2012 – My Year In Review

With luck, I will get away from work a bit early on Monday so I can drive to Novotel Twin Waters on the Sunshine Coast, for New Year’s with my friend Kim. She has booked 3 nights there, but I am only going up for one, as I only have New Year’s Day off work. Hopefully it will be a nice night, and hopefully the traffic won’t be revolting.

So that is my plan for seeing in 2013. A far better option than staying in Brisbane watching TV. Looking back on the past year, I am happy that I persevered with my resolution to keep a blog going.

Now, to summarise the good and not-so-good parts of 2012:

Highlights

·         New Year’s 2011/12 with Kim, Nat, Mel and new friend Sofija

·         Canberra weekend & Renaissance Art exhibition at the National Gallery with Kim

·         Kingscliff weekend with Jo-Leah, Zoe and Dani

·         Girls’ weekend at Hillyridge with Jane, Kim, Mel and Nat

·         Prado Exhibition at GoMA

·         Housesitting at Bulimba, CityCat trips to work

·         Zumba

·         Yoga

·         TV - Mad Men Season 5; Australian Amazing Race; Offspring Season 3; Paper Giants – The Birth Of Cleo;  Howzat; Beaconsfield

·         Discovered TV - Game Of Thrones, Sons Of Anarchy, Revenge, New Girl, Downton Abbey, Smash, Once Upon  A Time; The Borgias; Girls (the TV show!)

·         Movies - The Avengers; Rock Of Ages; Ted; The Sapphires; The Dark Knight Rises; The Bourne Legacy; Moonrise Kingdom; Ruby Sparks; Argo; Les Miserables

·         Breaking Dawn Part One at Moonlight Cinema with Shikha, and all the free stuff we got

·         Music - Grouplove “Guerilla Gig” at the Valley Mall; Arctic Monkeys & Miles Kane at Riverstage; Kaiser Chiefs at Hi-Fi; Morrissey at Convention Centre

·         Flight of the Conchords at Entertainment Centre

·         Team Day at Australia Zoo

·         Free tickets to Sing-a-long-a-Sound-of-Music

·         3 Green Day CDs released in 3 months

·         Babies born – Belinda’s Tess; Courtney’s Charlotte; Felicity’s Lewis; Danielle’s Max

Morrissey and band in Brisbane - 17 December

Top 5 Highlights

1.     Europe Trip

2.     Most fun weekend (in Australia) – the Lovedale Long Lunch at the Hunter Valley in May

3.     Meeting Nathan Buckley, Collingwood Coach

4.     Family Ballina Christmas at the beginning of December

5.     Watching Collingwood beat the Brisbane Lions at the Gabba

Some of the girls at Lovedale Long Lunch, Hunter Valley

Lowlights

·         New Year’s in Newcastle – our bar of choice closed at 11pm for starters

·         My friend’s mother passing away

·         Pouring rain on our day at Australia Zoo

·         Movies - Shame; Kath & Kimderella

·         Collingwood’s & Wests’ losses

·         Housesitting and the puppy getting sick on Day 2; housesitting another time and the key breaking off in the front door lock on Night 1 (and the puppy vomiting again)

·         Hot, humid Brisbane summer days, accompanied by thunderstorms, swollen feet and sweat

No.1 Worst Moment of my year – being tossed from a segway at O’Reilly’s on our Team Weekend

Here comes another year – only One Day More (another day, another destiny... Les Mis token quote)

Happy New Year to all my family and friends