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I find more and more that married life suits me, odd as it may have sounded to anyone who knew me eight years ago. At that point in my life, I had just been horribly dumped by someone who was young and foolish and horribly self-centred and somehow I had become enamoured of him all through high school. Still, we live and learn and here I am with someone who devotes himself to me anew every single day. How long will it last? Who can say, but for now I will relish in the delight that someone finds me attractive, sexy, and everything they always wanted.

We just spent a wonderful long weekend away at the family's favourite vacation spot: Merimbula. A small on-the-water city that many aussies often visit as a fishing holiday spot. It was nice to get away from home, everyone needs a holiday now and then, and the weather in Merimbula is so much nicer than Rosedale at the moment. Never for a moment let anyone fool you into thinking that all of Australia is hot all year round. Tis not so in the southern states. Four seasons is a common thing here in Victoria, and sometimes all four in one day! Though, we aren't at an altitude that gets snow, so it's not a "true" winter in that aspect, but the weather does get odd. One minute it can be hot as heck, and the next it will be freezing because the wind just blew up and the sun was covered by a quickly drifting cloud. But Merimbula was beautiful and sunny. We did get a magnificent thunder storm in which we were, for about fifteen minutes, serenaded by the crash, boom, and very loud bang of the thunder clouds, accented by the blinding flashes of lightning that lit up the darkened skies. Excellent to watch, especially the ones out to sea that looked like they touched it. So we went down, caught some fish, turned a very lovely shade of red, followed by a nice dark brown, and came home and back to the real world where at this very moment, my husband's alarm is going off to wake him up to ready for work. Yes the real world is not always so fun. Ahh the life of being a baker. Up at midnight. And time for me to hit the hay.

As it goes, I've been keeping a small written diary since Jan 1 and I've only missed two days so far. Not too shabby. I've usually missed about two weeks by now. =P

The funniest thing...

Well, not so much funny but not something I expected at work...in Australia... Which is odd in itself because it's not like people don't travel...

At work today, two groups of Americans came in. It wouldn't seem so weird, but my little town of Rosedale isn't exactly a highlight of Australia. It's a little town in the corner of country nowhere... But it does have a bakery that sells quality items at low prices and people know about it so I guess it's not so uncommon. But I don't think I've ever met an American in the bakery before, and today there were a bunch. The second group was interesting in that they hailed from California. Oakland to be exact, which sports fans will know as the home of the Oakland A's...oi vay baseball. *sigh* The first group, however, came in from Virginia, which immediately made me think of my LifeJournal friends and how I don't think I know what any of you people sound like...except for a_leprechaun cuz, y'know, I've actually met you. But, and I don't know why this should seem odd, I felt like the one girl who I spoke with the most had an out of place accent. It immediately, for whatever reason, reminded me a voice Robin Williams did once and I can't even remember what show or whatever it was on... It seemed to heavy, like something you'd hear in maybe in Alabama... I always assumed a Virginia accent would be less, dare I say it, hick? than anything else. Of course, that could be because I watch too many movies and associate certain accents with certain states, as so many people do. Hellooooo Minnesota. Can we say Bobby's World don'tchaknow? Or would it be better typed in as "Babby's World"? And then there are so many different southern accents that it would hardly seem decent to even begin to try and think of what each state's would sound like... I don't know. Maybe I'm weird and overthink it too much. But I always thought a Virginian would have more of a...refined southern accent? And I know that sounds insulting to the other southern states but...it's my own opinion and I'm entitled to it.

And then it made me think... After a year and a half in Australia, what has my American accent changed to? I know that for the most part I don't sound any different. There are certain words that I'll pronounce differently because my three and a half year old niece doesn't understand me if I don't say something the "Australian" way. Of course, sometimes I think she doesn't understand me at all... =P

I miss home...