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Welcome to 2013!!

I know some of you silly people may have been worried about living through "doomsday" that was predicted by some randomers and an ancient civilization that was able to perform successful brain surgery before Europeans realized that you can't bleed sickness out of people. Explain that one to me. Simple, the guy who had the job of determining the end of the world was the test dumby for the first time they performed brain surgery ;)

In any case welcome back. I hope your new year has been a good one so far, if not fix your attitude because it bloody well should be. After all you are still alive ;) So, I have a few pictures I took the week of Christmas. The divers dressed up in Santa and elf suits to clean the tunnel.  

My Christmas was so quite and lad back. It was very weird. It honestly did not feel like Christmas between the warm temperature, the food, the lack of many loud relatives, and being with people who can be difficult to get along with. Saying that it was a good day. I opened my gifts from home when Maureen got home in the afternoon, which I don't know why she wanted me to wait so bad for her to get home to open them because she didn't really seem to care that much. I did though, so thank you to all of those who sent me gifts :) I loved them all and have pretty much devoured most of my gifts ;) I got a bracelet  t-shirt, and surfing voucher from Maureen. I got pajamas, underwear, and chocolates from Andrew's mom, Joanie. It was very nice of both of them to get me things :) I did feel really bad though because I was going to get flowers for Joanie but didn't end up getting to the store before we went up to her house. At Joanie's house we had lunch and it turns out that I don't like oysters, at all *makes a gross yucky face like I just sucked on one of Jared's dreads*. Michael T. Brewer, you may eat all my oysters forever and always. Along with my pickled pigs feet, escargot  and all other yucky weird things that someone who fell into a sewer would like. After lunch we swam for a bit, then had dinner. Not many could eat all of their dinner though because everyone was still pretty full from lunch.

Boxing day, the day after Christmas, was a really tough day. Probably the hardest day since I left home three months ago. I'm glad I was working or it would have been even worse. It sounds like everyone had a good time so that's good :) On Christmas one of our rays had 17 pups. They sure were cute :)

By December 28th, they were all dead. The mom died the day before and we think that because she knew she was going to die she aborted the pups early. Really sad that none of them lived because they were all so cute, for sea creatures ;)

New Years I stayed home while everyone went out and partied. It was very nice, seeing as it was the first time I'd been home alone in weeks. Especially since the "talks" I'd had with Maureen the days before I was really glad to be home alone and do whatever I wanted without worrying about upsetting her. Things seem to be a little bit better but I'm not sure because I never knew in the first place that she had such a big issue with me in the first place but whatever. I'm doing what I can to try and make her happy but if what I'm doing doesn't make her happy then I'm going to try and get out of here because I don't want to put up with this crap. I mean don't go off on someone for not being helpful around the house when every time they ask if they can help you tell them no and just relax. Anywho, my new years eve was much like this turtle, just chilling and hangin out.

Last week I got bit by one of the water mertins. I was feeding the three mertins and the biggest one just randomly bit my leg and then carried on like nothing had happened. Knowing Australia is famous for having more deadly animals in the world than anywhere else in the world, I quickly finished feeding and went to my supervisor. She was just about to jump into the tunnel to feed the sharks and there was a behind the scenes tour right next to her. I had her come close so the public wouldn't hear and told her I was bit and asked if I would be ok. She smiled and said I would and just to clean it out. Later the guy diving with her came up to me, quite amused, and said that I had been thinking of Komodo Dragons. Those were the lizards that would have killed me if they bit me because they have very toxic venom. Phew!! Is all I can say :)

The last Sunday of 2012 one of my co-workers took be to Brisbane for the day. It was fun. We went through this free museum and then meet some of her old college friends for a few hours. On the way home we stopped and took a look at a Wild Horse view point. It had a really neat view of the Glasshouse Mountains. It was about 700 meter walk, so almost 1/2 mile and was pretty steep the whole way. It's really sad how outta shape I am :( I guess it'll be butt kicking time when I get home.  

Lately I've been thinking about all the boring and lame adult stuff I will have to do when I get home, bleh! Get a job with benefits, buy a car, find a place to live, pay for the finishing touches on my degree, and blah blah blah..... : / So I think that I'm going to enjoy my remaining 11 weeks here before I have to come home and be responsible. What a bore. Cya for now kids! I'm gonna go to the zoo!