This is my official Happy New Year post.
Not long after we found out about the stupid job we were invited to a party at Wallington Adventure Park, an aquatic fun park on the way to Queenscliff. Remember when I went to the Royal Melbourne Show and was all jealous because I stupidly didn't have a go on the giant slide?
Well I was determined not to be that dumb again, so despite the fact that the morning was coldish..
(brrrr)
too cold for me to do this...
...although the boys loved it...
...I made sure that I grabbed a mat, climbed up the enormous staircase with Climber for moral support, knelt at the starting line with my heart thumping and wait how do you hold this mat thing? how do I .. oh gawd, the lights are green, go go goooooooo!
(I'm in the lane second from the right, and Climber is far right)
OHMYGODSOMUCHFUNLETSDOITAGAIN!
So that's my resolution for the New Year. Don't hold back from trying something you like the look of because you might be too old or too poor or too shy or whatever. Embrace the healing goodness of being fully immersed in H2O. Don't hold onto your negative stuff. Be brave. Have fun.
Happy New Year Everyone! Thanks for coming to my blog! And seeing it's the end of the year, won't you please leave me a message if you read this! Go on. Be Brave.
love Carolinex
Happy New Year! Here's hoping all good things for the Stomper-Fixits in 2010!
ReplyDeletehere's hoping 2010 is better for all of us! We need a dose of the "better year's" too! Thanks for providing an entertaining blog & (tweets!)and allowing me to escape from my own world for a little while! Have a good one! Siobhan/Shivi1.
ReplyDeleteYah for trying new things and Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteA happy new year to you and yours. Love your blog and I hope that 2010 brings you all manner of happiness and good fortune - Sarah
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you and yours Stomper!! May it be a really exciting and wet one for you!! Enjoy all the splashes.
ReplyDeleteA Happy New Year to you all and may 2010 be full of pleasantly suprising big slide rides! ;-)
ReplyDeleteWow, that looks like fun! Good for you, Stomper. I like this resolution of yours. I may borrow it.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you and your loved ones! May 2010 be fun and kind to all of you.
Happy Noo Year Stomper!
ReplyDelete2010 promises something better just round the corner you know - award-winning apprentices don't stay on the shelf for long you know ( I married one myself! )
xx
Lea
Happy New Year Miss Caroline...
ReplyDeleteAnd yes here is to being brave and wonderful and true..
Always reading here Miss Caroline - I like the way you think!
ReplyDeleteHave you ever seen/read the Devine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood? There's a scene where the main character is a kid and her family goes to a fair. There's an elephant/plane ride (depending on if it's the book or the movie) and she doesn't go because she's too scared. And then she's upset because she missed out. Her mum drives her back in a mad dash and gets her her ride - it's a good description of both characters, and also a scene I overly identified with!
ReplyDeleteI spend far too much time on the sidelines going 'oh, but I don't know how, it seems scary, people will laugh at me...' you know the rest. But there's no one to talk me into it, so I have to do it myself! It's one of the things I admire about my sister - she just goes for it. And she might need to be pulled out of a mess every now and then, but who doesn't! Not doing scary things is no gaurantee that scary things won't happen.
So this is a long way of saying - good idea! Go for it! And maybe I can, too...
A very fine resolution. You were brave, wonderful and fully immersed! I hope you find lots more opportunities for just that in 2010.
ReplyDeleteLovely fun and good advice. Joy and prosperity to you all, in the new year.
ReplyDeleteCarpe diem Missus Stomper, carpe diem.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year !!
ReplyDeleteI don't expect you're awake
Happy new year Caroline, hope it's a brilliant one for us all!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year! Wishing you wonderful, brave things for 2010.
ReplyDeleteLove water slides!
ReplyDeleteAnd I have similar resolutions... Jump in and be engaged cuz heck, we're not getting any younger!
(Sadly.)
Happy New Year!
May it be a great one!!!
Serious lurker but seldom commenter here. Looks like you all had fun at the water park! All the best for 2010 and I might see you back at tap class this year.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
Hi Miss Caroline
ReplyDeleteHappy new year to you too! Looking forward to another fabulously funny tappy year!
Naomi xx
Huh! I definitely WAS awake when you commented Nell but I had turned the computer off at 9 o'clock *looks virtuous*
ReplyDeleteAlso, *waves energetically* Monica and Naomi! I have seriously itchy feet from 2 weeks no tap, aaii February looking a long way off!
