Not sure how interested anyone will be by a recap of my past year, but, seeing as doing recaps is the new black, and yes, I would jump off a cliff if everyone else did, we will see how we go...
January was the trip over home with V to see the grandparents and to see RBU/KAR get married. Got an extra day's holiday what with the Freedom Air staff mauling my old passport, trying to give me the sob story that the airline would get fined if Australia rejected me blah blah. Oh, happy days indeed - but at least the extra day was gloriously fine, and I got to sit on the waterfront as I did in my work lunchbreak years ago, with an ice cream as an added extra.
Oh yes, and how could I think of forgetting the Huygens probe landing on Titan, with V more interested in how her eggs were going to be cooked...
The most memorable thing from February was my first trip to Tasmania like ever in history. Reminded me of the Wairarapa or Hawkes Bay areas back home, nicely rural, and Deloraine itself fitted my Mount Thomas visions perfectly LOL. Also got confirmed that I would become permanent at work, unlike several other temps that I was relatively close to - although the paperwork would take until April to sort out, so they didn't have to pay for Easter holidays...
Oh, and the days where MGT was my eye candy LOL. And February was the month I finally bit the bullet and got around to repaying my debt - only another nine months to go LOL.
March was V's Dad's funeral, and wangling a couple of days out of my boss as 'emergency' leave. Got a lot of brownie points from the family for getting down there, but apparently broke up V's best friendship of the past x amount of years - although from the sounds, I was only partially the problem...
I thought April was a bit of a wash out when trawling my memory, but hmm, reading the actual entries, there was JPH's birthday and also the merging of the 'tribes' at work - geez, was it that long ago that it happened? 'You Can Do It Put Your Back Into It' indeed Ice Cube LOL. Oh, and yes, the cultural evening done by the work social club with the strippers involved - how on earth could I forget that gem of an evening out :)
May was the trip to Melbourne, the memory that jumps out at me. Mmm, Collingwood v Hawthorn at the 'G, with hot pies and cold beers all the way, yum. And the way that evening turned out later on, waiting for about an hour for a ride home. Oh the wonderful charming nature of V's sister's boyfriend - Mr 'Nobody's Listening To Me'. Oh, and Schapelle Corby got convicted that month. Yeah, it was pretty quiet :)
June, hmm not much happened, apart from one of those movie script kind of nights for SWA's leaving the company, where -
'Oh, and by this stage, SMG and MDA had found us again - one of those nights where all of Brisbane just seemed to be background to a dozen people perhaps, finding and refinding them continually over the night. Made me think of movies such as Swingers or Go, if you have seen those movies you will know what I mean - or perhaps an extended version of a sitcom episode, where you can imagine that New York city exists only as a background for these six friends in huge cheap apartments on chef or paleontologist wages LOL.'
Not much else of note happened in June - hmm, how pretentious is that Paul, quoting from your own blog LOL.
OK, have to stop there for the night, that humidity headache is just too annoying to keep concentrating just now.
Pauly
January was the trip over home with V to see the grandparents and to see RBU/KAR get married. Got an extra day's holiday what with the Freedom Air staff mauling my old passport, trying to give me the sob story that the airline would get fined if Australia rejected me blah blah. Oh, happy days indeed - but at least the extra day was gloriously fine, and I got to sit on the waterfront as I did in my work lunchbreak years ago, with an ice cream as an added extra.
Oh yes, and how could I think of forgetting the Huygens probe landing on Titan, with V more interested in how her eggs were going to be cooked...
The most memorable thing from February was my first trip to Tasmania like ever in history. Reminded me of the Wairarapa or Hawkes Bay areas back home, nicely rural, and Deloraine itself fitted my Mount Thomas visions perfectly LOL. Also got confirmed that I would become permanent at work, unlike several other temps that I was relatively close to - although the paperwork would take until April to sort out, so they didn't have to pay for Easter holidays...
Oh, and the days where MGT was my eye candy LOL. And February was the month I finally bit the bullet and got around to repaying my debt - only another nine months to go LOL.
March was V's Dad's funeral, and wangling a couple of days out of my boss as 'emergency' leave. Got a lot of brownie points from the family for getting down there, but apparently broke up V's best friendship of the past x amount of years - although from the sounds, I was only partially the problem...
I thought April was a bit of a wash out when trawling my memory, but hmm, reading the actual entries, there was JPH's birthday and also the merging of the 'tribes' at work - geez, was it that long ago that it happened? 'You Can Do It Put Your Back Into It' indeed Ice Cube LOL. Oh, and yes, the cultural evening done by the work social club with the strippers involved - how on earth could I forget that gem of an evening out :)
May was the trip to Melbourne, the memory that jumps out at me. Mmm, Collingwood v Hawthorn at the 'G, with hot pies and cold beers all the way, yum. And the way that evening turned out later on, waiting for about an hour for a ride home. Oh the wonderful charming nature of V's sister's boyfriend - Mr 'Nobody's Listening To Me'. Oh, and Schapelle Corby got convicted that month. Yeah, it was pretty quiet :)
June, hmm not much happened, apart from one of those movie script kind of nights for SWA's leaving the company, where -
'Oh, and by this stage, SMG and MDA had found us again - one of those nights where all of Brisbane just seemed to be background to a dozen people perhaps, finding and refinding them continually over the night. Made me think of movies such as Swingers or Go, if you have seen those movies you will know what I mean - or perhaps an extended version of a sitcom episode, where you can imagine that New York city exists only as a background for these six friends in huge cheap apartments on chef or paleontologist wages LOL.'
Not much else of note happened in June - hmm, how pretentious is that Paul, quoting from your own blog LOL.
OK, have to stop there for the night, that humidity headache is just too annoying to keep concentrating just now.
Pauly
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