Chuck Another Brim on the Barbie

Looking back - Settling In

This will be the last of my little updates. I dare say that I’ll do something like this again but I’m not sure when or if I will have anything interesting to say. I guess that is what this post is about. I’m really settling into Melbourne life and as such life is becoming routine (not a bad thing, my routine is awesome). I really don’t want to be blogging about everyday boring stuff and that’s the reason that I tailed off before.

The main thing I have to say in this post is in this picture:

Merry Christmas all! I took this photo on around the 20th December and really wanted to send it as a Christmas card as it has Christmas with a Melbourne twist (Flinders Street Station and a tram!). Alas, by the time the photo was taken, it wouldn’t have reached home before the clocks changing!

How am I settling into life in Melbourne? Again this is another one that is easier described by a picture:

I took this yesterday while sunbathing at St. Kilda. Playing all this frisbee has left me with such a ridiculous tan that I now look a little like a zebra (Hannah said that first). I’m trying to even it out a bit with some sessions at the beach listening to the Ricky Gervais podcast (I know, I’m about 2 years behind on this one. I’ve never really done podcasts before now). I’m using the fact that I’m worried about my silly tan as a good measure for my quality of life. To put it another way; life is good.

I’m really settling in and I love living here. It is just such a nice place to be and to live that as I said before; I can’t see myself wanting to live anywhere else for a while. Another reason I don’t want to move is that as you saw in my last post, I finally have got my flat furnished and equipped to a good standard and I don’t like the idea of having to do that again for a while!

With regards to my flat I only wanted to show the (nearly) finished product but there was a stage where my flat was just filled with cardboard and plastic wrapping. For at least a week, there was this huge amorphous blob of cardboard in a giant plastic bag that took up half of my living room:

I finally managed to get rid of all of the cardboard on the day that I hired a car. I took all of the cardboard to the local recycling centre and all of the plastic went in the bin bit by bit. I wish I could say that I’ve gotten rid of all of the moving in rubbish but I still have the boxes from the giant box of kitchen stuff that I bought. It will all go out eventually, little by little into the recycling. Luckily, the shipping company unpacks all of my stuff and then takes the boxes away!

I’ve decided to keep this one short because all of the others are short and people have better things to do on Christmas day than to read my blog so I am going to finish on yet another of the St. Kilda sea front (have you discovered the theme yet? I LIVE BY THE BEACH!). Yes, about 40% of this picture is car park but if you look closer, the car park is mostly empty on a really sunny day. This means that not only do I live by a beach and in an awesome place, there is also ample parking :)