Aaron: The road less travelled.

14 August 2010
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As of the weekend, we have arrived safely in San Francisco in one piece – and both sighed a breath of relief having had a manic couple of weeks which saw (between the two of us), the release of an album – with its associated gig, a masters thesis completed, quitting of two jobs, selling of cars, a court case (me vs. a bad driver), saying goodbye to 13 nieces and nephews plus 6 siblings plus parents and friends, selling the cars and packing up our entire lives.

Needless to say, it was all quite intense!

Tahiti was absolutely amazing (and amazingly expensive too, a can of coke costs around 4 dollars), but wasn’t without its drama as I came…

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By Aaron on 14 August 2010 at 9.00 am
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Good luck Aaron!

2 August 2010
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So we’ve been talking about it for a while now, and the time has finally come. Tomorrow afternoon, Aaron is jetting off to Montreal (via Tahiti and San Francisco) for his new life. Us Aucklanders had a special dinner for him on Monday last week where I gave a short speech and I’ll highlight it here… Aaron has been a great friend, co-blogger and all-round good sort. I’m going to miss him a great deal. He’ll still be blogging once he reaches and settles in Canada, but he’s on a bit of a holiday for the next few weeks, so for now I thought I’d post this lovely pic of he and his husband Andy from dinner last week, and…

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By Nic on 2 August 2010 at 9.28 am
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Aaron: The end is nigh

28 July 2010
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After months of planning (some of it in secret) I’m all but ready to grab my passport and run out the door to my seat on Tahiti Nui flight TN102 to Papeete, then LA and then Montréal!

Needless to say, I’m rather excited about this prospect (especially given the looks of the image to the left and my 1 week stay there) but I still have this nagging bug around the whole diabetes aspect of it all. It’s not enough of a worry to deter me from stepping on the plane by any means but it does create a heck of a lot of extra work. I was packing on Sunday avo so that I got a feel for just…

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By Aaron on 28 July 2010 at 9.00 am
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Aaron: CGMS, here I come.

9 June 2010
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I was at the outpatients clinic recently to see my diabetes nurse for our 6 monthly catch up and it couldn’t possibly have been better timing I have to say.

At the time I’d had a couple of rough weeks due to a lot of stress from various things that had been going on (which lead to this post) so it was good timing to be meeting with the diabetes nurse to be able talk over the hiccups and what might be going on to cause them. Lots and lots of highs had been causing me no end of problems and I needed to talk through some strategies to get things back on track.

One of the…

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By Aaron on 9 June 2010 at 9.30 am
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Aaron: Exciting news!

8 June 2010
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It is with a strange mix of excitement, trepidation, sadness and expectation that I can finally tell you guys that I am moving to Montreal in exactly 8 weeks today!

It has been a long time in our dreams and  a good time in planning but as of last week, I have resigned from the job I love and on August 3rd, I will say goodbye to a good many friends, family, colleagues and the country I love for what is already promising to be an incredible adventure.

We have tickets, insurance, hostels, backpacks, itineraries, bus transfers, hotels, activities and visas all done as well as a long list of paperwork for taxes and all that guff well underway. All…

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By Aaron on 8 June 2010 at 9.30 am
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