Byron Bay
I AM BACK! Here's a math equation for you:
Free internet=very long blog post!
So I'm in this travel agent that offers free internet. So here I am! The last few days have been cool! I finally left the gold coast and flew downt to Sydney. There I met up with my sis who's in australia for a couple weeks on vacation. She's been staying in Melbourne with her friend, but we arranged to meet up for 3 days in Sydney. It was cool seeing her again...it's nice to feel the comfort of family again. I hadn't really realized I missed it till I was hanging out with her. So we stayed with some of her friends from Ireland and met up with a bunch of them I already knew and had a good few nights of partying! It was fun, I felt like the tour guide, showing her all the sights--like the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, Darling Harbour, Bondi Beach, Manly, it was cool!
So then we both left and I came up to Coffs Harbour. It was a NINE hour train trip...which was delayed by an hour. I met a cool guy from Cairns on the train, we spent 4 hours talking before his stop. So we exchanged numbers so next time I go to Cairns I'll give him a call. In Coffs I didnt do much, lay on the beach really, that's about it, it's not the most happening place to stay but I needed a stop off. I left yesterday at 3, decided to take the train cuz it was cheaper...I didnt get here till 10:30. It's supposed to be a 4 hour trip, lots of problems so when I got here I was pissed off. I'm in Byron Bay aka hippy capital of the WORLD. I'm not really a fan of hippies. Or pot heads, and thats all there really is here. But I knew that before I got here so I cant complain. The place is cute but I just think I have a bad attitude, arrivign here in a bad mood sort of set the tone for it if you knwo what I mean. But I leave here tomorrow to go BACK to the Gold Coast (I know I know, I cant get enough of it!). Everyone's moving out of 'our' (I've been adopted in now!) house, so Hobo leaves on Wednesday so I have to have one last party night with him! Me and Rory leave on Sunday...she is going to Honduras for 2 months and I am going to Fiji for a week! I plan on hopefully finding a cheap diving course (everything here in oz seems to be cheaper than fiji which is a bit shit!) and the main reason I am going there is to apply for my working visa in oz. Then I come back here and start to work! I dont know where, I dont know doing what...I just know I will need money soon! haha!
So that is my life right now...same ol' same ol' really! Haha! There's been lots of drama in 7/137 (our house on the Gold Coast). It was focussed on me for a while but I got myself out of deep water when Hobo went and did something crazier than me haha. I dont know if I want to go into those stories. Basically we drank almost every day while I was there...so drama is bound to happen :)
As for the Rune (aka possible love of my life!) situation...things left on a good note. When I left I didnt have my fiji flights and was actually going to head south, not north, so it was kinda a 'I dont know when I'll see you again...' goodbye. But at the same time it was a '...but I know I WILL see you again-I'll make sure of it!' The last few days was this crazy build up, everyone expecting something to happen between us, but I knew it wouldn't exactly because I was leaving. I dont know if it makes sense but we know there's potential between us so we wouldn't just throw that away on a one-night stand. So our goodbye was sad...but it was nice. I guess because I knew I would see him again...eventually. Then with me heading back now it means I'll be seeing him tomorrow...but again, 5 days till I leave. Ahhh...timing is so gay! But who knows what'll happen in the next week...and after Fiji....
Ok so this is my super-long update ready to be posted! I'm in a better mood now...I am ready to get out into Byron and ENJOY myself! Yay!
Hope everyone reading this is having fun too!
VERY GC!
Hey everyone! Hope you enjoyed the pics...sorry it took so long to get them up but those are the main highlights of my trip! Maybe in time some more select ones will make it up as well! SO I'm still here, I am staying till next Tuesday when I leave for Sydney. Things are going pretty well. I've been doing a lot of thinking about men and me which leads me to a few conclusions.
I have high standards. This is good because I steer clear from losers, but bad because it makes it hard finding men.
I have two sorts of standards. The physical standard....hot, fit, tanned, sexy, rugby-type men :) Then there's the personality standard...funny, relaxed, able to handle me and my sense of humour! All the guys I spend time with fit into one of these categories...either they fit the physical one (like Lawrence did) or the personality one (like Will did). Rarely, and I mean VERY rarely, do I meet someone who fills both quotas.
Brian's the only guy who's ever met both standards perfectly. It's a hard thing to achieve :) But there's a guy here, one of Rory's friends, who seems like if I had a bit more time with him I'd be sure he meets all the standards. It's frustrating because I can get men but I never seem to get ones that have everything I need...everything I want. But this guy does...but it's a matter of him slipping through my fingers because I'm travelling and maybe will never see him again...
