As it’s now just after midnight and officially my birthday I thought I’d post this before heading off to bed. Boy, compared to last year, turning 51 feels a bit meh. Though this year today is a national holiday (it’s usually on the 6th, but as that fell on a Sunday they moved the holiday over). Of course this is how it should always be 😉 . I never work on my birthday anyhow, but at least this year I don’t have to feel guilty about turning down the always much needed cashola.

And so I’ve been thinking about what it means to be actually in my fifties now. Feels a bit unreal, to be honest. Kind of like something that happens to other people. But of course I’m glad to have made it to another birthday and today, unless Nog has something special planned, I think I’ll just buy a bottle of f_bubbly.gif and enjoy this last day of the holiday season with a good book or a film and some of my favourite popcorn (my friend guspemar picked some up for me when he was in New York last week). And I may even get round to changing the only-a-woman-in-her-50s-would-be-caught-dead-wearing frumpy brass buttons on my pretty new M & S red cardy , so that I can finally wear it.

It’s the custom in Spain (or so I was once told) that the birthday person buys everyone in the bar a drink, not the other way round, so ever since that first birthday in Salamanca that cost me a small fortune, I’ve pretty much stayed clear of bars on the 7th of January. Of course, virtual bars are quite a bit more economical (well, except for the buying a computer bit), so please come in and make yourself at home… and welcome to my birthday! f_magic.gif

The casa az bar is now open!
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