Since I was little I wanted to be a marine biologist. My parents would hate taking me on holidays because I'd spend my afternoons collecting rubbish from the beach and trying to save long gone sea birds. As I got older, the reality of actually becoming a marine biologist set in. Job prospects were minimal, … Continue reading My Biggest Fear – well number 2.
When you travel solo a number of things happen to you. The first three or four hours is tough. You sit in your room and try and build the strength and the facade that will appear when you walk outside the doors hoping and wishing other people think you know what you are doing. You … Continue reading Lulu’s and eating alone
My baby brother got married on the weekend. He has been with his girlfriend for over ten years. They were high school sweethearts. They bought a house and a dog and then ten years later decided to get married. While that is a fairly regular story in our family, it's not my story. Out of … Continue reading When’s it your turn?
The decisions we make are not necessarily the ones we would make again. If I'd done things differently in the beginning, would my life be different now? If I'd made the choice to stay home, to not move, to not study, to work somewhere else, to be a marine biologist - would my life be … Continue reading The decisions we make…
I did something I swore I would never do this week. And I did it twice. I wrote a face book status update that proclaimed my faux pas so there is no excuse that I didn't realise I was doing it, or that they just sort of slipped. I wore my gym tights outside the … Continue reading Tights are not PANTS!
There are very few days in our life when we struggle to think how it could have went better. My theory is that if we take instances of our day and isolate them, we should be able to have more of those incidents more often. I need to learn to let things go, live with … Continue reading The Lucky Ones
You know those days when your life just seems to be on repeat? We hit those moments again and again and each time we have to find the motivation to push through. For me, it's about finding the extrinsic motivation. Will it be a half hour of TV, will it be a coffee out, will … Continue reading Repeat
Last night I had the honour and privilege of taking seven beautiful young ladies to something called a 'Princess Party.' The PP was a gathering of young women who were encouraged to share their dreams and chase them wherever they went. We wrote our dreams on balloons and then let them go together out into … Continue reading Meeting a Prince
The words of mortal enemies. It's hard to imagine that ever hearing those words turns into something terrible. But it does, and it has and I am almost certain that it will continue to. I have this uncanny ability to make friends. It's not a super power and up until recently, I didn't even consider … Continue reading You’re my Best Friend
You can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes, you'll get what you need! Or so it is said by the immortal rock gods themselves. I've come to this statement in my thirtieth year and I don't think it was a moment too soon. You see I want a lot of things. … Continue reading What you want and what you need – are they the same thing?
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