Happy New Year- Yearly Review

The year 2011 started full of hope and promise at Katie and Yang's NYE party. The future looked bright, we had plans to move to L.A. in March. 

So we hung out. Passed the time. Looked at some things. Here's Colin, looking at something. 

January brought the Brisbane Floods. Our suburb remained unscathed, but the rest of Brisbane was le boned. We helped clean up after the damage was done. It was sad to see our friends and their relatives lose everything and the clean up was hard work.

Finally, March came and we went to the USA! Thanks to two very awesome flatmates we had somewhere to live and to drive us to and from LAX. 

But first we took a mini break to New York, where we saw Book of Mormon, had Muppets made of ourselves and saw Cults play in Williamsburg.

It was cold in New York.

I whinged a whole lot because I was cold. 

Then, back to LA! At first LA was scary, but we grew to love it after a month. We ate a lot, put on weight, made some cool friends and saw some great things. I interned for The HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast, I met Chad! He bought me a tea. It was large and I burned my mouth, but played it cool anyway. 

Colin got work on a movie called Lip Service, and then a rap video, and then a Russian mini-series. LA was the best. 

Unfortunately, our Visa expired and we had to come home. We were excited about being home for almost an hour! Then metaphorical dark clouds rolled in, and we vowed to get permanent Visa and return to our beloved Silverlake... FOREVER!!! So we applied for a permanent Visa which we're still waiting on.

Now, back in Brisbane we started work on a video for Muse's Origin of Symmetry tour. It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun. Seeing pics of it on the big screen was exciting. 

 Then something amazing happened! We both got jobs! PAYING jobs! Colin as a videographer and I at the children's center of the Art Gallery. With two wages coming in, we could save and keep waiting for news of our US Visa! 

We had a Halloween party. It was fun. 

Then decided it was time to work on a short film. I started making the puppets.

And this is where our year ends, seconds away from leaving for Paul's NYE party, which I will be leaving early from so that I can get enough sleep for work tomorrow. Thanks to Carly and Felicia for helping us out in LA in 2011, Simon and Clare for giving us a break, my DnD crew for playing DnD a whole bunch and not telling too many people about it, and my friends for being cool like they do every year. Happy New Year kids! All the best for 2012 (despite what those pesky Mayans are saying, I'm sure it's going to be a good year).