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New Years Resolutions and Home

Sydney Festival First Night 2009

In the very early hours of New Years Day, after accidentally catching the RER E instead of RER B en route to a party and ending up in an exciting place rather outside of Paris called Creil, where I got stranded until 5am and drank so much I threw up in a bar beside some friendly North African old men, I decided it was time to make a new years resolution. This is not something I regularly do come the first day of the year but as I walked around the empty streets of Creil with my friend and battled frostbite, I knew it was time to grab this shiny year full of promise by the reigns and give it all I’ve got. No, I didn’t resolve to stop drinking so much that I vomit on my shoes, or even to look at train numbers before jumping on board. No weight loss or huge self improvement. My New Years resolution was to blog.

For me, this is something easier said than done. I love reading blogs and I love writing and I love the internet and I love taking photos and I love everything Web 2.0 - Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds. Basically, I am primed for the entire concept. I even used to blog more than a decade ago. But with that pesky novel hanging over my head I seem to always forget about extra-curricular writing. What’s the point of having a brand new shiny website with nothing in it though?

Almost three weeks into 2009, I haven’t yet kept my word and developed a serious blogging habit, (I haven’t actually answered any of my emails either… sorry!) but there has been an excellent reason for this. I have been visiting the homeland. Australia. Perhaps this isn’t any excuse because people far and wide seem to able able to maintain a blog while they are sailing the high seas or trekking in Nepal, but when I come home I’m so wrapped up in the people that I love that I neglect all things internet. When I arrived home in Sydney, I spent the first 48 hours just chatting away with my wonderful Dad. I visited my Grandma. I caught up with many many friends. I played lawn bowls (I now know how I will be spending my twilight years, I was a natural). I went to the Sydney Festival First Night and the Grace Jones Concert at the Enmore Theatre. I ate lots of lovely Asian food and went for a few swims. Right now I am in Melbourne and I will be returning to Paris very soon. And when I do, I promise it will be ready, steady, blog. In the meantime, I’m just going to play with my friends and family and try desperately hard to think of interesting things to say.

Luckily a picture says a thousand words so I have a couple to make up for the last three weeks…