and so it begins...

Well... welcome to 2007! In retrospect, 2006 wasn't so bad. I spent a while in Adoration @ St Pat's with Edwin, offering up a Rosary in thanksgiving for the year and all it's.. uh... blessings. Yeah, ok... I'll call them blessings, regardless of how I really feel about most of them. I guess it can't be too bad when we were able to mention 50 things we were grateful for pretty easily between the two of us.

Looking back it wasn't all too bad. Quite an eventful year actually. Difficult, yes... but also quite fruitful and many great memories to put in the history books. Here are just a few of them:

- Finally moved out of home. That long awaited historical event occured and funnily enough I managed to score a place with a beach-view and a chapel. Hmm...
- Did a year of mission work.
- Worked full-time for the Church. (also discovered that working full-time is totally over-rated... the Church isn't though. That was a beautiful discovery).
- Caitlyn was born. :)
- I graduated from university. Wow... now my parents can finally get off my back about finishing studying. Yay!
- I went to New Zealand.
- Road-tripped around a foreign country with 3 of my best mates... granted, all of them were boys, and their snoring almost drove me to insanity - but who cares?!
- Went bungy-jumping! YESSSS!!!
- Got my wisdom teeth out.
- Did about 50 high school retreats with the CYS team.
- Did about 50 talks/testimonies.

- Ran the City to Surf with Eddoes... ok, ok - not all of it.
- Travelled to and from Philippines all by myself without getting abducted or mugged.
- Did my second GK build! Woohooo!
- Got taken out on the best First Date EVER.
- Fell in love... a couple of times.
- Scored an awesome boyfriend on Boxing Day (ehp! It's official... Joy's in love and the whole world is allowed to know it!)

And so there goes another year... I can't even remember what I'd hoped to achieve at the beginning of 2006 so I have no idea whether or not it's been a success.

What I do know, however, is that God never left me.. even though I abandoned him a couple of times. Proof of that is how loved I'm still feeling, even after a year of feeling completely abused by some other people in my life. There has been one person - completely faithful, day in an day out... and he's the one I'm hoping is I get to spend every year with until the end of time.

Ok ok, I'll stop making myself sick now. (If that paragraph just made you puke, it's ok I'm sure you're not alone.)

Right now I'm already breaking one of my NY rules, and that's the one about going to bed on time. My family are all asleep because we're leaving in about 3 hours to road trip down to Melbourne. I never actually wanted to go on a road trip with my family. Family holidays are never actually holidays. I postponed a holiday with my mates twice because my Mum wanted a bloody family holiday, and on my LAST week of leave she decides to plan a family road trip. On the LAST week of leave - when I'd planned to go interstate and RELAX. S**T.

Ah well - c'est la vie. Freaking life.

I figured I'd make the most of it and at least try to enjoy myself. Enjoy the drive, enjoy the company of my delightful family members, and crank up my music when it's my turn to drive. (yippee!)

Wish me luck people. If you don't hear from my in a month's time it probably means I purposely detoured from the highway and got myself lost in the shrubbery, where the closest thing to holidays awaits me. Ha!