Time To Have A Toast
Posted: February 4, 2012 Filed under: Self improvement, SONGS, Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: A toast to the douchebags, a toast to the jerk offs, Kanye West, Runaway, scumbags, time for us to have a toast, toast for the arseholes Leave a comment
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Hit The Road Jack
Posted: February 3, 2012 Filed under: D.I.V.O.R.C.E, Self improvement, Single, Theme Songs | Tags: Hit The Road Jack, Ray Charles Leave a comment
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Our Big Kitchen
Posted: January 20, 2012 Filed under: AUSTRALIA, FOOD, LOVE, Self improvement, Thought For the Day | Tags: 7.30 report, ABC TV, Our Big Kitchen, Rabbi Dovid and Laya Slavin Leave a commentI love this place, they do such great community work
Our Big Kitchen on the 7.30 report ABC TV
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Happy Birthday to ya
Posted: January 15, 2012 Filed under: Birthdays, Self improvement, Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, MLK Day, Stevie Wonder Leave a commentMartin Luther King Jr Day marks the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Junior. King was the chief spokesman for non violent activism in the civil rights movement.
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
Stevie Wonder says it all in this song.
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Trust me on the sunscreen
Posted: January 10, 2012 Filed under: AUSTRALIA, Self improvement, Thought For the Day | Tags: Advice, Baz Luhrmann, Erica Jong, The Sunscreen Song Leave a commentAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life, 1977
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I love my job, I must be strange
Posted: January 9, 2012 Filed under: AUSTRALIA, Clown Doctors, Self improvement | Tags: Clown Doctors Australia, Dr Quack, Dr Silly Billy, Sydney Morning Herald Leave a commenthttp://media.smh.com.au/system/ipad/clown-doctors-2828960.html
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Ingrid Poulson
Posted: January 2, 2012 Filed under: MARRIAGE, Parenting, Self improvement, Thought For the Day | Tags: "Rise" book, AVO, domestic violence, Ingrid Poulson, Mama Mia, Mia Freedman, overcoming tragedy, public speakers, resilience, Steadfast Training Leave a commentThis time last year Ingrid Poulson and I were speaking on the same stage. I was asked to speak (about Clown Doctors and using humour to relieve stress) at ‘Radiance’ as part of the Woodford Folk Festival in December 2010-January 2011. She spoke after me and told her story. Part of me didn’t want to hear her as I still can’t get my head around what she has been through and survived. But as she spoke I realised she was an incredible woman and the lessons she learnt needed to be shared. Ingrid Poulson wants the parents of Australia to cherish their children. “Hold your babies tight. Love them just a little more. They deserve it,” she was quoted as saying after her children died.
Later I realised that her tent was next to mine in the camping area and I met her. I’d been having an argument with my teenager but my angry mood dissolved after about a minute in her presence. She is a radiant, amazing human being (she must have been just pregnant at the time). She now has a baby boy with her new husband. Ingrid Poulson is living proof that we can learn resilience and recover from even the most horrific life events. I find her strength inspiring.
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New Year’s resolutions
Posted: December 30, 2011 Filed under: Parenting, Raising Hell, Self improvement, SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: Good Girls Gonna Go Bad, Happy New Year, New Year's resolutions, parenting, Tammy Wynette Leave a commentParents don’t really need to make resolutions, we’ve already given up everything, our sanity, our sleep and secure employment. But I have decided to make a few resolutions for 2012:
1. I will give up late night drunk dialling and adding provocative comments on the Facebook pages of spunky men in the New Year. I don’t think it’s helping my dating prospects.
2. I will eat green vegetables and chocolate will not be the only food group I consume when my kids aren’t with me.
3. I will wean myself off reading star sign/astrological forecasting/personal analysis websites (mostly).
4. I will exercise daily (including chocolate eating competitions)
5. I will become a sophisticated urban professional, find a nanny for my children and secure a high-powered executive position. Will work 15-hour days armed with lots of gadgets to make me look successful and I will act terribly important while nanny feeds and clothes my babies. Nanny will rescue me from the quagmire of my life. Damn, why can’t I invent something simple in my kitchen that makes me a million bucks?
6. I will abandon all resolutions by 6th January and carry on with my usual debauchery.
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My favourite Muppet
Posted: November 21, 2011 Filed under: Self improvement, Theme Songs | Tags: Cookie Monster, favourite muppet, JIM HENSON, Sesame Street, sometimes food, The Muppets Leave a commentI grew up with Sesame Street and Cookie Monster is my all time favourite. I live by Cookie’s motto: Me so full but me can always eat one more. How can cookies be just a sometimes food? C is for Cookie, that’s good enough for me.
Who is your favourite Muppet?
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School formals – Everybody Run
Posted: November 18, 2011 Filed under: Raising Hell, Self improvement, Theme Songs | Tags: end of school parties, HomeComing Queen's Got A Gun, Julie Brown, school formals Leave a commentThis is a song for all the Sydney school kids who were ripped off by the guy who said he’d organise their end of school parties, then took their money and ran. Hope the school kids catch up with you creep.
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