Yay - its my birthday.

Well, someone has to celebrate it! But actually, you people have been nice today. Its interesting to see the different ways people have had to communicate on this (fairly insignificant) day.

Conventional cards: Parents, Sara Lorraine & Mel, my fellow GDPers, Mark & Becky..

Emails: Steve & Mari, Rory, Brian, Parton, Elyse, Suzanne, Cath W, Catherine S, Dad.

Text message: Vicky

Blog post: Scribbles (thank you!!!!)

Ecards: Maria, Kim, Dad (clearly bored!), Ciara & Caitlyn (assisted I am sure!), Brassington, Amy, Ana. You're all show offs. I tried attaching a smily to an email the other week and it took 3 days to do it..

Anyway - to all of you. Thank you all so much. I know full well I am going to forget to thank someone personally over the next couple of days, but i appreciate all your thoughts of me..

So what have i learned about myself this birthday? Well, so far, I have learned that i am a big wuss. I went out in the car this morning (there is half a foot of snow outside) and the car was sliding all over the place, so I decided to drive back home, and work from home instead!

I then went to bed for an hour before starting work, which should have taught me how lazy I can be... but I knew that already!

I have learned that I am beyond opening birthday cards and hoping for a crisp note to drop out. These days, its the message in the card that counts!

And based on my Hungarian mate Lajos' message in my card, I am going to learn the Hungarian team which inflicted the first home defeat on England at Wembley back in 1953.

The message said simply this

"Grosics, Lantos, Lorant, Buzanczky, Zakarias, Bozsik, Puskas, Kocsis, Czibor, Hidegkuty, Buday. 6:3"

Happy birthday indeed! Which will no doubt improve tonight as I have a dinner date with Christine and Elyse. Mmmm.

There are significant celebrations also planned for tomorrow, but I'll wait and see how i survive today first!