2011 past tense summary
Ok now i saw in 2011 whilst in OZ... the first time i spent new years in another country since 1986. it was a state of Eutopia... this period... the huge holidays i had from late 2010 to early Feb 2011 was one of the most pleasureable periods of my entire existance. after a great time in Sydney with Craig i came back to Auckland and celebrated my bday and Davids bday at mrs ms place before heading on my second OZ trip... this time to stay with Luke... in Brisbane. Loved OZ, loved the ppl... loved the weather... even though it DOES rain in Brissy.... it rains lots. we were getting flooded out whilst back at home in auckland my venus flytrap was baking in one of the hottest summers there for over a decade and it dried up and died thanks to no rain. we kited in Brissy... some days amazing conditions. Came back to Auckland full of life... at the peak... cos things were about to go down hill and have not stopped descending to this day.
However in the grand sceme of this things 2011 was quite a good year! its was better than 2008 and 2009 and not much worse than 2010. It was a year where i did a lot of new things.
One of those things was communal living. up until then i had lived by myself... which was great. however in Brisbane i was flatting for the first time ever. When i came back a friend asked me if i was keen on joing their new flat. Devon, Eva, Dayna and her then boyfriend Dan had moved into a place on Hutchison rd which i nicknamed the "palace". my place was empty.. of ppl... but had most of my stuff there. the rent wasnt very high... about $90 each which was great. ill writeup the palace at a later date but for this entry i was in and out... had two stints there before fully moving out in July of 2011... sparking a falling out between me and Eva. there were fallings out this year.... infact plenty of them but they were outweighed by the good times.
the communial living idea was so appealing that i decided to try it at my place. now i had attempted this before back in late 2008 with a maccas workmate but it never eventuated and i remained solo. mum had also recommended that i get Stipe to move in but until now i was reluctant to forgo my privacy for a measly $50 a week. Now in June i decided to take up mums advice,.... but it wasnt just Stipe that moved in! 2011 revealed new characters in the reality show called life... including Astons mum Debbie and his then girlfriend Emma... these two would be instrumental in setting up my place as a flat. Emma and Aston moved into the big front room and Stipe was in the living room... he was all good with this, Also moving in were two cats... Mittens and Digit... starting my association with cats. Stipe liked the cats... everyone was happy... but good things go bad. first was my mum ringing up and finding out about the fact that others were living there too... but remember i was still living at the palace! this was what pissed her off... saying that i needed a tenancy agreement and all that... which is not true as its friends and imformal. but yeah we both decided that it was best i moved out of the palace and back into mine. anyway the plan was for late july but i had one of my rare "rejection episodes" at an outing in early july and decided to move out then! yep went down great with Eva.... hence the falling out mentioned before. the falling out lasted a few weeks and i often visted the palace... but never moved back in. thats ok... drama was happening at mine now... whilst Aston was nowhere near as bad as ppl sed he was he still had annoying tendencies... especially with his addictions... smoking and gambling. gambling wasnt so bad as he was good with his payments... they all were... i could set my watch to Stipes payments.... hes a military machine i tell ya. However his smoking was a problem and whilst i never caught him in the act there was talk that he was smoking inside... which i detest. He also stole from Stipes cookie jar and admitted it to Stipe. now THIS incident imo started the cancer that has been killing our 19 year old friendship ever since... infact the friendship is now dead... and it all stems from this one little incident... all becasue i didnt throw Aston out. he never did it again after that... not to Stipe anyway and he did pay Stipe back so i saw no reason to throw him out. Anyway whilst the friendship with Stipe was festering i was also at odds with Andrea... this time with conspiracy theories.... this was the year that i started hearing about chemtrails... well she did... and thought it would be cool if she started ramming her beliefs down my throat.... no NOT cool and we started falling out. i was aware of them... although didnt see proof of them until early 2012.
it was certainly not a boring year... with my place looking more like mrs ms with 10 ppl there and at one stage 11 cats... yep you heard me right.
on top of this i drank more alcohol this year than all my other years combined and this was the only year so far which i smoked weed.... both seshs were at the palace. however not once did i destroy my life cos of drinking or mary jane... i could handle it... i knew when to draw the line.... interesting.
by years end Stipe had enuf and moved out. by this stage i had taken up yet another venture... athletics... fun even though i wasnt very good at it. however the neighbours would get involved in several issues... especially the cats... and there were lots of dramas but at mine and at the palace and mrs ms... lots of it surrounding aston and my place was quickly becoming as issue as well with neighbour issues both in our area as well as development in the section behind us... which still pisses me off to this day.
it was also the first year that i went to armageddon.... yet another move to the techie, gamie indoors orientated person and away from the water sports. it was there that we saw IPW for the first time... which was interesting as a former workmate at maccas used to wrestlle at their shows... however not anymore.
Guyfawkes was very much a muted affair despite me spending lots of money... it just wasnt the same as 2010... dramas this time round ruining it... especially with Eva, Dayna etc.
