happy birthday girl

hi everybody,

happy birthday to meeeeeeee... thank you very much for all your calls/texts, was so good to talk to everyone and hear your bewdiful voices.

so how did i celebrate?

julzie - yours was the first text. :) i woke up about 9 and my friend james (who was over from london for the weekend) was outside, armed with coffee. then i went to this delicious bakery over the road and got some crossaints, followed by a 10am meeting with the website designers, where i smiled helpfully and drank more coffee. i walked back and then spoke to cliffy, huey, mum, jesse, bretty, trace, joey and kai (in that order) and then went off to the pool for a swim and splash around in this massive double olympic-sized beauty that was packed 'cause it's school hols.

it's been about 30+ here since i got arrived here a week ago and i have already discovered two beaches - although to be honest, they're beaches, but not as we know it, earthlings. i swam in the north sea, which looks like cloudy coke, which it was really warm and choppy as hell. there were kitesurfers and windsurfers belting up and down the beach, was blowing a gale... which i suspect might be the norm for this particular beach, zandvoort zan zee.

back to birthday, so yep, pool, then back here (im staying in a house this week, on the keizergracht, which is right in the centre of amsterdam) for a catnap, then james and i went and had a few beers by the canal, then a few more in the pipe - still my favourite part of town - and then about 10pm we sat outside at this yummy cafe called mastapas that i'd been wanting to try. the tapas was as delicious as i'd hoped and we ate heaps and heaps.

had a big one on the way home, spoke to karmiegirl and fell asleep. someone asked me how it felt to be 28 and i said, well, im exactly where i want to be, doing exactly what i want to be doing*, so if this is 28, i accept. (i was a little tipsy admittedly by then, but you get the idea...) all in all, it was a very good day and i missed you guys heaps but it still felt pretty damn nice to celebrate my birthday in the sun for once.

thanks again for making me feel so loved.

xxo

* i didnt mean that literally, ie the financial copywriting business is not exactly my bag, but it's a bag

PS i am sorry i STILL havent got around to returning some emails, i will once i break the back of this new job i started - working from home is hopelessly distracting as it is - especially when i can see the sun shining outside till 10pm

PPS can everyone get a Skype address please, for calls/messenger - go to: www.skype.com
my username is liseygirl

triple PS - i miss my camera, so much. will be able to put more photos up once my insurance claim goes through, sometime in 2008 i think... ;)