2014 - My year in review

• learnt to live sober and remembered why I drank
• realised that I am heaps funnier, my memory is heaps better and I look way better sober
• Spent months in Limbo with The Lover where we couldn't decide where to live, whether to stay in our jobs, stay in Perth
• sat on the beach with Jason and decided to take a chance and move
• fell in love with Jason all over again amidst my fear
• almost destroyed my relationship by going completely insane with the stress of moving
• Moved to Burma
• Wandered through the slums on Yangon alone listening to music
• Practiced law with some characters of dubious morality in an emerging market
• Got Angry, called my boss a c*nt and took off
• Lost days, nights and weeks in a fog
• Woke up to the love of a good man and quit drugs and drinking
• felt a profound euphoria about being alive and rediscovered the little things
• Caught up with people from the past in different places and contexts
• was mugged violently in Manila
• wept into the wooden floor clutching rosary beads for a week, buring each morning and night in a hot shower
• Went back to Manila on a business trip
• Got into AA and met my sponsor Sharmony
• Went on a journey with Sharmony and the gang
• Went to a bbq and crash tackled the chaps at the game of bones while squealing laughing. Remembered that I was a happy child
• Wrote for the AustCham Singapore magazine
• settled into life in Singapore
• got into aerial yoga and boxing. Perfected chandelier and monkey pose and my right hook.
• spent 3 weeks on a pilgrimage in England with Jason and his family
• Saw the tate gallery
• felt bitter shame and self hatred at my behaviour
• left town in the middle of the night for Sydney and destroyed a friendship
• started working in a sexist private equity firm
• convinced myself that Jason was seeing other women and that I was ok with it.
• Started writing happy stories, for legacy purposes
• Saw Antony in a book store in London and felt happy and at peace