When I Say Summer, I mean SUMMER.

Good morning!

I'm not kidding, it really is a good morning for me as I had a really good sleep last night and didn't have to suffer trying to sleep through the 30 degree heat, yay! Thank goodness for having a fiance with an air conditioned bedroom.

Sydney's in the middle of a heat wave right now - again. For those who haven't experienced an Aussie summer it goes a little something like this: 

Monday: Hot

Tuesday: Hotter 

Wednesday: Oven 

Thursday morning: BBQ 

Thursday afternoon: The hottest most possible thing you'll ever experience

And then come Friday morning it's pretty much a fridge with rain.

Yes, you read that right. The temperature literally climbs and climbs all week then crashes 10 degrees along with buckets of rain. It's weird. Consequently, it seems that Aussie summers aren't anything you really forget once you've grown up with them, and it's like second nature to be having two showers a day and to walk around in thongs - the ones that go on your feet.

Here is what I did forget during the two years I was gone though...

First Post of 2016!

It's twenty-SIXTEEN!

I've never been one of those individuals who get super excited about the start of a new year. I mean, of course, I don't flaunt it in front of everyone else who's super excited about it, but the beginning of the year has always brought with it more a sense of anxiety and nervousness than anything else. Nervousness because I just don't have a clue what the year has in store for me and anxiety because - just like every other year before this one - I'm probably going to try really hard not to fail -- and that is always stressful. Ha!

While everyone else is making a list of resolutions they'll probably break by March, I find that I'm more content with coming up with one to three really broad, general, things that I think I could realistically accomplish by the year's end.

This time, however - I'm a little excited.