Gettin' My Phoenix On

F--k it. Yeah, I'm writing on this (long dead) blog again. No, I don't expect that any of you will care in the slightest.

I suppose the done thing would be to play a little catch up. So, what's going on with me?

I'm still married, and still happily so. It'll be our fourth anniversary in a couple of weeks.

Remember Lauren? Yeah, well she turned two this past August. I know, right? Time just races along...

We now also have a baby son. Everton Richard Brooke was born on August 20 this year. We were told that we were going to have another girl, but apparently our ultrasound tech must have been huffing f-ing glue that day. When the kid popped out and the midwives exclaimed "it's a boy" I damn near fouled my trousers.

Well, shorts. Not trousers. I never wear f-ing trousers. I don't care if you judge me for this.

If you're curious, my son takes his first name from my closest friend who tragically passed away in 2003. His middle name is that of his paternal grandfather.

You remember that "why not be a professional photographer" pipedream I had a while back? Well, f--k me if it didn't all turn out pretty damn well. I've built up a decent commercial and editorial photography business, with my client list including some pretty major national and international companies, newspapers and magazines.

Trust me- I'm not quite sure how the f--k this all happened, either. But I love what I do, I get paid very well to do it, and I have happy clients. In the words of a particularly nerdy pop singer of yore, who am I to blow against the wind?

I've also started teaching photography, which I enjoy more than I ever thought I would. It's also a nice little side earner, just quietly.

I may have mentioned previously that I lived in a hot, dusty shithole in the north of WA. It's still f-ing hot. It's still f-ing dusty. It still sucks big ol' donkey balls. But this town has given us a chance of a pretty cool future, so I can't hate too much.

We'll be out of here before July 2013. Trust me when I say that we're counting down the days.

I've still been keeping an eye on all of you. Of course, most of you have all given up on the blogging thing for the most part, which makes this rather easy.

Be good. Later.