So having been completely remiss and not having enough head space or time to write for a while. I find myself with an evening off, watching Xena and thought, I can’t put this off any longer. No idea if anyone reads what I write but I made a commitment and after-all my mind is full of things to talk about.

I would just like to put it out there that I am not someone that really thinks much of New Years Eve, in fact, I am constantly saying something along the lines of ‘it’s just another night’. However, when I do get time on my own or when I am especially bored at work I do feel more and more as it gets to the end of the year, the need to reflect, the need to understand the year that has been.

In the last year, give or take a few days, I have moved back to Australia, after living in England for two years. I have started and completed a third of a new degree in psychology which I love and am completely geekily interested in. I have moved into two flats. I have caught up with countless friends, people that have touched my life. I have met wonderful new people who continue to make my world a brighter place. I have worked on me both physically and mentally. Most of all, the love for my girlfriend has continued to grow and we are happily approaching our 4 and a half year anniversary. I’ve had some things that aren’t so positive too, sickness in my family, long hours studying and then working, difficulties in our last flat including a wall full of mould, sadness with lost friends and connections that no longer exist.

So it has been a big year and I am tired, exhausted even. On Friday afternoon I finish work for two whole weeks, which will be my first holiday since early January last year. I am not quite sure what to do with my time off, not yet, I am still too busy wondering how on earth I got through all of it.

I feel I ought to comment on the world in general, about the changes in government and the hope that even if they turn out to be conservative in terms of a Labor government there will be positive changes to the legislation for gay and lesbians throughout Australia. However, there is so much good and then so much bad. The world still struggles along and sometimes I get dispirited with the way in which we are so consumed by the small circle in which we inhabit, yet, that is the world I live. I have experienced so many things in my world, sometimes I feel like its no wonder that I don’t want to comment on what’s going on outside, just what’s on the inside.