Geburtstag!

It's my birthday today! Happy birthday to me :)

23.. What an age. I actually don't feel older nor younger or whatever one is meant to feel. Birthdays have never been a great thing for me honestly. It almost feels cursed sometimes. I dread it but yet secretly look forward to it at the same time. My birthday track records have never been good. There'll always be something that would make me miserable not to mention my 21st.. Had an amazing night but it was the start of a downhill.. hmm.. spiral.. slide.. not really the words i'd use.. possibly down-cliff fall is more like it.. The worst 2 years of my life.. well maybe I've had worse but it was full of hospitals and a heap of stuff. .. Admittedly I do miss my time in the hospital but it was a falsely constructed environment which didn't match up with everyday life.

So I decided to work on my birthday even though I was offered a day off. I couldn't deal with being with my thoughts for the entire day. Like I said again, I dread my birthday and all I wanted to do was just curl up in bed and hope that the day passes quickly. Luckily enough, 8 hours of my day was taken by work. Although in hindsight, I kinda had a bad day at work bleh.

I got surprised by a customer who brought in a birthday card for me! Gotta love her.

After finally getting home from work, I got another surprise, this time from the lovely tiki who bought me a lovely dragon witch, born on my birthday at build-a-bear! I even have a birth certificate and everything! I'll have to get pictures and post them up when I dig my camera out from wherever it is buried.

My dearest, Allan, had also pre-planned something special for me. He had made reservations for us and a few close alternative friends at a German restaurant, Hofbraeuhaus, in Melbourne! Oh the joy!

For someone who wanted to spend my birthday at home, I could hardly contain my excitement when I finally got to the "surprise place". I couldn't believe he kept the destination secret from me until we got there. I was driving us too! hah!

The food was exquisite.

Chocolate Mousse - this was my dessert

The famous Bavarian Blackforest cake - it has heaps of alcohol in it! hah!

Cheesecake!

The performance was funny and great to watch. On weekends the Hofbraeuhaus has native German performances including yodelling (I thought that was swiss), cow bells (again swiss not?), and and .. wait for it.. SLAP DANCING!! All in the traditional (I think) Lederhosen (god they look wrong)

Slap dancing

Cow Bells.. well duh.. what else would they be?

The company was great! Allan, Edward, Kitty (Angie), Tiki (Christine), and Eleanor were all there to celebrate my birthday. Thanks lovelies, I enjoyed my birthday dinner :D Oh and I had schnapps too YUM! Perhaps next time to the Swiss restaurant then? :D

The two Asians :P - Kitty and I

The lovelies - Tiki and Eleanor

The group of err.. alternativesters :P

Loved the outfit Edward

My sweetheart Allan and I