Floraish

Welcome to 2009!

Today feels like a Sunday. Mainly because I went out last night, drank too much, fell over and woke up with a hangover. It was a good party. I’m really struggling to say it was anything more. I mean, it was good, don’t get me wrong; regrettably, I wish there wasn’t as much competitive element to the ‘all you can drink’ drinks package. Alcohol makes people do funny things. Actually there was a great thing was, I welcomed the new year in with a big cliche ’sweep me off my feet’ midnight kiss from Steve. So you just know 2009 is going to be great

Tomorrow Steve and I are meeting for breakfast and then going to Dreamworld! It’s going to be a great day!

Side notes: My dad is the best dad ever in the whole world. When I couldn’t be bothered catching a bus home, he came all the way into the city, then over the other side to the Regatta and picked me up. At 2AM NYE. How awesome is he? And no complaints. Best dad ever.

Today Steve and I went to Alma Park Zoo!

I’d been there previously, but Steve hadn’t and since it’s holidays and all, we wanted to do something different! Anyways, here are some pics and captions. I haven’t had the chance to edit them myself because my MacBook didn’t come home with iPhoto or any iLife applications! But here it is, raw zoo footage of Flora and Steve.

It ended up being a really peaceful day, full of excitement and anticipation. I think we both really enjoyed it. We left early enough to miss the baboon talks, but also missed afternoon peak hour traffic, so that was a bonus. I’m going to see Steve again today, but I think we’re staying in under some covers because it’s SHIT COLD! I can’t imagine doing anything else anyways.

Something else bothered me (only slightly) yesterday, it’s just since we’ve been together and stuff, everything has been great. I mean, everyone can attest to that when I won’t shut up about him, but I had forgotten how ambitious we both are. I still might be moving away to NT next year and Steve might be moving to Melbourne after his Masters next year. I know it’s all hypotheticals, but I had completely almost forgotten about the future.

Gah, I’m sure you can see where this will go… Maybe things will be different? Maybe we can stay? Maybe we won’t? Or maybe we can just see and find out, but a year is a long time.. I guess anything can change. I kind of wished he hadn’t said anything now because it’s not fun to live for hypotheticals. I mean, even though I told him all about NT and all, it was before we had gotten together (seriously), and now that we are; I barely mentioned it again because if things are going as well as I know they can, I’d stay.

Oh great, I was going to just write about the Zoo, but now I’m all tense again.

Friday was my day!

Steve came over in the morning and then we ventured out to the Gold Coast! It was a reallllllly relaxing drive, we were going against the traffic, and we made it in good time. Since we were a bit early for our lunch date, I figured we’d stop into Harbour Town first and have a look around and find some bargains, which I did. So happy! Next stop was lunch! Now I had my a big deal about the location’s secrecy because.. well I don’t know why, but it ended up being a surprise! I had decided upon The Pink Poodle for lunch and drinks, but their limited lunch menu didn’t persuade us to eat there, so drinks it was!

I’m looking really sulky in the pic because I’m just a big whinge.

Anyways, it was a really, really, really, great day except for the small moment where Steve was driving home and the afternoon sun (and me being distracting) kinda caused Steve to drift sideways onto the other side of the (empty) road, but all good. It sounds dangerous, but we had a laugh over it. He’s still great company and I’m really glad we’re together, he doesn’t know it, but he’s making me a better person.