This makes me smile

"In the world, only you...make me do for love...what I would not do"

Not usually one for anniversaries, but...

It's been a month since I started talking to my wonderful boy-from-Belfast (I like how this name has caught on - it's what most of you folks call him now hahaha). It started over a silly retweet 2 days before the Man Utd - Arsenal game (which WE wonnnn!!! Just sayin)...being an Arsenal supporter (eww, I know) the first thing he ever tweeted to me was smack talk dissing Rio and my Roo lol. Given that rocky start :P it's incredible how close we've gotten over the past month - an all-enveloping love for Trance, football, and our eerily similar views on life have made for a month of ENDLESS banter and timezone-defying videochats. Emotionally retarded individual that I am, I've never slipped into this comfort zone with someone so easily. It's a beautiful thing.

He bashfully told me yesterday that there's a girl in Edinburgh he liked before we "met" and he's off to visit her this weekend like they'd planned months ago. Am I jealous/sad/crying-myself-to-sleep? To be 100% honest no, not one bit. I guess if he and I were closer, we'd probably be so much more. But I'm of the opinion that if something more is meant to happen, it will some day. Till then, I'm koo' :)

....I do love that my phone still constantly goes off every 5 minutes with a message from him. Pretty sure that's my cheeky heart telling me that him being my "bestie" might not be good enough forever.

Healing powers...

And it only takes a moment

To step outside and let the rain

Kiss your pain away...

And surrender it to the sun....

Cause the world is still spinning around

So seize the day....

Cause you have come so far

Watched a million frowns turn into smiles

Lost all track of time

Felt the energy of a million stars

You will feel love again

You will feel love again

After the rain

You will feel love again

You will feel love again

You will feel love again after the rain...

#Trancefamily

The tag turns 1 tomorrow. So many of you have tried to understand what it means to me and why...and I've always struggled to put it into words. This paragraph I wrote for our retrospective today is the closest I've ever gotten....

"I wrote a tweet earlier today telling Simon Patterson that I cannot imagine my 2010 without his track "Miss You". In much the same way, the last year for me has very little meaning without #Trancefamily. What started as a way for us to share our love for this beautiful art form has become something bigger than any of us could have ever imagined. I know I've found people in the past year who will be in my life forever...and I'm pretty sure every single person reading this has too. Together, we've created a community of people who never forget to dream, who open their hearts to the power of music and, most of all, look beyond borders and distance to form the most special of connections. We've travelled far and wide to meet each other at events, we've shared so many sleepless nights together we've practically invented a #Trancefamily time zone, we've laughed, cried, and found love in each other's words. #Trancefamily to me is a glimpse of what a world could be like if we stopped looking at our differences and instead realized that the things we love and hope for are the same. Thank you to each and every person who belongs to this beautiful family of ours - I might never meet or tweet all of you, but it's a powerful thing to know that we're all dancing to the same beat. We Are One..."

[See everyone else's here.]

Confession

Being the self-assured, 21st century feminist that I am...I still can't help but get super-flattered when a handsome South African Trance DJ whose music has defined my 2010 flirts with me. For shame ;)

(not naming him, I really want a job in this industry you know :P)

Self-Indulgence

It's not wrong to buy Christmas presents for oneself, is it? Well, if it is, I'm OK with being wrong this one time.

Merry Christmas to me! Good job killing that exam :)