Braeden would make an appearence this year as well... and was friends with another young dude called caleb... now caleb i met in 2010... whilslt doing the mail. these guys would be central to my social life in years to come. Braeden is astons brother.... their mum Debbie and i got along well back then... we would fall out later on... but back then we were good friends...
2012 promised to be the end of the world... the new age... the age of aquarius... really did sent some of my life to a watery grave....
However in the grand sceme of this things 2011 was quite a good year! its was better than 2008 and 2009 and not much worse than 2010. It was a year where i did a lot of new things.
One of those things was communal living. up until then i had lived by myself... which was great. however in Brisbane i was flatting for the first time ever. When i came back a friend asked me if i was keen on joing their new flat. Devon, Eva, Dayna and her then boyfriend Dan had moved into a place on Hutchison rd which i nicknamed the "palace". my place was empty.. of ppl... but had most of my stuff there. the rent wasnt very high... about $90 each which was great. ill writeup the palace at a later date but for this entry i was in and out... had two stints there before fully moving out in July of 2011... sparking a falling out between me and Eva. there were fallings out this year.... infact plenty of them but they were outweighed by the good times.
the communial living idea was so appealing that i decided to try it at my place. now i had attempted this before back in late 2008 with a maccas workmate but it never eventuated and i remained solo. mum had also recommended that i get Stipe to move in but until now i was reluctant to forgo my privacy for a measly $50 a week. Now in June i decided to take up mums advice,.... but it wasnt just Stipe that moved in! 2011 revealed new characters in the reality show called life... including Astons mum Debbie and his then girlfriend Emma... these two would be instrumental in setting up my place as a flat. Emma and Aston moved into the big front room and Stipe was in the living room... he was all good with this, Also moving in were two cats... Mittens and Digit... starting my association with cats. Stipe liked the cats... everyone was happy... but good things go bad. first was my mum ringing up and finding out about the fact that others were living there too... but remember i was still living at the palace! this was what pissed her off... saying that i needed a tenancy agreement and all that... which is not true as its friends and imformal. but yeah we both decided that it was best i moved out of the palace and back into mine. anyway the plan was for late july but i had one of my rare "rejection episodes" at an outing in early july and decided to move out then! yep went down great with Eva.... hence the falling out mentioned before. the falling out lasted a few weeks and i often visted the palace... but never moved back in. thats ok... drama was happening at mine now... whilst Aston was nowhere near as bad as ppl sed he was he still had annoying tendencies... especially with his addictions... smoking and gambling. gambling wasnt so bad as he was good with his payments... they all were... i could set my watch to Stipes payments.... hes a military machine i tell ya. However his smoking was a problem and whilst i never caught him in the act there was talk that he was smoking inside... which i detest. He also stole from Stipes cookie jar and admitted it to Stipe. now THIS incident imo started the cancer that has been killing our 19 year old friendship ever since... infact the friendship is now dead... and it all stems from this one little incident... all becasue i didnt throw Aston out. he never did it again after that... not to Stipe anyway and he did pay Stipe back so i saw no reason to throw him out. Anyway whilst the friendship with Stipe was festering i was also at odds with Andrea... this time with conspiracy theories.... this was the year that i started hearing about chemtrails... well she did... and thought it would be cool if she started ramming her beliefs down my throat.... no NOT cool and we started falling out. i was aware of them... although didnt see proof of them until early 2012.
it was certainly not a boring year... with my place looking more like mrs ms with 10 ppl there and at one stage 11 cats... yep you heard me right.
on top of this i drank more alcohol this year than all my other years combined and this was the only year so far which i smoked weed.... both seshs were at the palace. however not once did i destroy my life cos of drinking or mary jane... i could handle it... i knew when to draw the line.... interesting.
by years end Stipe had enuf and moved out. by this stage i had taken up yet another venture... athletics... fun even though i wasnt very good at it. however the neighbours would get involved in several issues... especially the cats... and there were lots of dramas but at mine and at the palace and mrs ms... lots of it surrounding aston and my place was quickly becoming as issue as well with neighbour issues both in our area as well as development in the section behind us... which still pisses me off to this day.
it was also the first year that i went to armageddon.... yet another move to the techie, gamie indoors orientated person and away from the water sports. it was there that we saw IPW for the first time... which was interesting as a former workmate at maccas used to wrestlle at their shows... however not anymore.
Guyfawkes was very much a muted affair despite me spending lots of money... it just wasnt the same as 2010... dramas this time round ruining it... especially with Eva, Dayna etc.
Braeden would make an appearence this year as well... and was friends with another young dude called caleb... now caleb i met in 2010... whilslt doing the mail. these guys would be central to my social life in years to come. Braeden is astons brother.... their mum Debbie and i got along well back then... we would fall out later on... but back then we were good friends...
2012 promised to be the end of the world... the new age... the age of aquarius... really did sent some of my life to a watery grave....
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