Will you be my friend?

Making friends as a grown up is hard.  When you meet a friend when you're five, I'm pretty sure you just say hello and then ask them if they want to be your friend is normally all it takes...  Or you share your dump truck, hand over your tea cup or share your vegemite sandwich … Continue reading Will you be my friend?

Folding Socks

I thought I was done.  I thought I was all over it.  I haven't thought about it/him or anything else to do with it/him in weeks.  Months even.  I even said his name in passing last week and didn't think more than anything normal about it.  And then it happened.  Facebook killed my mojo.  Photos … Continue reading Folding Socks

I will…

So apparently it's quite clear which list is mine.  Even my mum picked it.  My workmates struggled but even my mum knows my 'I will' list.  I will... They are just words and mean absolutley nothing until we are strong enough to put them into action.  Sitting at the pub early on a Saturday evening, … Continue reading I will…

The Young Ones

While I am old enough to know that there was a British Comedy of the same name it is not them that I refer to.  In my adult life, it seems I have a thing for younger flesh.  Now while that sounds perverse, cougarish and even down right inappropriate I can't seem to stop it … Continue reading The Young Ones

Just a Little bit Skinnier

The title of my blog gives away the fact that I am not a skinny girl.  With just a little investigation and maybe a question or two, it's not hard to come to the realisation that I was never a skinny girl.  After 32 years, almost 33, of living as not a skinny person, I … Continue reading Just a Little bit Skinnier

A Night at the Opera

There once was a boy.  All of my stories seem to start like that but while this story starts like that, it's not really like that.  He is a boy.  Actually this one is a grown man.  Has a grown up job, grown up interests and doesn't seem to have any problems telling me his … Continue reading A Night at the Opera

Weird Shit

In this amazing city of ours it is September.  In Brisbane in September the jacranda trees are flowering, the sun begins to shine and Brisbane Festival takes over every available performance space in the city. For the last few years my Brisbane Festival experience is normally confined to the Spiegeltent.  A strange vaudeville show mixed … Continue reading Weird Shit

The Bachelor

"I think he could be my husband?"  There is something awkwardly unreal about watching hot women be rejected by hot men.  The BachelorAU is about to start and while everything about it screams - go on, poke your own eyeballs out! - I can't help but be secretly excited about the hot blonde who appears … Continue reading The Bachelor

Ripped Off

What I am about to share with you is something I don't normally share with anyone.  I am a hairy woman.  There.  I've said it out loud.  I am a hairy woman.  I have more chin hairs than an old greek woman and her donkey combined and I've been known to swear at my mum … Continue reading Ripped Off

Speed Dating – The ding of a text

I thought it was over. By far one of the most excruciating beginnings to a night out and almost a week later, I thought the I could tuck it in a drawer and chalk it up to experience. Sitting on the couch last night the innocuous message tone on my iPhone chimes. Normally a reason … Continue reading Speed Dating – The ding of a text