Queen’s Birthday Happy List
June 14, 2010
It’s been a long weekend here in Australia, in honour of the Queen’s Birthday. The British Queen. Oddly, I don’t think it’s even her actual birthday. There are one or two things about Australia that I don’t yet understand.
But hey, a three-day weekend, who’s complaining? Not I, not I!
It’s been spent in Lorne, in a house with the What What Wine Club crew. Perfect.
Thanks for the pics, Pam!
That ass being kicked? It’s mine. Clearly, there was no silliness AT ALL this weekend.
So, here’s a list of Happy in honour of an unexpected extra day off, and the frivolity it brought:
- Planning Big Big Things with Kerry. Big things. Exciting things. Oh yes!
- How holidays, however brief, can take you out of your quotidien worries and reset your brain.
- Friends
- Boyfriend. He took such good care of me today, and I needed that. I was a little…off.
- Food (always so good with the What What crew!)
- Wine. We did a blind tasting. I got nothing right. I need some more educating.
- Cuddling on cold nights. Hell, cuddling any time!
- Putting my iPod on random and seeing what happens. My taste in music is a little eclectic, so the results are often really, well, random.
- Miso soup
- The wonders of Modern Technology. How else would I text my mother when she’s halfway across the world, in another time zone?
- Getting emails from my dad asking if I’m OK. I am now, dad, because you asked.
- Feeling toasty warm inside my lovely new jacket, while the world outside is breath-mistingly cold.
- Sleep. Melbourne’s wet winters definitely make we want to hibernate. Could you bring me tea and honey toast occasionally and wake me up in the spring? Ta.
- That people continue to show up for yoga class despite the chilly weather. You guys! Amazing!
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Oh ho ho!!! So he’s a boyfriend now!!!
The Queen has two birthdays, one is her actual birthday (in April sometime I think) and one is her official birthday which stays the same no matter who is king/queen. I think that’s right anyway.
What annoys me is in Aus we get a long weekend and in the UK we don’t! Humph
Yeah, I think it’s like the same kind of things as the official Horse birthday. All horses are given the same birthday date, regardless of when they were really born (and yes, I DID just compare the Queen to a horse!). Something like that anyway
Trip to Lorne looks Lovely. Did you say wine? Yummo!
Oh yes, I too, noticed the change from “Man friend” to “Boyfriend”. The plot thickens, eh?
I spent much of the long weekend sleeping and resting. Very much needed, too. But still, yes, in this weather – yoga. Always. In fact in the colder months I think it’s mandatory so that I don’t freeze on the spot.