Author: Anna

Everyone wants new things. Sometimes it's a pair of shoes - actually most of the time it's a pair of shoes but sometimes we deviate from novo and want something else instead. New bags, new glad rags and sometimes we want something new that we can't buy in a store and then that's when we … Continue reading New Things

Yes, I am a tight arse. I don't like to spend money on things that I can get half price somewhere else. So sitting around the dining room table of a friend's friend who happens to be my hairdresser, I pick up a copy of 'Shop till You Drop' that she has conveniently left lying … Continue reading Mad, mad, mad!

Lunatic asylums. Sometimes I think I should be in one. Apparently it's ok to spend quality self time but the fact of the matter is I have spent an entire day and the only two people I have spoken to are my mother to ask her if I need to take the elastic strapping off … Continue reading mass ravings and lunatic asylums

I want new shoes. I always want new shoes. I worry that I judge people too early based on their want or need for shoes. It's the second thing that I look at. After your face it's where my eyes are naturally diverted next. I like shoes and I think they say more about you … Continue reading New Shoes

So I am supposed to be working... concentrating on doing something productive... focusing on paid employment and getting results. But I can't. I can't focus, I can't concentrate and I can't read the reports I am supposed to be checking. All I can do is keep checking Facebook. I need to snap out of it. … Continue reading Knights in shining armour

The Grand Gesture is quite obviously something true in fairy tales or worse the romantic comedy. We spend so much of our young life and adolescence believing in fairytales that when we get to our late 20s and 30s we are mortified by the fact that fairytales are not real. In fact they are so … Continue reading The Grand Gesture

There are thousands of euphemisms for sex and without heading into gross territory, in general society sex is an accepted topic of conversation. As long as it isn't specific or about your parents, but this week I heard a new concept and one that I am scared to admit may be true. This 'bloke' said … Continue reading Long time between drinks

Being at any major event is always a tribulation. The dress, the champagne, the shoes, the champagne, the accessories, the champagne, the table setting and you guessed it, intense champagne consumption. I have had a wedding less than a fortnight ago and have another one in a week and at both the question was the … Continue reading The Singles Table

So I like to shop. Just a bit, but no more than that of a normal mid to late 20s woman with some portion of a disposable income. And while my consumerism is not an all time high, it does tend to get worse if I am under certain stresses or emotional distress.The week a … Continue reading Shopping Trip #549 for 2009