I wonder what a genius thinks about each day? You know those random thoughts that zip in and out of our minds as we go about our daily lives. The self-talk, the wondering, the planning, the general whimsical thinking that makes up a daily conversation with yourself. I suspect a genius doesn’t waste time considering… Read more »
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Monday Morning Photo – Dive Bombing
Photo by David Fitzpatrick Hello new week. What are your plans for the week ahead? Are you watching the Olympics? This weekend we celebrated Princess Child getting Player of the Match for her soccer game. Yayy. I managed to see a fair bit of the opening ceremony of the Olympics, for once the Aussie… Read more »
Weekly Photo Challenge – Purple
This week’s challenge is to take a shot of my favourite colour – purple. Unfortunately we have very few photos containing purple. My brother has absolutely no photos of anything purple, so we have had to resort to a photo of mine. Unlike my self-taught brother I have taken two short courses in photography…. Read more »
Who Would Play You In a Movie?
Ever played that game of trying to work out who would star in a movie of your life? Leaving aside the incongruity of anyone finding my life interesting enough to make a movie about it. Honestly, it would be fascinating watching a middle-aged woman arguing with her children, becoming hysterical over piles of laundry and… Read more »
What Has Happened to the TV?
Is it just me or has TV gone to hell? There was a time when my frustration level with television revolved around the fact all the good shows were screening at the one time I couldn’t manage to tape them all. Now I struggle to find even one decent show a night to watch. Of… Read more »
Five Things I Should Have Learnt By Now
Over at Life in A Pink Fibro Alison Tait wrote a post, 10 Things I Learnt Last Week, then Alana at House Goes Home picked up the concept and ran with it to create 8 Things I didn’t Learn Last Week. Now in a shameless rip-off due to limited time and little creativity I’m going… Read more »
Monday Morning Photo – Let there be Light
Photo by David Fitzpatrick Well another weekend gone by and back to work Monday has arrived. A lot of this weekend was devoted to soccer games. Sheltering under a small plastic beach mat as the wind and rain blew in my face I wondered aloud why we felt it necessary for BOTH parents to attend… Read more »
Bernard Salt Kills Generation X and He’s Wrong
Yesterday, it came as a shock to discover I no longer existed. In one fell swoop of a demographer’s pen not just me, but my entire generation were written out of the statistics. According to KPMG Partner, Bernard Salt “Generation X are not what they pretend to be: an independent life form with generationally distinct… Read more »
Letter to Marissa Mayer
Dear Marissa, Congratulations on your new job as CEO of Yahoo. I know it was a real coup securing the job when you were six months pregnant and it is fantastic that Yahoo were willing to see past the baby bump and value the talent and skill of the woman. I want to jump… Read more »
Normality, What Is It? Where Do You Get It?
What’s normal? I’m pondering the big questions this morning. It’s because Hippie Child’s art teacher finds her family “different”. I asked what had given her the idea we were different, and the child replied, “the stories I tell”, “what stories do you tell?”, “just like the ones you tell on THE BLOG”. Touche. It probably… Read more »
Janine Fitzpatrick is a personal blogger with an untidy house, imperfect children and no celebrity friends.
