Birthday bash, plenty of cake and perfect presents!

So this weekend was my birthday, and despite my other half missing out on my family bbq due to a severe ear infection, it's been quite a bash. For this post, I wanted to talk a little about the stress my other half goes through when it comes to birthdays.

To use the words of Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory:

'The entire institution of gift giving make no sense. Let's say that I go out, and I spend 50 dollars on you, it's a laborious activity, because I have to imagine what you need, where as you know what you need.'

Present buying for my other half can go either way. She admits it herself, it's always a little bit hit and miss. There tend to be two outcomes 1. she has a fool proof present plan. She's paid way too much attention to a passing glance and a 'wouldn't one of those look pretty' fly-away comment that someone has made and voila that's what you get. or 2. panic buying. She forgets, rushes to the supermarket and panic buys, leaving with a hatstand and a bag of oranges, because you liked the colour orange and you wore a hat once.

Luckily, for my birthday, I didn't get a hatstand, I got a cake stand full of carefully iced and glittered cupcakes. Her plan had worked, she had thought of all the things that I liked and got presents to suit them. So while I sit here stuffing my face with cupcakes, testing my Cat's IQ, with my new Cat IQ book, and drinking tea from my Mad Hatters Teacup. I must say, it's been a smashing birthday!