The taste still lingers in my mouth

According to Sean, who just got home and on msn - Aspirin and alcohol can only make you super high, cause you to tire out, pass out, and sleep.
As he puts it, "You will not die!"

Left me pretty amused and sillified but no less, thankful still - I am alive and kicking.

I have generously offered to buy myself a $1200 ticket to Brisbane instead of Perth (why not buy a dslr you may ask. I've weighed my options and decided a holiday should recover me)
My friends are skeptical and in a trial of disbelief although terribly excited as I am, - especially Pea because she thinks I daren't take a plane alone - methinks this is a highlight of my life.

While away for business in Hongkong two months ago, I remember how I was almost driven to tears on the first night of my arrival, in my hotel room.
I wasnt alone. Great company to boot in fact - my best friend and a great colleague, both allowed me to sleep between them.
Truth inside tho, I was a melancholic. I miss home, I miss my boring route home from work, I miss sleeping on my familiar bed.
I dont need a nice bathtub, luxurious duvet, habourfront seaview - Certain to me, not a pleasant place to be in.

I think I hate to be heaving with change.

But for reasons completely relating to embracing change and shutting out, I am determined to plan and see through this trip.
Lodging will be free my friends, and that is why I suspect I'll have to be maid instead of friend, cook instead of serve, wash instead of complain.

Haha.

Brief explanation to why Brisbane instead of Perth now: because more friends are in Melbourne and Brisbane (I could do a transfer flight). More shopping, more beaches, more photography expeditions (although I seriously think more reason for Perth and Photos), more reason to spend an obscene amount of money on myself.

I asked my girls if they would send me off and pick me up at the airport (I love all that drama - warm toasty hugs and carrying my bags for me) and they said, "IF YOU confirm your ticket, WE DEFINITELY would."

I have never been more sure. :)