LivingItUp: A BBQ, a Wedding and City fun

Here is the first post in my 'Living It Up While I Still Can' series where I try and do as much fun activities with friends and family as I can possibly squeeze in before I take off for hopefully a year abroad in New York City starting March 2012.

The last 4 days have been great! It seems I am living it up without hesitation.

First off there was the awesome activity my friends have started doing regularly of late, BBQ's by the beach! With Summer upon us at the moment the days are long and the afternoons are warm, perfect for a BBQ by the beach on a Thursday afternoon straight after work. It is always a 'more people the merrier' affair so there is usually a bunch of people who I don't know, and I am happy to say I have met two or three extremely cool new people because of it. One whom in particular, Kate, I hope to see a lot more of in the future.

Then Saturday came and it was time for a wedding! Wedding's at my age are ridiculous amounts of fun, at 23 years old I feel I am at the optimum age to enjoy a wedding. I am old enough to drink, make a fool of myself, chat to anyone and everyone, and basically just go there for the fun and take advantage of the free food, alcohol and company of friends/family, but on the other hand however I am still young enough that I don't have to worry too much about buying a good gift, setting a good behaviour for the younger attendees, and I don't have any partner and/or kids to worry about... win!

Sunday I awoke with little sleep and a bit of a hang over, but there was no time to rest because I was to be spending the day with Brendan, Carolyn and Polly... three friends I love spending time with. We originally planned to go to the Zoo, but that got changed by the girls somewhere along the way (I never quite figured out when ha) and instead we had some great Chinese for lunch, walked around Melbourne city for a while, then caught a tram and hung out by the beach. The topic of 'dodgem cars' came up somehow so we set out on a quest to find somewhere that had them! But failed ha (perhaps will add it to my to-do list). A pretty simple day but I honestly couldn't of asked for a better way to spend my Sunday. I am going to miss those guys when I leave...

Our walk along the beach side.

Living it up while I still can

With my year long NYC trip scheduled for March, it has finally dawned on me that 'dude... see all those awesome friends you love hanging with, the fun activities you love doing, that fun-things-to-do-one-day list hanging on the fridge that you have been meaning to get around to... yeah, you are going to be leaving all that behind when you leave!'.

After I got back from my China trip last November I had two really amazingly fun weekends with my friends, and for the first time in a long time I realized, and started to honestly feel, how much I am going to miss home when I leave.

Ever since the beginning of this year I have been the most emotional I have ever been in my life ha! It gets even worst when I've been drinking too. All I want to do these days is hug my friends and family and just never let them go!.. but that would be weird, so instead I have settled upon just living life to the absolute fullest until departure date by squeezing in as many fun fueled activities as I can.

Therefore I am starting a new, brief series titled 'Living It Up While I Still Can' in which I hope to write down all the fun things I have done in my remaining few months at home before I leave for my trip. It will be nice to be able to re-read and remember whilst I am away, and perhaps just to remember this time in my life in general, a time where I took 'living' to the next level and really started to live it up, albeit only a brief while.

I just feel so blessed to have such awesome friends and home that... I just don't want to take it all for granted and regret all the things that I should of done when I had the chance, you know? Who knows what friends and home will be like when I get back, all I know is that it most likely won't be the same as it is now so it is best to enjoy it while it is still around to be enjoyed.

The river 2 minutes from my house that I love riding along. It's the little things in life.

I'm looking for new blogs to follow, apply here!

Hi bloggers! I want you to advertise your blog here, seriously!

 

Let me explain. In life I work full time as a software developer thus I am on the computer the entire day...five days a week... thus providing me a substantial abundance of time free to spend blogging and reading blogs, which I admit is pretty cool. However the problem is that because I have so much free time to blog I end up reading through all the new posts of the blogs I follow way to quickly and am always left waiting for new post to appear, and when I am terribly bored at work a new post to read is an awesome time filler.

So I'd like to welcome anyone to in the comments below feel free to shamelessly advertise your blog and I will gladly check it out. There is a rule however, all I ask is that you also suggest at least one (or more) of your favourite blogs to follow, else I won't check your blog out =P Feel free to add a little description to what your blog is all about also.

I hope to discover some cool new blogs, and hopefully inadvertingly help other people discover your own blogs also =) Any cool blogs I see I will add in a list below, as well as mention your name and blog in thanks for participating:

- Stuff No One Told Me: This blog shows illustrations of this guys life in a very creative and sometimes very moving way. A nice relaxing read. A thanks for the suggest to Faith from My Blessed Life!

- Bits of Truth: An awesome collection of motivational quotes, updated I think daily. A great way to start the work day =D A big thanks again to Faith from My Blessed Life!

- Living with the Seat Up - A very humourous blog that I was very surprised to see only had one follower at the time of writing. It definitely deserves more so check it out! Courtesy of the blogs' author Shannon.

- Help a Geek - This blog was rather interesting, however I'll garner it is probably not quite to most peoples tastes, but I for some was totally hooked. An awesome thanks to Sue Lin from Bay Bee Tea (check her blog out it is awesome).

- My Life Alone - An honourary mention to Dave from My life Alone for his much appreciated participation. His blog is cool and one I'd definitely recommend checking out.



Additional notes: People I am already following are more than welcome to participate, also feel free to recommend as many blogs as you feel like =) I might run this post over the next few weeks as well.