2007 the year that waz….. unlike any other. For those who know me the would know that at the end of most years i would send out a the year it was email to everyone just to remind them of the good times and bad and maybe some of the things that were missed by some people its my way of sitting there going thats how the year ended its over and is now history, you cant change the things that happened but you can learn from them and grow from them but you should never forget them. 2007 started with fireworks. standing on the hill on my street with fellow mildly drunk friends trying to see the fireworks and not really seeing much so we headed back home riding in a shopping trolley on the way, we got back to house and continued to drink and watch family guy, play poker and mario kart its was pretty casual but i dont think anyone wanted to endure a hardcore new years afterall who wants to cram into a club where beer is 10 bucks a pot and you have to wait an hour to get one. we spent the next doing very little and ended it buy having dinner at the geebung hotel it was 12 dollar meal night. which is awesome because cheap food is always a goer as people sorta headed off over the next fews days i spent some time trying to pass the new zelda with some help from jess but i wouldnt pass it for weeks to come. It was january and that means its hot… so Hot in the house with out air condistioning that you dont really do much back at work and back to normal after being sick for most of christmas was a pretty good feeling but it was comming up to my 20th birthday which can mean only one this… some more crazy times ahead. nadine got me a Nintendo WII for my bithday complete with two controllers and 2 games one being the zelda game i already had on cube so that was pretty awesome, matt and ry came down followed by chris and misha and shaye, we played cricket and drank beer well alot of beer. me nadine ry and matt went to big day out and saw some fucking awesome bands and we lost matt for a bit as well. we left when tool came on stage because it was a little scary the amount of drunks out and about but still an awesome day all round and i managed to get my head sunburnt that wasnt so fun. we spent my actul birthday getting matts eyebrow pieced then getting drunk and playing laser wars at crown which was heaps cool better then getting drunk at some random pub with ferals. it took a few weeks to get over the mad week with me mates so we took it easy for a while. both me and nadine went to the outdoor cinema for a night out, we saw the prestiege and the out door cinema was fucking awsome we had fish and chips by the water and watched a movie with the city as our back drop it was an amazing night. Nadine got given the go ahead to choose a car, she chose a Mazda3 its a sweet little ride we both love to bits however it was very sad to let poor suz go, my comadore with the heart of gold the memories of cruising and all the neat things that happend in that car, all the cricket trips and drives home from and trips to that park in gol gol. good times but i had to say goodbye and i did, taking for one more drive to mildura and flying back to melbourne it was said and i did maybe cry… just a little bit knowing i would probley never love a car like i loved that one. but we move on, i brought a video camera and an imac with the money i got from selling the car and i started making films for people again, filming my friend Gavs band play at live gigs and filming my cuz’s wedding….. i think the wedding was harder! too many drunks… thats right there were more drunk at the wedding then there were at the pub. Ry turned 21 and me and shaye made the trip to mildura for the weekend to join the party, it was good having most of the old crew back together we drank malley bull and told tall tales before heading out for the night and having a few drinks. it was a good trip we got to do alot even got some fishing done. so we danced like mufuckers and got drunk at the irish pub before squeesing everyone into my mothers car and heading home. we drove home once more the next day. something we werent really all the used to was all this traveling just to see mates with everyone so busy and in all different parts of aus it was getting harder and harder to see one another but at the same time it made each time more memerable. so not much really happend for a while nadine was busy hateing melbourne uni and i was busy trying to get as much money as i possibly could from work. we got sick of that pretty quickly and something had to go so nadine left uni, he took on a better role at her worked it helped things a fair bit more money and more time to do things is great! then in a random step i get a phone call from my mother informing me that my sister is moving and not just her but her boyfriend as well that i hadnt really met yet and all thanks to nadine saying to everyone we meet move in move in move in. good stuff i say!! well not really people and friends were leaving my work and family were moving in things were about to change from everyday life of all work and no play to something else. kayla (my sister) and tim (bf) moved in just as nadine applied for a new uni course something we would have to pay for and something she may actully be intrested in. kayla and tim stayed for a week while they looked for work tim finding a job and starting instantly down the road from my house the caos began. with multiple trips back and forth to mildura to get stuff it was a crazy few weeks. once things settled down me and nadine found something we didnt really have before and it was MONEY! money to spend on what ever! ya see although living in a small apartment with 4 people living in it may be a little crazy bills split 4 ways is fantastic!!!!!! so we discovered tresures like