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11:11

May 9th, 2009

I am typing this at 11:11, our jinxed time. It’s pretty funny how much one notices something after hearing about it from everywhere. Spooky.

Today was fabulous. DHL delivered my prints for my exhibition and they looked stunning. I am absolutely stoked with them, and we were all squealing with excitement (or at least I was doing it loud enough for everyone!) We rushed out to buy velcro, we got 4 metres worth and Nay and I spent lunch time sticking them on. Then we and Libby went up to college with them and hung them up in my space. I was so happy, I felt like dancing and running around like a sore-winner. We looked at everyone else’s and there were some very odd ones as well as some incredible ones too, the variety was staggering.

Chair Print

Pond Print

Us Putting Up Wedding Print

Crash On Wall
The Team

We then went for Macca’s and sat at Southbank to gobble it down. The Sun kept disappearing behind clouds and we got a bit chilly with the wind coming in off the river, so we hopped back on a train and spent the afternoon all working on our own little things.

Nay and Libby
Nay And I Southbank

All in all, it has been a really productive day. I feel a good change around the corner and I am very excited. I think I’ve learned a lot today, and I feel all the more wiser for learning it. I am so, so, so grateful to Nay for helping me through this most stressful process of panicking, chasing prints and finally hanging them. Libby was pretty good too at helping out, but not as good as Nathan was. [:

I should get some shut eye. I have a driving lesson tomorrow (sigh), but hopefully this’ll be one of the last ones! My test is now in just over a week and I’m really looking forward to it. I want to turn over a new leaf, I want to make every bad into something good. So what if I fail this next test? I’ll just retake it for the 4th time, who cares? I know I feel good enough this time to pass, and that’s what I’ll set out to do and this time I won’t nearly pass out in the waiting room! Bring on lucky number 3.

Nathan, what you have done for me today means everything to me. Words cannot express how much easier you have made everything and words cannot thank you enough for everything you have done. You really have been my sanity and I’m so sorry if I’ve been a complete scrooge, I know I have been. I love you dearly and to hear you say today how proud you were of me made this all finally worthwhile. Thank you Nay, thank you so much. I love you. <3



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April 19th, 2009

Bicycle Love

Today was a beautiful day. It was magical from the second we woke up. We had a barbeque at my parent’s. Yes, English people do have barbeques too! We stuffed ourselves full with everything and then could do nothing but sit for a couple of hours as we felt fit to burst. How I love and hate that feeling.

Today we also found out that Connie has been rehomed. We can finally have some closure on her now. I’m so happy and I hope her new owners have the best time with her. Thank you Battersea for keeping her name and for also keeping her collar. Here she is. [:

I also added 300 words to my Uni essay. It is coming together all rather nicely. I’ll finish it off tomorrow as I have very little to go and can get it done within the morning.

Tomorrow is our 23 month anniversary. I’m super excited. It feels like we’ve been together for even longer than that, everyday has been so special because we’ve learned that everyday had to be special. We used to yearn for the day that we could live together. We waited for what seemed a lifetime. We were apart for 6 months before I arrived in Sydney. We spent 2 months together out ther before I got on a plane back to the UK. So Nathan chased me on a plane the next day. I’ve never had anyone chase after me to the other side of the World. I cried all the way back between sleeping for 20 hours. I stumbled around Bangkok with no credit to contact anyone I knew, I was totally alone in a strange country just wanting to hear Nathan’s voice. I landed in the UK and turned on my phone to receive a call straight away from him to tell me that he had booked a flight to come out to live with me. It was the best day of my life.

Since then we’ve been settling into life in the UK in all its glory (hah!) We’ll return to Australia really soon and I’m really looking forward to a change of scenery. In so many ways, the UK and Australia are so similar, but they are just so different too. I’d say they were different in more ways than they are similar. But I like different.

Anyway, this was just a little update from our little corner of the planet. Good evening World.