Hate Reading: Do You Do It?

August 14, 2012 in Celebrity, Entertainment, Film & TV, Technology

I was at my friends house. We were having a glass of wine and some cheese. All of a sudden, she perked up, her eyes widened and she said: “ERMAHGAWD, I cannot believe I haven’t shown you this yet, you will die!” She opened up her laptop and typed an address into the browser. It was a blog. A blog created by a girl we knew at uni, for whom we both had a mutual disdain for. As I had deleted this girl from Facebook on the day we graduated, I really hadn’t heard boo about her since then and [...]

Describing Yourself in 5 Words

August 13, 2012 in Dating, Family, Marriage, People, Relationships, Self

Recently, I changed my Twitter bio. I’m quite proud of it and think I’m really funny and self deprecating. It got me thinking about adjectives, and words we would use to describe ourselves, if we were given only 5. I’m a very aware person. I am more aware of my faults than I’d like to be, but I maintain that I will always be aware of my shortcomings and I accept them. They are part of me, the same way that my honesty and strength are a part of me. It’s just who I am. I don’t apologise for who I [...]

You’re Super Busy? I’m Just a Little Bit Lazy

August 10, 2012 in Books, Entertainment, Film & TV, Health, Lifestyle, Mental Health, People, Self, Society, Technology, Work

I am of the view that people these days tend to take great pride in being “incredibly busy“. Working full time, while volunteering at a Save The Children’s Charity, playing on a champion netball team in your otherwise limited spare time, while renovating a house and serving on several charities seems to be the new “in thing“.  If I’m being brutally honest, the idea of committing myself to a whole raft of extra curricular and career pursuits makes me want to crawl into bed with a cup of tea and a book and not come out. When I was at [...]

New Orleans

August 7, 2012 in Anecdotes, Food & Recipes, Lifestyle, Stories, Travel

Today we’re visiting New Orleans. I’ve only got two stops left in my American tales and I have been dragging it out because I don’t want to stop telling my stories! It will be truly over once I finish the last post. New Orleans was not really on my list of “definitely want to visit” places in America. Before going, I would have easily swapped it for San Francisco or Los Angeles or Boston. However, Mr W’s brother, who gave us the excuse to travel to America, was studying at Tulane University in New Orleans on exchange so we had [...]

Facebook or Twitter: Which One Wins?

August 3, 2012 in Friendship, People, Relationships, Society, Technology

While pretending to be an expert on swimming at the Olympics at 5.00am on Sunday morning and live tweeting it, I realised something. I’ve had a Facebook account for 5 years.  This is a long time for me to commit to something. Maybe commit isn’t the right word, but I tend to get bored easily. Twitter, I’ve had for a much shorter period, about 18 months. I also realised that I barely use Facebook at all, and actually spend more time being honest about my life with my friends on Twitter whom I don’t know in real life, and deliberately [...]

Olympics: Swimming And The Media

August 1, 2012 in Current Affairs, Entertainment, Film & TV, Fitness, Health, News, Sport

Whenever the Olympics is on, I become an armchair expert at the swimming. You see, I was a swimmer as a young’un, therefore my expert hat appears every 4 years.  So getting up at 5am and ignoring all my other TV shows for a week becomes standard fare in my household. I have to say, all my squealing and clapping my hands at the TV (and possibly waking my neighbours downstairs) has not resulted in the plethora of medals the Aussies have been expected to take home. I’ve noticed two things in the media over the last few days in [...]

Secret Single Behaviour: What’s Yours?

July 30, 2012 in Body, Entertainment, Face, Film & TV, Home, Lifestyle, Nails, People, Self, Style

Most women who watched the cult hit women’s show Sex And The City will remember the episode where the 4 women identify their secret single behaviour, aka the types of things they get up to when home alone and they’d never do in front of their significant other.  Remember how Miranda covers her hands and feet in Vaseline to soften them,  puts socks on and watches infomercials?  It’s a term I have used ever since watching that episode, and whenever I hear the term “secret single behaviour”, my excitement levels rise slightly because it’s one of my favourite things to do. [...]

I Don’t Really Care About Photoshop

July 25, 2012 in Body Image, Celebrity, Entertainment, Fashion, Photography, Technology

Once upon a time, I loved reading magazines. OK, it was not that long ago, maybe 6 months ago. I had to stop buying them because I needed to save every single cent I had for my trip to America. I was very upset by this as reading a magazine with a row (ok, maybe 2) of dairy milk in hand and ignoring everything and everyone around me was one of my favourite past-times. To clarify: I rarely purchased the weekly rags, just Madison, Shop Til You Drop, Marie Claire and Good Reading (I still get this one). Oh, and [...]

Mummy Wars: It’s Got To Stop

July 23, 2012 in Children, Current Affairs, Entertainment, Film & TV, Lifestyle, Mothers, News, Parenting, People, Pregnancy & Birth, Society, Technology

Mums, here’s looking at you. I’m leaving the Dads out of this because the number of men I see attacking other people online about their choices about work and children is extremely minute.  Quite frankly, if that sounds sexist then I dare you to go and look at any women’s website where the debate (read: attack) is raging about staying at home with your children versus working. This has got to stop. I can’t go to any women’s website lately without reading an article by a working mother, or a SAHM. Just last night 60 Minutes ran a story on [...]

Imposter Syndrome: My Battle With Negative Self-Talk

July 19, 2012 in Health, Mental Health, People, Self, Work

Lately I’ve had the worst time of my life. OK, not really. Nothing that has happened for me in my life thus far has been worse than when my father died in 2005. But I’ve had a pretty bad time. No, I haven’t been sacked. No, no-one has died. I project the image that I have supreme confidence, that I am a genius with an IQ of around 1000 and that I’m probably the best solicitor you’ve ever met. I have a double window from my office that is the size of a mansion, didn’t you know? This is a [...]