Well this is a bit of a belated post. Basically, it was my birthday on Thursday, and I celebrated my reaching the 20 year milestone in typical understated Nina-like fashion, by staying in bed for half of it and eating my feelings the other half. All in all, a pretty good day, although slightly marred by the absence of my family for the first time ever, which was kinda sad times. However, today certainly made up for it when my mum turned up in Birmingham to take me out for lunch and give me the best birthday present ever, aka a Kindle :D ! (More about that in my next post). Even though I'm going home next weekend it was so good to see her and really made my week, and for once even the weather seemed to agree :) .
The only depressing thing about turning 20 though is I can no longer use the excuse of being a teenager whenever I throw a strop or feel a bit immature, suddenly everybody expects me to behave and have all these responsibilities and it's just like "umm.... No". Just because I've hit 20 doesn't mean I changed overnight, I'm still my fun-loving, troublesome, laid back and immature self, and at least for the time being that shall not change. What has changed though is my smiling. On my birthday I found myself cracking a smile as the sun shone through my window so I grabbed my camera and snapped it as evidence that it really is possible ;)
A long time ago my Christian Union held a promise auction where people promise to do stuff for others and we all bid money for them, so... basically an auction with no actual stuff. Anyway, amongst many of my bids I won the chance to have my very own custom Cassie toy, which is a big deal in CU. For those of you who won't know, a Cassie toy is a stuffed cuddly toy made by the lovely Cassie, and are much sought after and the envy of all non Cassie toy owners. Anyway, so when I won it I asked her to make me a palomino pony to resemble a pony I used to look after when I was younger, called Lady. And finally, after many many weeks of waiting my patience was finally rewarded tonight when I was presented with my finished toy, and even as someone turning 20 in a couple of weeks I am unashamed to admit I squealed with glee and ran around the room showing anybody who would listen my new toy. I'm pretty sure they now all think I'm more insane than they realised, but it was so worth it :3 . It is by far one of the nicest things someone had ever done for me and I shall treasure her always.
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