What sort of mental are you?

Sentimental. Obviously. 😉 Haven’t done a Blogthings or Quizila quiz on it and don’t know if there is one, but that’d be the answer I got. I like being sentimental, I like reminsicing, talking about what I was doing X years ago today. And I like balancing out all my yelling, stropping and feeling fed up with people with sometimes celebrating what I adore about them too. Let’s face it, I spent 18 months managing a card and gift shop where we sold cardboard sentiment with it’s own envelope for three quid a shot for people who didn’t have words of their own to tell people that they loved them, they wanted them to have a happy birthday, or they were glad they had stayed married to them for so many years. And believe me, those cards with the long soppy verses, the declarations of undying and forever love were easily the best sellers – followed closely by those dreadful Forever Friends teddy bears (which I used to beat up and torture in the managers office for fun!). Anyway, yesterday marked the end of my big emotional sentimental week each year so I’ll be back to normal again now. 😉

I’d fallen asleep on the sofa watching a film which utterly failed to capture either Ady or I and staggered to bed sometime around 2am, so Davies waking for his birthday to start sometime very soon after 6am would have been far less received on any other morning. Scarlett emerged not long afterwards so we had present opening – a couple of X box games (ebay), a Wallace and Gromit T shirt (also ebay, but new), the latest two W&G comics (too expensive to be bought for occassions other than birthdays), Feathers, Preston and Wallace soft toys from charity shops, a Wallace and Gromit board game which I’ve never seen before also from a charity shop and Cube World – which he saw in ToysRUs and has seen on TV ads and was the only thing he kept on about getting for his birthday. That was a joint pressie from Layla and Si – so expect him to be thanking you profusely for that next he sees you L & S :-). Oh and a hologram dinosaur book, also from a charity shop. Somehow he ended up with as many presents, probably with as much ‘as new’ value as he has ever had but all at bargain prices. 🙂

As part of our (much discussed 😉 ) practise of a small present for the sibling Tarly got two Barbie videos (also both 50p from charity shops).

Ady headed off to work leaving Davies playing Cube World, Tarly watching Barbie in Fairytopia and me icing the birthday cake.

I’d planned to do whatever Davies wanted in the morning but he was pretty indecisive and came up with a variety of wild and wacky suggestions including going to Centerparcs, going to Devils Dyke and going swimming. Swimming I was prepared to accomodate but in the event he was not that bothered and far happier to play at home instead. We did one of the plaster of paris dinosaur moulds that had been a present from the party (Alison, I think) and then they played with geomags. I joined in and tried to make a 3d dinosaur but gave up. Davies took over and did a pretty good job of it though. 🙂 I also spent some time online and found contact lenses at less than half the price I have been paying. They have arrived this morning, complete with four days free trial ones to try first to check I am happy with them before opening the paid for ones. Next day delivery very impressive and so far, so good. 🙂

Ady arrived home and we headed off to my parents for birthday lunch. My Granny and brother were there too so we had a pleasant couple of hours with Davies opening his XBox (my parents and brother paid 1/4 each and we raised half by selling a few bits including outgrown toys on ebay. So it is 1/2 Davies’ birthday present from them and 1/2 the ‘family x box’ as I didn’t want it belonging to him solely, both as it is too extravagent a gift for a 6 year old and because it could cause arguments if it belonged to ‘him’ when and if Tarly gets games to play on it.) He got a cheque from my Granny which will go straight into his bank account and a globe from my parents too which replaces the one he had which used to be mine and got broken a while back. Tarly was given a couple of tins of sparkling jewelly from my Mum so she was very happy with that too.

Birthday lunch followed by birthday cake followed by Davies teaching all the adults (except me :lol:) how to use his cube world.

We left there as Ady had promised Davies a McDonalds for dinner so we headed over there. It is in a complex with a Tesco and an M&S so I went and got a few bits from Tesco while Ady sat with the children in McD’s. Davies got a crazy frog one of those music thingys and Tarly got a The Faders one. Never heard of The Faders before (which probably makes me either really sad, middle aged and out of touch with the youth of today, or the mother of young children rather than teenagers perhaps? 😉 ) but she is utterly in love and has learnt all the lyrics to the song snippet on there. She walked all round M&S with it clamped to her ear dancing along to it and has played with it this morning too. I found The Faders website and played her a couple more of their songs which she also loved so maybe I can dilute the pink fluffiness of Barbie before it takes a complete hold after all. I guess it could be black nail varnish for her fourth birthday after the pink glittery one for her third 😆 We drove around a couple of electrical retailers looking for a second XBox controller but as everywhere has stopped selling XBox stuff in favour of the 360 stuff we gave up. Loads online though so if Ady doesn’t get one at Game today we’ll get one off ebay or somewhere instead.

Davies was allowed to watch a film in bed as the end of his birthday and chose Willy Wonka so he was still awake at about 10pm. I cooked dinner but suddenly felt really ill so served Ady his and went off to bed instead. Watched Mock the week which I’d not seen before and found very funny and was asleep before 11pm.

Today Davies intends playing Xbox ‘all day long’ which for one day only I’ll allow, I need to try and clear the laundry mountain inbetween showers of rain and I still have to return the keys and pay for the hall from Davies’ party. Hopefully Ady will be home in time for me to walk there as my second walk of the week. Oh and I want to try the Bob books with Tarly who insists she wants to read but is clearly expecting it to happen at a far greater speed that 100EL is going to allow 🙄