ReplyDeleteExcellent advice. Happy New Year Stomper. Mwah, mwah, mwah.
ReplyDeleteWishing you a very happy new year.
ReplyDeleteIts great advice - I'm off to take myself down the metophoric water slide!
I am going to take your sentiment to heart and run with it!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you and your family.
Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteGood advice, but I am still trying to convince myself that my thunder thighs won't repulse the people at the beach.
I may well just end up saying stuff it and do it anyway!
Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great resolution - I don't really have one yet - still in thinking/relaxing mode.
Anyway, hope it's a really good year/decade all round!
Great advice. Something I tell myself but don't follow very well (eg connecting with bloggers in real life, something I'd love but am too wussy to implement!).
ReplyDeleteHuppy New Year!
Carolyn x
The kid went on his first waterslide a couple of days ago, he looked terrified but agreed it was fun. Mostly I think he was proud of himself for having done it, and isn't that so often the way? You never know unless you give it a bash, so happy new year Stomper family!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, dear Stomper / Caroline (a pretty name). You are such a sweetie and a lovely mum and partner - I hope 2010 is very very good for you.
ReplyDeleteLooks like fun!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year
Happy New Year - you were so brave! What a fantastic resolution for the new year. Thank you! best wishes, Trina
ReplyDeleteWonderful sentiment Stomper...we all need reminding (in a good way)that life is short...lets hope that 2010 will bring more joy than sorrow to all of us...
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you too! I hope 2010 is good for you and your family! I love the post - I too will be trying to not say no to things I may have said no to in the past because I was afraid, nervous or otherwise.
ReplyDeleteHappy brave year, Stomper. I just *know* it will be a good one.
ReplyDeleteWell if you're going to TELL me to comment, then I will comment. Enjoy the New Year and all the water slides it presents...
ReplyDeleteGosh, I love this!
ReplyDeleteNary a care in the world, not Stomper Girl!
Bravo Stomper! You just have to get out of your comfort zone! Happy New Year to You and Fixit and the boys!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year!
ReplyDeleteI am just listening to Freddie Mercury singing Time, so it seems so appropriate for your post!
ReplyDeleteI agree go for everthing you can grab.
Just after I was diagnosed with quite bad osteoporosis, I went with my daughter, son & grandaughter, & went on a shaking jolting 'space ride' which warned people with my condition, among others, not to take part. I never regretted it, & decided I would not live my life in fear of what 'might be'.
Hugs & love to you all for 2010!
Hope you have a great 2010. I think it is going to be a keeper for sure. It is amazing what goodies you can invite in when you live without fear.
ReplyDeleteYou were practically on my doorstep! Adventure Park is wonderful and Holly just loves the lazy river!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you as well! Holly & Scolly x
so many comments! stomper, you won't believe this, but you made me cry. a while back I did very similar things with J (who is now a 15 yo monosyllabic teenager who never ever gets out of bed and who I do not understand any more at all). I was terrified most of the day. speedy water slides, and even one that was mostly in the dark for extra horror. eek. I guess the 15 yo will one day be 25 and we will have a laugh together about that day. sigh. thanks for the memory.
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ReplyDeleteI LIKE that line! Thats what I felt when I flew on a trapeze! I ended up doing it 4 times even managing a backsomersault dismount. It is one of the physical highlights of my life and I have NEVER regretted it. It was terrifying and thrilling.
Good for you Caroline (somehow, I never knew that was your name).
Have a very happy New Year to you and all your lovely family. I do so enjoy reading of your adventures, big and small. (ooh, wv is pation = passion - Whee!)
much love
Laura x x x x
Happy New Year to you! Being brave is a great resolution. Mine was more along the lines of "be frugal". Not so much fun, that one. Although now that I think about it, this last weekend I was frugal by making a softie for a gift instead of buying something, and that was fun. Perhaps being frugal will lend itself to entertaining work-around solutions. This could be a fun resolution after all. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for your blog. I don't comment often (ever?), but I enjoy reading! Best of luck in the new year. 2010 is going to be a great one.
-Holly
I am not really a roller coaster person, but in a similar spirit to you, this year I have gone on several very challenging (to me) rides and am very glad I have.
ReplyDelete(Not quite the extreme ones my teenagers go on, but nearly).
Way to go Stomper (Caroline, nice name!)!
ReplyDeleteHappy 2010 to you.