Friday, November 25, 2005

In the office on my birthday!

There's something vaguely dissatisfying about that. In fact, more than vaguely dissatisfying. I thought if I took a day off I might not know what to do with myself, but on my way to work today, I could think of a bazillion things:

1. Get a massage from Little Snow at Qi Mantra (or Little Bloody Snow, which is how I feel about her when she's viciously grinding the knots out of my back muscles);
2. Splurge on the Christmas edition of Glamour, Cosmopolitan or Instyle (and, most importantly, read it from cover to cover without any wet/sticky little hands trying to touch/ tear/ crumple the pages);
3. Get My Hair Done;
4. Get My Nails Done; and then
5. Spend about 2 hours trying to get my son to say "Newton's Second Law states that the acceleration of an object is dependent upon two variables - the net force acting upon the object and the mass of the object. Therefore Force Equals Mass Times Acceleration." so that he can recite this tomorrow at the Little Gym Class and freak the hell out of all the other parents.

Oh yes. 6. To buy that freaking fantastic new flash for my Canon Digital Rebel so that I can get better photos of my son freaking the hell out of the other parents at tomorrow's gym class.

But I digress. Got into the office today and my boss' secretary had bought me a steaming cup of coffee (latte) from Banoffi downstairs to wish me Happy Birthday! I was extremely touched. Also got a mass e-card from the office. Quite touched (but a little less so). I'm very surprised that they remembered. Especially since I tend not to remember anyone's birthday except my own. And my son's. And my husband's (which I've had to programme into some passwords so that I can remember).

Any birthday songs? Yes! It will increase the cheese factor of this blog 100-fold, but here goes:

1. Dido: Here With Me
2. Tori Amos' version of Landslide by Fleetwood Mac
3. Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt
4. Beth Orton: Sweetest Decline

"What’s the use in regrets
They’re just things we haven’t done yet.
What are regrets?
They’re just lessons we haven’t learned yet."

16 comments:

  1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I love the bee.

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  2. Anonymous12:21 PM

    "MrsMachine is so beautiful it's almost painful. her birthday is this Friday, so why not go over to her blog and wish her happy happy? (She's 29. Again.)"

    Happy 29th Birthday!!! (again) :-D

    ~ xena

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  3. Happy birthday kiddo. For your mental health (and my physical well-being) I will refrain from stating exactly how old you are.

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  4. Anonymous5:07 PM

    happy birthday j, take care

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  5. Happy Birthday (29 again!) for yesterday.

    True story: I was little kid and someone asked me how old my mother was. I said she was 29, but that she'd been 29 for a few years now. Everyone who heard broke up into howls of laughter and I couldn't understand why!

    I kid you not!

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  6. 33 at last! Oh my Gawd! Happy(?) birthday Jaffar!

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  7. Thanks very much for your good wishes.

    29 is a wonderful age and I am very happy that I am not alone in this opinion. Every day, I'm sure that millions of women worldwide celebrate their 29th birthday. Or their 33rd birthday, which I will also be celebrating in about 10 to 15 years.

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  8. happy belated! :o)

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  9. What a way to start the day in the office on my birthday! Thanks to my wonderful team for the decorations and the awesome new photoshops.Come see me today! I'm going on my annual pre-birthday trip with the kids. I'll be back in the office on my birthday. See you then! Cesar Hoed De Beche D.C.. hahaha and that is why I shall not be in the office on my birthday! day off abeg! I love language quiz just cannot! lol.. I'd rather wake up in bed and just ...
    Joshua Curtis. Sitting in the office on my birthday and Good Friday it's so peaceful here, I have the tunes pumping and getting some data entry done.

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