Well I finally got a laptop so I’m blogging on the couch. In other news, I’m going to Australia in one week, and I figured it was high time I talked about it.

I’m going to Australia for two weeks. My good friend Roy moved out there at the end of 2011 to be with his wife, and since then I have been saving up to visit him, along with three of our other friends. Next Friday, I’m boarding a plane to Sydney, where I will be hanging out, touristing for three days. After that, I’m boarding another plane to Brisbane, where Roy and his wife Dominique actually live, and we’ll be staying with them for the remainder of the trip.

I’m very, very excited. The last time I was out of the country was when I was 12, and it was to Puerto Vallarta. It was there that I remember getting corn row braids on my head and playing in warm beach water while it rained. That might have also been my first time on a plane that I remember. Now as an adult, I’m finally traveling to a different country, and I’m ready to inhale and absorb everything.

This may sound strange, but I think right now what I’m most looking forward to is the plane ride there. I relish the ‘me’ time. I might read, sleep, write, or blog, watch a movie, and drink myself into a stupor. It’s going to be such an experience. The longest I’ve ever been on a plane is 6 hours, and I can’t wait to humbly brag about surviving a 15 hour one.

Of course, I’m going to miss my boyfriend, and I’m going to miss my family and friends, but I feel like it’s going to be one of those experiences I remember for the rest of my life.

In other news, I have to tell you how awesome shit has been in the blogging world. I posted about my Passion Series in a blogging group on Linkedin and got an amazing response from at least 20 bloggers wanting to take part. I’m booked until the end of October already! Just wait until you read how inspiring they are, and what kind of things they blog about. They’re so freakin’ talented and awesome, it’s a freakin’ joy to bring them to my blog. And I’m meeting some great people because of it. Every morning I get a new request it seems, and my heart nearly bursts every time it happens.

This weekend is going to be very chill. I don’t have plans until the evening tomorrow, so I’m going to stay at home and rest, AKA work on another Mursa Pie, read, and probably write. I’m not sure where I would be if I wasn’t allowed some solid space to sit around and just create. Sunday is Father’s Day, which will be hard but also nice because it will be with people I love. My stepmom, sister, and I are going on a ‘booze cruise’, which is basically just a docked ship that serves brunch and booze. It’s going to be so awesome though, we always have a great time together, and I think it’ll be a great way to celebrate my dad.

I’ll probably blog tomorrow. Because now I can blog on the couch.

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Monique Muro

Monique is an exceedingly happy human from LA. She runs the blog A Novel Quest, and writes. A lot.

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