Count your Bruises – The Flatliners

That is probably one of the best songs I’ve been listening to lately. SO good.

How have we been passing the time leading into the new year? Work, a lot (working for your Dad isn’t nearly as fun as you’d hope it would be). Or going out every odd night and meeting everyone named Luke Wilson in Sydney (I met two, at the same bar, exactly a week apart. It’s just weird). Or watching American Horror Story well into the night.

Or going on cute outings with Chrystal. We went to the markets this weekend and she bought me the most beautiful (faux) fur jacket as a belated birthday gift. The amount of jokes about me looking like a polar bear in it and thus part of Polar Bear Club… I’m a menace. But its gorgeous. Nothing gets better than fur in the summer, accompanied by vegan nachos and apple and mint frappes. I’ve hoarded a lot of fun clothes over the past few weeks so I’ll have to do a post all about that, too. So many gems.

This new year is being wonderful so far. They say this is the best summer of your life (post high school graduation, just before university claims my soul) and to be honest, it really is.

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So once again, we’re faced with a new year. Every new year people start to have hope for a new future, change, all that kind of stuff. Personally, I don’t really care. But January 1st is always a good day to look back at the past year and remember all the experiences – 2011 being a very hectic, emotional, draining, busy and generally fun year.

Last year I was (un)fortunate enough to be home on New Year and posted a reflection of 2010. This year I’m a bit luckier and will be celebrating that Saturday, so I’ve queued the world’s longest blog post to go over the past year and some of it’s highlights. It’s crazy not only how many things happened, and not only how often my hair changes, but how different it was to 2010 and how much I’ve grown up.

So here we have it, my friends, 2011!

Aw, look at me, so nostalgic. 2011 was immense. 2012 will bring a lot of firsts too – university, (hopefully) new friends and many of great new experiences. But more importantly, how was your 2011?

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For All We Know – Chunk! NO Captain Chunk!

So, that’s my brother and mother. I am so proud that when Dad wanted to take a photo of us sitting together, we all did these poses without arranging it.

Christmas was ok. Gift wise, this year we’re celebrating money! I did get The Tourist on DVD though, so there’s a bit of fun. For Christmas we went to my Uncle’s place for Christmas Lunch (seeing as its Summer for Christmas here, the norm is to have a barbecue lunch with cold meats and seafood), and for the first time in years the whole of Mum’s family were together. I can’t express how rare that is. So y’know, it was all right. For Boxing Day we had another barbecue at our place, this time for family friends. So it’s been full on with the guests and family friends and family and such. It feels like I haven’t seen my own friends for so long, even though I was with them on Friday.

Ahh well, it’s all coming to an end now. Tell me about your holiday season though!!

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