6 days, 6 hours, 57 minutes...

I'm getting so excited. Only 3 more days of work left.
Tash, I can't wait to see you.

I spent tonight hanging out with some friends from the church I've been going to over here - we played 'scene it' and it just highlighted the fact that I am dreadful at remembering almost everything from every movie I've ever seen.

Not really sure why that is. I'm just sticking with the plea of 'talents in other areas'!

Turns out that 1 of my friends from that group is leaving and resettling a few hours from here. 2 others are going to spain for a while during the time that I'm in Europe and won't get back til half way through August and 3 others are going to Australia when I get back and won't be back til September...so that was the last night to hang out for a couple of months! Tragic, but hey we'll all be able to have a slide night when we are back together.

I guess that's the way summer goes. I thought it felt bizarre not having summer over the Christmas period, but in the end it wasn't too far from normal as most people still shut down for a significant period. It's way weirder to have summer in the middle of the year! All of a sudden things start to come to a close, new things start...I wonder if it makes it really hard to settle into a year this way, with two significant breaks. I imagine that you have to gather a bit of inertia to get into the second half of the year. It must make years go even faster, no wonder some people come over here to visit for a while and end up staying 10 years!
I don't intention on staying quite that long, however I'll give it a few years!

Ok, it's off to bed for me now as I'm hoping to get up early tomorrow and get ready for work before chatting to my beloved neices, mum and whoever else turns up. Birthday call! I get to open my presents in front of them - which is the way a birthday should be...shared.

Much love to all who are reading. Celebrate every day - but especially the day you were brought to the eyes of the world.