Last touch

Last week of the year - last day snowboarding, showing Nes Room (she cracked it in 3 days), discovering on the plane that we have been to 12 different cities in 12 months.

New Year's Eve back home in front of a cosy fire. Hop skip 2013

Christmas X2

Jet lagged while unpacking, repacking, buying and wrapping Christmas presents. Saturday was all about AC3, Deliverance and trying to stay awake till 9. Monday, train to Dover.

Christmas with the inlaws, breakfast, stockings, Christmas dinner, presents, mix tape for my parents, 3D universe DVD, Andrew & Nicole.

Kings Cross breakfast, Gatwick, Geneva (awful landing!), Christmas 2.0, SNOWBOARDING! Mom, Bernard, Nes, Anton, all the runs. Sarah jumped!

The Iron king of Scotland assassinating the remains of the day

Surfing, stood up! Sydney, Cousin Francois' facebook revelations, assassins creed all day, Thai restaurant with the boys, walking around Crown street, wine tasting restaurant, opera house, Sydney harbour bridge, Annette and Fritz, hop on hop off bus tour, ferry to Manly, cocktails in the beach lounge, bus to bondi, shopping, Darling harbour, cocktails in the hotel lounge. Flight back, finally watched Remains of the Day and was not disappointed. Also watched The Iron Lady and The last King of Scotland, and would not have watched The Blind Side without having met Theresa on the plane.

Tangalooma island, Chris's mom's house, chicken tagine, duck salad, date and banana pudding, kayaking in the sea, swimming, tanning, no smoking, tennis, assassins' creed, koala sanctuary, driving Chris & Brian's car, taking the bus into town and back, the unit, Thai food in Moffat beach, body boarding, surfing, swimming in the sea, macadamia caramel ice cream, rain, sunshine, Maloolaba, Noosa Heads, meteor shower, homemade prawn salad.

Tree surgeon. A/h work. Packing. Sarah rents. Pumpkin pie. Quantas flight with extra seats. On the road, the Godfather, Hysteria.

In Australia!. Home-made pizza, red wine, birds

Breakfast at the frizzle, national portrait gallery, suda cafe.

Finished the godfather

Watched some big lebowski

Painted a bag for Justine
RCI Sun City trip booked




Velvetines gig with Helen

National Gallery, Covent Garden, shopping!
Christmas cards all posted!

Played drums until my shoulders ached and the blisters on my fingers were ready to bleed
Cedar lebanese
iPad app design
Another Facebook app design
Bizarre lunch: Roast Butternut squash on a bed of spinach, with a fried egg on top, surrounded by goat's cheese and pine nuts.
Time-lapse of building construction site outside my window.

Picking fights, exhausted.
Formulations for next year: Write this book

Mala in Cuba
Jackie Tarot
Gail baby shower
Mobile 5
Watched half of The Godfather part II. Watched Keep the Lights on on Curzon on Demand. Prepared quilt photos for blog. Nikon is amazing at gigs. RSL tentative ruling is in our favour! Reading The Five People you meet in Heaven for book club.

Finished reading book

L'Oreal men expert done

Colorectal 

Finished machinarium

Caught the first northern line train of the morning to fetch Helen

Wrote out Christmas cards to the whole family and friends!

Breakfast in the village

London bridge, southwark, globe theatre, tate modern, st pauls, nice little place off regent street, forbidden planet, frizzle.

Science museum, hyde park, westminster, velevtines at the rattlesnake in angel

Started designing a Javel website. Sunday lunch at Sam and Chris'. Maak'it blog about quilt. Ran into Jo from Seven in Wimbledon village. Spotted more heather plants. Noisettes with Anne-Marie and Lorna. Tegan & Sara. Date night at Reds. JavaScript and AS3!
Levi Demi curve colour 63 skinny coupe 26 modern rise

Cedar Lebanese restaurant. Discovered Machinarium in the App Store - could be a good template for the sign man. AS3! Finally! I have climbed the first mountain!. Back at Mobile 5 and L'Oreal. Book club Monday with Anne-Marie. Booked SA internal flights, car hire and hotels. Kruger park booked by Oom dirk. Hotel in Sydney booked. Missed seven drinks at slaughterhouse, got fitted in Levi's and bought a coat in esprit instead!

Mom's visit. Caffe concerto. New coat. New boots for mom. Baking! Apple crumble! Apple pie! Cheese cake with ginger biscuit base!!. Watched Mozarts sister. Halloween decorations and bucket. Quilt. Gardening. Homebase. Dinners and cocktails with mom and Sarah. Mercury at the Wimbledon theatre. Aya lebanese restaurant. Yoga!

Whatever

Friday night, Saturday morning. Anyway. Finally bought and built the second shoe rack. Nicola's company has an app. Looking for a nice place to stay in Richards Bay for Feb next year. Portfolio has finally been updated to the new look across the board. www.aneldebruyn.co.uk. Didn't even take that long.

Tickets to SA booked. Accommodation at Imvubu Lodge in Richards Bay booked by the rents. More T-shirts prepared for quilt. Spent 2 and a half days getting my accounts up to date - expenses, invoices, payments, and a webinar. My first webinar ever :) Sleeping over at the Harringtons, watching Modern family and talking crap.

Working on my mouth animation

Lady Gaga in my VEINS!

Resolved to finish that snowboard video. Green Card Lotto entered... Joined new accountancy company Crunch for half the price of others (the cute girl on the phone may have had something to do with it as well).

Drumkit is finally up again - not as difficult as before! Learning JavaScript. Signed in to Jottify again, and posted a short story, as well as the complete incomplete ramblings of my novel.

