Dear Simon I'm suffering from performance anxiety. I've been feeling the pressure to write something FUNNY ever since I published Then The Dance Was Over about our wedding anniversary and made all my readers cry. By the way, thanks for remembering our anniversary by destroying the dishwasher. I think you are starting to run out of electrical … [Read more...]
So There’s A Right Way To Do This?
I managed to catch a bit of Offspring last night. I know it's a national crime but I've never watched the show. It appears Nina, who lost her husband at the end of the last season, is more advanced in her grieving process than I am. I tuned in just as she was having mad, passionate sex with some tall, dark handsome guy on her kitchen table. My … [Read more...]
Then The Dance Was Over
We spent some twenty-six years with our lives entwined. We were friends, a couple, formally husband and wife, then (god help us) parents. Twenty to Forty-Six it's a big chunk of time spent in each others company. We were always a mismatched pair, big picture girl, detail orientated bloke. I liked things to happen, you hated change. I live in … [Read more...]
Trying to Regain A Normal
Grief is exhausting. It takes a lot of effort to mix with other human beings when you just want to crawl into bed and avoid the world. According to the counsellor and the doctor that is not a healthy approach. They are both suggesting, god forbid, exercise. Let's not forgot how that turned out last time I tried ... remember the treadmill … [Read more...]
Reading This Week – The Fault In Our Stars – John Green
Despite our current circumstances, Princess Child and I have both just read The Fault in Our Stars, 'cause it's important to ALWAYS keep up with popular culture. This Young Adult Fiction novel tells a humourous, heartbreaking story of first love. The emotions intensified by the omnipresent fear of death as the two protagonists live with … [Read more...]
Living With Teens – The Rules
Once the teenager obtains her licence you will be required to submit booking requests to drive your OWN CAR. Having a licence for six days makes her an expert and enables her to give YOU DRIVING ADVICE. Dragging teenagers out of the bedrooms they have inhabited for days on end into the sunlight of an outdoor experience is a CRIMMINAL … [Read more...]
June Achievements
Learned how to make a fire. Managed to do a few days at ABC radio and produced some good shows. Blogged every day. Garage sorted. Used a chainsaw and didn't lose a limb. Paperwork all submitted for life insurance and superannuation. Got out of bed almost every day. You've got to celebrate the small wins. What did you achieve last … [Read more...]
30 Days Done and Dusted
Yippee. Doing a happy dance. I've posted every day for thirty days. Clearly not some of best work (although there were moments where there a sign of the old me in there), and I seem to have developed an obsession with all things death related (sorry, but I don't think I'm done with that topic yet). I've realised writing at night (which started … [Read more...]
Happy Birthday
Been clubbing. Well I did birthday lunch at the Golf Club for my Mum who turns 75 today (oops if I wasn't supposed to mention the age). Thank you Mum for everything. Especially the really difficult things you had to do with and for me recently. Hoping to replace the photo tomorrow when the photographer of the family finally gets around to … [Read more...]
Thank You To A Stranger
On the day Simon died somebody had seen him fishing and a little while later noticed his gear was still on the rocks but he wasn't. That was the person who called in the rescue guys. There is no doubt in my mind that the reason his body was recovered was because of that person's vigilance and action. At the time the girls and I met with the … [Read more...]
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