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My Top 5 Board Games

May 14, 2013 in Entertainment, Lifestyle, Technology

For many years the phrase “board games” has immediately reverted me back to childhood with memories of Monopoly-fuelled rage and overturned games of Connect 4. The inevitable realisation that everyone you know is actually a complete twat, and no one ever gives you a break when you’re not as good at games as anyone else. OK, so maybe that was just me. The point is, I hated board games. With the exception of Canasta and Guess Who, I perpetually avoided playing games of any kind as I knew myself well enough to know I was bound to take it personally when [...]

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“Never Say Never” And Other Stupid Sayings

April 22, 2013 in Anecdotes, Celebrity, Entertainment, Music, People

I have a friend at work who I love dearly. She’s my work BFF, and our friendship has jumped the work fence and we’ve become friends outside of the workplace. But something this friend of mine does has freaked me out a little: She’s started quoting Justin Bieber. Now the situation isn’t completely horrific, it’s not heaps of different Bieber quotes, it’s just the same thing over and over again. ”Never Say Never.” She applies it to so many things! Me: “N, I don’t see myself getting married again” N: “You know what Justin Bieber says: Never say never!” Me: “I feel like [...]

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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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How Rex Harrison Pulled Me Out of My Identity Crisis

April 3, 2013 in Anecdotes, People, Self, Stories

There is a void between who you are and who you want to be; a gaping hole that threatens to swallow you. Many people might make the leap, they might find a way to bridge that gap, others might always inch too close to the edge but never attempt to make it across. As for me, this is the story of how I fell in. I call it my identity crisis. I left high school with my head held high, gazing across higher education with certainty, I knew who I was and I knew who I was going to be. [...]

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How I Became Somebody That You Used To Know

March 19, 2013 in Anecdotes, Dating, Marriage, Relationships, Self, Stories

We all heard the song. It struck a chord with so many. They knew how it felt to have someone turn their back, to have someone leave. The moment I heard it, I thought of you. I pulled up at his house one Friday night. Walked in using the back door, sat on his bed. We had some movies to watch, and dinner to arrange. What was the plan for the night, what did we want to do. I sat on the edge of the bed as he sat at the computer. The room was dark, as always, musty, and [...]

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Breastfeeding: My Awkward Truth

January 21, 2013 in Body Image, Children, Friendship, Gender, Health, Mental Health, Mothers, Parenting, People, Pregnancy & Birth, Relationships, Self, Sexuality, Society

Breastfeeding is a wonderful and natural thing. I have no time for all those prudes and wowsers out there who think breastfeeding is disgusting and best performed at home, under a blanket, and with the lights out. No! Mums everywhere should be able to set their mammary glands free and feed their babies anywhere, anyplace, anytime. And yet…and yet…there is an awkwardness to breastfeeding that I still continue to struggle with. I’m sure not all men feel this, but I’m also guessing I’m not alone in feeling this. You see, I just never know where to look. A dear friend of mine had a baby [...]

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Give Back This Christmas

December 10, 2012 in Entertainment, Family, Friendship, Lifestyle, Money, People, Relationships, Society

At this time of year we are reminded more than ever that there are so many people out there with very little. No presents under a tree, no family to visit them in nursing homes, people with nowhere to live, people who struggle to make ends meet on a daily basis are surrounded by advertisements of happy families eating, drinking and ‘being merry’ to excess. Every year in November my mailbox starts to fill with letters from various charities asking for financial donations to support their cause over the holiday season. And I feel bad. I do what I can. [...]

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High School: Which Group Were You?

December 4, 2012 in Entertainment, Film & TV, Friendship, People, Relationships, Self

If any teen movie is to be believed, the group you belong to in high school defines everything. There are the popular ones, the nerds, the jocks, the sexually active band geeks… OK, maybe not. But you get the picture. What group you fit into was important, and defined who you could and couldn’t talk to. Or not. Recently I went to a high school reunion of sorts. My high school is closing down and a fair number of my grade turned out to see the final event. It got us talking about groups in school and how we never [...]

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Can You Really Trust Anyone?

November 5, 2012 in Current Affairs, News, People, Relationships, Society

The other weekend, I didn’t sleep well. Why? Because DG made me watch a documentary about Katherine Knight before we went to bed. The woman who stabbed her partner to death before chopping off his head, skinning him and cooking his flesh. Gross. Why am I telling you this? Because while we’ve been brought up to be afraid of “stranger danger” (with the exception of sitting on a random’s lap for a Santa photo, but that’s a whole other post), statistics show you are more likely to be attacked or murdered by someone you know than a complete stranger. In the past few [...]

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When Conversation Takes a Turn for the Nasty

September 24, 2012 in Health, Lifestyle, People, Pregnancy & Birth, Self, Society

The other day I was having breakfast with my family, celebrating my mother’s safe return home after 10 weeks overseas for work, and the conversation turned to coffee enemas. No, I’m not sure how either, but it did, and unfortunately it was a conversation that just kept getting worse. From there we started talking about drop toilets, back to coffee enemas, over to the time my great grandfather was off to perform a baptism, dressed in all white, as you do, and had to stop at a drop toilet. Unfortunately he lost his footing, or seating, or whatever, and let’s [...]

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