NON-EVENTS OF LATE

Life really has been quite boring in recent times.

TJ moved to a new apartment and I helped him move and clean. We've been tediously domestic, cooking dinner and watching Australian Idol. To celebrate the move, he made me dinner (spaghetti bolognaise) and I made dessert (chocolate cake).

The practice purchase is going ahead and hopefully I should be working in my own practice by sometime in October. I'm not looking forward to going back to work 6 days a week, but since I have an incredibly short attention span, I am looking forward to working for myself.

I've sent a polite letter to Ugly Bug-Eyed Stick Insect With Superiority Complex's practice assuming there is a "computing error" that is causing her to try and use my goodwill to grow her business. If she doesn't stop it, I will drive back to Mullet Country so I can pull her hair.

TJ is taking me to Canberra on the last weekend of August to meet one of his brothers and his sister. The most exciting this about this trip is the prospect of going to Koko Black to have hot chocolate affogatos and chocolate walnuts.

HOW MY LIFE HAS CHANGED THIS YEAR:

• Entered the dental Fellowship
• Quit my job
• Making the moves to own my own business
• Moved back home with parents
• Started going to gym
• In steady relationship
• Started new job
• Allowed myself to have a sabbatical
• Made time to go on holidays

Verdict: Huzzah!

(I found out today from a friend of mine that I used to see as a patient at Ugly Bug-Eyed Stick Insect With Superiority Complex's practice (you know, Dr Evil's girlfriend), that more than a year after I've left the practice, she is signing my name on recall cards to get the patients to come back to her. She's got some hide on her considering she screamed at me, accusing me of trying to steal her patients and calling me immoral, unethical and unprofessional. Stupid bitch.)

FIJI

TJ and I had a great time in Fiji. We stayed at a resort called The Warwick, which is on the Coral Coast near the town of Korolevu.

We got an all inclusive package which was all meals, wine, beer and local spirits. Bliss. Due to this package, this following situation was a frequent occurence:

Man in Hawaiian shirt with frangipani behind his ear walks up to my deckchair under an umbrella on the beach.

Man: Bula! Would you like a drink?

Me: Yes...Yes...I would like a vodka-pineapple juice.

TJ: Do you know how do make a spider?

Man: Er....ice-cream with Coke?

TJ: But could you put a shot of vodka in it?

20 minutes later, Man in Hawaiian shirt with frangipani behind his ear returns to take away empty glasses.

Man: Bula! Would you like another drink?

Me: Yes...Yes...I would like a vodka-Coke.

TJ: Can I have another vodka spider?

Repeat several times a day, almost every day.

I did go diving one day at Beqa Lagoon, which is ranked as one of top 10 dives sites in the world. It's meant to be famous for sharks, which is why I was so excited to go. However, as luck would have it, I did not see a single shark. The dive site though, is amazing. The water is so beautifully clear, the visibility is endless, and there's a wreck of a Japanese fishing vessel that has been colonised with soft coral that was actually able to be penetrated. (Fijians are very relaxed about this sort of thing.) I would definitely love to dive Fiji again some day.

All in all, we had an awesome time. Great food, endless drink, clean water for diving, swimming and snorkelling, got a great tan and had a lovely, memorable time. Fijians are incredibly friendly and we were so impressed with how the waiter at the Wicked Walu restaraunt not only remembered our names, but everything that we had ordered when we went back for a second visit.

Now I'm back in Sydney in the freezing cold and wishing I was going on holidays again.