When I was 24 I…

* Mastered the art of gluten free baking

* Cut my hair short and dyed it (partially) pink

* Studied Japanese

* Went on a ride in a hot air balloon

* Celebrated two years with my wonderful man

* Held a snake

* Completed a Boot Camp

* Played a saucy accountant, a prostitute and a semi-lesbian bitch on stage

* Started this blog

This week I have had my one year blog anniversary (Blog Day? Blogoversary?), my 500th post and my birthday! That’s a hell of a lot of celebrating to be had. These events called for much wine and a delicious Ethiopian dinner this evening.

I’m seriously the luckiest girl in the world – I received so many messages from my friends, I had three separate people sing Happy Birthday to me on the phone (the best one being my friend Jordan at an ungodly hour this morning. She sings like an angel and her pitch perfect rendition totally set the tone for the day) and my gorgeous work mate Browny arrived back from her holiday just in time to organise an ice cream cake! I’m feeling seriously spoilt.

This is the necklace that Mr Smaggle bought me for my birthday. I’ve seen necklaces like this before and they are perfection. As is Mr Smaggle. 

This is Daddy Smaggle. We are born on the same day (23rd September) so I have no idea what it’s like to have a birthday to myself. I love it though. It must be so much pressure to have a birthday that’s all your own. He is seriously the best dad in the whole world and I adore sharing my birthday with him. Or having him share his birthday with me – he points out every year that it was his birthday first!  

Oh oh oh! I totally forgot to tell you! I discovered my secret super hero power today! You know your secret super hero power? Mr Smaggle’s is that he always gets car parks in the front row. My friend Na’s is that she can tell the time with out a watch. My friend Tain’s is that she can guess people’s star signs within five minutes of meeting them. Mine happens to be that I continuously take awesome driving license photos. My last one was brilliant and I have to say I was a little nervous about continuing the trend. I was blessed with a pearler of a photo today. The guy at the license place called me a poser when I tossed my hair and angled my head at the camera. I said ‘Listen buddy, thirty seconds of you thinking I’m vain is totally worth the five years of pleasure I’ll getting from this baby!’. It was worth every self indulgent second…

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx