Not going to get annoyed by the mini politics of the Eurovision Junior votes - grr, Greece and Cyprus backscratching each other, but just in anticipation of any huge spike in readership, may be a good time to give an overview of characters in this blog - seeing as I didn't do an official character list at all in the six or so months to date (only six months? I thought I had this blog longer than I had a job?)...
Myself, Pauly, New Zealander in Australia, Brisbane to be more exact. Unsure where my life is heading at the moment, but trying my best whichever direction it takes. Have a job in a call centre (inbound calls only, not annoying people with unwanted outbound calls LOL).
My family - I'm currently living with my parents, while I sort out things, they have stayed together, married, for over thirty years now. Shrugging shoulders, not much else to say on the parental front. Have one brother and one sister, both younger than me - my brother has a long term partner, who's currently preggers and due in mid-February.
Now to the real characters LOL -
V - currently my best friend and fumbling towards something more. What the something more is, I am not completely sure of, but we have had holidays together, have a January one planned, and exchanged Chrissie presents. Is a long distance thing, whatever it is, within international boundaries (which is unusual for me).
K - my latest ex. Canadian, and I lived over there for ten months last year (2003). Left messily, I had medical issues and work issues and stress issues, and is having a conversation with someone online considered cheating? Still consider Canada as a more suitable second home than Australia ever will be (remember, I'm a Kiwi), and still embers there, both positive and negative, but who knows if when I will see the Great White North again...
H - no longer really top three material, but gets in here due to my truly madly deeply (or as I abbreviate it, TMD) way I fell for her. The first girl I did that for, and AGAIN a long distance thing, another one living in Canada when I first bumped into her (was a month old newbie on chatrooms), and went to visit as friends, with a plan B of watching hockey LOL. Fell for her big time, she said she was going to New Zealand as soon as she had a few months with her mother in Northern Ireland - visited her there and ten minutes after getting to Belfast International Airport (now there's a misnomer LOL) we were broken up. Then followed the funniest holiday of my life, funny peculiar, and my heart was broken for months afterwards. Now, four years later, we are back to chat buddies, a slightly positive aspect of things, still a ways to go to be GOOD friend material...
Work next I guess - SW is the person I am closest to there, fellow Kiwi, female, good social buddy (have told each other things that are best kept secret LOL) - JC, a Jersey girl - the original Jersey in the Channel Islands, not a J-Lo movie - nice enough, and I am friends with, but seems stressed a lot lately - MC, another friend who seems a bit stressed lately. There was another closeish work buddy, LB, but she was laid off two weeks before Xmas - we used to be the Gang of Five, if anyone was going socialising the whole five of us usually were keen. Need a new recruit otherwise it will be the Gang of Four, I should keep in touch with LB, but you know how it is, especially in this faster and faster paced world.
Also at work of note are KW - who could be the new Gang recruit, about the same age as my sister and I notice a similar type of talking between the two - nice enough, but has taken months for her to let her socialising guard down at work. MC2 is my current boss, thinks the world of me, but I hate being praised and whenever she says something nice, I try NOT to roll my eyes. AD is a nice guy, and I add him in here for going drink for drink with me at our section Xmas lunch LOL - and for the conversation we had at the office Xmas party where my feelings for Canada equated with his for Japan.
KW2 I got a Xmas card from this year, even though I didn't think I had had that much effect on her yet LOL - had love as the sign off in the card, which intrigued myself and V no end LOL. Final workmate of note is MG, who is my daily eye candy LOL - if you read deeper into my blog, you will see that I rate the friendship by how many hellos I get a week LOL. And avoided her when drinking at the staff party, am intimidated by attractive women and intimidated of what I might say when inebriated - more workmates to be mentioned at later dates, I am sure...
Most of the close friends I have are back in New Zealand - the whole work sphere is basically it this side of the ditch. MR and SR, well, he used to be my best friend, but then they got married, we flatted for a bit, and I was odd man out when there was tension in the flat - a shame too, it was a nice place. RB and KA, they are getting married, the reason I'm heading back home, they are a really really nice couple, and damn, I have to think of a good wedding present hmm. Other assorted friends from my time at high school will crop up, I am sure - especially around the wedding entries, if I do any...
AG was the closest work buddy I had back home before she up and left for pastures greener - we still kept in touch while I was in Wellington, but since I left, both in Canada and here, has been the occassional phone call, that's about it. I hope she's going to be in town when I visit, but I think she was going to be on holiday for most of the month - fingers crossed though...
Other Welly work buddies include BI, a Scottish guy whom I could talk soccer with endlessly, as well as the occassional socialising, JM, a former boss who likes me lots, who unfortunately is definitely out of town during my visit, and TF, a Nuiean lady who likes a bet on the horses and a beer LOL. From an older job, my first, is TA, a guy who is nice enough, but the best topics of conversation are either sport or the Beatles. Nice guy to take along to sports games though when not feeling in the mood to be a Nigel No Mates LOL. Mmm, Wellington Stadium memories :)
Friends further afield include CA, a former Queens Noo Yawk resident, currently engaged on Long Island - visited her back in 2002 - loved Manhattan, even the Ground Zero aspects and all - lest we forget... there is LC, a former Sask Canada girl who is currently engaged in Florida (hmm, theme here?)... and, just looking at my email address book hmm, that is about it for the primary characters - will fill you in on more soonish no doubt :)
Pauly
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