the end was just the beginning
I was still a bit croooooook yesterday, but I struggled out of bed to attend a travel brekkie function: Royal Caribbean's relaunch of the Voyager of The Seas. (I'm spending a night on the ship on December 8. Theme for my story: How much fun can you cram into a 12-hour cruise? OK, more like:... Continue Reading →
Someone described me as "neurotic" yesterday. I don't know them, but they'd read one of my blogs and remarked to a friend that "she sounds a bit neurotic." Neurotic? Me?? I got a bit agitated about being called neurotic - ah, the irony - so I did a bit of research to see if I... Continue Reading →
Well, I'm 99.9% sure I bought a house ... it doesn't seem quite real. But it must be, because the agent has sent me a text saying: "Congratulations!" How do I feel? Kinda weird. I cried all the way to the agent's office with the cheque. I've been trying to analyse what made my eyes... Continue Reading →
Yesterday was a bit of a blur of Codral and humidity. In the words of Lauren Child's precocious Lola: "I'm really, really ever so not well." Like my dear fellow blogger Pinky Poinker noted in my comments: "Nothing worse than a summer cold." But I soldiered on hazily with my plans for the day, including... Continue Reading →
I am worn out. Emotionally, physically, mentally. And I've come down with a cold. Ahhhh-choo. There are no words left ... they've been all funneled into texts and blogs and emails. So I bring you ... celebrities and their children posing in pumpkin patches in preparation for Halloween 2014. My kids can't wait to go... Continue Reading →
You know how much I love throwing a party? Well my friends, the "Two Pink Ladies", totally shade me. Each year, they throw the most dazzling Girls' Night In. It's a fundraising concept that encourages women to enjoy a girly catch-up and donate what they would normally spend on a night out to the Cancer... Continue Reading →
Guess where I'm going on Sunday? On my first RSVP date. I'm a bit terrified, to be honest. I think I understand the RSVP rules reasonably well – the date will be in a highly public place, I've ensured I have a pre-planned escape route (a movie date with my sister afterwards), I'll wear a... Continue Reading →
As I tried to take a selfie yesterday morning - don't ask - between making Vegemite sandwiches and quartering oranges for the kids' lunch boxes, I was reminded of a quote by Martin Amis ... As the 50th birthday approaches, you get the sense that your life is thinning out, and will continue to thin... Continue Reading →
I'm completely hopeless with technology. It's a little worrying, considering I work as a digital journalist. Mobile phones confound me. I was the last person in the world to get one and I've only recently learned how not to yell into them. I do not get the whole wifi/data/mobile roaming thing AT ALL. But I... Continue Reading →
I've been a little ... vague ... recently. Example: the kids and I arrived home on Saturday to discover I'd left the front door wide open all afternoon. They were so horrified that they regaled my ex with a "we can't believe mum did this" anecdote the next day (he tells me). I am not... Continue Reading →
