The youngest sent me this scary photo yesterday morning with NO explanation. I texted back: "Where the hell is that?" She replied: "Outside the house near the side gate." I texted: "Is it dead????" She replied: "Yes." I texted: "How big is it?" And almost retched as I zoomed in and saw all the exposed... Continue Reading →

One of the fun things about the contracting work I'm currently doing - other than all the brainstorming - is that the audience I'm targeting is ME: women around the age of 40-60. I sit there each day thinking: what do I want to read about? It's a big change from wondering: what do bottle... Continue Reading →

I only have one speed - full on - and my batteries went flat on Saturday. I didn't sleep much last week between fretting about my mammogram, stressing over work and wrangling the logistics of having no kitchen or lounge room due to the floors being sanded. I should have said no when the youngest... Continue Reading →

It's the third night that we've been without a kitchen or living room and I'm getting a bit jack of having to circumnavigate the house every time I need something. It's also a bit of a bore having the fridge in the hallway with a toaster on the floor beside it as my only source... Continue Reading →

Excuse the state of today's blog post, it's a bit of a half-arsed shambles. Life has been too hectic. I sweatily rushed around yesterday morning trying to erect barricades to keep the dogs off the floorboards while the new polish is drying. Then I hooned off to do a solid eight hours of contracting work,... Continue Reading →

I had a mammogram yesterday. I've been fretting about my right boob for the past 10 days, ever since I bent down to shave my legs in the shower and felt a sore spot near my armpit as it rested on my knee. The soreness has been migrating its way around my boob ever since.... Continue Reading →

I walk with my friend Mel on Monday nights and we decided make Dan Murphy's our destination last night. #badmoms I've been bending Mel's ear about my fondness for low-cal alcoholic seltzer and she wanted me to show her around the seltzer section so she could pick up a few good ones to take on... Continue Reading →

Three weeks after going into lockdown with his mum on December 21, DD was finally free to leave the Northern Beaches at midnight on Saturday. It was a bugger that both of us weren't working for most of his seclusion and it's felt like an eternity since I was allowed to cross the Narrabeen Bridge.... Continue Reading →

The ordinary life I mentioned in yesterday's blog post doesn’t seem too bad in light of the events that transpired after I pressed “publish”. I didn’t realize as I blithely blathered about my dull life that Trump supporters were attempting to overthrow democracy in the US. And I immediately wished I could press "unpublish" when... Continue Reading →

I can't believe I'm saying this in the midst of a global pandemic (and the riots in Washington WTF), but my life has been a bit dull lately. With DD in lockdown and the kids spending their school holidays either away with their dad or in bed, there hasn't been much to write about at... Continue Reading →