In the last year I…
- celebrated the birth of my nephew;
- had a car accident;
- had my name printed in a comic book;
- didn’t go to the Wallabies rugby game in Melbourne – first time I’ve missed a game since I moved to Melbourne;
- celebrated Melbourne being awarded what will be a Super 15 franchise in 2011;
- bought a lot of comics;
- added about 26 new pieces of comic book art to my collection;
- took some photos;
- trashed my macbook pro’s battery by accident;
- got new housemates;
- learnt some new stuff, forgot some things;
- discovered Nina Simone;
- decided most of the music being put out at the moment is absolute crap;
- discovered the awesomeness that is Avatar: the Last Airbender, Entourage, FlashForward and Castle;
- felt it was money/time well spent seeing Avatar, Star Trek, Up, The Boat That Rocked, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Watchmen at the cinema;
- wished I hadn’t wasted my time and/or money on The Spirit, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Terminator: Salvation, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and GI Joe: Rise of Cobra;
- wish I had seen Frost/Nixon, Milk, Let The Right One In, Ponyo, The Soloist, Mao’s Last Dancer and Zombieland;
- discovered I can’t ski;
- lost weight, put it back on and am trying to lose it again;
- messed up a few things at work but it’s okay;
- meet some new people;
- had a genuine fan-girl moment when I had my photo taken with Jewell Strait;
- stood on a beach in California;
- spent a lot of time missing my peeps in America and was so happy to be able to spend time with them again this year even if it was just a few days.
I visited…
- Los Angeles;
- San Fransisco;
- Seattle;
- Christchurch;
- Methven;
- Sydney.
And because it is all about the bike, I…
- started riding to work;
- bought a new bike;
- have ridden 2610 kilometres on my new bike;
- rode around 800 kilometres on my old bike but I accidentally reset my bike computer;
- have clocked up 937.28 kilometres on training rides since October;
- bought my first ever pair of proper bike shoes;
- bought a new, decent helmet;
- have gone through three pairs of bike gloves;
- wore out a set of brake pads;
- discovered the joys of wiggle.co.uk and probikekit.com, much to the determent of my finances;
- replaced my tyres which didn’t really need it;
- broke my sunglasses on the way home from a ride;
- bought a pair of Rudy Project Rydons;
- completed my first recreational ride;
- rode the furthest I’ve ever ridden, which is 68km;
- fell off my bike twice – once on the old bike and once on the new bike.
I think that covers it.