Well I’m officially 23 now, and have been for a few days.  Not that it matters much, it’s not getting me into any other places I wasn’t allowed to go into before Saturday . The weird thing is, yes I turned 23 last Saturday but I felt 23 already a few months ago. I don’t know how to explain it but I just felt older, in a good way ofcourse.
Maybe it also has to do with the changes in my life over the last few months, more responsibility at work, a new apartment, looking at certain situations differently etc. So yeah, I can now officially call myself 23 but I already felt 23 months ago…

My birthday was nice, not many people (family) came to visit but those who I care about the most, my parents, my sister and my ‘brother-in-law’ (they aren’t married or engaged but I see him as family), my grandma, and my friends, showed up. I really didn’t expect other family members suchs as cousins, uncles and aunts to show up (although I have to say 1 uncle & aunt gave me a present for my new apartment and did sent a birthday card) but it would have been just polite for my other family to even say ‘congrats’ as they visited my grandma (who has her own ‘apartment’ in our house). They were here (as in, in our house) but didn’t bother to knock on our door and say congrats. I suppose this gives me the right to not show up or bother about their birthdays. Not that I was planning to in the first place but them not showing up gives me a little more right not to either, and quiet frankly I just can’t be bothered to go or call.

It might sound rude to you as it’s family we’re talking about here but we hardly ever see each other. I think the only time we see each other is at my grandma’s birthday. For New Year they were at my grandma’s too and they didn’t bother to walk to the hall, knock on our door (as they were in our house at my nan’s part anyway) and wish us a happy new year or something like that. And I don’t feel that I have to walk up to everybody in my own house to wish them a happy new year. They visited us, they know where to find me, so it’s up to them. I learned a long time ago not to bother and go after people just to be polite. Not only with family but in general. Even if I bothered most of the time, the people I was trying to be polite with didn’t even bother, so why would I bother?!
Besides, I’m happy to have the people in my life that do bother (as mentioned above and the ones that sent me cards but couldn’t visit as they live abroad etc) and they are the ones I care about .

Plugged: Bex, Natalie

I’ve updated my QBee Quilt with 2 patches, so go check it out. That’s it for now. Later dropsticks x

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