Summer has basically arrived in Australia, and certainly the beaches are already jam packed every weekend here on the bustling Gold Coast. Now that I live across the road from the beach, I feel guilty about not making a daily use out of it at each possible opportunity. Vowing to run Burleigh headland every day and do a beach walk in the evenings has now turned out to be only every other day, due to the recent dramatics in my life.
Trapped working in a place so bad I was forced to literally walk out, and have it turn into a fair work investigation and therefore risking the loss of my apartment, because I couldn’t pay the rent was a good start. Then to have my love visiting for only 2 fleeting weeks (after 5 months long distance) only to leave me all alone in said apartment. Then yesterday the trifecta; (sorry little Melbourne Cup reference due to the date today) – things got even worse – when a car smashed into me and sped away, leaving me shocked, shaken, sore and with terrible car damage.
Now obviously the moral of the story here is it could have been worse, as I’m alive to tell the tale – but could karma throw me a bone here please! Needless to say, I didn’t have comprehensive insurance to fix the damage and nobody, not even the kind hearted ambulance officer not far off when the accident occurred, got a look at the offenders license plates so this is one hit and run getting off scot free. Leaving me upset, sore and subsequently even poorer while I am between jobs.
I’m left with tainted feelings about this year, 2012 brought about a lot of change, and I’m eager for 2013 to start. I am usually a person who handles change very well, but this year there seems to have been a truckload of it. Only having moved home from Canada back to Australia in June, I had to re-adjust to life in Australia mid year, and then move from my home town down to the Gold Coast as well. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not all bad and I cannot deny the benefits of life on the coast for sure. I love the ocean. It just hasn’t been smooth sailing across it by any means.
There is no one that I wished was there more when that car crashed into me, and now as I move forward into the new week and a daunting new job, I really wish I could at least come home to some sense of normalcy, of routine.  Just to be able to fall asleep with the person you love every night? – I don’t think that’s too much to ask.
However even from the other side of the world, he always knows how to make me feel better and put things into perspective – because in the grand scheme of things, all I really have been having is #firstworldproblemsÂ
I know things will look up and financially I will get on top of everything soon enough, so remembering there are much worse off people in the world than you, definitely helps remind me I don’t have it so bad.
Here’s hoping 2013 brings a little more stability for this white girl so I can enjoy relatively stress (and whiplash) free walks on the beach, across the road from where I live.  God knows I’m paying enough for it. #whitegirlproblems