Sydney Days Part 2

Good evening, my friends, family, randomers and Simon's ex-girlfriends (hahaha, I've had a wine). I am in my favourite place to write… in the sky. It is where it allows me to do most thinking, which is not necessarily good when you have a complex brain like mine. I've read most of my book and written down my goals, and now it's time to take you back to Sydney part 2…

So after my 3 months in Sydney, whilst I was travelling, I fell in love with the place and decided that after my next Zante summer, I would move there. I couldn't be arsed to flirt that summer, so I didn't save that much money but scrapped enough to get there and also managed to drag my friend Deqa with me to Oz for the ride; she still lives there and had a baby + got married (I'll take that credit!) currently going through a divorce (I'll not take that one) lol.

So we moved to Sydney together and found a place in a dodgy area, Redfern, but near the city centre. It was a choice of either a sauna as a room or downstairs. You could hear the traffic. Anyone who knows me well knows that I chose the sauna room…! I remember feeling very uninspired one Christmas when getting Deqa a Christmas present and got her a fan. Well, a few months later, this was the best present ever as Sydney had a heatwave of over 50 degrees, fans were sold out, and I was dying (ok, I was very hot). Deqa was sleeping soundly every night whilst my present of Dani Minogue's autobiography that Deqa got me was not cutting it, and she's by far for the better deal! Seriously though, it gets hot in Sydney… buy a fan!

Anyway, in this house, we lived with 5 of us there, 6 or more if anyone had anyone stay around, and we had ONE bathroom to share with 9-5 jobs. We had a 5-minute slot for the bathroom each, and I would often miss mine; I'll own up and say I went to work a few times without a shower. This did, however, set me on a fitness routine that had never been set before; I started to go the gym before work, and well, I loved the feeling so much that I even went at lunch time.. for a period of my life, I was that person that went to the gym twice a day! I probably was the smallest I had ever been, but if you're anything like me, your body will never make you happy; you just want to be smaller. It's a never-ending cycle. I look back at pictures of myself now and say wow, B, that was your era, you dumbo!

I had the easiest job in the world and just worked for the government and entered hot water system rebate scores into a computer whilst listening to Dev on Radio 1 in England (I used to email in for shout-outs) and because no one was awake in England, he always used to say hi. I thought I was half famous by getting a shout-out every day, haha. I still follow him to this day! After a while, I had an opportunity to move to South Coogee, right next to the beach, with a swimming pool with 5 good-looking guys (separate bedrooms - shame). I would have the box room (for 400 dollars a week). No brainer, right? They loved it because all my girls would want to come round, but it was entirely out of my budget range - I was in denial. Luckily, I was paid weekly, but I lived like a queen for all of 3 days, and then for 4 days, I was living on beans and toast…, but I didn't care because I had a hot tub, pool and a pool table. I've always liked the finer things in life and lived beyond my salary… yolo!

After a few years had passed and I put in some dodgy farmer details to get me an extra year there, I needed sponsorship to work there. I took on an accounts role and was way out of my depth; after 3 months, some random good-looking boy I had met once in Zante declared his love for me, and I took it as my sign to go back… (I literally had no idea what I was doing in that job) so yeah, that was my brief time in Sydney. I loved it, the weather was good, the place is amazing, it's mostly full of English anyway. Hence, the people are great, and it started my obsession with Avo on Toast!!!

xBx

P.S. Australian men are too laid back for high-maintenance B.