the drive in cinema! roulette at crown! drinking at the nevermind and well wii games! For nadines birthday we all went out to the nevermind in hawthorn with some of her work mates and tahnee we got extremly drunk and sumbled home covered in paint from the freshly painted pub and slept of the booze. a few weeks later it was mine and nadines 2 year annerversy so we did something speical, we stayed at the crown hotel. theres something about being a 1 minute walk from the gamming floor that is pretty cool. we went to the cinema gold class got drunk and lost 100 bucks on the tables because watching pay tv all night in the extremly posh rooms. we spent the bulk of the following couple months just sorta doing as we feel, i took on more hours at work for money, nadine became a manager and started her new course as swinburn, we discovered the magic of broaband internet and downloading movies and became addicted to hereos and stargate and basicly not watching tv unless it was download by someone. i brought an ipod with my new found wealth we saw bands like Old man river, josh pyke, missy higgins, powderfinger, snow patrol, chirs cornell and linkin park live, life was great! Transformers was realesed and i had been looking forward to it since i saw the trailer, thank god tim was a transformers fan too otherwise i would have disowned him, after seeing the movie even nadine was convered some that means it must have been good. me and nadine then saw the simpsons movie at gold glass the night before heading back to mildura for the weekend to visit friends and catch up, my brother put neons under our new car it was heaps cool. we went to the old irish pub for a night as well only to find what was once cool is now scary as the place was full of 40 year olds and one tried to pick up matty! it was quite wrong. we headed home once more. Kayla and tim moved out eventully finding a house in doncaster after months of searching kayla got a job with a printing company and tim another job with clive peters selling kitchen goods, they were happy and i had the house to my self again awwwww yeah! and it was just in time for shaye to come and visit as we were heading to mildura for the event of the centry! matts 21st, we swang past bendigo on the way to pick up misha and chris before making the journey back to mildy town! mat’s 21st wasnt a huge party but big all the same not because of the number of people there but almost everyone was there we pretty much spent the day with matt before heading into the workers. we drank and told merry tales until we got to the point of the night we all feared and someone had to stand up and be a man and i was drunk enough to be a man so i did it. and i made the best speech you would ever hear and it went like this ” <insert speech here> ” truth be known i was so drunk i have no idea what i said and why the fuck did you ask me to do a speech anyway matt. honestly! MAN! the bushes man i should have told them about the bushes. anyhow we quickly made a move from the workers to the irish pub it didnt take long we caught up with more friends we hadnt seen in a while it was all going well till matt stole a painting. it was downhill from there as we were booted from the pub and left wondering the streets drunk, matt being the AGGRESive! drunk he is, stood their argueing with shockwave in the mall while we watched thinking what we were to do next. i called my brother to get a ride for me and shaye home, my brother doesnt drive but his always out cruising, so he turned up in the pimped out ride full of tvs and flashing lights. sat in the back and and my brother hands me another drink. i did not need another drink i was already shitfaced but what i hell. so we continued to drink picking up people and dropping them off as a taxi only thing was we were a full car so we had to put the people in the boot. they didnt mind. we did doenuts, burnout. you name the stupid things you can do in a car we did it. getting home at 4am in the morning we crashed and felt like absolute shit. we ended up leaving at about 2pm the following day back to melb… dont think i was sober but we had to make a move, it was one of the longest drives i’ve ever done, taking 8 hours to get home. Back in melbourne and totally over mildy we continued working, schooling and drinking, we saw Snow patrol, Chris cornell and Linkin Park live, was awesome. getting to the end of the year it was time for nadine to finish her assignments, my cuz warren visited on his way back from thailand, and we went to the aus bike show and saw all the done up motorbikes, models and crusty deamons. we then headed back to mildy again for yet another short trip, it was Emily’s Wedding to long time boyfriend Matt, we turned up and ran into alot of old mitre10 work friends it was good to catch up and i felt proud to be where i was in my life and you can see it in my old mates they were proud of me too, i felt good. so we got dressed up and went to the reception the MC for the night was the same guy from ryans 21st and his quite the dude, we drank danced and met new people had heaps of photos taken and wished emily all the best before calling my bro and getting a lift home. back to melbourne we went, Jemma and dylan came to visit for a few days just for the hell of it didnt really do alot a fair bit of drinking, nintendo and gambling (even though dylan forgot his ID – we still got into crown) it was a good few days and nadine enjoyed not thinking about school work for once but they soon headed off and it was time for nadine to study and me to get some work done. i started a cert 4 in retail managment after completing a cert 3 in retail supervision, and then just as everything was looking up, nadine got hit by a car. the car backed over her at intersection while nadine was