Aussie Joy's Life

Finally getting a moment to reflect on Easterfest 2011.  Enjoy! Festival was going amazing. Ticket sales were record breaking. The campground had sold out days before the festival even started. The vibe was absolutely amazing. Anticipation was at an all time high. Thursday I spent the day in youth camping welcoming people to festival – [...]

Hey Friends… Just wanted to check in and say Easterfest is seriously just round the corner.  Our office is a mad house and we’re hoping to get everything organised in time…. but whatever the case… whether we keep up or not it’s all happening.  We’ve got crew already living on site (on the park) nine [...]

So at the Easterfest launch last week, I officially got launched into a world I know nothing about!!!  Japanese pop culture…  Anime…  Manga and mega ‘Super Mario’ brothers!  Two young, hip entrepreneurs, Chrys (Yes, he has cool, unique name spelling!) and Cameron decided (of all places!) to open a Japanese pop culture store called Neo-Tokyo in Toowoomba!    Seem’s like [...]

It’s 8:30pm on a Friday night… I’m still at the Easterfest office…  the dad jokes are getting worse – considering all the males in the office have ACTUALLY gone home early tonight! There is a nervous sense of excitement looming as the days before ‘bump in’ close in on us.  The program is being designed… [...]

I’m Running out of creativity… Easter is getting closer… Work hours are getting longer… Easterfest is just round the corner… Hopefully I will find something more meaningful to say before all my readers run away! PS… are you coming to Easterfest?  Free Premium ticket upgrades are available till Feb 28!  Or if you just wanna [...]

It’s hard to believe my awesome country is about to be hit by a second disaster for the year!  Cyclone Yasi is brewing and is said to be bigger then anything we have ever seen.  Above is a picture comparison Cyclone Tracey which hit in 1974 which killed 71 people, caused $837 million in damage (1974 AUD) [...]

On the weekend I met an elderly couple that lived to tell their story of survival after the ‘inland tsunami’ swept through their little town, Grantham. Graham and Helen were having a normal day at the Grantham farm they were caretakers at… oblivious to the fact that half an hour earlier, a significant deluge of [...]

For the first time in four years, I was home in Australia for ‘Australia Day’.  It was HOT!  Spent the morning with family and then went and saw the American band, Skillet play at the Tivoli Centre! Here are some links to memories of my ‘Australia Day’s’ in the US… Australia Day 2010 at Outback [...]

It’s the ‘day after’ a week since the ‘Inland Tsunami’ reeked havoc on the streets of Toowoomba and the neighbouring towns of Grantham and Murphy’s Creek.  We watched this amateur video in horror as cars were swept away like match sticks by a raging torrent of water in an area that is normally a small barely running creek. I [...]

Yesterday was a bit of an emotionally daunting day… (thus the failure to blog!) We came over to my bros house for power and brekky… The floods waters had begun to subside and I got really restless and hated the thought of sitting around and doing nothing.  The night before I had posted a blog [...]