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 who would play them in a movie … [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 mulling over what the hell … [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 started when the teacher … [Read more...]
Anatomy of Marriage
Marriage, the whole "till death us do part" thing, is a big commitment. What you don't realise in that first flush of pheromones and the heady early days is that you are committing to a whole lot more than you first thought. You are agreeing to love - even when the spouse is being an idiot. You are agreeing to honour - even when you know … [Read more...]
The One Where I Try To Exercise
After the great shopping disaster where I was unable to find a suitable outfit for "my body shape" I decided with just four months of my Project 44 challenge left I probably should tackle the one goal I hadn't even attempted yet. The losing weight one. The treadmill was unearthed from the garage when I first announced this goal, and has sat … [Read more...]
Working Life
As usual my disorganised approach to life has come back to bite me in the bum. HUGE day yesterday with a 7.45am meeting with the Principal of the High School where Princess Child will be going next year. The child is a little anxious about the idea of going to high school so I reassure her with the usual platitudes of how great it will be to meet … [Read more...]
Winning the lottery
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...]
Dinner with George Clooney
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...]
I Make S’Mores
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...]
Not Sure I’ve Mastered the Self-Help Advice
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...]
