How rude of me, let me introduce myself....

Hello, please excuse my rudeness - let me introduce myself....

Wait, lets grab a cup of tea first and take a minute to get to know each other a little better? =)
*ahhh...* thats better!
I love tea... love love love it! I'm not sure whether it's the routine of making a cup of tea, the fragrance of a lovely earl grey, or maybe just the experience when that first sip is swallowed and a relaxed state is welcomed with a little sigh.... I love it!

I also love fruit - hell for me would be to live in a home without fresh fruit or tea in it!

Now I do hope that my writing style doesn't drive you mad, I am aware that I ramble a bit - I'm more of a conversational style writer than a formal writer I guess? I'm sure there's a technical way to break it down.. hmmm something I must read up on!

So who am I? Well I was born and bred a city girl, I lived in a suburb of Melbourne and attended a highschool right in the city - grew up with in the cafe lifestyle I like to think. Nothing seems more normal and enjoyable to me than to meet up with friends for a latte (ah! see you're learning my ways already... at home I love my tea - but in a cafe, I'm a coffee girl) and be surrounded by options for things to do (theater shows, gallery exhibitions, window shopping, movies, bars, book and music shopping, magazine stands, festivals and expos, restaurants, gigs and concerts.. Mmmm!) but now, well, I'm a country girl.
I made the move originally for university, I decided that I didn't want to follow the herd and attend another city uni campus - I wanted to try doing things a little differently! So I applied for a country campus, and at first I hated it. I hated how hard it was to get anywhere without a car, I hated how clicky the social groups were and how far away my friends were, and I hated that there were no options! Nothing to do but a cinema in one town, bowling, and a few cafes in another town where it was normal to hear 'mug-of-chino' being ordered - or join a sporting club that seemed to only consist of netball for girls and football for boys (oh and the teams are made up of players who have played that same sport, and together, all of their lives!).

To cut a long story short, I moved back to the city, then back to the country, then finally back to the city - only to fall in love with a country boy, and move back again! A lot of back and forths... but I'm on my own now, and for the time-being I suppose quite content with the country lifestyle as I finally finish off the degree I started almost 6 years ago now and working full time with some lovely gals.

And, that's pretty much my story to date. Well the gist of it anyway and probably as much as you need to know right now - I'm sure we'll learn things about each other over time!