“My Birthday” by Dani Bellamy – aged mumble years and one day old

I woke up at 3.38am on my birthday, thanks to the beeping smoke detector.  Do smoke detector  batteries ever die outside of the hours of 2am and 4am?  Not ever in my experience.

 

I then woke up at 5.12am when a cat stepped on my boob. Luckily for him, he is so adorable he was forgiven and I scratched his adorable purring little face til he dribbled.

After spending far too long contemplating this tear in the husband’s pillow (and how it may relate to Leonard Cohen’s ‘There is a crack in everything…’) I finally got back to sleep for a bit.

 

Soon after I woke to a caramel emergency developing in the kitchen.  Husband needed a tin urgently for his creation but couldn’t leave due to said creation being in the oven.   I dashed to the closest shop and bought the world’s most expensive tin of condensed milk ($5.80!).  It was the wrong stuff.

Sorry!  But no time to dwell as I was late for my Stand Up Paddleboard hire booking.

Perfect conditions to lose the wobble of not having paddled since last summer.

Here’s me alongside my present from the husband.  Technically the Lotto ticket he gave me as a present needs to win first, but details….

 

Next, a delightful breakfast in the sun.  The lovely thing about living somewhere smallish is you’ll  usually see somebody you know.  Not ideal when you’re buying toilet paper in your trackies, but nice to breakfast with this random collection.  And yes that is a glass of bubbles in front of me.  Because birthday.

 

But just the one glass because, as mentioned, I’m still waiting to officially win Lotto with my gift ticket.  So, in the meantime, off to work I must go.

A decent enough day in Voice Over Land.  Some snippets:

• Ad voiceover for a clinic to be read in a caring manner. However, the line ‘do you have a problem?’ is actually really difficult to say without sounding aggressive.
• A serious video voiceover for a legal firm about workplace harassment which took a surprising turn when I found myself mentioning ‘dick pics’. Not words I’ve ever used in a professional capacity before.
• The word ‘adrenaline’ is really tricky to say when it pops up three times in a 10 second commercial voiceover.

 

 

After work, I was taken to the nicest eatery in town.

 

And stuffed full of delicious carbs and wines – a few of my favourite things.

 

And despite the morning’s Caramel Catastrophe, I was presented with this magnificent creation featuring chocolate and salted caramel – a few more of my favourite things.

 

I’m calling it a happy birthday.