crossing on a green man, the car drove off on nadine and nadine was confined to bed rest for two weeks. but she made a full recovery and eventully got to finish her work and hand them in getting a pretty good score. shaye came to stay for 2 weeks to work in melbourne, we got a keg to last our first week his name was keggy and he was made of heinken, i worked during the day, and shaye during the night so the only time we had to hang out and drink was around midnight everynight. it was pretty awesome having someone to hang out with again in me house even if it was for 2 weeks. mum and my bro came down to melbourne for a weekend to attend the Auto salon basicly fast and furiose cars. it was pretty sweet and really puts it in perspective, if you thourght you had seen hot cars down rowers you are way off becuase there cars start around around 50,000 and have had thousands more spent on them. shaun couldnt get over how good melbourne is compared to melbourne and another one is converted. it was then jess’s turn to come visit for a week again, more booze was consumed and we went out to do random stuff, ended up lost and at the beach, i found the wiggles though . it was nice at the beach peaceful and relaxing, a contrast to how bloody busy we were, it was good having jess around although she made me look soft compared to the amount of beer she drank. but then again 3 weeks of that will do that to ya. and then it was Emilys turn to visit (yeah it never ends) she came to melbourne for a christmas party and was going to hang around for following day to hang out with me, we went to ikea and checked that out, went into the city because she had never been on a train before, went shopping before heading home and playing wii and chatting for the rest of the day before i dropped her at the airport. i went home to bed and slept for 16 straight hours. just when i thourght things were slowing day work just got more busy it was the christmas rush it was starting. we decided to catch up with lucy one thursday night and shaye decided to join us, it was cool because we hadnt been out for a while so we trained into the city went to an irish pub drank ourselves silly before going back to lucys place and crashing, it took me and shaye almost the whole day to get home stopping for lunch then coffee then slurpees to try and fight off the hang overs and heat. it was december now and there was no time for screwing around, there was shopping to be done, christmas parties to attend, work work and more work. and those of you who live in melbourne will tell you how mad christmas can get in the city. luck us christmas for me is driving, driving and more driving so 3am christmas eve we started driving back to mildura once we got there, we didnt really do much saw some people and hanged out with family, i went down the river and played cricket with a few mates. christmas day was just family again not all that exciting really and then the next day matt came round we played resident evil for a while before having to head home again… driving driving driving. i was ment to return to the next day but thanks to selleys i was instead going to the cricket with me big boss. it was the 2nd day of the boxing day test and we were front row above the fanatics, we had the best view of the the people getting kicked out. heaps cool. it was a great day i got sunburnt and drank alot of beer with the reps from selleys and hanging out with the big boss wasnt so bad either we are like mates now. anyway the following sunday we hopped on a plane to adelaide to celebrate new years with jemma and dylan and jess. i’d only been to adelaide twice and never longer then 2 or 3 days and this trip was no exception we arrived sunday night to a stinking hot adelaide we found ice cream and headed back to their place were we drank some beer played some xbox and that was pretty much… too hot to do anything really. the next day we ventured into the city and checked out the mall found some lunch and money before going home again too hot to do anything and playing more guitar hero! because we totally rule at that, by the time we decided to do something seeings it was new years eve night it was getting pretty late so we go booze and got home and drank it as quick as possible attempting to play drinking games but they just wasnt as good as the game we played camping that time… lets never speak of it again. so we got drunk got in a taxi and headed for the casino. adeliade casino is alot smaller then crown and sorta more bogan i spose, we looked for a bar that didnt have a line that was so long it would take to the new year to get a drink. and we finally found one before heading back into the main room crammed full of people you could hardly move and  did the whole count down thing. it was kinda cool because it was the first time we did that whole count down thing in a room crammed full of a thousand strangers. we gambeled a bit nadine lost and i won it back before watching the fireworks and i remember thinking to my self “i’m going to kill those kids with those motherfucking noise makers! stupid little fuckers” i mean. it was more along the lines of how happy i was with everything so far, how life in 2007 was hard at times but overall totally worth it, how the old friends were true ones and the new ones were just as much fun, how nothing could really stop me, there was no challenge too hard and it got me thinking, whats next? what in 2008 could possible happen because for the last few years i could see whats going to happen next weather it was with work, nadine or friends. but right now i dont know whats happening, next week or the week after its not something i liked at first but now its kinda exciting. bring on 2008 i say let the party begin.

(spellcheck is gay thats my excuse ok!)