Hot Air Balloons at Sunrise

My first night’s sleep in Melbourne wasn’t the greatest and I put this down to my subconscious freaking out at the thought of moving cities.  But it’s a strange feeling. On the one hand, I want to be settled in and to immediately feel like I live here. But on the other hand, it’s almost like an instinctual reaction, that I feel like it’s only temporary and that I shouldn’t settle in.  My ‘sleeping’ state obviously knows what’s going on more than my ‘awake’ so I’m hoping some phenergan will knock me out until they catch up to each other.

Still, I couldn’t complain on the morning I woke up here. Opening the curtains in my room I actually let our a yelp when I saw the hot air balloons in the air, floating towards the sunrise. Honestly, it was ridiculous. Apparently this is a daily ritual of Melbourne that no one even thought to tell me about because “oh yeah, that’s just standard”.  (wow).

…why I’ve decided to create a blog. To be honest it started for my own sanity – to give me something to do in between wandering around the streets of Melbourne aimlessly.  Coming home after work can become way too routine and this almost forces me to have something to write about!

I have maybe the worst memory imaginable for a girl my age and given this is the biggest change in my life to date, I figured I didn’t want to forget it all in 10 years. I’m also hoping that while I’ll document the great times I’m having down in Melbourne town, that I can look back at the hard times I’m inevideblly going to have. Optimistically, I’m hoping I’ll look back in 12 months, blissfully happy with heaps of friends and think, wow how things have changed.

And finally, I would love to distance myself from Facebook finally! The danger of moving to another city while still checking the daily updates of my Sydney friends is that I never mentally leave the city! This way the people who really care about what I’m doing can still check in, but I won’t be crying to myself when I see a check-in from my besties at my favourite café or bar in Sydney.

So there you have it, the motivation behind the blog lies with boredom, a bad memory and selfishness. I’m off to a great start!