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This Week: Heart Health, Anniversary & New Jeans

April 20, 2013 in Anecdotes, Comedy, Fashion, Food & Recipes, Health, Humour, Marriage, Nutrition, Stories, Style, Wedding

This week has been, and will continue to be, a busy one. After pulling on my jeans last Thursday morning only to discover they were ripped right in the crotch (stylish, no?) I began my search for the ‘right’ jeans. I had pretty specific ideas of what I wanted in this pair of jeans. They had to be tight, stretchy enough that I could move comfortably, long enough to scrunch a little at the ankle, dark blue in colour, super skinny and high waisted. Not a long list of requirements at all! It took 3 different shopping trips with the [...]

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New Media Is Not A Battle Of The Sexes

April 15, 2013 in Gender, Society

Recently I’ve had some people make some strange and unexpected comments about blogging and new media. When I mention that I blog and write articles for websites, some people have said things like, but isn’t that something women do? This really took me by surprise. When did blogging become a gender role? Why should blogging even be assigned a gender role in the first place? One of the major themes of feminism is the dismantling of artificial gender roles so that women and men have the freedom to be whatever they want to be. No one should be excluded from a group or profession because [...]

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I Want Your Approval

April 9, 2013 in Dating, Family, Friendship, Lifestyle, People, Relationships, Self

Is there someone in your life you always go to get advice from? Does this person’s opinion matter to you? Has it gotten to the point that their approval of whatever you are doing is required before you do it? I would love to be able to say that I’m not like that. Well actually for the most part I’m not. There isn’t one person that I just need to have their advice on something. I tend to ask a few people and then go from there. And as far as approval goes, I really couldn’t care less. I’ve finally taught [...]

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I’m Not Unpopular. I’m Inpopular!

April 4, 2013 in Friendship, People, Relationships, Self, Society

All my life, I’ve suffered from being inpopular… no, that’s not a typo… I didn’t mean unpopular… I meant inpopular. What is inpopular? Well, think of the difference between being famous or infamous… or the difference between visible or invisible even. Or flammable or inflammable. What is the difference between flammable or inflammable anyway? I seem to have gone off topic for a moment… So, back to inpopular. It’s a word I’ve made up for people like me who are generally well-liked, but never seem to be able to cross the popularity event-horizon. What is the popularity event-horizon? It’s an invisible line in the sand [...]

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Bringing An Agenda To The Table

March 15, 2013 in Anecdotes, Fitness, Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition, People

Recently I wrote an article about My Body, My Choice. I wanted to highlight the differences between personal choices that have little or no effect on the wider community, and those that do. When I was thinking about personal choices that have a cost to the community I knew I had to think of some examples. Smoking was one. Binge drinking was another. But I also wanted to use food as an example as well, in terms of the the healthcare costs directly related to  bad diets and our sedentary lifestyle – diabetes, heart disease, bowel cancer – things like [...]

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This Week: Lingerie Football, and Sponsored Posts

January 18, 2013 in Body Image, Celebrity, Current Affairs, Entertainment, Film & TV, Sport, Technology

Here’s JJ & T with another weekly chat about life, the universe…and well, anything… JJ: So, T – how’s your week been? T: It’s been alright. And yours? JJ: Kind of a “meh” week. Nothing much happened. I had a good rant about male-hair discrimination, but apart from that…nada T: I’ve been busy being a Stepmother. But I’m all riled up today about the Lingerie Football League! JJ: What have they done now? T: Well they’re now changing the name to Legends Football League and getting rid of the Lingerie. JJ: How can they claim to be legends? Legends of what? T: Gridiron. [...]

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May You (Not) Live In Interesting Times

January 17, 2013 in Lifestyle, Mental Health, People

You’ve probably all heard of that expression “May you live in interesting times”. It is purported to be an ancient Chinese curse (though there is no proof of this at all) used ironically to mean that living a peaceful but boring life may be better for you than an interesting one. Well, tell that to someone who likes to blog…because let me tell you, having a boring life is a curse for the would-be blogger. I’ve been suffering from a lot of blog envy at the moment. Everywhere I see heaps of people with lots of things to blog about…their kids, their hobbies, their [...]

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What KiKi & Tea has taught me

December 13, 2012 in Body Image, Health, Mental Health, Meta, People, Self, Sexuality

This year I became involved with KiKi & Tea- a blog that I had been reading for a while. I was asked to write a guest piece on Easter, and soon after was offered the opportunity to be a regular contributor. I was hesitant: would people hate what I wrote? Would my writing be of an acceptable caliber? Would I be a big enough person to not get upset if someone disagreed with a point I’d made? KK&T taught me to think outside the square. I was able to get my Friday gossip fix thanks to Monique. I was always [...]

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Exclusive: An Interview With Mary Mary

December 12, 2012 in Celebrity, Fiction, Gender

In a world exclusive, well known fictional feminist and Neo-Blogger, Mary Mary, agreed to sit down for a chat with KiKi & Tea’s very own John James: JJ: Mary Mary, thanks for sitting down and speaking with me today. Mary: Just Mary. I only use the plural when writing in third-person. JJ: Is that so? It’s unusual for you to speak as yourself isn’t it? Mary: Well, it depends on context. I’m speaking to you today as the person who writes Mary Mary, not the Mary Mary persona. JJ: You write under a pseudonym don’t you. Mary: Yes. JJ: You see, [...]

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Blogging: There Are No Rules

December 5, 2012 in Fiction, Technology

Last weekend I was lucky enough to attend the Conference of Fictional Bloggers at the Area 51 Conference Centre in Atlantis. It was hosted by Dr John Watson, and I saw presentations from many of my favourite fictional bloggers, including everyone’s favourite fictional blogger, Mary Mary. True to form, she delivered a fantastic presentation, and as always, spoke in that strange third-person narrative style that she prefers. (She even mentioned me in her speech!) Here is a transcript of her speech (with thanks to the conference organisers.) Mary Mary is pleased to be here today. She thanks the conference organisers, and [...]

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