OMG I'm going back to thailand!!!!!
not until may 2007, but I'm going back yay!!!!

I kept seeing ads on the tv for Jetstar's "cheap flights to asia" sale, and when I checked out the website for flights from Brisbane to Bangkok, I was shocked to see flights as low as $35!!! Of course, there is a catch- the flight price is pre-tax and more often than not the tax/fee/surcharge was MORE than the flight itself.

The sale ends tomorrow so I was in a major hurry to buy some tickets. I still would love to travel with friends/the boy, but not everyone was able to decide on a holiday almost a year from now, or they had their own plans a few months earlier so I called mum. I knew she would love a holiday and for these prices, you would be crazy not to!

We decided next May would be a good time and I found a flight going to Bangkok for $155, and a flight coming back 2 weeks later for $35! DONE SOLD!

The tax/fee/surcharge for each flight was about $150, but that still equals a crazily cheap trip. The cheap flights are completely basic flights- no extra features. Just a seat on a plane. But you can pay extra for meals, in flight entertainment and comforts. So $10 for entertainment, $25 for 2 meals and $7 for blanket/pillow/comforts. Yup, its still dirt cheap.

I bought the tickets after lunch today and had a bit of a laugh at the fact that I'm paying $300 in surcharges/fees/taxes, while only paying $190 for the actual flights!!!!!

So, I've got a 2 week holiday in thailand to look forward to next week. So much planning to do beforehand - things to do and see! Last time I went back (2001/02 for 3 months), we spent alot of time in Bangkok, a week or more back in Surin (the city I lived in for my exchange in 1999) and spent some time down south on a beach at Ko Chang... not right down the peninsula, but quite a few hours south of Bangkok.

Perhaps this time I could go back up north.... except, when I was living in Thailand in 1999, my mum, dad and sister came to visit me 9 months into my stay, and we travelled up north together as a family. So perhaps Mum would enjoy seeing the south. However, I know my mum and she's not a beach person (not anymore. she used to sunbake herself like crazy when she was young, but in her wiser years, has realized its not such a good thing).


I'll have to do some research. I'm already thinking 2 weeks is not enough time. hehehe

Things I wish I could have told people who are/were in my life if I had the courage/was still in touch:

I miss you but you barely seem to notice I'm not around.

I always hated sharing you with them.

Did I somehow fool myself into thinking we were closer than we actually were?

I always wonder if I hadn't been so indecisive, would you have chosen me instead of her?

Your absence is hardly noticeable to me.

I didn't have the courage to be with you while we were both so inexperienced. I always regretted that and I think I always will.

I'm still surprised how easy it was to say goodbye to you.

I wish your first time had been with me and I was so jealous it wasn't.

I couldn't stay and watch you slowly kill yourself, so I pushed you away.

I never regretted what I did, because you didn't deserve him. But I still strangely missed your friendship.

I think you were sneaky and conniving and I hated that everyone else was so blind to your horrible personality.

I wondered 'what if' for so long, I wonder if you ever felt the same way?

I wish you would make half the effort that I do.

.........

how time has flown! i can't believe its been a whole fantastic, amazing year since we started dating... well, yesterday. today its a year and a day :) but no, i'm not counting the days.
and this time next month I will have been at work for 2 years. 2 years of a great job, 2 years of knowing you. we became friends so quickly, and being friends first was the smartest move. i'd never been 'friends' before, and I wholeheartedly believe that was the downfall of all previous relationships. I'm now a firm believer that us being friends first was the best thing for our relationship. Because you're still one of my best friends all this time later.


Had an awesome night last night- dinner, then catching up with friends. A lazy morning, and then headed to the Boy's house and spent the day/night with his whole family (3 of who usually live overseas). Finally met his father, which I had been nervous about. They are such a warm, loving and hilarious family- I can't help but be completely envious and secretly hope that I can spend more time with them, and have them like me half as much as I like all of them. Its just yet another thing that makes everything about the Boy so damn perfect... a great family and relationship with them, something which is wonderful and seems to make the person who they are- and influences the way they treat others. I've been with the complete opposite and that ultimately came to a horrible crash of an end and made me realize the type of person/relationship I DONT want.

We had delicious home cooked meal around a dinner table, which was loud and noisy and exactly how I like it.

Anyway it was just a great weekend and I felt like I needed to share that. Life is good and I'm so thankful for the positive, happy influence the Boy has on my life.

changed the top header pic again... we took some more photos today and i want to implement some sort of rotating header image thing. every time you refresh the page the image changes and rotates between about half a dozen different images.

this shouldn't be too hard, as there are lots of free php scripts out there that do this. what might be a problem is i've actually got two images.... the header and the column header.



nevermind, its up and working thanks to aaron!
there's 6 different headers so far, maybe more to come....

um so you might notice a new pic up there *points* heh. its not staying for long (i hope) but just felt like a change. we're talking work photos this week because we have quite a number of new staff in customer care and its hard for them to learn all of our names if they're on shift work. ANYWAY, nathan and aaron were setting up some new lighting and let me get in front of the camera while they tested it.
this pic cracked me up, but looking at it now all resized and stuff, i think it looked better when huge.
the face? hmm well i was actually talking the whole time and had noticed i could see nathan's eye when peering down the camera lens.
hopefully tomorrow i'll get a better photo to replace that one, but til then, ENJOY! Laugh at my face, cringe at my expression, whatever!

I had to take painkillers for the first time in a week and a half because my boobs were hurting on the inside. Stupidly, I carried some reasonably heavy bags from the Alibi to home after selling some of my stuff downstairs, as a sort of sunday garage sale. It wasn't a huge success- I still have way too much stuff but it was about $30+ for sitting on my ass for a few hours.

But yeah, I tried to lighten each bag, and took it all home in 3 trips, but it was obviously more than I should have done because once I got home and sat down I had pains on the inside of my boobs.

Its so easy to forget that there are all these internal stitches all throughout my breasts. Its so easy to just think about the outside, visible scars, which are pretty much healed.

The scary thing is, despite not feeling in pain at the time, I wont know the damage until its too late. Its not like i'm going to lift my arm and suddenly feel a huge rip... but its all the little movements that could slowly widen the scars if i'm not careful.
I keep trying to remember that, but its hard not to get back to normal activity (cleaning, cooking, moving, picking things up) when I feel completely fine! I feel so lazy avoiding these everyday activities, because I do feel painfree. Its 3 weeks tomorrow and I feel like that should have been more than enough time to recover... but its not :( I know its not, everyone tells me its not.

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Posted by reanon to Breast Reduction Journal at 7/09/2006 07:53:00 PM

no longer do i feel like i have zombie-boobies. the frankenboobs are long gone. my nipples look like they are part of my boobs and the scars are coming along nicely.

i've decided to upload all my photos, from the day of the surgery up until now, in my photo gallery. I'll keep adding new photos as I recover. Check out the breast reduction gallery here. The latest photos were from day 16. The wounds are no long wounds. They are healed and now are scars. Its crazy how quickly our bodies heal.

Todays my last day of holidays, I'm back at work on monday. I came into the city to meet everyone for pub lunch today and then ended up coming back to work because I couldn't be assed to go home and then come back in again. So i've just been going through my emails, deleting all the spam, sorting all the emails, saving the important ones. Save me having to do it on monday.

I'm glad to be back, I've missed everyone and just missed the atmosphere of work. Although I definitely could have enjoyed a few more days of watching tv shows. I've now finished 2 seasons of dawson's creek, 1 season of felicity and a few movies.

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Posted by reanon to Breast Reduction Journal at 7/07/2006 03:56:00 PM