Ladies and gentlemen, Augustine has launched: http://www.augustinefp.co.uk/. Updated LinkedIn company page with 2 new services - feeling all commercial... Painted Chris' shirt! Went to see Barbara at HMV Curzon - distinct improvement on last week's film! Watched Melancholia on the iPad - hmmm nah.

"Honest, Officer..."

Lost my iPhone. Friday night at the Velvetines was messy! iPad replaced. Sick with flu. New accountants meeting. SJD is testing my patience (again) on the 2011 tax return issue. Starting to really hate accountants (sorry Richard). Cannot believe it's almost the end of my second business year... Pizza Express with my woman on Wednesday night. US Green Card lotto open for one month... Listening to British accents. Just got invited to a piss-up with the Seven Team! I'm cool...

Almost got arrested at Wimbledon police station. Went home and danced and it was good. Saw Holy Motors. Cousin is coming to visit in November! Movie with Chris in Richmond tonight.

Ally Apple Augustine

Out-of-action weekend chilling on the reef, watching copious amounts of Ally McBeal (by Wednesday night we're halfway through disc 5) and eating home-made apple crumble!

Back in Farringdon this week, doing some Premiere Pro video editing. Mobile 5 job offer still under discussion... for the first time ever I am receiving a lot of signs from the universe on a decision. Deciding to go with it and see what happens (recognising signs from a few weeks ago now too). Thursday night with the PD crowd was awesome - really good to see everyone and it had me smiling all day Friday (even with the hangover...) Sarah had to miss Carina Round because of a stomach bug :(

Augustine website almost done! Ouma's labels have been printed and hopefully on the way, compliments of Loren. Dried apple rings made with an Abel&Cole recipe - interesting... Discovered Amazon Cloud Player - awesome in the absence of Spotify. Can't believe the end of the year is 90 days away. Velvetines gig tonight.

Boring But Lucrative

BBL work at PruHealth in Bank - beautiful area with great architecture around every corner - it's so built up it almost feels like NYC. Loving just walking around and feeling lost, staring up at the buildings. Spent Monday at home having another look at my online portfolio - REALLY need to just finish that cycle already! Job offer has shed a lot of light on my current situation. I made the salary requirement quite high, to match the perks of my current life. They have rejected it so far - still in talks, but it has made me see how much I love what I'm doing now.

Started reading Portia De Rossi's Unbearable Lightness at the absolute insistence of Sarah. Now I cannot stop thinking about it. Taking regular bathroom breaks to sit and read! I want her and Ellen over for supper - I think they would love it and we'd all have a great time.

Amir is leaving PD for City Index. Been invited to the leaving drinks (but it's on the same night as Carina! Don't know what to do yet...)

Gaga was AMAZING! Could see almost nothing of the actual show, but for once just enjoyed BEING there, with all the other freaks and monsters. We danced till we were sore for days afterwards.

Final week of fencing and it's brutal Epeé! One match after another on the electric pistes, boys and girls and some serious bruising. Went to have a look around at Escape 3D Studios - very arty and impressive, but it may have made my mind up about staying in my field for now - if only because of the money.

Flash app is pretty much a success - enjoyed working with a developer and seeing the final product on the web! http://apps.facebook.com/messwithyourhead/ I built that! Before I left the office for the last time, they called me in and made a casual job offer. Actually considering it, because it's a nice place!

Loving the US political scene unfolding with John Stewart before the elections.

Shopping video still going - discovering loads of interesting features to use in more exciting projects. Enjoying being at home, picking apples, doing the garden, scrubbing and oiling the deck, getting the council to clean out the &^$$£@ dead mouse from the shed, then having a look around and discovering - a SANDER! Promptly dusted off the outside table, sanded it down, tightened up the screws and bolts, and used the last of the decking oil to make it look almost brand new.

Planning our Kruger National Park weekend with Oom Dirk. Flash project suddenly overturned with new AS3 requirement. I am trying to convert it but slowly starting to hate it too. My AS2 file is perfect, so that will go up on my portfolio, but this one is a mess. New Spotify and Hype Machine tunes are awesome. Shopping at HMV like a bitch. So many tight new jeans! So many Cardies! Gilly Hicks is confusing and wonderful with its giant sea cam screens and bright clothes in dark rooms!

In other news: I am now a Facebook Developer. And downloading Flash Builder. Not bad for someone who doesn't want to be in Marketing anymore!

Friday working on an AE video featuring a shopping trolley going through a supermarket. Friday night sucked, but I made it. Nothing on TV. I am the legend who got Gaga tickets when ours didn't come in though - very excited!

Mom coming to visit end of October! Might bring my sister with!

Unpacking all weekend and learning the new house. Bought an apple-picker and seeded the lawn. Funny smell in the scullery... Our two-year anniversary! Korma curry from Deliverance! Started Mobile 5 work - going very well. ActionScript level: Mike Strick Jnr. Watched Pride & Prejudice. Following the US elections and watching the Daily Show.

Moving day! Lots of rushing around, forgetting keys, cutting keys, forgetting Jim's boys' snacks. Being called by Virgin to arrange installation for Saturday while their guy is busy installing our stuff on the Friday. Attitude from the dishwasher guy and my first plumbing job finishing what he was too much of a d*ckhead to do. Apples apples everywhere. Wednesday I went in to Regent Street to meet Mobile 5 for an independent Flash job - swish offices and nice project! Fencing continues.

Totally killed a mosquito on the ceiling with a tie. Had two awesome braais, moved half of our stuff over to Croft Road with the rents' help. Chatted to my sister for long and long.

First fencing class this week!  Was amazing! Good workout and very exciting...

New blog on Maak'it. New header for my digital sphere too :) Got my new phone back. Went out for drinks with Mel and some of her friends on the beach at the Roundhouse in Camden.