06 January 2009

Happy 2009...

To the three people who read this blog... Happy New Year and thanks for your continued love and friendship.

Been having a lot of fun on Facebook lately and am feeling slightly guilty for giving it so much time when my sweet little PB page is so neglected.

Facebook is phenomenal. I really think it's an amazing tool for reconnection. And a lot of crap-sharing. Do people really need to know that I think it's ridiculous that hot cross buns are already on the shelves of the grocery store???

The funny thing is that there are total strangers wanting to join the group I created "Hot Cross Buns should be sold on Good Friday only". What makes people want to join a group like that? What makes people want to let everyone else know that they lost their shoes/are doing the ironing/are going skiiing/baked a pie...? (I'd want to know who baked a pie as long as I lived close enough to get to eat it).

So what happened in 2008? Apart from 'growing up'?

  • I visited my beautiful friend J., in Hobart, easily my most favourite place in Australia.
  • Saw Rufus TWICE
  • Went into marriage therapy
  • Went on my first romantic holiday with my husband (see 'marriage therapy')
  • Taught myself how to film and edit a short movie
  • Cried a lot
  • Laughed some
  • Reconnected with old friends
  • Healed some old wounds
  • Picked the scabs off a lot of others to discover they were nice and shiny with scars and not still bleedy (gross, but accurate analogy)
  • Said good-bye to my brother's former life formally and welcomed his new one by baking lots of delicious cupcakes with my wonderful friend, C.
  • Won a team award at work
  • Won an individual award at work
  • Made people laugh
  • Tried to keep breathing

Goals for 2009:

  • To be a better friend to my husband
  • To be a better friend to my kids - have more 'Dad' time with them instead of just 'Angry Mum' moments
  • To really figure out if I want to move my family to Portland
  • To try and get a handle on my financial karma
  • To keep staying 'grown up'

That's it for now.

Love yas all!

3 comments:

Unknown said...

So glad that I thought to check to see if you had done a New Years update. Thank you and for my 2 cents PB beats FB anyday.

Anonymous said...

I agree, PB rocks, FB, well, its okay but I like the limited readership here, makes me feel special, like you are just writing for us xx. You really had a remarkable 2008, glad I was theer for the ride.

Anonymous said...

Oh Crap, a typo, Picky hates that!Just pretend I have a kiwi accent.