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Today is November 21st. My birthday.

Last year my other half laid on the best birthday experience ever; including all my friends, all my geekiness and nearly all of London’s Soho district.

It was fantastic.

This year has been – amazingly – even better. Friday night I was out with work for a huge, multi-celebratory knees up. Three birthdays, two leavers and one awesome award win meant that it was the perfect combination for getting the whole company out together. It’s a rarity for all of us to unwind like that and it was definitely well overdue for some of us. I guess I got home about 4ish maybe? But even then didn’t get to sleep until the very early hours (what with deciding to carry on partying with everyone at home way back in the vale). Brilliant.

Last night was my actual birthday party; friends old and new, a few work colleagues, best mates from home, some family (it’s my sister’s birthday today too) and of course, my gorgeous rockstar of a girlfriend all made it one of the best nights out I’ve had this year.

A night of music from the 80s, filthy fairy cakes, beetlejuice-based hilarity, Marmite-flavoured chocolate… the list goes on.

Looking through my phone this morning there’s only a few photos to show off what a great night we all had (I’m sure others took many, many more), however I did find one video. One very special video.

Big love and thanks to Bryce & Camilla for today’s #vlomo10 entry. You guys rock… X

^Turn it up to 720p

^Turn it up to 720p

Every Hollywood starlet, every film I see…

The lead she smiles, she blushes, she laughs, she cries and in every single move, move and twitch I see Victoria staring back at me.

My darling Victoria, she is everywhere. On the sunrise, on the gentle breeze…

I am in love.

And so it ends…

There. I made it. 30 days of November and 30 days of video.

Well, 28 actually… But we’ll come to that another time. Similarly to others I have much to reflect on, but for now…

NaVloPoMo is at an end.

And I am happy

The music on the above video is by a band called The Momeraths.
I’ve used their stuff before and they’re kind of awesome.

Check them out.

It was my birthday last weekend and, as quite possibly the best birthday present I’ve ever been given, my girlfriend sprung two tickets to Paris this weekend.

However, not content with taking me to the most romantic city in the world, seeing the sights, taking in the museums and generally doing ‘the tourist thing’ – my lady also decided to check us into the coolest hotel I have ever seen.

Don’t believe me?

The future is here. The future is now. The future is Omar Sharif.

As you may’ve noticed from yesterday’s NaVloPoMo entry, last Thursday, Farhan and I cunningly attempted to sneakily move house without my other half (who was in Berlin at the time), finding out.

You may be pleased to discover that, after we stopped recording, we did indeed conquer our GPS woes and managed to find our way to the new place of residence just in time.

After unloading the van and assisting with lugging all the boxes up the four flights of stairs, Farhan went on his merry way while yours truly showered, changed and got himself to Heathrow to break the news to the London-bound Miss Chowney…

Surprised? Much? I certainly hoped so…