New Year well under way!!!!

Well, here we are guys, into February... The Christmas trees are all thrown away, we're approaching, like, Holiday Number FOUR (or something ridiculous like that) already for the New Year... And we are FAST approaching my 1st anniversary of moving to New York.
I can't believe I have been here almost a YEAR!!!! Daniel's now been here over half a year, also!!! It was just 7 months...
I can't believe it... We have individually AND as a couple achieved so much in this short space of time. It becomes really obvious when you compare it to say, moving to Sydney. We both did it, we both did it with VERY little money. We slowly found jobs and a life in Sydney... Made friends and finally had a solid support network, great friends, family and good jobs. We got to a point where we were very comfortable and REALLY happy.
Over a year ago, we decide to THROW that all away, turn our lives upside down and START ALL OVER!!!!!! Almost a year ago, we followed through with this decision and DID JUST THAT!!!!!!
But, surprise, surprise, it was NOT the end of the world. We talk to our families all the time. We have stayed in contact with our friends and have even had several of them visit us, with several more on their way (We LOVE you, Lucy and Nick!!!).
But more than that, we have truly started making really, REALLY good friends here. We may not have our own apartment, YET, we may not have the BEST jobs in the world and we may have not NEARLY as much money as we used to. But, we DO have pretty good jobs (especially for only being here for 9 months, or 7), we DO eat pretty well, we ARE saving and, the MOST IMPORTANT, we really have found some FABULOUS friends.
Daniel and I, this weekend, celebrated our friend, Ben, having a birthday!!!!! Not only is it always fun to see Ben and Iris (we actually went out with them last weekend ON Ben's actual birthday), but we saw a couple of other good friends (guys Daniel used to work with, and friends that came to my birthday Karaoke, also) AND made a couple of new friends!!!!
I have included a couple of pics!!!


It was a VERY fun party!!!! Way to GO, Ben and Iris!!!!!

This one is Me and Daniel with our friend, John, and "that crazy Asian dude in the background". hehehe... That photo was put on here JUST for you, Paul Cageggi!!! His name is Tony and when I showed a picture of my birthday to Paul (via messenger), Paul said he "LOVED the crazy Asian Dude in the background"... When I then told Tony he laughed so hard he now WANTS to be known as that and insisted we take several photos at the party in which he was JUST THAT - the crazy Asian dude in the background!!!!!

Benjamin with his Birthday Cookie... He later ate it so he could "steal it's happy".

We, later, moved to a bar that had one of those shooting deer games, the boys enjoyed.... See???


And, just to finish off, a couple of our friends... Old and NEW!!!!!





Oh... I didn't mention the best winter idea ever... Ben's Birthday... was... a SOUP PARTY!!!!! Everyone brought a SOUP!!!! BEST idea EVER. Ben loves soup and it was his birthday after all.... The night was so much fun.
So, that's our thought, well mine but Daniel will agree, for this fine, FREEZING, February morning!!!!
Nowhere is home until you have a few GOOD friends to call your own!!!!
We are happy today, guys, even though we miss and love you all so much!!!!
Kisses and love, as always!
Taliesen and Daniel.