It's been a while

Okay - so the last time I posted was over a year ago. Pretty poor form, really.

But today I started a new thing, and decided it's about time that I changed things in my life. So my Blog is the first stop. Actually, it's really the second. The first started around this time last night, but more on that in a bit!

So the last year has been quite eventful. It's been a year of ups and downs. Low lows and high highs.

Some of the highs of the past 12 months have the fabulous trip to Las Vegas recently, to celebrate a great friend's 40th. In the iconic words of Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother) it was - Legend-dary! Another high (and depending on how you look at it - low) was hearing my niece has been accepted to a year long exchange in Chile! Whilst exciting for her, I don't think the family is over the moon, and she will missed dreadfully. Even with me in Melbourne and a couple of thousand kilometres away.

Christmas in July was a bit of a highlight for us. As we've never actually had Christmas in our house this was a great night, and we had wonderful friends and family join us for the night. A lot of great food and drink was consumed.

Another big high on the list this year, is the new house. We are building again. Yes, even though I swore black and blue after buliding our current house, we would never do it again - we are. We are downsizing the house and land. I'm not sure how our the two felines are going to cope with a smaller backyard, I think the two of us will cope very well with less gardening.

The lowest point of my year was my fabulous aunt passing away at the end of July. It wasn't expected to happen so quickly, and there was always the hope that she would beat it and not have to look back. She was one of those people who didn't give up or give in, right to the end. And still having a little giggle at some jokes made when she was at the very end. I'm glad I got to see that. although we had our differences and would annoy each other every now and then, I'm so thankful I got to know her as well as I did after moving to Melbourne. I'm a better person for it.

So now it comes to me the present and trying to become a better person both inside and out is my aim.

As I mentioned earlier, the blog is the second stop in my journey.

The first started this time yesterday, with what you could only describe as a "fad". One of the things I'm not proud of in myself, is that I don't have "stick-ability". I try things, I give up. I try something else, I give up.

So the new "fad" is giving up animal protein. A good friend has been doing this for the last couple of months, and has managed to stick to it, mostly. I'm trying to take a leaf out of her book and give it a go. For me, this isn't an ethical decision like a lot of people, this is a health decision. And I may find that my body doesn't enjoy no cheese, chicken, beef or lamb. I know that my brain is going to miss them.

I am, however, going to still have seafood. So what does that make me then? If a vegetarian eats fish, they're then called a pescatarian, so is a vegan who eats fish a pescagan??

So - that's me in a nutshell, so to speak! (I can eat those too). Watch this space. It'll probably only last a week!

Cheerio
Jodi