Daily Dose of Success #13: Me, glorious me!!!

Yes, tonight I am celebrating reaching my 30th Birthday (almost – still 3 hours to go).

I always have a vague argument in my own head about whether my birthday is really on the 29th or 30th June because I think I was born in Hong Kong just after midnight on the 30th June, which means had my Mum told my grandparents as soon as I was born (I was adopted though, so maybe they didn’t find out until later in the day) then it would have actually been 29th June. Perhaps it’s just a way of justifying to myself (and J) why we need to spend 2 days celebrating and treating ourselves instead of just the one ;-)

Anyway, I rather successfully distracted myself there. Back to the point.

Yes, I think it counts as a success that I have managed to reach the grand old age of 30 without really having a big crisis about it. I’ve received several emails & Facebook messages from friends saying how much of an ‘event’ turning 30 was for them and how upsetting it was. I’m not sure I see the problem. It’s just a number and I really do still feel about 18.

And of course (Kenny, this one’s for you), it was only 3 short years ago that on the night of our ‘joint’ hen/stag do in Sydney I was refused entry to a pub for looking under age.

P.S. I promise there will be no more pics of me in my youth, but my Dad sent me these pics today and threatened to put them on a public blog so I’m beating him to it.

(What is it with people sending me pics of my toddler years just because I’m turning 30?!??!)

My previous experience of living in paradise (the Seychelles, apparently) – and yes, I still find it as exhausting as ever doing nothing in the tropics…

And note the rather artsy painting I’m managing to do with my left hand (I’m now right-handed)…

And here’s a rather major strop I had. Can’t imagine why…