February 17

**Everyone in my house went out dancing on Friday night. This is my fave picture, behind me is my friend Kelvin**
I've been SO busy lately! It's fantastic!
My new job is stellar. I love it & never imagined how great it would be! The one minute walk to work is so great because I can come home for lunch too. Every day, when it's about time to leave, I'm always thinking: if only I could stay longer to do just one more thing on this website... I'm so happy about it! I've even got some extra work to do on the Widder Station website, so I'm doing graphic design work at home too.
I have been going to the cafe to confront my old boss from time to time. She just keeps telling me that she will not pay me. I've made a bit of a scene.. she's not too happy with me at all. It's a real inconvenience, but I suppose if that's the only down part of my life at this point, I'll just try not to think about it.
On Wednesday night, I went to the information and training session for the St. Vincent De Paul ("Vinnies Youth") volunteer stuff. I found out about a place that's down the street from where I live that does other 'feed the poor' stuff, so I've been in contact with them and I have a meeting scheduled for next week to see when I can start joining them. Tonight, I'm going to a Night Patrol thing where we make sandwiches and get in a van and bring the food to homeless people on the streets. I'm a little nervous, but also excited to see how it all turns out.
We had a big house party this weekend because it was one guy's birthday. We had SO much fun! Over the past couple of weeks, I've been starting to really get to know a lot of the people that live in my place and we're starting to get to be pretty good friends. After the party, we went out to a bar & danced the night away. I didn't realize that some of the bars here are open 24 hours, and when we left, I thought it was about 2am. It was actually 5:30am. HAHA what!! seriously, it was practically getting light outside by the time we all walked home.
Terrin e-mailed me a couple of days ago to tell me that her & her mom have booked tickets to come to Sydney in March! WOW how amazing is it going to be to have them here?!??! I'm excited to see them and to show them places near here that they would enjoy. I've put myself in charge of their trip planning. They'll be going to the zoo, the blue mountains, Bondi Beach, a tour of the city, and maybe I'll be able to find something that I haven't even seen yet.
I went to lunch today with Kathryn's friend Alyson (from Hamilton) who's in Sydney for a couple of weeks for her PHD. It was really nice to spend time with a Canadian again. And since it was a nice afternoon, we were able to sit out on the patio. The guys in my house are all going out to the park across the road to play rugby this afternoon. My friend Laura (she's from England and lives in my house) and I are going to be the cheerleaders.