I was feeling down today (LONG story) so I decided to do something constructive to take the feeling away (social work training, oy) so I wanted to make a post of all the photos of people and places and things that mean something to me. And when I started to plan it, I realised just how long it would be if I put everyone into it. And that made me feel so amazing, you have no idea...
I did it anyway deciding I would only use photos I have taken myself (or by my family since I wasn't at the reunion to take those and I didn't take the ones of me as a kid, but you get the point!) to cut down on spamming random Hugh Jackman pictures ;). Not everyone that should be here is including my friends in Australia. Woot, Peter, Laura and Ness, I have no (not blurry) photos of you!! And there are other friends who aren't on here, but be that as it may, here it is. Some of my happy things.
Family first:
Growing up with my brother, Jonathan (Boy). And yes, that is me. Yes, I know I'm pale, shhhh.
Niece Kelly, bestfriend/sisterperson Jayann, and my brother photobombing them. My mother is in the background. I didn't post any other photos of her because she would hate it, but she is my favourite person in the entire world. Just FYI.
My Auntie Ann and our horse, Thunder.
My cousin Christy and my step-father Larry. He's a cowboy...
My nephew, Malik and Jayann dancing to Lady Gaga
Cousin Sara, my sister Kristen, Boy, and my cousin Christy
Second cousins and nieces and nephews! Zachary, Kelly, Annie, Malik and Lymene
Brother-in-law Travis, Kristen, Boy and his girlfriend Shalina
Jayann and Thunder
Friends:
My girls. Ali and Leah.
And again. ♥
Alina and Ali at the Chinese lantern festival. Ali's hand was being eaten by that giraffe and apparently Alina approves.
Clare being Watson in the Sherlock Holmes museum on Baker Street :D:D:D:D
At the Amanda Palmer concert. Cath, Ali and Leah are photobombing me. *sigh* ;)
Jen, showing how she feels about Ronan Keating
Jess and Darryl!
My ACU people! Not all pictured, obviously...
Lewi and Hera! (Hera is not my friend, I fangirl her, but I wasn't going to separate the two halves of the photo so Lewi could be here and she could be down there in the misc. list)
Ariadne!!
Other things/people/places:
Dylan Moran in 2006!
Amanda Palmer slaying her keyboard, 2010
Neil Gaiman, 2010, indulging us by holding a sign Leah made while I took this photo. Trust me when I say the look was put on for the photo. He was SUCH a kind man.
The stairs to Melk Abbey in Melk Austria
Said Melk Abbey! (it is where Peter was born! Meaning the scene I wrote him in first was there, not he was actually born at the abbey...)
The London Eye
St. John's Lodge Gardens, Regents Park, London
MY BRIDGE, London
Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
Edinburgh, Scotland
Stephansdom, Vienna, Austria
Schoenbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria (And if you want the story about how I got locked in here, ask me...)
Heidelberg, Germany
The beach in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia (and also THE OCEAN which also makes me happy)
Melbourne, Saint Patrick's Cathedral (part of the diocese I worked in when I worked for ACU St Patrick's campus
Arts Centre cloisters, Christchurch, New Zealand
Social Work building, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
The Lesbian Flat of Doom (We live here, no throwing eggs)
And, you know...me...