Oops, this is my town.

Looks like yesterday's upload didn't work. Here is a replacement (taken a few months ago from the top of the kangaroo point cliffs).

New post to be written soon :-)

This is my town.

Not the best picture I know, but it was taken on my phone as I walked to the train station (EDIT: The photo didn't upload at all, I included a better one with the next post). Something new I'm trying. I used to catch the train but I work on the wrong side of the city and then also need to catch a bus, which are incredibly unreliable. I also work at the very top of a large hill.

Droughts and Flooding Rains

For around the last ten years, much of Australia has been experiencing drought. Over the last two years we've had some drought breaking rains and floods, particularly through central Australia. Lake Eyre (the biggest lake in Australia) remained dry for years and hadn't filled since 1974 (a big year of big floods for the eastern side of Australia), but it has been close to full two years in a row. There has been a definite shift from El Nino to La Nina.

The dawn of 2011

The start of another year always brings about new resolutions. As always, I have plenty. The general ones are there, eat healthier, exercise more, be nicer etc. But for me 2011 is going to be the year of change, new directions :-)

If a tree falls in a forest...

(This was my original avatar/blog theme)

 ...and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

With over 150 million other blogs out there I don't expect anyone to read mine. Just another blog by a directionless, twenty-something woman who thinks her dramas are more important than everyone else's.

Obviously, for me, this is personal. I've had diaries before (first attempt at age 11) but I'm never truly honest in them. I've always written things down with a deep fear that my mother or sisters might stumble across it. So my diaries lack the tales of boys I liked and girls I didn't that you would expect in a teenage diary.

Adult diaries haven't been much different, usually more of a way to document my eating/exercise plans than to record my feelings. My biggest problem is that I write much slower than I think and the whole process is tedious, so diaries only survive a few entries before they're retired. At least I can type fast, that might be enough to keep me blogging for longer. I can type entries on my non-iphone too which will give me less excuses.

So my reasons for wanting a blog are rather typical. I'm not happy with the direction my life is heading but I'm not sure how to change it. Or where I'd rather it went.

Might be best to leave the details for the next blog entry, it's lunchtime on Christmas Eve and I'm about to finish work (very productive day, obviously).

Happy Holidays :-D