October 2008
5 posts
“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
– William James
For the love of ice-cream.
As I mentioned in my profile, I am a ice-cream addict. I love just about every single flavour and it is never the wrong time of night or day for me to eat it.
According to my mother, my addiction to ice-cream is a hereditary thing. She tells me that when she was young her grandfather would always wake her and my aunt up late at night when all the others went to sleep and they would sit and eat...
“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening,...”
– Solomon Ibn Gabriol
I'm tired, so very tired.
Since the last week in June I have had at least one function per weekend and I must admit that I am exhausted.
This coming weekend will be the final in a long list on weddings, christenings, engagement parties, birthday parties, hens nights, kitchen tea’s and funerals.
I recently sat down and decided to calculate the expense of all these events and once I worked out the final figure I...
September 2008
7 posts
Web Presentation
I have always really loved reading anything written by Mia Freedman. I remember first reading her work when she was working for Cleo and Cosmopolitan magazines. It was that stage when according to my parents I was “too young” to read such magazines so I would save my lunch money and then by the magazines and leave them in my locker at school. My friends and I would then share them and rotate who...
Negative
I have a friend who is totally negative - all the time. She hasn’t had a boyfriend in many years and has always been slightly overweight. I then have these other two friends who are pregnant and basking in their pregnancy glory and baby fat. So, whenever topic comes up about babies the negative friend always goes on about how she can never imagine being pregnant and how she doesn’t...
I HATE LIVING WITH A MAN...
In a momentary lapse of rational thinking I got married and I now need to vent about all the things that I hate about living with a man.
1. What a SLOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My husband is a slob (just in case you didn’t just get the message).
I have renamed him the snail because wherever he goes there is a trail left behind him. For example, he does a circle around our bed when he gets changed. He...
Renovating
Renovating - Pros and Cons
PRO:
1. Design
My new home is a three bedroom place with all the usual space: a bathroom, laundry, kitchen, dining and living areas and I love it. However, when I first saw the place from the inside I was disgusted and just kept telling myself “it has potential”. Well, sure enough my newly renovated home is absolutely beautiful. I knocked down walls,...
New Home
I just moved into my new home about six weeks ago. Prior to this I was living with my parents in a house where all the cooking and cleaning was done by someone else and bills was something that I never had to worry about.
Now however I suddenly have water bills, phone bills, electricity, Foxtel, Internet and food bills and living on my own, without my parents has been a real shock to my financial...
August 2008
10 posts
Wild Weekend Part II
So dinner passed and we once again mounted the bus. By this stage the party had really begun. The hen was decked out in all her hens night attire include a hand made bright blue veil with sunflowers, a sash noting that she was “the bride to be” and a giant badge with a picture of a hen in a wedding dress. The rest of us were given sunflower necklaces and badges which said “Beware...
Wild Weekend
This weekend I had a very good friend’s hen’s night and it was absolutely wild. We partied hard, drank and danced all night and paid for it the next day.
For some the day started early. On Saturday at 2pm the girls met at the hotel and the drinking began.
Shots, bottles and big glasses were all on the agenda. The drinking started in the car on the way to the hotel and by the time all the ladies...
Babies, children and motherhood politics.
I recently got married and it seems that once you are married people always ask “when are you having children”.
Frankly I find this to be a very personal and on occasion can be a very sensitive topic. This is why I find that when the topic of children comes into a conversation with women, the dynamics of an event can become very interesting.
For example, a few weeks ago I was at a Christening...
Facebook Mania
I began my Facebook adventure accidentally when my friend went overseas on exchange and sent me a message via Facebook asking me to start up. At this stage Facebook was a relatively new phenomenon and I for one knew nothing about it. Initially I used it for a communication tool with this one friend and now suddenly I have 300 odd friends many of whom I know and just as many who I don’t.
There are...
I love shoes
I just spent my lunchtime spending way too much money on another few pairs of shoes that I really don’t need. In fact not only did I buy shoes I didn’t need but I put two pairs on lay-by.
While getting dressed this morning for work I once again reaffirmed the fact that I have so many amazing high heeled shoes that are just beautiful to look at but completely impractical to wear on a...
Weekend Shopping Adventures
I HATE WEEKEND SHOPPING!
This weekend I made the terrible mistake of doing my grocery shopping on late Saturday morning. Normally, I do my shopping early on a early Saturday morning, around 7am or on late on a weekday, around 9:00pm. I have discovered that this is the best time to do grocery shopping because essentially people who do grocery shopping in my area are normally in bed at this...
ME AS A VISUAL
Very exciting!
Hello again!
I just posted my first ever blog message and I must admit I was very excited to see the results. I can’t wait to learn some more skills so that I can add pictures and make my blog as interesting as possible for you to read.
As this blog is part of my assessment for my uni subject I will need to provide you with some intelligent reading material, not just information and...
“Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing...”
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My first every blogging experience!
Hello and thanks for joining me on my first every blog!
I must admit that I have minimal technical skills and this is quite a nerve racking and daunting experience. My technical adventures were challenged early on when I tried to log into tumblr on my own for the first time and I’d already forgotten my password and which email I had provided- the joys of living in a security aware and email...