Travel

Craig, Lloyd and I at the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France.
2005.

Lucky for me, my step dad has been bitten by the travel bug - hard. So he enjoys sweeping us off to Europe, to show us and share with us his favourite places. I was looking through my old pics the other day, and I found this ------------------------>

HAH! I was a wee thing of 10. I remember how excited I was, and how we even made a countdown on the fridge. France was the bomb. I'd love to go back again when I'm old enough to take the beauty all in a bit better...

Since then we've been to Holland, Portugal, Sweden, Scotland and England.
 Oh, and we have a holiday in Finland and Estonia coming up in July. Hells yeah.
I love seeing different cultures and I really do appreciate it.

Jetsetting off to Europe every year or so isn't something to take for granted.
Just a shout-out to Lloyd (Step dad) for being so cool like that. Not that he'll ever see this, computers are not his vibe.

WORD UP LLOYD!

Good moods.

I am actually in the mother of great moods! It is the strangest thing - I've had the crappiest of all days. BUT I am happy.
I love that feeling when you know that things aren't always going be okay and sometimes things really just suck ass, yet you feel so perfectly content! It is one of my all time best feelings. I was just reading this blog recently about the little thing to appreciate, and I realised how freaking great life is. Here are just a few of the awesome things:

"Popping bubble wrap. Knowing you have no homework for the weekend. The cold side of a pillow. Knowing you're being missed somewhere. Saying the same thing as your best friend at exactly the same time." - Little Things.

I know this seems like one of the annoyingly perky blogs, but I can't help it. I'm in a great mood.
Well, g'night Sweet World.

What's this "Hope" you speak of?

"While there’s life, there’s hope."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What a quote.
So often I've wondered how people cope with such a sense of hopelessness about them. How do they manage to get up in the morning? How do they keep putting on your false pretenses, acting like they're okay? How?

I don't understand how one could handle the deaths of loved ones, without any hope. It just does not add up. How could I possibly survive such extreme measures of pain? I don't think I could.

That's why I love that quote at the top so much... It speaks of the choice we have as people; the choice to live in hope or live in the darkness that life can bring. It becomes so easy to just accept the ways of hopelessness.. Too easy. And when things get hard, it's so simple to just give up. But I know I will always hope. I know I will always have faith that tomorrow will bring a better day, even if I'm completely broken on the inside. I choose to live in hope because I hope in something I truly believe in.
Something I will forever live for.

16. Heck yeah.

Us at Java Cafe on Kensington. Twas a joyous day. From left to right: Jen, Robs, Ash (low down), Lameez, Lauren, me and Cara

So, on Sunday, I officially became a woman! I turned 16. Whopa!

Now everyone knows that your 16th is one of the 'Birthday Greats', along with 18th, 21st and 100th if you live that long. Shows such as "My Super Sweet 16" reinforce these ideas. They also reinforce tarty little fifteen year olds prancing about in $10 000 dresses - not that I'm judging.

I was embarrassingly excited, and woke up extremely early. Like a 4-year-old-on-Christmas kinda early. Having promised my mom I wouldn't wake her up before 7 am, I did what every teenager would do... I went to go see who had written on my Facebook wall. Hah. I'm not joking.

I was actually very impressed by the number of people who had written on my wall, considering it was only 6 am. True cyber friends.

At about 12, Cara came to my house. It is always a brillient time when "Cawa" and "Anwheah" are united.  Just ask anyone. Hmm. Maybe not anyone. Try asking Lauren. She'll be nice.

Java Cafe time. In 2 hours, people moved away from us about 5 times, and I cried with laughter throughout.

That is why my friends are the best.

My day was super cool. Like, suuuuper cool.

But wait! There's more.

Today is my party and the sun is being nice to me. Which brings us all the way back to HECK YEAH!