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2006: A year in review
These "Year in review" things always get posted out to family and friends about this time of year. I'm not much of a snail mailer so I'm just going to write one here.
I've never actually written one of these either. Usually I think it's a bit strange to not hear from someone in a year and then receive a generic letter with all the interesting stuff that's grandmother friendly that's happened in said person's life this year. But whatever. They're interesting :)
------ Ange and Bruce: Our year in review -----------
January began with Adelaide IV 2006 which was a large (About 170 choristers) choral festival which I convened. We sang African Sanctus and Israel in Egypt, the latter of which was performed in the Adelaide Festival Theatre. Personally, I liked African Sanctus best.
Bruce and I actually started going out during the festival. We've known each other through choir and uni for about 10 years but all of a sudden we're more than friends. I think we temporarily scared a few people who have known both of us that long. Others took the news way too easily and we think they should have been a little more surprised.
Speaking of surprises.. in June I organised a surprise party for Bruce's 32nd birthday. He had no idea whatsoever and was thoroughly shocked when he found out. He absolutely loved it.
Both of us have moved house a bit this year. I'm currently living in town sharing with a friend. Bruce is about to move again in a week or so to a housing co-op that another friend already lives in. The BBQs will be a plenty.
I spent five months working at Satisfac in the call centre, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do so I quit that and started my own business, Stage Left Event Management. The plan is to run events in Adelaide that are not just about fun but actually do the world some good. A side project for the business (that will eventually take over as the main project) is to design websites for community groups who need a hand running events.
Another of my projects is AngelaRandall.com which is becoming more popular and might eventually bring in a decent income itself. Getting passive income for sitting around blogging when I feel like it sounds great to me.
The whole point to these online business structures is to aid us with another goal of ours: To move to Finland. We've currently got that penciled in for March 2008 but that could change. Basically, we want to learn Swedish (and hopefully Finnish too) before we go. And we don't want to go from Australian Summer to Finnish Winter so we thought we'd aim for a less harsh seasonal change.
All in all, it has been a fantastic year!
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I've never actually written one of these either. Usually I think it's a bit strange to not hear from someone in a year and then receive a generic letter with all the interesting stuff that's grandmother friendly that's happened in said person's life this year. But whatever. They're interesting :)
------ Ange and Bruce: Our year in review -----------
January began with Adelaide IV 2006 which was a large (About 170 choristers) choral festival which I convened. We sang African Sanctus and Israel in Egypt, the latter of which was performed in the Adelaide Festival Theatre. Personally, I liked African Sanctus best.
Bruce and I actually started going out during the festival. We've known each other through choir and uni for about 10 years but all of a sudden we're more than friends. I think we temporarily scared a few people who have known both of us that long. Others took the news way too easily and we think they should have been a little more surprised.
Speaking of surprises.. in June I organised a surprise party for Bruce's 32nd birthday. He had no idea whatsoever and was thoroughly shocked when he found out. He absolutely loved it.
Both of us have moved house a bit this year. I'm currently living in town sharing with a friend. Bruce is about to move again in a week or so to a housing co-op that another friend already lives in. The BBQs will be a plenty.
I spent five months working at Satisfac in the call centre, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do so I quit that and started my own business, Stage Left Event Management. The plan is to run events in Adelaide that are not just about fun but actually do the world some good. A side project for the business (that will eventually take over as the main project) is to design websites for community groups who need a hand running events.
Another of my projects is AngelaRandall.com which is becoming more popular and might eventually bring in a decent income itself. Getting passive income for sitting around blogging when I feel like it sounds great to me.
The whole point to these online business structures is to aid us with another goal of ours: To move to Finland. We've currently got that penciled in for March 2008 but that could change. Basically, we want to learn Swedish (and hopefully Finnish too) before we go. And we don't want to go from Australian Summer to Finnish Winter so we thought we'd aim for a less harsh seasonal change.
All in all, it has been a fantastic year!
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Hope everyone had a great silly season! I'm only half way through the Christmas celebrations. We've done Christmas with my rellies.. now it's time for Christmas with Bruce's rellies :)
Oh and somewhere in there I got older.. I get that this time of year. Meh.
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Oh and somewhere in there I got older.. I get that this time of year. Meh.
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links for 2006-12-20
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- BusinessSpew (biz-nes-spew), Noun 1. The generation of sentences or phrases consisting primarily of industry jargon, where the resulting structure has no intrinsic meaning.
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Wishing you all the very best shopping season. I hope you all find car parks easily, have great ideas for presents for all your favourite people and I wish you the very best of luck finding said presents and being able to afford them.
When you have survived shopping season I do recommend a drink at my place if I'm here. I seem to be stuck in singing season, though. Why do people want to hear carols in shopping season? I forget.
Anyway, have a good one. I'll see you on the other side.
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When you have survived shopping season I do recommend a drink at my place if I'm here. I seem to be stuck in singing season, though. Why do people want to hear carols in shopping season? I forget.
Anyway, have a good one. I'll see you on the other side.
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Where the hell is Matt?
Bubbles!
links for 2006-12-06
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- Getting to the heart of the matter: You are ultimately responsible for your own destiny regardless of what distracted you from your original path. It doesn’t matter if your reasons for losing focus are trivial or tragic, it’s your motivation that is g
- 50 things girls do wrong in bed :)
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links for 2006-12-05
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- A content network that happens to have blogs in it
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I'm not difficult, just uneasy.
links for 2006-12-02
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- Photoshop Contests | Are you Worthy™ | contest
Movie poster parodies!!
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Motorbike Accident
I just found out that Jason Groves' partner Wendy died in a motorbike accident last week.
The media has been all over it:
Sunday
Tuesday
I only met Wendy for a few minutes during the interval of Chess a few weeks ago (so I hardly knew her). But the accident is one that I'm always terrified of.
They were riding together but Jason was about 50 metres ahead. A girl called Theresa stepped out into the traffic right in front of Wendy on the motorbike. Both were thrown into traffic and killed instantly. Apparently the stretch of road is known for it's poor visibility.
And poor Jason. That would be devastating.
Jason got back on the bike though. As Wendy would have wanted. Very brave. :)
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The media has been all over it:
Sunday
Tuesday
I only met Wendy for a few minutes during the interval of Chess a few weeks ago (so I hardly knew her). But the accident is one that I'm always terrified of.
They were riding together but Jason was about 50 metres ahead. A girl called Theresa stepped out into the traffic right in front of Wendy on the motorbike. Both were thrown into traffic and killed instantly. Apparently the stretch of road is known for it's poor visibility.
And poor Jason. That would be devastating.
Jason got back on the bike though. As Wendy would have wanted. Very brave. :)
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Today's Funny
links for 2006-12-01
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- 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better | OEDb
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