked 'so what are you supposed to say then?' (you know live back when you're 5 years old and need to be reminded to say thank you) and I finished packing our food and went to buy a coffee. When we got home I started unpacking the food as usual and was sent outside to the fridge in the garage twice because my mum had forgotten to ask me to get breakfast food for my brother the first time. She proceeded to make my brother's and her breakfast and I made my lunch. Then they all went to eat in the living room and my little brother realised he'd forgotten about my birthday and my older brother made some snide comment about being nice was not guaranteed and something about me being irritating. I finished cooking and ate in my room watching a movie. Actually whilst I was making my food my mum criticised me for not folding the clothes I brought in from the washing line yesterday. I did this without being asked to and just to be helpful.
After that I've spent my time revising for exams tomorrow, watching movies and chatting to friends. So all in all, this has been a really special day.
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