A new post for a New Year - looking forwards and backwards
The older I get, the faster time seems to fly. That never ceases to be true, and yet it never ceases to amaze me.
Goals for 2010?
I got a lovely Christmas card from stella8h8chang (thanks Lil!) who said many lovely things, one being that I need to blog more. Do you think you need to hear from me more? I can probably manage that.
I do have a few other goals/resolutions. But to get to them I need to quickly recap on 2009.
If I had to condense what 2009 meant for me, I'd say it was the year that I started to get my life back on track.
-> 2007 was a big year of accomplishment;
-> 2008 was a big year of thwarted plans and frustration. Lots of things didn't go the way I wanted to. But lots of unexpected and extraordinary things happened too.
2009 was the year I finally booked that one-way flight to London. 2009 was the year that I finally left home and had to fend for myself. I finally got some real travelling under my belt - modest little trips to France and Belgium sure, but a real taste of a different way that my life could be lived.
I've also had to job-hunt, house-hunt, attempt to meet new people and make friends, shop unassisted by my life-long (well, early teenage years-long) shopping assistants, cook for myself and manage my own well-being, and get acquainted with this new old city that is now home.
It's all been great and fun and educational and all that. Most importantly I feel like I (and my life) have momentum again. But I want more. I still feel like much the same childish, disorganised young thing that I was before. I don't feel as challenged or as changed by it all as much as I'd hoped. I feel like I could be using my time so much better. Travelling more. Taking more risks. Working harder. Meeting more people. Seeing more shows.
Significantly (I think), as wonderful as I find the marvels of London and The Continent, they don't diminish my affection for Australia/Sydney. Quite the opposite. I still find time, all the time, to appreciate what a wonderful way of life Australia can offer, one that I still intend to return to.
I hate missing important milestones in the life of friends at home.
Letters, cards, emails and texts from home always make me smile. It'd be easy to be forgotten, and incredibly heart-warming to know that I'm not.
But I can't embrace my life here if I'm constantly looking back to Oz either. I need to be better at keeping in touch (I've not talked to many of you, and many others, nearly as often as you guys deserve) while being more active HERE.
So that's my general goal for 2010. To live it up. More.
I need to get some more music in my life as well. I miss music and singing so - I've not had an outlet for it my entire time in London and that just doesn't cut it.
A quick shout out to any CIV-ers. I felt such longing to be in Tassie during H-IV (and such relief not to be struck with swine flu!), but I'm feeling much calmer about missing CIV. Perhaps it's all the news about the crazy heat. I hope y'all having amazing fun though, and making beautiful music.
I also get nostalgic when I hear about RMS shows. I mean, did they have to stage Rent, then Jesus Christ Superstar, two of my fave shows that I'd LOVE to do, straight after I left?! But that's ok. That's life and choices and alternatives and all that.
Katherine, signing off in 2010
Goals for 2010?
I got a lovely Christmas card from stella8h8chang (thanks Lil!) who said many lovely things, one being that I need to blog more. Do you think you need to hear from me more? I can probably manage that.
I do have a few other goals/resolutions. But to get to them I need to quickly recap on 2009.
If I had to condense what 2009 meant for me, I'd say it was the year that I started to get my life back on track.
-> 2007 was a big year of accomplishment;
-> 2008 was a big year of thwarted plans and frustration. Lots of things didn't go the way I wanted to. But lots of unexpected and extraordinary things happened too.
2009 was the year I finally booked that one-way flight to London. 2009 was the year that I finally left home and had to fend for myself. I finally got some real travelling under my belt - modest little trips to France and Belgium sure, but a real taste of a different way that my life could be lived.
I've also had to job-hunt, house-hunt, attempt to meet new people and make friends, shop unassisted by my life-long (well, early teenage years-long) shopping assistants, cook for myself and manage my own well-being, and get acquainted with this new old city that is now home.
It's all been great and fun and educational and all that. Most importantly I feel like I (and my life) have momentum again. But I want more. I still feel like much the same childish, disorganised young thing that I was before. I don't feel as challenged or as changed by it all as much as I'd hoped. I feel like I could be using my time so much better. Travelling more. Taking more risks. Working harder. Meeting more people. Seeing more shows.
Significantly (I think), as wonderful as I find the marvels of London and The Continent, they don't diminish my affection for Australia/Sydney. Quite the opposite. I still find time, all the time, to appreciate what a wonderful way of life Australia can offer, one that I still intend to return to.
I hate missing important milestones in the life of friends at home.
Letters, cards, emails and texts from home always make me smile. It'd be easy to be forgotten, and incredibly heart-warming to know that I'm not.
But I can't embrace my life here if I'm constantly looking back to Oz either. I need to be better at keeping in touch (I've not talked to many of you, and many others, nearly as often as you guys deserve) while being more active HERE.
So that's my general goal for 2010. To live it up. More.
I need to get some more music in my life as well. I miss music and singing so - I've not had an outlet for it my entire time in London and that just doesn't cut it.
A quick shout out to any CIV-ers. I felt such longing to be in Tassie during H-IV (and such relief not to be struck with swine flu!), but I'm feeling much calmer about missing CIV. Perhaps it's all the news about the crazy heat. I hope y'all having amazing fun though, and making beautiful music.
I also get nostalgic when I hear about RMS shows. I mean, did they have to stage Rent, then Jesus Christ Superstar, two of my fave shows that I'd LOVE to do, straight after I left?! But that's ok. That's life and choices and alternatives and all that.
Katherine, signing off in 2010