So it has me thinking about stuff like that. About how I usually find it impossible to meet guys that interest me on a deeper level, and can maintain my interest. But how in the last few weeks I met Will who did a seriously good job at it, and now Rune who has the potential to do the same. And I have to move on without both of them. I know I dont want any sort of a relationship now...no way...I dont know where I'll be next week, or in a month...so there's no way I want any sort of strings to tie me down. It's just bitter-sweet meeting people that I really like. It's absolutely AMAZING spending time with these total strangers who just seem to understand you straight away, but at the same time, it's shit having to accept that under different circumstances things could be perfect but instead you have to carry on with your life.
But that's life. And I can accept that. It's so refreshing to meet someone like Rune. Someone that is EXACTLY what I am looking for...at very least it shows me that my type IS out there. The guy who's mind-blowingly hot. Who's intelligent, interesting, funny, entertaining. Who's independent, who doesnt have a problem speaking his mind. Someone who'll treat you as an equal but still hold a door open for you :) Someone who is strong enough to be vulnerable. I have so many conflicting standards (I like men to be gentlemen but not patronizingly so...there's a very thin line between that in my head. Example--Holding doors open:yes. Ordering my food for me in a restaurant: NO!) I take comfort in the fact that people like that are out there.
So Rune's restored my faith in the universe :) That's a pretty big thing!
OH yeah...on another note...here's a pic of me and Rory, with Surfers Paradise way far away in the background!
SOUTH ISLAND PICS
Ok the pics all came up in reverse order...so the first pics you see are the end of my trip! haha but there's no time to fix that, so you will have to live with it...or else scroll up the page instead of down :)
A huge chess game in the middle of Christchurch!
This is Will!
Me Kayaking in MIlford Sound (we had to wear the gay spray-suits...but hey, it kept us dry!)
It's Lawrence! Not the best pic cuz we were drunk but believe me he's hot!
Me up on the Queenstown Gondola with the 'Remarkables' mountain range behind me
Roman toilets in Puzzle World, Wanaka!
Andy this one's for you! It's a casino toilet seat! Rocky would love it!!!
Abel Tasman
More Abel Tasman...
Skipper Steve and me!
Me and Jill and Christian went fishing and caught snapper for dinner!
NZ NORTH ISLAND PICS!!!
Floating Sculpture in Wellington!
Sunset on Lake Taupo
The Emerald Lakes on the Tongariro Crossing-- a 17k, 6 hour trek!
Me and Sarbs doing Tongariro
Me and some Maoris
Me, J, and Burton, some crazy Canadians I met in Bay of Islands
The Champagne Pool in Rotorua
The Irish Gang! Anne, me and Colm at NZ's Northernmost tip...Cape Reinga
Me Sandboarding!
Bay Of Islands
A dolphin in the Hauraki gulf!
Holding my Breath, Buying my Time
Sorry about the absence...I havent been around computers much since I last wrote...since I left Ireland really! Well I'm STILL on the Gold Coast...not really getting up to much other than drinking EVERY day and chilling with Rory and her flat mates. She quit her job so we have been spending a lot more time together..but at the same time her boyfriend has been around a lot and I'm getting sick of the whole thing...I hate the whole 3rd wheel thing...I guess it has a lot to do with the fact that I just dont really like the guy. If he were cool it would be different. But it doesnt matter much, and I get on well with Jake and Hobo, rory's other 2 house mates so I have fun with them and block out the other two a lot!
So somehow one week turned into two and time is just flying by. I am either gonna get off my ass on Monday and head south towards sydney or wait here another week...but I dont think I can take any more sitting around drinking doing nothing. It was a nice change but I am sick of it now! I need to get out there and meet more cool backpackers and see stuff!
Today I'm a little sad...I dont really know why, I just woke up in a bad mood. So I am wandering around on my own today, just trying to sort through my thoughts. there's nothing wrong I guess everyone just has down days. I seem to blog on days when I am sad...which is bad because it'll bring the whole tone of my blog down! Ooops!
I still hear from Will quite a bit...we email and text every day or two...another confusing part of my life. It's a strange feeling...I dont really think I'm holding on to him...he's just still a part of my present....but it's strange knowing that someone's out there that means something to me but I dont know when, if ever, I'll see him again. Dont know why I'm writing about this though...
So yeah that's about it...not a very interesting update I know! Ohh! I decided I'm staying here to work for a year or so! I can apply for a working visa online, but I have to apply out of Australia...which means I am going to have to go to Fiji for a week! hehehe! FIJI! Nice one :) On that note though, I am running out of money too fast so I need to watch what I spend and what I spend it on...which is a bit gay!
I needa find a job! haha!
Anyway thanks for reading this...I miss the people that know me sometimes..and that especially includes my blog readers :) It sounds crazy but I do miss all the time sat at my computer blogging and reading everyone elses blogs!
Hope everyone is good...I *PROMISE* to update this more often from now on...and yes, pics will be up one of these days :)
