Once upon a time I never would have left the last entry sitting there as my last recorded thoughts. I would have been quick to write other things, moving it down the page, burying it. Truth is though, I've learned to not care so much about my public persona. I don't really give a shit whether it appears like I'm dwelling on something, because I ( Read more... )

I went and saw Tori Amos on Thursday night. Her by-request show in Sydney. She was incredible and I was so overcome by being in her mere presence, and then hearing all those songs that got me through some really difficult times. And it inevitably brought up stuff about Brian and the friendship past that just keeps kicking about in my brain ( Read more... )

God, has it really been months since I wrote in here? Probably. Work's been a bit frantic and my social life's been busy, and I've been a bit plagued by one minor illness after another. Steve has a habit of bringing home germs and it just seems like we're always sick lately. It's driving me mad. I missed skating last night because I was feeling ( Read more... )

Today I feel like I've really got time to breathe. I've been pretty frantic lately. My workload's been heavy, and if I haven't been working it feels like I've had social obligations to meet. Not that that's a bad thing. I've seen Josh Pyke and Melanie Safka live in recent weeks, went to the zoo with Steve, Mum, and Miss Lily last Saturday. It's ( Read more... )

So this roller skating thing definitely seems to be sticking. I had my best class ever last night. We went from about 10 the week before to just three of us, plus one brand new girl. So our instructors split up and one was devoted to the new girl, and the other took us, switching backwards and forwards to keep things interesting. It meant they ( Read more... )

So I've now been to four roller skating classes, and I'm starting to feel like I'm getting a bit of a handle on things. I'm still pretty clumsy, but I'm feeling a bit less useless. I can mostly participate in games without being a team liability, and I'm making some progress on my snowplows (a move where we stop ( Read more... )

So last night I sucked up my nerves and went to my first RollerFit class. As I was getting ready Sara Bareilles' "Brave" came on the radio and I took it as some kind of sign ( Read more... )

Life's been ticking along. Busy times, as April always is. We have everyone's birthdays and Easter thrown in. And this year I had Lisa coming to stay for the ANZAC Day long weekend since John Mayer was in town and he wasn't doing Brisbane. It was really nice to show off the house. We still haven't done the housewarming party because we've been ( Read more... )

About time for some good news right? Well, Steve's landed himself a perment job. His dream job, he tells me. He's getting out of his contract early and moving on to much greener pastures. I'm thrilled. The money's decent, not quite what he was on at the last gig but what he's been getting currently. The hours are amazing. He's allowed to start any ( Read more... )

I've been too cranky in here lately. I'm PMSing now, so I'm probably still too cranky, but I want to reverse the trend and write about ten things I'm really grateful for ( Read more... )