Having a week off of work to celebrate your birthday (and your wife’s much more important birthday) is great, however the combination of heavy drinking, junk food, late nights and lie-ins have left my sleep patterns all over the place. Which meant that at two o’clock this morning when I should have been sound asleep preparing for my return to work and the barrage of emails that surely awaited me, I was instead restlessly watching the green LCD glow of my bedside clock count down to my inevitable lethargic wake up call.
But of course, it had all been totally worth it. I had received a plethora of awesome presents, from a selection of DVDs including season one of “Archer” (my new favourite animated sitcom), to the multitude of awesome T-shirts which covered Kick Ass to Kobayshi Porcelain (you know I love an esoteric reference), my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Belt Buckle, a couple of Jasper Fforde books and Mario Kart to the DS. And not to forget my SHIELD travelcard case.
Whilst I would never play favourites with the gifts I received, special mention to the Star Wars Light Sabre wall light…as soon as I move, that’s going up; and the Marvel Encyclopaedia, which may just be the coolest comic related tome ever. I’ve spent the last three days explaining to Jane why it needs to be our coffee table book.
And importantly Jane had a lovely weekend, and liked the Tiffanies earrings I got her (they only cost me a kidney…luckily I still have another one). We saw lots of friends and family and managed to squeeze some chill time in as well. All in all, a pretty awesome couple of days.
Oh and I had just under 250 emails when I got in. Not bad for a week off.
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