It's a DISCO Christmas....

Christmas time in San Diego was a blast, myself and my favourite people in the whole wide world gathered together for some Disco time inspired by my Absolut purchase in London... 

Kylie also inspired the party, seen as without her I wouldn't have looked anywhere near as good a host!! Thanks Kyles... 
Cuban cigar time... imported by Cassi after 4 months of traveling around South America... O yeah!

Jumping out of planes...

So, Friday night I met some new friends who invited me to Sky Dive on Saturday... I didn't end up jumping because in all honesty I didn't feel that this guys $300 would be well spent on me jumping out of a plane just to prove I would... seen as I had done it before I opted out and just watched all the boys jump over and over again! It was a perfect day and with my camera beside me I felt like I'd been on a week's vacation by the time the day was over.... so relaxed!!

Meet Andrew, he's Marine's Reconnaissance and from the few stories I've heard jumping out of a plane is the easiest thing these guys do... I don't envy their job but I am greatful someone's doing it! 

Old friends... GOOD times... and some new friends

I had too much fun catching up with old friends like Nikki, Shaun and Nick whilst I was in London as well as meeting some outrageously fun new people!!! 

Some new friends, Christopher and the girls from OC that took me to Cuckko Club in SoHo, Chris is a good friend of a good friend here in San Diego, it was nice of him to oblige to take out a bunch of strangers he'd never met! But it was well worth the effort!
Amy!!! O how I loved seeing Amy again... we haven't been in the same city for close to 5 years, it felt like it was only yesterday when we got back together!! Like old time Amy, I LOVE YOU!
Brendon, a new friend... as you can see I seem to be more excited about meeting my new friend than he is! Brendon was in town for business from South Africa and staying with some of my most treasured London friends (below) 
Nick Craddock... the craziest room mate I've ever had!!! Great seeing you again Nick! You rock!
Nick, myself and Shaun... we called Kelly for old time sake (she was sleeping like a good married girl!) and Shaun was kind enough to not make me walk home in the freezing cold and had me in his home around the corner from the pub... He's getting married and moving to Oz! So to all my friends down under I'm sending you some quality pals! Be good to them! 

Some pictures from VACAY!

Here are a few shots from my latest trip to London of around and about town.... 

The best things in life are free...

Just a few weeks ago we celebrated our amazing volunteers at Christian City Church and threw them a party! Which means I get to get dressed up and high 5 people! Twas fun to say the least... check out the crazybooth action at theblogisfound.com that's where the true photo mania is! 

Rach and I... who knows what we're up to. 
Alicia and I... Alicia is MY volunteer, she comes into our office every Wednesday and does things to make me look great! You don't get better people than that... 
Erica, Audrey and ME! The next two girls I plan on walking down the aisle in front of!!! 

America... CHANGES

Woooo hooooo!!! We've just ended two years of an intense political campaign here in the USA, and the weeks and months prior created an environment for heated debates and nerdy discussions galore! I loved it until the few days prior at which point things started to get really heated! As you can imagine in my line of work, mixing religion with politics can get very very complicated! But we made it through, I don't think I lost any friends on the way and I've lived through one of the greatest moments in American history! For those of you in Oz and abroad that know me well can only imagine how much I loved being in the USA for this Presidential Campaign. A US Presidential Campaign was the envy of us political geeks in Australia just because of the craziness, and I feel like I just watched the craziest one yet. To John McCain's credit he made one of the most tear-jerking and respectable concession speeches I imagine anyone has ever seen in a Presidential race. Worth looking it up on Youtube. 

Obama Rama people!!! I love America! 

This is Rach and I being the political geeks we are, very excited to see the results unfold, I decided to dress for the ocassion seen as I couldn't vote! I walked around all day just screaming "I vote America!" 

Live gig... small venue = happy happy Yvette

The Tuesday night just gone, myself and some "bff's" headed to rock the Casbah at a small live gig with Greg Laswell. Thankfully the support act ROCKED it... "Get Back Loretta" and Greg who is a San Diego local played on until well past midnight, there would have been maybe 200 people there! I love it when that happens, it's like a performance in your lounge room sorrounded by people of like mind! Here are some pics.