March Madness

It's really hard for me to believe that we are a quarter of the way, and almost a third of the way, through the year! It's almost as hard as knowing that I am now officially 24 years old and that it has indeed been 3 years since my 21st. I know that I am still young, but my God do I feel old!! One of my friends started dating a 21 year old and the thought of it just made me cringe when I realised how much of an age gap that is. Anyway, enough of this self-pitying. Time to get down to it. What did March bring?

First of all, there was my dive course. As an early birthday present, Grant paid for me to take the course and bought me most of the gear that I will need for it (a BCD, regulator and cylinder are just not necessary if you are still trying to decide whether it is going to be a serious hobby or not.) The course did not go 100% as planned, and it is not over yet, but I am trying hard and (hopefully) will have my last pool session tomorrow and my open water dives next weekend. To hear read more about my experience of diving, check out this post.

Later on in the month came my six year anniversary with Grant. It was something that I had been really looking forward to, since we missed our four year and five year anniversaries while I was overseas, but because of the dive course and the grand prix, we ended up doing nothing special for it - we just spent the day like a very normal Sunday, lounging around the house, playing games and watching movies.

In terms of photography, I got one job covering the Windmills performance by the Rhodes Chamber Choir, and some of the photos that were taken have been put up on my website. They will also be put up on the choir's official site once that is up and possibly on Rhodes website. If you would like to read more about covering the event or would like to see some of the photos, you can see them in this post on my photography blog.

Work was really busy in March with problems happening towards the end of the month. Thankfully they were nothing like the problems that we had last year, in that they affected less people and affected most of them less significantly. But those that the issue did affect were most put out and there were a lot of threats to be dealt with. It was mostly not the Accounts department dealing with them (thankfully), but it did mean a lot of stress all around the office.

Towards the end of the month I had to take a second trip to PE (the first one having been to get my diving gear) when I had to take Kath to the airport. It was not particularly exciting, since it took place before first light at 5am so that I could get back to work on time. Needless to say, it was not the most pleasant trip I have experienced and I was in dire need of caffeine and just plain sleep when I arrived.

And finally, there was my birthday at the end of the month. A huge number of people did remember (largely thanks to Facebook reminders I suspect) and I thank all of those who sent me messages. It was a wonderfully relaxing day mostly spent in bed. Grant took me out for a nice dinner in the evening and we finished off the day by watching a movie together. I didn't get too many gifts this year, and I suppose it is a sign of my getting older :P I did get spoiled by Grant with dinner and diving equipment and even got surprised when his parents came to visit this week, bringing with them a gift of lights for my studio, which we are planning on building later this month. It was a bit of a weird feeling, waking up on my birthday to another ordinary Saturday without anything special planned, but I need to grow up at some point and not every birthday needs to be a spectacular affair. There's always next year, when I turn the big 25 ;)

Some reviews from the month of March that you guys have to look forward to:

Books
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Dead Famous - Ben Elton
Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

Movies
The Descendants
The Roommate
Hop
I Love You, Man
Inception
Jumper