2008 in review (shutup, I know it's a month early)

I have had a pretty crazy year. There still might be more to add (um, hello, babies please don't come too early!) but here's a run-down of some of the biggest stuff that's happened - in chronological order:

• Jan 1st: chickenpox appear (on an aeroplane from Perth > Melbourne)
• Jan 2nd: "Umm, does it look like I have chickenpox?"
• Jan 3rd: Doctor: "No, not chickenpox"
• Jan 5th: Mother: "OMG! Chickenpox!" - Doctor: "OK, maybe it's chickenpox"
• Get extra 2 weeks in Australia - Doctor writes medical certificate saying I cannot fly back to Japan. Hoorah, extra holiday time!
• March: pack up Japanese apartment, get ready to come home, finish work, bye-bye Kurume forever:
  
  
  
  
• February/March: Send over 100kg of stuff home:
  

  
  (this is not all of it)
  
  
  
• March 28th: HOME! Thank GOD! Tell Stef I'm coming back a day later than I actually am. Meet him in city to surprise him. Get most of my hair cut off!
  
• April: Stef has arranged secret holiday. I discover we are off to Thailand.
• April 19th: Fly to Thailand (via Darwin).
• April 20th: Have awesome dinner in Sirocco restaurant Bangkok (63rd floor, AMAZING!). Stef proposes!!!! I cry. A lot!! Stef informs me that the wedding is in FIVE DAYS TIME in Phuket! WHAT?? Awesome!!
• April 25th: Wedding day! Go to Phuket city hall and get married for $2.85 at 9.30am. Comeback to hotel and have awesome 5hr massage package at spa (highlights include having a naked cold bath with Stef - bath has rose petals in it - extremely nice on such a stinking hot day). Fall asleep during massage.
  At 5pm have wedding ceremony in grounds of hotel with photographer and celebrant.
  
  
  The best day, ever!
  

• May: Move house (from Melbourne). Eat two pork rolls and burn arm with oven cleaner*.
• Late May/June: Umm.. ahh... it's possible I might be pregnant. Oh yes, I am! Also buy a new kitten, Rusty.
  
• June 30th: Ultrasound confirms pregnancy and in fact shows us we're having two babies (* = possibly linked? Haha, just kidding)!
• July: Still in shock. Laugh a lot when we think of twins.
• August: I freak out and think we need a house ready for a family. We look for houses.
  Am convinced that one (if not both) babies, are girls. WRONG! Two boys!
  
• September: Find awesome house and buy it! Cannot believe we are home owners!
• October: Gestational diabetes fun times. Cannot eat much at all. Cry a lot when I cannot eat yummy things. Look at photos of cupcakes on Flickr. Often. Have to take insulin. Finally start feeling pregnant and possibly look a little pregnant.
• November: Look pregnant! Belly button almost flat. Feel OK during the day but shit at night. Have to go to the toilet every 2 hours.

It's been a pretty crazy year. I'm probably missing a few things. We still could add two babies to that list (and we definitely have something up our sleeve that I can't say yet) but ... whew ... I just cannot believe how much you can do in a year.

It's been pretty crazy. But it's been awesomely fun and I wouldn't change a thing for the world!