My blog is officially a year old! This is the longest and most successful diary I've ever kept, and I wonder if the fact that it's electronic has any influence over that. More often that not, pictures express the way I'm feeling and so it isn't always necessary for me to write with every post.

If I look back over the past year, I can honestly say I've never had such an exciting or quite such good time in my life before. Last Autumn/Winter life really picked up for me. I was holding down two jobs, bonding with a good friend, and saving hard to travel the world solo.

In having two jobs I showed myself that I'm a hard-working and capable person, who employers are pleased to have on their workforce. In bonding with a close friend, I discovered that I loved him in a different way to my other friends, and that I wanted him to know that. And as for travelling round the world by myself; with my own money and my own decisions to make, I realised I'm a hell of a lot stronger and braver than I ever thought I was before.

Good things come to those who wait. Life is good, and so I no longer know what I'm waiting for. This prospect excites me.