a quick christmas/new years greeting,

sorry i'm late but,

merry christmas 

and

happy new years,

i hope you all had a lovely christmas filled with all of those christmas-iee-related-things 

:)

my christmas was, surprisingly, one of the best i've ever had!

my uncle and cousins came up for the week. it was the first time we had seen them in... well, a really, really, really loooong time!

and it was weird.

but only because it wasn't.

you know when you seen someone in a really long time and it's like you don't have anything in common anymore, but then after an hour or so, it's like nothing's changed and everything is wonderful and you start to remember all of those silly in-jokes? well, although we (my brother and i) hadn't seen kyle in 2 years, alanna in 3 years and dom in like 5+ years (can't remember exactly), there was no awkwardness or anything! and that's why it was weird. 

because it wasn't.

they are by far my favourite cousins

... even though they have red hair,

yeah... pretty much all of my relatives have red hair,

my mum is 1/2 italian, 1/2 irish, and she's the only one of five kids that looks like a wog,

hence, probably why my brother and i don't have red hair and they do... though it doesn't rule out the possibility that my kids could have red hair, god forbid. 

kidding..

yeah so, christmas was lovely! and i got a tone of books and vouchers :), all of which were on my list!!! 

:D

new years was not exactly... what i expected/looking forward to, 

but anywho, there's always next year (Y)

assuming i make through this year.. 

not too worried about that though,

:)

xo

the beach of rainbow,

hi there!

well, i got back from rainbow beach on sunday.

i came home a week early :D

i didn't think i would, but two weeks... i was probably going to die from boredom. 

just sayin' 

the week at rainbow was pretty good. however i did have greater expectations for the week and the whole "schoolies experience" (even though it wasn't technically "schoolies") ... yeah, so it was good,

highs 

1. james getting completely wasted for the amusement of, well, everyone in the house but him (and later nicki). 

2. the beach party with elisha and jamesy boy. 

3. all of the drinks josh bought and made for us.

4. josh making food for us. NACHOS!

5. random walks and watching the sunset with nicki

6. climbing the massive sand dune with james and nicki at 4:oo in the afternoon

7. pulling an all-nighter with nicki and josh, playing cards and starburst + coke = diabetes

8. stealing ...mhmm... from tom and bek

9. tom and bek asking everyone in the house for mhmms in the middle of the night

10. mario brawl... while drinking

11. ice cream!!!!

12. no parents

13. watching the sunrise with nat, josh, james and nicki

lows

1. the singles to couple ratio

2. listening to tom tell us about his love for "rom-coms" 

(aka romantic comedies)

3. LOSING MY EFF-ING LE SPECS 

(RIP, i love you. forever)

and well, the rest was pretty so-so. i wish i could have met some new people! oh well... i guess i have the rest of my life for that now.

PICTURES!

it was a pretty good week :)

valley fiesta '09,

on saturday nicki and i went to the valley fiesta after the english tutorial. we got there at 2pm, we got some gifts for marley's birthday as it was her birthday party that night, not that we left it to the last minute or anything haha. we ran into james and sophie, which was quite lovely. nicki left later after that and then soph and james walked me home. 

it was a lovely afternoon in the valley :)

PICTURES 

(courtesy of sophie richards - http://sensing-owls.blogspot.com/)

i love this town

thanks for walking me home guys :) 

(even though soph really needed to pee)

xo