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Super Moon Snaps

May 10, 2012 By Janine 10 Comments

Manning the openline switchboard on a mid-dawn radio program we had a theory the more colourful of life's characters used to emerge when the moon full. Could the moon influence behaviour? If so, what would a supermoon do? Did you see the supermoon On  May 5th? When the moon is a bit closer to the earth on its orbit and it coincides with a full … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Photos Tagged With: David Fitzpatrick, Photographs., Port Macquarie, Supermoon

Winning the lottery

May 9, 2012 By Janine 11 Comments

Well the 70 million dollar jackpot went off last night. Three people managed to get almost 25 million dollars each. I'm still clinging to the notion that I could be one of them. One was from New South Wales and my mobile phone isn't charged so the lottery people could have tried to contact me while I ate chocolate, watched Missing and went to bed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Humour, Life Tagged With: Gambling, humour., Lottery

Dinner with George Clooney

May 8, 2012 By Janine 17 Comments

There's dinner at George Clooney's house up for grabs in a fundraising campaign for Obama. I've scrounged under the cushions, in the pockets of the kid's uniforms and through every crevice in the car and I've got $8.50 to put forward. It's got to get me in, George can't possibly have a dinner party without me. I bring so much to the event. I'm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Humour Tagged With: Barack Obama, Fundraising Dinner, George Clooney, humour.

It’s Monday

May 7, 2012 By Janine 5 Comments

Here in Australia our week is beginning with the usual Monday morning chaos. I hope your week ahead is beautiful, organised and fun filled. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Photos Tagged With: David Fitzpatrick, Photographs., Photography, Port Macquarie

I Make S’Mores

May 6, 2012 By Janine 29 Comments

The internet is a wealth of information. I'm sure if you search hard enough you could find the cure for cancer or the solution to third world hunger within its trillions upon trillions of pages of facts, figures and general whinging. In the six months I have spent trawling the internet in my quest for blogging glory I have learnt one thing, how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cooking, Humour, What's for Dinner? Tagged With: Cooking, humour., S'more

Not Sure I’ve Mastered the Self-Help Advice

May 5, 2012 By Janine 6 Comments

If you are going to write a book I reckon self-help is a pretty lucrative sector of the market. While the authors in the literature genre struggle to make a dollar from their beautifully descriptive, emotionally challenging works of fiction the self-help crowd have the mighty dollar flowing in. They have learnt the skill of a multi-pronged approach … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Humour, Life Tagged With: budget, humour., Law of Attraction, Life Experience, Self-help

The Stages of Parenting

May 3, 2012 By Janine 10 Comments

I hear young couples discussing the "best" time to have a baby and I chuckle to myself. Seriously, you are already over-thinking it. You can't plan or prepare for the caper that is parenting. You just need to dive in head first and brave your way through each new crisis as it erupts. Look, I know you've seen those cute babies in the tv commercials … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: Family, Family Living, Parenting

Spectacular World

May 3, 2012 By Janine 2 Comments

Have a calm and happy day. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Photos Tagged With: David Fitzpatrick, Photographs., Photography, Port Macquarie

Cost of living rises a furphy?

May 2, 2012 By Janine 5 Comments

Most days I live in fear of my letterbox. The bills arrive with regular monotony. It seems I've only just got one paid and the next is clamouring for attention. A new study out suggests that perhaps the cost of living isn't really going up we are just living bigger lifestyles. The study by National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Living, Parenting Tagged With: Bills, Cost of Living, Shopping, University of Canberra

Photo A Day

May 1, 2012 By Janine 4 Comments

Because I'm fast developing an addiction to internet challenges I'm going to take part in Fat Mum Slim's Photo a Day challenge. I'm going to post mine on Instagram (@shambolicliving) and Twitter and then a recap here on the blog at the end of May. It will be thrilling for you all to get to enjoy my out-of-focus, lacking in composition, i-phone … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Photos Tagged With: Instagram, photoadaymay, Twitter

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Janine Fitzpatrick is a personal blogger with an untidy house, imperfect children and no celebrity friends.

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WATCHINGI went to see Fiona O'Loughlin last night. She's the comedian who survived alcoholism, a two week coma from not realising, in her drunken state, that the heater in the dive she was living in was leaking carbon monoxide.  Then went on to spend … [Read More...]

Weekend Notes

Watching We headed to the movies this weekend and saw the latest Spike Lee film, BlacKkKlansman. It's the story of the first black cop in the Colorado Springs police force, Ron Stallworth, who in the late 70's managed to infiltrate the Ku Klux … [Read More...]

Sleepless

So I've been awake since 3.00am. In that time I've signed the family up for an organizing app which can run a joint calendar, shared shopping and to-do lists and has downloaded a series of recipes that are supposed to make my "what's for dinner" … [Read More...]

Grey stairs.

The Widow Goes On A Date

The last time I went on a first date Bob Hawke was Prime Minister, Liam Hemsworth was being born, Madonna was singing Vogue on the radio, Macaulay Culkin was being left Home Alone and Kevin Costner was Dancing with Wolves. It was a long time ago … [Read More...]

Father with two daughters.

Another Father’s Day

Hi Simon, How's things going up there? Did you have a beer with your Dad for Father's Dad? We blatantly ignored the day here. Just pretended it wasn't happening. We still think about you every day. I didn't post anything on Facebook because it … [Read More...]

Daisy flowers

Hellooo Again

  Hi, I'm just here unwrapping the dust covers, brushing down the spiderwebs and sweeping up the left-over dreams of my tiny little space on the internet. I know I've been gone almost 12-months. I'm not even sure how that happened. A … [Read More...]

A messy scrapbooking desk

Milestone Moments

Hey Simon, Despite my best intentions to ignore the milestones they keep on happening, with or without you. We celebrated your Mum's 80th birthday back in August. A rushed trip of some 1,850 kilometres all up with just four days to do the 9 hour … [Read More...]

Weekend Notes

What have you been up to this weekend? Watching  We caught Home Again in the cinema. It's the latest Reese Witherspoon film.  It's a fun little comedy. Reese plays Alice a just-turned 40 divorcing mum of two. At her birthday drinks she … [Read More...]

Picture of a beach.

Weekend Notes

  As the weekend draws to a close here's a little of what caught my eye in the last 48 hours. Watching Saw Battle of the Sexes the new Emma Stone movie about the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. Oh what a time … [Read More...]

A Bag of chips, wine, chocolate, lemonade and magazine. A parody of a bug out bag for the apocalypse.

Could You Survive The Apocalypse?

South Koreans are buying "survival bags" and turning to YouTube for tips on making it through a nuclear blast. The New York Times is writing articles on How To Survive The Apocalypse and the doomsday preppers are starting to look like the smart ones. … [Read More...]

chocolate and wine

Home Alone: The Empty Nest

The empty nest looms in my near future. One more year before the youngest heads out into the world without my micromanaging her every move. I can feel the rotor blades on my helicopter starting to slow.   I heard a whisper of what may … [Read More...]

Weekend Notes

It's a long weekend here in Australia.  So it's been a lazy time. Perfect for some catch-up TV, movies and reading.   Watching I've been enjoying Doctor Doctor it was shot in my old hometown of Mudgee and gosh it's looking … [Read More...]

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Grey stairs.
Father with two daughters.

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