Top 100 Australian Women`s Blogs…

I was following link after link today on some of the blogs I read and came across this site which links to some of the top Aussie female bloggers!
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In an effort to improve on my writing I have decided to sign up for Encyclopedia of me which started over at Bella Dia (and which I found out about by reading Laura`s blog here...)
Thank you to everyone who commented on my last post (and the posts before that in the `Encyclopedia of me`)
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F is for future…If you had asked me ten years ago or even five years ago if I thought the life I am living now is what I would of being living I probably would of laughed and said no way! But life takes you in strange directions, some stranger than others (like half way around the world)…
I handed in my notice at work today…I will finish up on April 11th. By then I will have worked at my current preschool for almost 18 months….I love the kids, I really do, but several months ago I mentioned how lately my job had been making me feel like I would be a terrible mother. And with all the stuff going on back home I didn`t need the added stress of that, and under-staffing issues that my job has being causing me lately. After speaking with the owner, and after having finalized my decision with Shumpei and my family I feel as if a weight has been lifted off my shoulders..
I am ready for the next step of my life. Which will be me returning to Australia in May spending time with my family, helping Shumpei learn English when he arrives in July (and also teaching him more about my `Australian life`)and taking a year to do some temp work, see if I find a job or industry I like….Also, planning a wedding and saving money to move back to Tokyo as a married couple….
I am hoping that somewhere in all this I will be able to cross a few things off my life list…..Something I plan to focus on a lot more over the next year.
Sometimes future is a scary word….mainly because people rarely have any idea what is going to happen….I have a little bit of and idea what the next six months will entail at least, and for after that we will have to see!!! While future is a scary work, it is also a word that brings to mind new experiences, closure and excitement…all things I am ready for!
Here is to my future(our future!)…and to yours!
ps: I love ps`s…sorry this is not a very long post for the enc of me, but I am lacking blogging inspiration today!
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Today is Australia day (January 26th)…and I am listening to the Triple J hottest 100 as I write this because I know that this is what most of my friends back in Australia are doing right now! Although they are probably also drinking copious amounts of beer, wine and spirits and swimming…..while I am still in my pajamas!
Recently I joined the
Aussie Bloggers Forum
which started at the end of last year and already has over 250 members (In less than a month!) but it would be great to see more bloggers joining up because already I have found it to be a very welcoming and helpful community!
It has even inspired me to move my blog over to wordpress since so many people rave about it and updating my blog was on my life list which means I will finally be making a start on it! So I am in the process of switching it over now (Well Snoskred is doing most of the work!!! Thanks!) and it should be up sometime in February!
Earlier this week they launched the Aussie Bloggers Blog which I advice everyone, not just Australians, to check out because it is set to be filled with lots of great information for anyone blogging!
I started blogging to keep in contact with people back home, but most people that read my blog now were strangers until I started. But this blog, even though it doesn`t create much traffic, nor do I have many readers, has helped me make friends all over! I have blogging friends I always catch up with in Australia, I have other foreign friends who blog here in Japan and I even had one friend who blogs out of Canberra come visit me here in Tokyo while she was traveling around Japan (Hi Enny!!!!). I am sure this year will bring many more meetings between blogging friends!
I hope everyone, where ever they are are having a good weekend! Even if you are not out there celebrating Australia day!!!!
Happy Australia Day 2008!
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Happy New Year to everyone!
2007 was a good year but I am really looking forward to 2008. I have decided not to have resolutions this year as such….I will be focusing on my life list instead which I will be putting up here soon!
I spent the new year with a couple of friends at a small house party….There was wine, music and even some fireworks (Despite the crazy weather in Brisbane they did let off some fireworks) I saw in the New year but was asleep by 1:30am! It was low-key but exactly what I wanted. I spoke to Shun at my midnight and again at his midnight….I think 2008 is going to be a big year for us. We have plans to get engaged and we will also be moving to Australia in July for a little while if all goes according to plan!
I wish everyone the best for 2008, I hope that everything you want, you get.
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I am going back to Australia today! I am all packed and ready to go and Shun and I will have some lunch out before he sees me off at Shinjuku station! I am so excited. I haven`t had Christmas at home it what seems like SOOOOO long!
I will miss Shun though…last Christmas was our first Christmas together in the same country and it was lovely too. We made our own Christmas traditions….I wish he was coming with me to Australia today but at least he will be in Australia next year for Christmas!
Anyway blogging might be light while I away! Merry Christmas to everyone that still comes here to read my drivel! Hope you all have a lovely time!
ps: I am just watching the news now and they say it might snow in Tokyo/Chiba area today?!? It doesn`t seem quite cold enough for snow but hey the news said it might happen…And I will miss it too….damn!
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Yes, I am home. Back in Tokyo! I arrived back on Saturday but am just getting around to posting again now. Shun`s computer had some weird kind of virus thing happening but now that that is all cleared up I am free to blog!!! I think dot points are in order though….
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Well, ok, my next post wasn’t from the land down under because i am not back in Japan, and shock horror, i have not posted for 10 days. (In my defence i only had access to the internet for half an hour in that whole time because Telstra is screwing my mum over with Internet at her new place)
Anyway, had a great time, caught up with some friends and family, made Indian curry for dad, saw my mums new house which has views of the water (well shocked!), ate Indian with Dani whom i hadn’t seen in what seems like forever, went around to Duckie’s and did what we always do (sit around and did nothing!), saw uni friend Stace ( and forgot to take a photo of her!), Bar/Club hopped in Brisbane city with Mandy & Duck, caught up with Mum’s famous (loud) friends, had lunch with Clarie from Highschool and gossiped about everyone and talked about how Wynnum Manly will never change, drank many homemade mai-tai’s and shopped til my heart was content (Including six new pairs of shoes!). Needless to say, my bag(s) were a lot heavier on the way back!!!
Some shots from the recent adventure…
There are a couple more on Flickr, but i didn’t take very many! It was fantastic to see everyone again! Will be back in Australia at the end of April through early May. Shumpei will be with me and we are thinking we might stop in Cairns for a couple of days but we will see what happens!
I want to point out the second photo…of Clarie holding what appears to be meat. Well it is meat, but not just any meat, but kangaroo meet. All i spoke to claim it has always been in supermarkets but i swear i have never seen it. I couldn’t beleive it…they were also selling crocodile!
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My bus leaves in two hours for the airport, i am packed up (usually when i pack to go somewhere i always have so much. The good thing about going back to Australia is anything i want or need apart from meiji chocolate is so easy to buy! My bag is so light!) and my next post will be from the land down under…
I will be away from the net for about 24 hours…will i cope? Time will tell..
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I am sick of using oil, even if it is olive oil from Italy, in all cooking. Why the hell doesn’t Japan have oil in a spray can like back home?
I wonder if i could sneak some onto the plane home?? Or is there anywhere in Tokyo you can get it?
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