The 6 Week Blur

What? I have a blog? Really? Shit, I forgot!

Hello world. I must definitely be getting older. The last 6 weeks since my last blog post feels merely like a short weekend. Time truly flies when you are demented...

My Christmas was lovely. In fact, life in general is pretty good. I think 2013 will be my best, most favourite year yet.

My partner has had a promotion and is doing well with his career. I'm very proud of him.

And me? Well, both me and my other half have been doing the Lite n Easy thing, and have lost more weight! Woohoo! I have lost another 6kg or so in the last 4 weeks. At my heaviest, a couple of years ago, I was 19st and 9lbs. Now I am 16 stones. It may take another few years, as I need to be realistic and have achievable goals, but I will get to my goal weight. Eventually.

2013 sees me become a student again too. Marvellous! 10 or 12 years ago I achieved Level 1 in British Sign Language. I am now studying AUSLAN, the Australian Sign Language. There are a lot of similarities with BSL, but many differences too. I'm also a little rusty. So, it was time to take action and I was lucky enough to get a place on a course. As well as being a unique and interesting form of communication, knowing AUSLAN will be useful as I do work with the public. I saw a statistic estimating there to be approximately between 20,000 and 25,000 deaf people living in Australia. When the total Australian population is only about 23 million people, you can see there are a lot of deaf people here.

Yesterday was my first class and it was nice to be asked by a teacher if I was deaf, for a totally different reason to why I was asked the same question by a teacher when I was at school...

I hope you are all keeping well, and that your 2013 is equally as awesome!