Well hello out there in Xanga Land!! I hate it when people spend an entire blog post apologizing for not blogging, so I am not going to. :) I wanted to say hi to all my Xanga friends and let you know what I've been up to! Will I continue to post regularly? Maybe, maybe not. I'm not sure, but I will try to keep up with reading everyone!

So what's new with me?

Should I start from the beginning, or from the ending? I will tell you this. At this moment, I am sitting in MY APARTMENT in Richmond, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, typing on my Macbook. It is almost noon on Wednesday and at 4:30 I have to go to work, which is a shame because that is the exact time my roommate, aka the Love of my Freaking Life, gets home.

Tonight, we will go food shopping and cook dinner and watch DVD's and I will knit and we will do other stuff *wink* and we will be madly in love, as per usual.

His name is Dan, and he has the sexiest British accent, and he is gorgeous, and we have been together for 5 months. We met at a waterfall in Laos shortly after my last post. A WATERFALL in LAOS!!!

I won't say it was love at first sight, because first sight was him, shivering in the shallow end of the swimming hole, with a t-shirt sunburn like you wouldn't believe (yes, he is a delicate English rose) and me teasing him for being lame and not jumping straight in like I did. (Oh wow, I have so much to tell y'all!!) But it was love-very-soon-after-first-sight, and we spent 10 glorious days together in Laos and Thailand, and then I went home. HOME! So far away.

I spent January at home (why did I not update then? I do not know) and February in the Bahamas doing Yoga Teacher Training at an Ashram... YUM! and then in March, I came here to Australia, to be with him.

Crazy? Probably. Good decision? The best.



Traveling is amazing, I absolutely love this life of mine. At the moment, it's a tad boring, just work (babysitting) and apartment stuff, plus it's fall here so I'm missing my favorite time of year at home (though I guess after spending winter in the tropics I can't complain!!), but in July we are going up to the BEACH!! Yay! and then I am going back to the US for a few weeks to work and hang out. Dan will come in September to meet me, and see the USA for the first time, and then we will go... somewhere else. Not sure where! But I still really want to live in Italy so we'll see about that.

I'll keep you posted!!

Check out my pics, link is in post below, and read about my adventures at Travels with Swatchy!! Just find the posts by Devon :)

Hugs and kisses to all!!

I finally did the two things I've been swearing I wouldn't do:

1) Join Facebook

2)Sign up for Ravelry (I'm DevonC but I have no idea how it all works so you have to find me)

Like I needed more ways to spend time in front of a computer...  Ironically, I'm going to Fiji in 5 days and won't be able to do any of it hahahaha...

 

Swatchy, Amy, and I got to meet CRAZY AUNT PURL!!

She is so cool and funny and adorable in real life (as is Amy), and it was awesome to get to meet her!!

(And she only mentioned porn twice hahahahaha...)

in the insanity that is mi vida loca.

Last night, my sister and I went to Broadway, as per usual. Her boyfriend works there and it's quiet on weeknights, we just go and have a drink or a water and hang out with the guys. It's like Cheers LOL. So our friend Captain Matt, he runs one of the big party fishing boats, comes in with Capt Brian and we're all hanging out, then the 4 of us go across the street to the boat to hang out there.

We decide, at about 3 (mostly sober, no less) to go for a cruise in the little boat -- it's about a six person center console, cute. We cruise down the river, into the bay, and it's really nice. The sky was crazy dark so there were a million stars!! Coming back, Brian is really gunning it, the wind is blowing in our faces, it's incredible. And then, all of a sudden,

THUNK!

We completely run aground. Hahahahaha! So poor Matty had to get out of the boat and push! I suggested we just hang and wait for the tide to come in, but we didn't have enough beer.

We got back into dock at around 5, I was home in bed by 6. Yes, AM. So I shouldn't feel guilty for sleeping til 1 pm, right?

Anyway, what a fun night!! I am so glad the moon is waxing again. I am really starting to notice a connection between the moon and my social life.