November 8, 2009
This month marks the tenth year anniversary of my very first trip overseas. In 1998 I finished school and had just turned seventeen, so I decided to take a year off before starting Uni. I ended up working in Australia in a cafe for about nine months, then spending just under three months backpacking overseas. I went with Kitty, who I started dating in year ten in high school. We went to the UK, Ireland, Paris and Thailand.
Some of the things I remember from the trip were:
- Wondering what the fuck we were doing after being grilled by British Immigration after a 30 hour journey over;
- Being well and truly sick of seeing castles after navigating our way completely around England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales;
- Thinking the Avebury stones were better than Stonehenge because you could actually touch them;
- Freezing our buts off, everywhere we went; and never being able to manage a hot, or at least warm, shower in any hostel we stayed (says something about our budget);
- Visiting my first ever Starbucks;
- Thinking Glasgow was cool, even though people told us not to stay there;
- Being admitted to hospital in Cork, Ireland for the first time in my life, with the worse case of food poisoning I will ever endure;
- Deciding at the last minute to travel to Paris from London for our last day in Europe. We slept in the bus overnight on the way over and arrived at 3 am. We then left the same day at midnight and slept in the bus on the way back. The bus drove onto a ferry on the way over, and drove into a train (channel tunnel) on the way back;
- Ireland using a different currency called a Punt, which no longer exists with the Euro;
- Everything being so darn expensive, considering one dollar bought less than 40 pence and I just saved all my money working as a 17 year old in a cafe for $8 an hour;
- Getting to Thailand at the end and actually having money left.
Good times.
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October 25, 2009
“A brand new baby was born yesterday,
Just in time
Papa cried, baby cried
Said, your tears are like mine.”
~ Jack Johnson – “If I Could“
At 11:23 am yesterday, Junior Pixels entered this world. He’s a beautiful, happy and healthy baby, and I am very proud of his Mama for doing so well.
My plumerias also flowered yesterday for the first time in two years. Beautifully timed.

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October 21, 2009
Whilst cleaning up some old papers this evening, in preparation for junior pixels, I found a bag of memorabilia from the USA that Kitty had set aside for me. Rather than keep the various brochures, I thought I would take some photos and keep them on here to refer back to.
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September 19, 2009
Not that much has been going on since I last wrote here, not that much good stuff anyway.
Quite a few months ago, when Kitty first announced she was prego with Space Prawn, I told a guy at work who for story’s sake, we’ll call old matey. I told quite a few people at work, but old matey’s response was the most odd. He happens to be very much into astrology & numerology, so he quickly asked the due date and told me Space Prawn will be a Scorpio.

At this point, being slightly skeptical, I didn’t really know what to expect from a Scorpio, but what he told me next was when it got weird. “There will soon be a death in your family” he said, “it always happens before or after a scorpio is born”.
I didn’t think too much about it again until my Grandma died last month, aged 96. What makes it a little strange was that Grandma was still quite healthy, a doctor even recently gave her the all clear to make 100. But she suddenly died.
So it sorta stuck in my mind a bit. I have since done a bit more research about Scorpios, and what makes them what they are. I have a brother (of three) that is a Scorpio, and he is exactly how they are described. To completely honest, it’s a little scary, if Space Prawn is like my brother then we’re in for a treat! </sarcasm>
I spoke to old matey at work after my Grandma’s funeral to find out a bit more detail. Apparently Scorpios are very fascinated by death, and that the intensity of a Scorpio’s mind means that a family member must pass for them to be born.
The strange thing is my Scorpio brother is fascinated by death.
Odd times.
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