Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • The mood swings are real today and it’s not yet 10 am. 🫤 I didn’t post on Friday either because I couldn’t quite figure out what to write about or how to formulate my thoughts. So, this may just be a random post of ups and downs, ins and outs. A friend is going in to surgery today for his prostate. Yesterday, we saw another friend who just had prostate surgery and is…

  • I’m in a bit of a post-travels slump. The weather isn’t helping as it is pouring rain as I type this now. It has been a little chilly, though not overly so, but the rain 🌧️🌧️ and thunderstorms ⛈️⛈️ and wind 💨💨 have not been inspiring. 😟 Although it is likely to sound spoiled of me to complain about the weather after having been away on travels for three weeks, I am doing…

  • Well, the remaining six days of Australia were full of more adventure. I’ll try to do a short sum up here and then later prepare another post on the whole trip. AdelaideWe were mostly here to see P!NK in concert. During the planning of our trip, we knew that we wanted to see the city, if for no other reason than it is the capital of South Australia and we were about seeing…

  • We are now two full weeks in. This means just a week left, but still so much to do and see. Even since the weekend, we have done quite a bit. From Alice Springs, we headed to Darwin which is popular for seeing the crocodiles. Obviously, we made sure that we did a tour. It was great fun. We also did a hike in the Litchfield National Park, which was very hot, but…

  • It’s definitely a lot warmer here in Australia than in Italy at the moment. Luckily, the sightseeing has been so enjoyable that it has made the temperatures bearable. We had a lovely time in Byron Bay after a rather challenging night in Brisbane. We stayed in an area near the airport, which I wouldn’t recommend. It also encouraged us to adjust our schedule a bit to stay longer in Byron Bay rather than…

  • It’s not actually Australia Day, but it was the only image available that worked for the theme. 😜 As our second visit, it is nice to be back. This time, though, we are going to be seeing more of the country than before. It will actually be a busy tour, but that is part of the fun – in my opinion. After the length of the travel to get here (about 36 hours…

  • It’s award season. 🏆 Whether or not she would agree, I always felt that watching the Grammy’s or Oscar’s was something my mom and I bonded over. Probably, at the time, it never seemed like it meant much to me and over the years, she wouldn’t know that I make a point of watching these shows as an act of nostalgia. (Now you know, Mom!) 🥰 For the most part, I barely keep…

  • There are certain cultural elements that I have acquainted myself with as it relates to my Asian heritage. While I do not lament that I never knew about these aspects of my original roots, I find that there is a sense of familiarity in acknowledging them. Take, for example, the Lunar New Year. Thanks to modern times forcing people to stop calling it Chinese New Year, I have found more comfort in embracing…

  • It was many years ago when fell in love with rugby. 🏉 I had many male friends from Australia and New Zealand who introduced me to the game. Having grown up with sports always on TV and an appreciation of the community that is involved in watching it, I was interested in this very international one that resembled American football – but better. 🤪 Perhaps it was because I was living in Japan…

  • It went so quickly, this past month. We were relatively busy with settling back into home life whilst also preparing for our upcoming trip to Australia and planning the rest of the year. I have a feeling 2024 is going to go fast and I’ll start sounding like a broken record about the speed of passing time. So, to counter that, I am going to give myself a February challenge of sitting in…

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