This might be another one of my favorite days of the year I think.
While I may not be a stubby wearing, VB drinking, AFL obsessed bogan like so many, I still freakin' love my country and love the day that reminds me of how much fun I have here.
I love everything about it, our culture, the people and most of all, our attitude.
I'm not an arrogant person and think that my country 'is the best in the world', and I'm certainly not oblivious to the corruption we have in our government (But then again, what country doesn't?)
All I'm saying is I love it and grateful to be here.
I have written before that I love Christmas, even though I'm not religious, because in my mind, its just a dedicated day to family. Well, I guess that is why I love Australia Day; we all get the day off work, and its a dedicated day to drinking, listening to tunes and hanging out with friends.
Besides, lets face it; bogan or not, we all secretly want to get drunk around the BBQ, cover ourselves in stick on tattoos and wear flags as superhero capes once in a while.
Whether you admit it or not ;)
I'm spending my day at my house, where I am the only Aussie! I live with Irish, Italians and English so I'm going to show them how it's done of course; BBQ, drinks, stick on tattoos, flags as capes and lots of laughs is no doubt going down, all with our radios turned up nice and loud with Triple J's Hottest 100.
I secretly like spending Australia Day knowing everyone in the country is doing EXACTLY the same thing. It was a comforting thought when I lived overseas too.
I hope all you hipsters aren't too bitter today. Take off your fake clear Raybans, get out the green and gold body paint and take a load off being too trendy for Australia Day. We don't have it all that bad here :)
Happy Australia Day!
Xo
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