Choke

Yesterday was an incredible day!

I easily, definatelly had a fabulous birthday. A crazy amount of people remembered it (seeing as I'm not on facebook so it doesn't remind anyone about it)and I got to spend the day doing whatever I wanted.

Today on the other hand was not quite as incredible seeing as I choked.

Yep, for the first time in my life, I felt I was in danger of choking to death. I was at Nandos (who's surprised that the chubby girl almost ate herself to death?) and swallowed a chicken bone (and who's surprised that she inhales her food as opposed to chewing it?). It was stuck. Totally stuck.

Once I realised I couldn't breathe, I dealt with it pretty well. No panic to speak of, I tapped Fabian on the shoulder and pointed to my throat.

He realised immediately 'You're choking?!...It's STUCK?'. I think my by-then red face was a give away. Then he tried to give me a wierd version of the Heimmlich (yeah, no chance of that being spelled correctly.) manouvre...it was the 'let's not draw too much attention to ourselves' version. Though he claims it was just cause I wouldn't stand up.

Anyway, by this stage a few people had noticed and were watching, just in time for my body to save itself!

By vomiting. Into my hands. VICTORY!

In other news, tomorrow we're painting eggs because we're wogs and I am very excited! It's always a lot of fun hanging with my family creating some gorgeous and also some hideous designs on the eggs.

I think I'm getting old because it feels like very not long ago that we were painting eggs for last easter.

Also, yes I am aware that this blog is missing photos, so i'm working on it.

Nani x

Eggs

Easter! That means egg painting, for families such as mine and usually we take it one step further. Loads of Christian Orthodox families will dye their eggs red or blue or green, and sometimes they put a pretty leaf imprint or whatever.

We do things the more awesome way, where the women in our family get together with all of Mama's paint supplies and spend the evening painting the crap out of these eggs.


3.Eggs

As you can see, this year was a little bit different. Mama bought these cool temporary tattoo/sleeve things for the eggs and we all opted out of creativity and made at least 2 each of these. They are the really beautiful ones in the picture, you can spot a couple of hand painted ones too if you look carefully!

For my birthday Mama bought me these amazing antique Chinese Medicine cabinets from an auction. They're beautiful and my mama is amazing, so she went and bought me a shelf on which to put them (as they're rather short...I don't usually make a habit of stacking cabinets on top of shelves on top of chairs etc.). So that's arriving today and that means I'll be re-arranging this room to accommodate them.

This room by the way is my study/clinic. It's got a big squishy massage table in the middle, all my acupuncture supplies and accessories (I bet you didn't know there was such a thing as Acupuncture Accessories, did you?), a massive cool screen, all my millions of text books and of course my table on which I type this super successful and popular blog.

Let's not pretend that you're not relieved to find out that I don't blog this from the toilet, something I have previously contemplated.

Now that I've mentioned it I feel like I'm obligated to clean this room and make it awesome for when the shelf arrives. Okay. I'm off to do that, I may post a photo when it's all done and set up if you're lucky.

N x