Project 289 - Day 130 (Saturday 25 July 2009) : Happy Birthday to My Beautiful Guy!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas-Birthday.....

Yes, folks, it's a new festival with double the presents, more of the fun, and so much colour you'll have migraines for days afterwards! Who can resist? Certainly not me, and so with a quirkiness all my own (and possibly any number of kooky celebrities), I decided to make the theme of my gorgeous guy's birthday - Christmas in July!

So I invited 9 close friends, found a Christmas store open all year round that sells bon bons (crackers), put up my tree and decorations (thus justifying the massive expense of buying them in the first place so they can be in boxes 11 months of the year!) , got a very good friend to help cook the meal..... and after much effort (which was all totally worth it!), we sat down to a delicious meal, surrounded by Christmas trappings, and finished off with a sumptuous mudcake that said...no, not Merry Christmas... but Happy Birthday! Yes who'da thunk it huh?

The most importnat thing was that I got to indulge my love of Christmas and.... no, no.... lol.... it was that my beautiful guy got to spend some special time with very good friends, in the lead up to his big day of the year, and he loved it. That, my friends, is what really matters....

So Happy Birth-Mas to all, and to all, a good twice-cooked lamb.....