Words you will never hear from a narcissist

Posted: May 30, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: MARRIAGE, Theme Songs | Tags: , | Leave a comment

May 29 birthdays

Posted: May 29, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Birthdays, SONGS | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

JOHN F. KENNEDY and MELISSA ETHERIDGE

Somebody bring me some water….


Love or lust?

Posted: May 28, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: LOVE, MARRIAGE | Tags: , , , , , , | 1 Comment

My current single mother desperado ‘he will sweep me away and pay for my children to have a good life’ crush is the French newsreader Laurent Delahousse. Laurent has a Harry Handsome tan and the same hair my big brother had in 1977, the flicky, fluffy male equivalent of Farrah Fawcett’s big do in the original Charlie’s Angels. I watch him on SBS in the mornings. My schoolgirl French is way too slow to understand every word he is saying but he is so good looking (in a Zoolander way) that I can’t help it. I love him and I want him bad. Who said French men were well dressed but not so hot? Laurent’s hair is magnificent, it looks like a wig. J’aime Laurent, vous êtes très joli.

Je T'aime Laurent

Hubba hubba

EXERCISE versus VAJAZZLING

Posted: May 27, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: exercise, Single | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

So I had a free pass for two weeks’ worth of yoga with one of the best yoga teachers in the country if not the world, it was a beautiful day, I was child free and I could walk to the yoga school in 15 minutes. Did I worship at the temple that is my body? No, I stayed home and read about vajazzling on the internet. Yes, jewels for vaginas. These women have WAY too much time on their hands. Or way too much vagina on their hands.

Apparently the trend exploded in the US when Jennifer Love Hewitt announced that she Vajazzles regularly to feel good about her private parts. I work in hospitals with sick and dying children. Please don’t tell me Jennifer Love Hewitt that you have time to vajazzle. Tell me you help injured puppies, or look after your elderly neighbour. JLH you are a moron.

I must explain that I am a self-employed, over-committed single mother of three children with no desire to even talk to a man. I don’t care at this point if I ever have sex again. So maybe vajazzling would have wet my whistle (as it were) when I was an over-sexed single, childless commitment-phobe 20 something. But somehow I don’t think so.

Ladies, please. Can we stop getting distracted by stupid so-called beauty treatments and get out and do some good in the world instead? In Joplin, USA, Christchurch, New Zealand and Sendai, Japan there are people who could really use our help. Please?

Today’s quote

Posted: May 26, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Thought For the Day | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

A woman’s sword is her tongue and she does not let it rust – old French saying

May 25 – Vale Jack Pollard – A tribute to my dad

Posted: May 25, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Parents | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

My dad died nine years ago today. He lived life large. He was funny, rude, opinionated and drove me crazy. He sat me down when I was 11 and made me read Hemingway, Steinbeck and all the authors he loved. I ran with the bulls in Pamplona aged 19 because of him. Jack Pollard was a journalist, author and workaholic. He simply loved to write. He wrote or edited around 110 books, and that doesn’t include the thousands of articles he wrote over his long career. Thank you Jack Pollard for being my Dad. He taught me that if you can spend your life being paid to do what you love then your life can be lived well. This quote reminds me of him:

To change one’s life:  Start immediately.  Do it flamboyantly.  No exceptions.  ~William James

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Pollard

Teenagers

Posted: May 23, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: LOVE, Parenting, Raising Hell, SONGS | Tags: , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Teenagers are like Queensland, beautiful one day, a nightmare the next.

On Saturday my 14 year daughter glanced down at her floor-drobe. She had nothing to wear but clothes that were fashionable at breakfast time. All this while I turn into an aging cougar. Except that I am the anti-cougar, the tracksuit pants wearing tragedy in tired trainers, wishing I had some energy left over from mothering and working to desire a makeover.

This week teenage beast cleaned up her floor-drobe and turned into an interior design fascist. She wants me to be the queen of minimalism on a single mother budget. If her sisters place so much as a Barbie on the floor she screams.

She is also a control freak about the music we listen to at home. I mention the Bee Gees and she looked blank. I said,

“Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth there were three brothers who wore tight white pants and hair-drier-fluffy-wind-blown hair singing falsetto disco hits.”

“Shit mum, they sound Palaeolithic.” There is no one more hip than a teenager and no one who has ever suffered more.

So I dedicate this song to her. Whether you’re a mother or whether you’re a brother…..

Thought for the day

Posted: May 21, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: FOOD | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Is microwaving organic vegetables a cardinal sin against the macro neurotic Gods?

May 20 birthdays

Posted: May 20, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Birthdays, SONGS | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

Today’s birthday couple is Cher and Joe Cocker

Potty mouth

Posted: May 20, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Parenting | Tags: , , | 2 Comments

I went to an expensive all girls private school where they obsessed over what we wore and how we spoke every day. So I swear way too much. When people meet my kids, especially my youngest, most think,

“What an adorable child.” It is usually at this point she bursts into song:

“Stick your head down the loo, don’t taste it, don’t waste it, it might be a poo.”

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