Happy birthday to me!

(...for yesterday...)

Yeah. I turned 21 yesterday, and had a wonderful party with the whole family to celebrate. My mum had organised it all for me, so we spent the day at home with cake and presents and family arriving in small groups, before we headed out for dinner in the evening.

The meal was really nice - we'd had to make our food choices before the day, so everyone already knew what they were eating. It was a bit strange to have both sides of the family there - mum's family and dad's - but I think it went pretty well and I had a lovely time, either way. And then we had an interesting taxi ride home with my boyfriend squashed in the back with at least ten helium balloons, unable to see out at all. Ha. I think he drew the short straw there...

And speaking of my boyfriend, he got me a wonderful bookish gift - a book wrap! I'd never seen them before, but it's just what I need to keep my books nice with all the travelling I'm currently doing. Plus it's beautiful, and has come all the way from Australia! I want to put a photo up to show you how awesome it is, but my camera's back at university, and I can't find anything like it online. Probably because my brain is too tired to work at the minute from all the excitement of the weekend...

I also got a couple of books from him, and a book token from his parents. And then my aunt gave me a big box of books she'd got free from a friend who was clearing out her house, so all in all I've probably ended up with at least 15 new books since the start of the weekend! I want to get a photo of them, too, because few things are more exciting for me than A WHOLE BOX OF BOOKS! Obviously I got other gifts too, like some really nice jewellery, but you don't want to hear about that. I promise that soon you'll get to see my super-awesome second book haul of the week!

So, I've had a really great weekend. I'm going into London tomorrow to meet with some people at a literary agency (actually, two) about some work experience, so that'll be nice. And then I've got a couple of days back home before I head back to Norwich.

I hope everyone's had a good weekend? What have you been up to?