the end was just the beginning
As we drove to school yesterday, the 11-year-old piped up from the backseat: "Did you have TV when you were a kid?" Wow, it was an interesting conversation that followed. You don't really think about how pyrotechnically technology has exploded in a single generation until you start telling your child what life was like 40... Continue Reading →
I say that I've moved on, that I struggle to raise much ire towards my ex, but there is something that really bothers me about his departure ... Other than the elephant-in-the-room reason. It's the financial devastation and the tsunami-like effect it's had on my middle-class life. I say middle-class because it's not proper suffering.... Continue Reading →
"Top baby name" lists invariably annoy me because both my daughters' names always feature. Yesterday, Kidspot released Australia's Most Popular Baby Names for 2014 and yep, they both made the Top 10. Damn it. I swear, when I chose a name for my eldest ... a decade before she was born ... no one called their... Continue Reading →
It's a bit scary how addicted the youngest has become to her iPad, she doesn't even bother turning on the tellie in the morning, just sits there tapping away, occasionally asking if she can download another free app. I was slightly apprehensive when she asked to download "Truth or dare" yesterday ... but she assured... Continue Reading →
Enough is enough. I can't handle it any more. It's been two weeks and four days since I got sick with some flu-like thing and I'm still not feeling right. I. Am. So. Over. It. I wept in the shower yesterday in sheer frustration. So my goal for next week is to get some medical... Continue Reading →
It's tough times in print media and I bet the editor of Zoo magazine thought he was on a winner with this Anzac Day commemorative issue ... I can imagine his glee as he signed off on the issue: hot chick on the cover wearing a bikini, brandishing red poppy and giving a provocative interview... Continue Reading →
It's kinda ironic that my home town of Sydney spent Earth Day 2015 this week being battered by the elements. The Earth really wanted to make its displeasure know about how we're mistreating it! My little house survived the storms pretty well, a leak in the verandah flashing, a sagging tree in the backyard, but... Continue Reading →
Wow it's been a shocker weather-wise. Both my parents and DD were left without power. Mum would only talk to me for the briefest moment because her phone was running out of charge, but luckily I got DD a Sprout charger brick thingy for Christmas - since we are such mad texting fiends - so... Continue Reading →
It's a bit weird to be going to your first dance party on the totally wrong side of 40. I never had the slightest inclination to go to one in my youth. They involved stay up too late and there were too many drugs. Ewwwww. Yep, I was born a granny. But I've heard about... Continue Reading →
I had one of those what the hell will I blog? moments this morning and started trawling through my April back catalogue for inspiration ... It didn't make pretty reading. April 2014 was a bitter affair due to the freshness of my marriage separation. April 2013 is retrospectively coloured by knowing why travelling to the... Continue Reading →
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