Bushfire Connection

My only personal connection to the recent and much publicised Victorian Bushfires is that our wedding reception venue, the Horsham Gold Club was destroyed on 'Black Saturday'. Many people don't realise there was a fire at Horsham that day. But there was, and it destroyed 7 houses and the aforementioned Golf Club.

This is what our reception looked like inside:
This is what the Golf Club looked like after the fire:

Our head table was on the other side of these windows:The loss of a Golf Club (or a reception venue) however, is pretty trivial compared to all the other losses that day.

Wedding Photos

Tonight I finally uploaded a selection of the official photos from the wedding. This is just about our favourite one of the lot.


I proposed to Tiarnee under the end of the jetty in the background.

2008: Year in Review

In 2008 I managed to achieve amongst other things, the following (in order):

• Turn 21 & have party.
• Moved interstate into a new flat.
• Learnt that nothing is open in Adelaide when you want it to be open.
• Started a new job in the real world as a 'Graduate Software Engineer' for a web development company.
• I graduated with a Bachelor of Information Technology from the University of Ballarat.
• I joined a new church & home group: Holy Trinity.
• Helped my fiancee plan a wedding.
  
• Took my fiancee on a suprise night out for her 21st.
• Had my bucks weekend in Adelaide. Which consisted of Halo 2, Paintballing, Go-Karting, steak and Ice-Cream.
• Found & moved into a 1890s built 3 bedroom house with Air-con and.... a pool!
• On the 22nd of November I got married to my girfriend of almost 4 years and my fiancee of 16 months, Tiarnee Munn.
• Following that we went on a Honeymoon to Fiji.
• Went on a small holiday just before Christmas to the Yorke Peninsula
• Spend most of Christmas with my wifes family.
• Went to Melbourne and saw the first day of the Boxing Day test match.
• Rocked out New Years Eve to Peter Coombe. Hearing such hits as 'newspaper mama' and 'Juicy, Juicy Green Grass'.

All in all. BEST YEAR EVER.

Can 2009 top that? Time will tell.

Time well spent

This is my first post in 2.5 months and I've done 4 posts since March. Not that nothing has been happening for the past 5 months, quite the opposite. You wouldn't know it from this blog but not only is the date for the big day finally set, it's only just over 2.5 months away. It's actually all a bit surreal. After going out with Tiarnee since the beginning of 2005 & being engaged since July last year it's hard to believe that it's almost here.

I've grown so much in the past few months & yet such growth only makes me painfully aware of the growth still to come. I've lost weight, through a (generally) healthier lifestyle. It seems getting paid to sit on your butt in front of your computer is healthier than doing it voluntarily at Uni. God has been teaching me an awful lot about myself. I've almost adapted to living in Adelaide, the traffic lights still annoy the you-know-what out of me. I still think it's ridiculous that it takes me 15-25 mins to travel 4.5 kms (That's right Melbournites, I can afford to live that close to the CBD) every morning& that it's no slower to ride my bike than catch the bus. The excitement & responsibility of becomming a husband both scares me to death and gives me a reason to get up in the morning. Over the last few weeks I have and am confronting issues that I've been ignoring and running from for almost half my life. I've started playing squash again. I've won 1 of my first 4 matches. This week I learnt a fair bit about Microsoft SQL Server 2005 & stored proceedures. Oh & did I mention I'm planning a wedding? Invitions are currently under construction.

It's great running through life having little idea as to what I'm doing, but knowing that God does.

My aim is to start posting fairly regularly again. There's plenty going on that I could blog about, and when I was posting regularly, there were actually people reading what I had to say. The amazing thing is that this is true inspite of the fact that I was just a bored Uni student back then.