Husbandable

Posted: January 18, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: LOVE, MARRIAGE, Single, Thought For the Day | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

HUSBANDABLE – capable of being economically used or fit for cultivation

– Shorter Oxford Dictionary

This year I can’t wait to find the next man I’m going to break up with. Hopefully he won’t call me a ball busting bitch  in Bunnings on a Saturday afternoon like the last one did as we stood in the 468 pieces of metal crap aisle, with every DIY lover watching our show. And hopefully he’ll have all his own teeth and a dead mother. Or at least a blind, deaf, mute mother who lives in Uzbekhistan. I live in hope…

Happy Birthday to ya

Posted: January 15, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Birthdays, Self improvement, Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Martin 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.

 

 


Trust me on the sunscreen

Posted: January 10, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: AUSTRALIA, Self improvement, Thought For the Day | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

Advice 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

I love my job, I must be strange

Posted: January 9, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: AUSTRALIA, Clown Doctors, Self improvement | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

http://media.smh.com.au/system/ipad/clown-doctors-2828960.html

Ingrid Poulson

Posted: January 2, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: MARRIAGE, Parenting, Self improvement, Thought For the Day | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

This 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.

 

New Year’s resolutions

Posted: December 30, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Parenting, Raising Hell, Self improvement, SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

Parents 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.

Happy Christmas

Posted: December 25, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

This is my favourite Christmas song ever. I have Irish blood, so I love the Pogues.

“I built my dreams around you…”

I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus

Posted: December 24, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

I hope Santa is hot when he comes down my chimney this year. It’s a long shot, but worth wishing for. Merry Christmas. Ho, Ho, Ho

Christmas with Dean Martin

Posted: December 23, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

I’m dreaming of a sunny summer, but I love this song

I am an animal

Posted: December 21, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

A party animal?

I am a sucker for dogs, apes and seals. Actually anything cute, furry and cuddly with a sense of humour. Including Animal from the Muppets but not including my hairy ex boyfriend. Ma na ma na. I try not to discriminate, I do have a beauteous blue tongue lizard in my garden who warms my heart while she is warming her lizardy skin in the midday sun. And Frozen Planet…sigh. When I was a kid I wanted to be Doctor Dolittle, but my best friend got there first, he now works at Taronga Zoo and I now work with children, not animals.

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