Quick round-up then...
The latest Queenstown Exodus saw the end of, amongst others, Becky (for reals this time, to Perth), Mareva (also Perth), Maebh (to Welly but now proper off home next week), Corm & Lou (Canadia via home) and the rest of the Suburb crew, and now Sammy is about to head off to Radelaide for a couple of months.
I'm gonna stop whinging about this now though, because it ain't gonna stop happening and I'll just keep finding new people anyway. I had a bit of a cathartic moment in November after a bit of chatting and a few revelations, and I feel good about it.
Christmas was fucking hot this year. Ross & Michelle came over in the morning to join Sammy, Lizzy, Jens and I. We dragged the table out onto the skate ramp and had a decadent breakfast of croissants, bagels, smoked salmon, cream cheese and buck's fizz. It was proper gloriously gluttonous, but really FUCKING HOT. Like, the butter turned into a little melty pool with flies in it within minutes. Did some more drinking, dandered down to the beach, jumped in the lake a few times (some of us more naked than others), came back up to the house and had a wee bit of a BBQ. And drank more, obviously.
NYE was a BYE. Just a party in the house, but with good people so by far preferable to dealing with bogans in town instead. Ed was over with his housemate Clare and his mate Kai from home, it was really nice to see him.
As far as the new year goes, I'm not one for resolutions but there are definitely some things I want to achieve this year. First and foremost, I need a solid route to residence and the cashmoney to back it up. The longer I stay here, the more I know that this is where I want to be, and I need to stop fucking about with sponsorship and sort out my shit. It's not really a secret that Customer Service is NOT my dream job, and nearly 4 years along I'm still doing it. I have no idea what I realistically CAN do in QT that is going to make me happy, but I need to start looking for it rather than wait for it to just happen. In the long run, I just can't wait until I'm no longer in the position where I'm tied to a specific job, ANY specific job just to stay here.
My flights are all booked for Jo's wedding in July, and depsite myself I'm starting to look forward to going home for a bit. I mean, not that I wasn't looking forward to the wedding, but if it weren't for that I'd not be thinking about going back at all. By then it will have been two and a half years, so I suppose I'm due...
On a completely separately unrelated tangent, here is a random thing that makes my day. Sitting in a pub, or in a car at work or something, A Song is on the radio. Sing along. Go to the loo, or get into another car or whatever, and still be PERFECTLY IN TIME WITH THE SONG when you rejoin the song. Brilliant.
Other things of Note:
- Had to drop $600 on the Legacy - water pump, CV joints. Needs a cam still too...
- Fucking random as weather - blistering sun one day, floods the next.
- I've started something that is making me really happy and and I'm having very good feelings about where it can go. Seriously.
- Savings! What savings?
- Every time I do this section, I have to check how I formatted the "Other things of Note:" line.
