Purple and Pearls

Yes today is my 26th birthday, I’m celebrating my last birthday as a Miss with family and friends with a tea party at my parent’s house.

The cute little podge I’m cuddling in the picture is  my “baby” brother Paul.  His 23rd birthday is on Monday.

Because our birthday’s are so close we tend to make a weekend of it and invite family and friends round for a big house party, this year will be the first year I don’t get to spend my birthday with my brother… he’s at a festival this weekend.  It’s going to be very strange without him.  Hope you have a “buzzin” time, don’t get too “laggin”! ♥

So if you’re free pop round, they’ll be homemade shortbread, cupcakes, cheesecake, chewy chocolate chop cookies, mini sandwiches, plenty of tea and word on the street is that Suzie is making my Birthday cake!!

and just for fun, 26 things you may not know about me.

1. I love pickled onions… I mean love as in I can’t make a jar last longer than 3 days.
2. I have a fear of clowns.
3. I hate swimming.
4. I regret not following through with my childhood dream of becoming a Midwife.
5. Growing up I used to pretend my name was Rebecca.
6. Needles freak me out and can totally change my personality.  Faced with a needle I’ll either run away or fight.
7. I have to get into bed first, if Has gets in before me it can put me in a bad mood.  I’m trying to correct this.
8. I rarely call anyone by their real name.  I favour nicknames and cute monikers.  Some of the most recent names include, Huna Pie, Hula, Mooface, Moochops, Sweets, Fran, Bert, and Nash head.
9. Without glasses or contacts I’m pretty much blind.
10. When Charlene left Neighbours I cried for hours.
11. I’m a stickler for routine, bordering on OCD some might say.  I have to park in the same car parking space at work, I have to be weighed in before Mom at weight watchers and I had to use the same locker at the gym (when I used to go!)
12. In a school drama production I played Jemima in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.  I learnt all my lines off by heart, but an older girl still tried to prompt me through the entire play.  I got upset and ended up saying my lines quickly and loudly before she could.
13. I used to fancy Peter Andre….
14. I am just awful at Maths… numbers terrify and confuse me.  My parents laminated times tables on to A4 sheets and placed them all around the house to help me learn them for my Junior School tests.  It work then, now I can barely remember them.
15. Following on from number 14, I was made to sit outside my year 3 school Christmas Party until I had finished a Maths exam.  I wrote completely random numbers and bizarre working outs on my paper so I could go inside and join the fun.  Maybe why I’ve always hated Maths!
16. Mushrooms are vile.
17. I played with dolls well into Senior School.  My favourite being Katie (who I still have!)
18. I adore the smell of coffee but can’t stand the taste.
19. My favourite film is Twister.
20. My claim to fame is that I appear on the Tenacious D Live at Brixton Academy DVD for all of 2 seconds
21. When I was younger my Nan used to have a duck called, Mr Duck.  When he died my Nan kept one of his feathers.  I begged her to let me see it, I took it outside and lost it.  I still feel guilty now.
22. My Family and friends are immensely important to me
23. I drink far too much tea.  But it must be Yorkshire Gold.
24. I won’t eat steak or beef burgers, but I will eat mince.
25. I still miss my Grandad and intend to give my first born son his name as a middle name.
26. I can’t wait to be Has’ wife and spend the rest of my life being his “other half” ♥

xxx