In Other Words

Down Under

Fourth of April, 2005. The day that will go down in history as the day I turned twenty six. (well, my personal history, anyway. Even if the rest of the world doesn't give a damn, it has still gone down in history).

Twenty six times around the sun, twenty six nearly circular journeys through our solar system, twenty six months of Aries, twenty six candles, twenty six birthdays. 9464 non-birthdays, alla Alice in wonderland (though the mad hatter was unfortunately lacking).

We celebrated my birthday in proper ausie style, with a bbq on Saturday. We started off the celebrations at 1 o'clock in the afternoon and had a pretty steady stream of people moving in and out for the next 13 hours or so. That's the good thing about having a communal court yard, people can't avoid you unless they want to hide indoors all day.

We had two meat session (meat!) and more booze then you could point a stick at (though admittedly, we didn't really have it to point sticks at). Then we went out and annoyed the locals with our banter and beer drinking ways. Truth be told, the locals didn't seem too bothered, seeing as they were out doing exactly the same thing.

We were damned lucky, as the weather had been pretty shit for the last week. Gusting wind, accompanied by a fifteen degree temperature drop had made the Friday (the day before Saturday) one of the coldest in Australia this year and about the coldest I had experienced in about four (I hate the cold). We had almost called off the barby and decided to do it all inside, but something somewhere favoured us and made the sun peep out from behind the clouds at about twelve and had us stretched out around the courtyard like so many felines with their spot in the sun.

It was a good day and though it cost us a fair bundle, I don't regret splashing out this once. Sometimes we have to spend a bit of money, just to remind us what we do it all for. (Or rather, to remind us what we all shouldn't be doing it for, namely money).

I looked down upon it, and I saw it was good.

The down is always followed by the up and through I don't know how high we will fly, I do feel positive about our chances and our prospects. It's about bloody time, too.

It's always good to feel up on your birthday. Actually, it is always good to feel up, period. I think I'll leave it with that. Probably not the greatest nugget of wisdom to date, but hey.

PS: I'm greatful to see that many of you still take the time to check up on my Blog every so often. It's nice to be remembered, so thanks to you Knight of Pentacles and to you Patricea. May you get back what you give out when you most need it.

posted by Symbol @ 4.4.05