A few thank-yous.

Thank-you to Miss Eel, you brighten up my Mondays and Tuesdays each week when we make dough and pizzas for strangers then do what ever else. For the water breaks. For the getting me to see things from perspectives I may not have thought about. For encouraging me to do better.

Thank-you to Frog. I couldn't have made it to where I am in the last few weeks if it wasn't for you. For the chats. For the drinks. For the sunrise last week when security casually pretended we weren't there. For staying up with me for the entirety of that night. For coming for that drive with me last night. For your constant encouragement and helping me to remember the positives. For the awesome weekend day and night shifts where we play music, get the work done and have fun. For not giving up on me when I was ready to give up on myself.

Thank-you to Beatiful, Darling, Lovely and Grunt for being the best work cars around. You guys are so fuel efficient and your handling is great. Thank-you for putting up with us drivers, even though sometimes we forget that it takes you guys a lot of effort sometimes to drive around for hours on end every single night. Thank-you for allowing us to carry pizza to randoms houses.

Thank-you to LBA for being there for Antelope, even when she was over 13,000 miles away from you. Thank-you for the entertaining countdown and for your understanding. Thank-you for being awesome. Its must have been hard for you, not having your best friend nearby; but you and her together have a friendship that has outlasted distance and hardship which is rare and makes it even more special. I send you light and happiness and all other good things as well; and appreciate that which you wrote today. It means a lot! :)

Thank-you to Lav-Lav, for being Antelope's transport for the time she was here and for now being my form of transport. Thank-you for being less temperamental lately, it's been very much appreciated. Thank-you for letting us play awesome music in you and reminding us that bad music should never EVER be played! Thank-you for the awesome road trip to Cairns. For being so fuel efficient. For being having such a great personality and for not getting upset when we wake you early on Sunday mornings.

Thank-you to all the people who gave me transport before I had a car. I appreciate your assistance and understanding. I feel I owe you (especially five of you) a lot for helping me for so long. Ever need a lift home? I will be more than likely to say yes!

Thank-you to the people I work with. For always being awesome. For always being entertaining. For being such great colleagues. Thank-you for allowing the work place to run awesomely and for allowing work to be enjoyable, even on the sometimes crazy 'Cheap Tuesdays.'

Thank-you to Vertigo for being such a great dog. You are SO well behaved and [nearly] always keen to learn. Thank-you for being there for Antelope in a way that none other could, and for helping her to become a great trainer! Lav-Lav misses you being around, she told me so herself when we were driving around tonight. Thank-you Vertigo for having such an awesome joie de vivre (as LBA pointed out when she was here in the American summer.) You're joie de vivre has inspired me on many occasions when I've needed cheering up. I will miss your squiggliness everytime you see me. I will miss playing with the hose, with the ball, with sticks and running up and down the beach and the springy grass with you. Thank-you for all the memories and for being the best Aussie Cattle Dog I have EVER known!

Thank-you to my housemates for being so understanding and for putting up with me even though I have a completely different day schedule than you. I'm really sorry if I ever wake you up at night with the shower, the loo, the tv, the doors, the fridge or any other noises I make at night. I also thank-you for being so easy to live with and for the random tv/drinks/dinner times/puzzles/drives we sometimes have. I am glad that we have such a great arrangement! :)

Thank-you to Baffles. I know you are overseas in Europe right now and that we havent been living in the same town for over two years now, but I want to thank-you for being such an awesome bestie. I don't know how (or IF) I would have been able to make it through high school without you. You have been a constant support and source of friendship since we met in 2004 and I thank-you for every moment of that. I wish we could live in the same city. Even though we have our funny little things, I know that in ten, twenty, fifty, eighty years time we will still be besties. It's really hard to find besties these days, but you my dear friend will be a friend for life. Thank-you for that.

Finally, and I'm sure you all saw it coming, thank-you to Antelope. It hasn't quite set in yet that you've gone home for good. Every time I drive past your street now it feels empty; like someone has removed it and the sign still stands telling people where it used to be. My brain keeps telling me you'll be back next week, but I know better. I wish you the best of luck in America and I am so glad that you now have your best friend and your family with you. I want to thank-you for being here in Australia for as long as you were. You have made the last [almost] two years so much better for me than I could have ever envisaged. Thank-you for being my sponsor and Godmother. Thank-you for the random drives, pumping up the volume, belting out tunes whiling away the hours and talking about everything under the sun. Thank-you for being a support for me not only emotionally, but spiritually and mentally as well. Between you and Frog in the last few weeks, you have encouraged me to get better and that perhaps taking medication to help me along the way isn't a bad thing. Thank-you Antelope for all the memories that you have helped me create when you were in Australia. Thank-you for being awesome and showing me (along with LBA) how awesome friendship can really be. Thank-you for teaching me (perhaps without realising) how to train dogs and how to stand up for something that you are passionate about. Sure Pet HQ may have made [completely empty] legal threats towards you, but       that is simply because they know how in the wrong they are. Thank-you for letting me be Vertigo's 'Fun Aunt' and helping me to establish with him when funtime isn't really appropriate. Thank-you for being my music soulmate and for letting me be your friend. Thank-you for helping me believe, even when I was allbeit ready to give it up. Thank-you for everything Antelope, it has all meant so much to me. I wish you the very best of luck; forever and always!