I've entered the over-thinking phase of the cycle. I lie in bed until the early hours of the morning, searching for hidden meanings in everything and creating dramas where there aren't any ... Oh, who am I kidding? That's not a PMT thing, it's just a ME thing. Anyways ... When my husband left the... Continue Reading →
That was then, this is now
Yesterday dawned so much brighter than the dark-ish day before. Damn the emotional rollercoaster of middle-aged womanhood. I can't wait until two pubescent daughters get added to the household mix. At lunchtime, I felt almost deliriously happy as I brutalised my body in a gym class. I was literally grinning like a Cheshire cat ...... Continue Reading →
Battling with brain fog (and useless negativity)
I've been worrying that I have early-onset dementia because I keep forgetting stuff, but someone told me I probably have perimenopausal "brain fog." When I stared at them blankly - in a non-early-onset dementia kinda way - they told me to Google it. Cheers. According to the ABC: "‘Brain fog’ is a term not fully... Continue Reading →
Time slips away in San Francisco
DD and I were a bit ambitious when it came to our first holiday together - we tried to cram waaaaaaay too much in. By the time his conference finished - halfway through the Thursday of the first week - we only had seven days to see Cape Canaveral, Savannah, Lake Tahoe, the Napa Valley... Continue Reading →
Loved up in Lake Tahoe
I don't think I've ever been anywhere as beautiful as Lake Tahoe. It was soooooooo gorgeous it took my breath away ... or perhaps it was the -8C temperatures? Let's stick with it being the scenery. I wasn't very chirpy prior to my arrival. We got up at 4am in Savannah to catch our two... Continue Reading →
Stars share the love on Valentine’s Day 2016
I'm not really one for Valentine's Day. Neither is DD. But when I arrived at his place yesterday I was greeted with French champagne and a Vietnamese beef salad he'd made for our lunch. It made me very smiley. When the heat of the sun was gone, we went to the beach for a swim.... Continue Reading →
Valentine’s Day REALLY doesn’t agree with me
I was moaning about something crappy that happened around mid-February last year to a friend when she replied: "The downside to your blog is that your remember these dates." Ironically, the crappy thing that I was moaning about WASN'T on my blog. But while searching for my Doctor Who Valentine's Day post to put on... Continue Reading →
Guns, gardens and romance in Savannah
Wow DD did a lot of driving on our holiday. Fortunately he's super-zen, so it hardly flustered him at all (except when I was behind the wheel). After his conference finished in Florida, I sent us on a six-hour road trip to Savannah for the weekend (via the Kennedy Space Center and St Augustine) with... Continue Reading →
Slipping up in St Augustine
Remember the time I accidentally booked myself and my ex-hubby into a disabled motel called The Wheels Resort for holiday? Extra-spacious bathrooms and a nice, handy ramp into the pool, but a bit shag-on-a-rocky rather than shag-a-lotty. Well, it happened again, this time with DD, in a little Florida town called St Augustine. Disabled bathrooms... Continue Reading →
Totally spaced out by Cape Canaveral
One of the things I was most excited about doing on my holiday was visiting The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios in Orlando. I've spent much of the kids' childhoods reading them the books and watching the movies together over and over. One of our most memorable childhood moments with the eldest... Continue Reading →