Today it's my 29th birthday. Just a normal workday except for a 'happy birthday' mail from Eyewish (blah) and bol.com (a whopping 2,50 discount on my next order within 14 days of today... ). However, as boring as today may be, so much fun was last weekend.

On Saturday I had invited about 24 friends and 16 of them dropped by bringing various nomsies for the evening picknick. My chocolate pie was eagerly devoured and fun conversations lasted into the late hours with 2 friends staying until about 00:00, after which Matthijs and I watched the lightning show outside and then went to bed.

On Sunday a lot of my family members came over and again the (new) chocolate pie was a success, as was the left over cake that Suus had left. We finished some left overs from Saturday and had way too much new stuff to eat it all. As usual. I'm always afraid that we'll run out of stuff so I always buy too much. At least now we know what to eat today, and tomorrow.. and perhaps the day after. :-p

The weather was great! On Saturday we got a thunderstorm with rain that lasted for a couple of hours, but everything was dry again by the time the first guests arrived. We spent the whole day in the back yard. Sunday was a bit cooler, but that was just fine for my grandparents and the garden was again the place to be.

I got lots of lovely presents, among which 2 puzzles (one of them could not be ordered at bol.com but my grandfather went through a lot of trouble to order it from Spain at last), a frame for a puzzle, a goody bag with eco-friendly food products, discarded jewelry, a box for all kinds of knickknacks (prefilled with some stuff), 4 Terry Pratchett Discworld novels, a storm predictor, a pink festival barbecue, a new colorful vest (the former one was stolen on the train), a very colorful swing chair (like a hammock) with pillows, a decorative butterfly and puzzle glue. From Matthijs I got a book with spiritual guidance for determining what to do with your (work)life, since I really need to switch jobs but I don't know where to go.

So, into my 30th year of life, let's see what it will bring!