29

Thank you for all the birthday wishes! I'm 29 now, bringing me slightly closer to the age that people think I am (currently about 35), so I have just one more year until a large milestone. I had meant to take the day off but my amazing boss announced he was leaving yesterday, so I really wanted to go in and attend the services meeting and find out what we're going to do without him.

My parents unexpectedly sent me a digital keyboard, which I'm on the point of getting to work completely with my computer - I've found that I can still vaguely read music, but it's going to take a lot of practice to get back up to even my previous doubtful ability. Fortunately, Whitney has also given me a collection of song books by the Beatles and Queen and so on along with the soundtracks of Super Mario and Zelda - I think that being able to play music I was interested in would have done wonders for my enthusiasm when I was younger rather than plodding through Snug as a Bug in a Rug.

And Whitney and her parents got me Pokemon Y - the first one I will ever have played - so I will be shortly finding out what that is like and joining the obsession with you all!