July, August, September, October AND November update.

Well - I could apologise for not being on here, but, you know what? This is my blog. I post when I can. When I feel like it. When I think I have something to say.

Life has been painful, awkward and busy. And I haven't felt like posting.

So, no apology :)

Well. Things have been happening. Not all good, but as a wise friend of mine comments, "whatever does not kill you will only make you stronger". Without going into too much detail, here's some updates!!

• Well. Bachelor # 1 proved to be a jerk. I moved onto Bachelor # 2, who seemed to have a LOT of promise. Turns out he was an emotional retard. *sigh* think I might have been the only one who got hurt out of that. Thanks again to my friends for their tolerance of my general down-in-the-mouthedness during that period!!
• Got sent to Melbourne for work. Yays!! Meant to stay a week and then fly back on Saturday. Got a last minute phone call begging me to come back the following week. Soooo, work basically paid for my weekend accommodation and meals in Melbs :)
• My friend had a beautiful bebeh girl. Ahn. So cute! Both momma AND bubby that is!
• Work moved into our spanky new building. It is full of awesome.
• Took two weeks holidays. Didn't go anywheres :( My employer has this "rule" where you must take 10 consecutive days worth of leave in a 12-month period. I had not done so, thus was 'forced' to take leave. Darn them.
• Joined some online dating sites o_O I figured after recent dating failures I could hardly do much worse!! It's been fun thus far. I highly recommend dating (casually of course - nobody is sleeping with anyone!!) a slew of men ALL AT THE SAME TIME. It stops one from obsessing why one guy isnt calling you as you have too many other dates to even have time to clean your freaking house :)
• Per the above - have actually met a couple of lovely boys :) We'll see how that pans out!
• Did very little crafting. Started a scarf for a friend. Missed the delivery date. Negotiated a second delivery date. Have still to finish it. Nothing else really of note in the craftiness area...
• Heaps of athletic pursuits! Triathlon Pink over here in sunny Perth. V pleased with my performance. Mucho improvement. All those winter training sessions in the cold have paid dividends. Great Bike Ride last weekend also an improvement on prior performance. Lookin' good in lycra...well, as good as one can look!!!
• Farewelled my BFF and her significant other who are off for a three month overseas jaunt. Not. Jealous. At. All...(miss them already!)

Hmmm. Feel sure that I have missed something...numerous friends birthdays...work...training...dating eligibile batchelors...work...training...nope :) think that's all of note.

I'll try not to leave you so neglected next time!!

More crafty shenanigans to come over the next few days.

Pinky swear.

Hi.

Wow.

Geez.

It has been some time since my last post, hasn't it?

::blinks::

Yeah.

Sorry about that. Been having some crises of a personal nature (not that anyone's DIED or anything. Well, not YET anyway) which have caused somewhat of a ruckus in my life over the last several months (*sigh*) so, to cut a long story short, I haven't really felt much like posting.

My bad : /

I'll try to make it up to you now, although the posts may veer sharply away from the craft related and over towards the personal life from time to time.

You can't say you haven't been warned!!

So, anyhoodle, here are some of my NY resolutions for the fantastic 2009 year.

1. Craft a bit more. Have been a bit slack on this over the last little while, but I feel like I really should step up to the plate a bit more. I DID join the Perth chapter of Brown Owls yesterday (see either: http://www.meetmeatmikes.blogspot.com/ or http://www.brownowls.blogspot.com/ for further details), PLUS I'm also toying (no pun intended) with joining up to the Toy Society (http://www.thetoysociety.blogspot.com/) as this meshes in nicely with both this resolution and also resolution # 2;
2. Continue to try and be socially and environmentally aware. I've already made the switch over to green power with my provider well over a year ago, and although more expensive to obtain, by judicious turning off appliances at the wall and not leaving lights on my power bill is now actually less than it was at the same period last year. And that includes using my uber-expensive and uber-inefficient evaporative air conditioner (sadly I cannot change this as I am a renter...). I also have a Bokashi bin (well two, actually) which I can highly recommend, I use public transport or my pushbike where possible, green bags at the supermarket and as little packaging as possible. I tried a vege patch...but it hasn't worked out too well, so am going back to just herbs and buying veges from the markets;
3. Focus on me - whilst this might SEEM a little selfish, I just think that I have spent too much time over the last number of years (read 10+) worrying about other people and what they want and think etc etc etc to the detriment of my own 'self'. So, 2009 will be the year of the slightly selfish (in a good way!) Kylie ; )

I think that is all! I don't really have too many vices to give up (no, shoes are not a vice...they are a necessity!!) and I think these three little fellas are eminently achievable and nor are they totally selfishly focused on me, me, me!!

There it is! An update. At last!!