JJJ - Hottest 100

Every Australia Day {or invasion day if you prefer} has special significance for me, particularly as an expatriate.  You would be forgiven for thinking that it engenders a longing for the sights, smells and sounds of home.  There are certainly many occasions where you may have a point.  But on the occasion of our National Day, it is for one reason alone . . . 

There is a favourite year, it cannot be denied.  The songs from which, are a constant in our home and regularly pop-up on playlists that we throw together for all manner of reason.  The fondest memory I have of this album was @ our wedding reception.  We had given Phil-the-Magician the thumbs up, to play anything that features on a Hottest 100 Album.  As I began bopping away to the not-so-sweet refrains of Technohead's, I Want To Be A Hippy {Go on - click on the link} my new husband bolted from the dance floor and shut the song DOWWWN!  Phil-the-Magician then played a Spice Girl's tune {no, the link is not supplied within this post - thank you very much AND no, it was not on a Hottest 100 album}.  To this day, I am yet to forgive my Mr for such a grievous trespass!  Moving on . . .  It was in the great year of my favourite Hottest 100, that I enjoyed sweet redemption and a new lease of life!

• I survived
• I suffered through my first faltering attempts @ University life
• I saw snow and skied for the first time
• I met the Mr
• I rented my first 'home'
• I discovered the sweet delights of drunkeness
• I toked and philosophised 
• I supported the North Queensland Cowboys in their inaugural year
• I road-tripped and camped out
• I began working full-time with kidlets
• I hoped and I felt FREE

IN THE YEAR THAT WAS 1995

This year the Mr and I delayed until Friday the 27th.  We fired up the barbie, hung the Aussie flag, blew up the kangaroo and beach ball and transformed our dining table into a ping-pong table.  After many failed attempts to download and play the countdown, we gave up and played the Hottest 100 - 2010 instead :)