happy anniversary....

to me! it's been a year since i first blogged - actually yesterday marked a year to the day that my first blog was 'posted' but in fact i started about 3 or 4 days before that on wed 27th february 2008...

you may well ask how it is that i know the date, some 370 days on? well, you see, if you read 'the maiden voyage' as i aptly titled the post, then you will recall that it was largely centred around some idiotic man who's despicable behaviour i had to tolerate on day 1 of a 5 day course...

anyway, enough of that! i cannot believe that it's been a year...and whilst some things remain the same (you know, mostly good stuff), so many things are different...and in ways i never thought possible!

australian cricket for one! this time last year NOBODY could have predicted the rapid and frankly, sad demise we are now witnessing...

the economy - the US has had a tough year and the fall out from the subprime crisis has now extended to what will inevitably become a global recession, or possibly depression...

roger federer is no longer the number 1 who dominates on all surfaces...this is in fact good as i was becoming bored watching his flawless tennis over and over and over again

the minimum monthly repayments on my mortgage as from tomorrow, assuming the CBA pass on the full rate cut, will be $14,784 a year less than they were in July 2008...

the value of my portfolio is less than half what it was a year ago...

and most importantly, ben and i are nearly a year into a fabulous, loving and supportive relationship - the sort of relationship that this time last year, i thought might just not come along...

so whilst my blogging hasn't been as frequent as it was at the outset, and the reason i started hasn't actually materialised (in that i am NO closer to having written a book), i still enjoy climbing onto the soapbox occasionally...

nite
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