I COULDNT SLEEP LAST NIGHT SO I GOT UP TO MAKE A CUPPA TEA AND SIT QUIETLY WITH MY OVER ACTIVE MIND AND SOMEHOW I STARTED CLEANING OUT MY OFFICE, AS YOU DO WHEN YOUR BONKERS AND ITS 4.38AM. I CAME ACROSS MY OLD JOURNALS AND FOUND MYSELF BELLY LAUGHING. I WAS ENTHRALLED AS SOME OF THESE NOTEBOOKS ARE FROM WHEN I WAS 11 YEARS OLD. BACK THEN I THOUGHT I WAS REAL GROWN UP. I WROTE ALL THIS POETRY AND USED SOME BIG WORDS AND GEEZ ITS CUTE. SO EARLY THIS MORNING THERE WAS THIS ONE PARTICULAR ENTRY THAT I STOPPED AT LONG ENOUGH TO REALLY LIKE. ONE SIDE OF THE PAGE HAD THIS BEAUTIFUL POSTCARD AND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PAGE HAD AN OLD TAB TICKET STUCK TO IT. REWIND TO 1993. IN 1993 I USE TO GET $3 DOLLARS POCKET MONEY, YEP BELIVE IT OR NOT I GOT $3 BUCKS. SO I SPENT MY $3 DOLLARS ON 1 OF 3 THINGS: 1. POSTCARDS 2. LIPSMACKERS 3. ON THE HORSES. SO THATS ME. I EITHER HAD COOL POSTCARDS TO LOOK AT, LOVELY LIPSMACKIN LIPS THAT WOULD FLIRT WITH THE SKY AND ON THE ODD OCCASION I WOULD PUNT IT ON THE HORSES. SO PAGE ONE OF MY NEW FAVOURITE PAGES HAS THE POSTCARD. I USE TO GO TO FREMANTLE MARKET AND PICK UP THESE POSTCARDS AND ID STICK THEM IN MY JOURNAL WITH SWIRLS AND LITTLE DRAWINGS OF GIRLS EYELASHES, THIS PARTICULAR POSTCARD HAPPENS TO BE THE STEVE MCCURRY IMAGE OF THE AFGHANI GIRL AND THERES THIS LITTLE NOTE I WROTE NEXT TO IT SAYING HOW PRETTY I THINK SHE IS AND I WONDERED WHO SHE WAS. ON THE PAGE NEXT TO THAT NOW VERY FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPH IS THE YELLOWING TAB TICKET: ONE MEMORABLE DAY MY DAD SAID 'COMMON JEN LETS BACK A WINNER', I WAS SUPER EXCITED, NUMBER 3 OR 9'S MY GENERAL LUCKY NUMBERS BUT THIS ONE PARTICULAR DAY THERE WAS THIS HORSE NAMED 'CYCLONE JENNY' AND I WAS LIKE 'WOW DAD LETS PUT ALL $3 BUCKS ON IT!" NO WORD OF A LIE IT WAS $68 DOLLARS TO ONE SO FRANKLY MY DAD WAS A LITTLE RELUCTANT. ANYWAYS HE TOOK MY $3 BUCKS AND PUT IT ON AND YOUR NOT GOING TO BELIEVE IT.......SHE CAME IN. CALL IT BEGINNERS LUCK OR JUST PURE CHANCE ALL I CAN SAY IS IT MUST BE SOME KINDA CYCLONE JENNY
