another one bites the dust... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

* today's the last day of 2010... how the years seem to fly by, each year quicker than the last! 2010 seems to have passed like the batter of an eyelash, though when i think about it, so much has happened...

i saw in 2010 in the snowy ski resort of Åre in sweden, working at nova cocktail bar with jerry. at midnight we skipped out from behind the bar to see the fireworks over the pretty white town square while the snow fell on our faces....

i did the winter season in that ski town, lived with four swedish boys, served sushi and steak by day and cocktails by night, became a coyote ugly, tried to ski (and gave up)....
mid-season we had our australian visa application denied by the heartless robots at immigration, and i suffered the devastation of the possibility that i'd never be allowed to move back home... nevertheless, i picked myself up and got over that bridge and even managed a quick visit back to oz to be the maid of honour at my beloved cousin donna's wedding and enjoyed two weeks of the hot australian summer. when i returned to snowy sweden, my sweetheart asked me to marry him (and he'd planned to even before id caught the bouquet!)...and i said yes of course.

at the end of the season jerry took me on a romantic holiday to the islands of thailand where we thawed our bones and chose our wedding venue.

we then packed up our lives into four suitcases and moved to london, the land of opportunities and the centre of the world, along with the world's tallest man (and one of jerry's best friends). i fell in love with the city instantly...not only because they speak my language instead of the hurdy gurdy, but because i knew straight away that this is where you can find anything and do anything, including (and most especially) following your dreams.

we found a lovely apartment in islington, i got a job in a pub which i quit after a month and we then discovered the club, where we all got jobs we love with people we love.
i became a nanny on the side, started taking classes in the hurdy gurdy (swedish for those of you who didn't watch sesame street); i organised a suprise birthday party in stockholm for jerry's 30th; visited brighton, celebrated the first anniversary of this, my blog; bought a new scooter, won a best actors award; started belly dancing again; life-modelling again; snuck into an exclusive fashion week party with a stolen invitation; got hit on by prince harry; worked on two movie sets as an extra and an assistant production designer, met some extraordinary people and got accepted into a british reality show called the house of grazia, all the meanwhile planning (and saving for) a big destination wedding.

it's been an eventful year.....
but somehow i think that 2011 will be even bigger.....

to you, my loyal readers, thank you for sharing my highs and lows. the yellow brick road has been fun to keep and i hope you'll continue the ride through 2011 and beyond.
lots of love to you all........ and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
xx me
:o)