September 18th, 2008
Yeh, I know, I haven't written anything for a couple of weeks. I've been spending a lot of time and energy on finishing up my work and looking for another contract to move on to. I haven't got anything yet, but I'm enjoying the free time I have right now. It'll end soon, when I get another role and will become busy again.
One of the issues about contracting is the time between contracts, which can be a little frustrating, so I'm going to do some focusing on full time work instead of just contracting. Bring on some stability. 
January 26th, 2008
Today is Australia Day, where we celebrate the beginning of Australia, which was when the British first settled here in 1788. It's almost midnight on this day, and I thought I should do a post about it. Australia Day is where we celebrate the history of our country, and of being an Australian. We're a proud bunch, and we've achieved a lot over the past 200+ years. I'm proud to be Australian. Always have been, always will be. (Photos coming soon of the Canberra fireworks that I went to tonight.) UPDATE: Here's the photos I promised you.
November 21st, 2005
Just for the geographically unaware 
here is some maps of our travels.
Map 1: Australia
This map shows the general travel paths we're taking. The blue dotted line is the flight between Sydney to Adelaide and back again. The red solid line is the driving that will be done.
Map 2: South Australia
Driving from Adelaide to Berri, and back again. If you look north of Adelaide, you can see Pt Augusta and Quorn, which I talked about here.
November 21st, 2005
Deidre and I will be travelling around parts of Australia for a month, and this is our itinerary.
2005
Saturday 10 Dec
Wellington 6am - Sydney 7:40am
Sydney 1:45pm - Adelaide 3:20pm
(Notes: while in Adelaide, will be staying with Deidre's dad and catching up with the following people: Phillip and Stephen (my brothers), Simon and Ben (friends I haven't seen for over a decade), and Jocelyn, a friend of Deidre's.)
Sunday 11 Dec
Xmas party at Deidre's dad's
Tuesday 13 Dec
Renting a car and driving to Berri, to visit my parents
Wednesday 14 Dec
Driving back to Adelaide
September 13th, 2005
Over here I talked about the holiday plans Deidre and I were making, to travel to Australia. It's been a relatively painful thing to do!
We've had to work out the dates that we were going to go there and return, as well as the dates that we'd be in Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney, and back to Wellington. Three cities in 4 weeks, with countless family members and friends to see in that time.
Oh God, the pain!
July 13th, 2005
Deidre and I spent close to 4 hours last night working on our joint budget plans, to help us save money for the upcoming trip to Australia. We're doing a 'first', for both of us, and combining our incomes into one single amount and paying almost everything from our joint account. It's really quite exciting to think that we could have up to $11,000 saved in the next 5 months, by combining our incomes and being stringent with our spending.
May 2nd, 2005
While I was in Taupo last weekend, I spotted a new age shop and just had to go into it. In my explorations of the shop I found a bunch of crystals on leather necklaces, and remembered to when I used to have an amethyst crystal on a necklace when I first got into spirituality around 13 years ago. I had it for a few years before it cracked. I decided to get one again, to see if it would bring more spirituality into my life, just like the last one did. I finally got around to getting Deidre helping me to put it on, on Saturday (today's Monday). Or maybe it was yesterday… sometime on the weekend anyway! I'm curious what kind of psychic or spiritual development I'll now start to see in my life again.
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