The Video

January 4

Well hello everyone, I haven't blogged a whole lot these last couple of days. Even my last entry was kind of half hearted, which I really should apologize for, I have had a hard time sitting down in front of this thing. The thing is, I have had a hard time putting my thoughts down the last couple of days. I have been having a wonderful time these last couple of days with Jane, Gerard and Sara, which has actually made this easier. I haven't really written a good blog since I got the phone call on December 29 about my Great Aunt passing away. I kind of expected it was going to happen, but it wasn't easy being half way around the world, knowing you won't be able to be home and be with everyone. The fact that I have been busy and having a wonderful time has made it easier, but my computer still holds something rather painful. Just before Christmas I got creative and made a special video for my Aunt who was sick in the hospital, she went to hospital like 10 days after I left, and she was there for 2 months until she passed away on the evening of the 27, I didn't find out until several days later when I got across the Nulabor. I thought it would be a wonderful Christmas present for her, unfortunately I couldn't get it to upload when I was in Adelaide no matter how hard I tried. In the end I decided to try and get it up in Perth. Unfortunately she passed on before I reached Perth, and now that video sits on my desktop, unpublished, untouched, unyielding. I haven't played it, deleting it is out of the question, even burying it deep in the hard drive feels wrong, so it just sits there. Whenever I start up my computer in the evenings to tell everyone my thoughts for the previous 24 hours I see the video file, and my thoughts fall to pieces. Today I finally sat down and watched the video, something I needed to do, and I felt better about it, as I remember it was supposed to make her smile, and it made me smile to. I miss my Great Aunt, and everyone else back home, but I will be getting my blogging back up to date shortly, I just needed time to get my feet back underneath me, thank you all for being patient, I will promise you that there will be some good blogs coming up.

P.S. I just put up some major blogs. Including 2 from December 15&19 (Murry River stuff) May I suggest everyone take it slow and read maybe 1 or 2 a day, or else you will burn your selves out.

P.P.S Here is a video I made for everyone at Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R29nt9If9k4

and 2 from Fossil bay in Tasmania

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq7EUbEH1GQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BDfhXoIABA

And my channel for future reference

http://www.youtube.com/user/theofficeblog#p/a/u/0/4BDfhXoIABA