Feeling loved

The last week of work was a pretty mad one.  I was frantically applying for jobs, tying off loose ends in my current role, as well as training up the most useless replacement ever (she asked me how to use Outlook. OUTLOOK!!!) which meant my morale was pretty low and I wasn't the happiest of bunnies.  We had an awesome weekend away planned which I was very much needing/looking forward to, but it got cancelled last minute which did nothing to boost my mood.

I had a leaving do on Thursday evening which was fun - I don't think I paid for a drink all night and ended up very drunk and spewing into a bucket by my bed having been chugging champagne, beer, cocktails and shots.  Oops. I blame peer pressure.

Shanyn told me that he had found something I might like to do on Saturday evening, and to keep it free - refusing to tell me what it was or give me any clues.  Given that he had previously surprised his girlfriend Franzi with tickets to a pop up Shakespeare play and had made a HUGE deal about what a surprise it was and led her to believe it was something insane when it was something she had never had an interest in, I was expecting something similar and wasn't overly excited, but happy that he was thinking about me.

I texted a few people on Saturday morning to see if they wanted to hang out but they were all busy so I took myself for a walk around Long Bay Regional Park, got rained on and came home to dry off before heading off to whatever Shanyn had planned.  When I got home they were making a bunch of food as they said they were off to visit Shanyn's friend the next day for lunch.

He decided to blindfold me, put me into the car and put on my favourite playlist on full blast "to relax and distract" me.  I was starting to think that this was either going to be a really cool surprise, or something totally rubbish which he knew would be rubbish, but thought it would be funny to make a huge deal out of....

We stopped off and someone else got into the car, I tried to talk to them to guess who they were but they were on strict instructions not to talk and Shanyn said it was someone I hadn't met before - I started to get slightly freaked out especially when the person decided to stroke my knee a few times! We played 20 questions and from their answers I deduced it was the one and only Mikel George! (much to my relief!)

We stopped again and Shanyn led me out of the car to a dock and I could hear a party blaring in the distance.....my first thought was Shanyn was going to push me off the dock into the water, but then I started to wonder, had they thrown me a surprise party on a boat? Then I got a bit excited but also a bit sad as I was wearing very dull clothes and barely any make up...but then I got shoved back in the car and we carried on driving to our final destination.

We went down a very bumpy road and then stopped abruptly and I heard Shanyn complain about traffic, then shortly after we stopped.   We got out of the car and I started to have an inkling about where we were - I recognised the paving as Colin's, and my suspicions were confirmed when I was led into a house and could smell that we were at Colin and Amy's (that sounds weird but I have a pretty good sense of smell).

I was put into position and my blindfold taken off and suddenly streamers were being blown into my face and everyone was shouting 'SURPRISE!'.  I blinked a few times and in front of me were all my friends, bunting, a table filled with food and a chocolate brownie cake.  It was hard not to cry!!! I was slightly confused as to what the occasion was and was most humbled when Shanyn said he thought I needed cheering up so had planned a small dinner but then it escalated into a surprise party sleepover - they'd snuck my toothbruch and some PJs into the car and everyone else had brought sleeping bags and I was allocated Amy's brand new spare room.  So nice!



After swapping stories about how the surprise was planned (turns out Shanyn and Franzi are exceptionally good liars and weren't going to their friend's the next day and the food was for that evening, and that the traffic was Sam, Dan and Adnaan running late walking down Colin's driveway, and everyone was 'busy' that day because they were preparing food for the party so couldn't hang our with me), we ate all the food, drank all the drinks and played all the games until 3am.  Adam brought along a cocktail shaker and was whipping up some delicious concoctions,  and we even had a singalong - I had requested that for the weekend away Colin learn how to play Save Tonight on the guitar - so him and Amy had learned it and played it in front of everyone :-) gosh they are so adorable.

We fell asleep and woke in the morning to tea and croissants and leftovers, before we headed off home and went climbing for the afternoon.

I have known most of my friends that I have here for a year, but we have some newbies in the group too - everyone is so nice and it feels like I have known them forever rather than between 2 and 12 months.  We have such a nice little crew going on and they're all wonderful people - supportive, empathetic, have good values and good jokes and I love them all to pieces.  Thank you guys for making me feel so loved and cheering me up no end xxx



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  1. Good job all.

    Mail me some cake pls.

    Nai if you ever want to chat get in touch but you know that.

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    1. It was so lovely of them Dan :) They're a bloody good crew.
      Thanks Dan :)

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