10 Single Mother Truths
Posted: October 26, 2013 Filed under: Single Motherhood | Tags: budget parenting, cheapskate parenting, it's all for love, love, making ends meet, penny pinching, S-S-S-Single Bed Noosha Fox Film Clip Countdown Australia, single mother partying, single mother sanity, single mother truths, Single mothers, stretching parenting to fit the number of children you have, tips for single mothers, tired doesn't begin to describe it Leave a comment1. You hear the words ‘insufficient funds’ on a daily basis and it doesn’t freak you out; and the words ‘transaction approved’ make you jump for joy
2. The word you use most when talking to your girlfriends is ‘overwhelmed’
3. Parenting is all about selling options to your child. Single parenting is begging for the sale for your sanity
4. After wondering why your shopping seems a bit cheaper than usual, your day is made when you get home and discover the checkout person hasn’t swiped five of your most expensive grocery items
5. You lie awake at 3am wondering if you should go back to the shop so you don’t get charged with shoplifting. The thought that your children only have one parent weighs heavily on your mind
6. If your children go to their father’s every second weekend, your house is clean 26 times per year
7. Your children develop a sudden fondness for whichever fruit costs $28 per kilo (because it has to be airlifted from Belize) and be invited to four different children’s dress up parties around the time that your hours at work get cut back
8. Disneyland Dad suddenly has money for fancy restaurants with his new girlfriend while you struggle to find ‘imaginative’ recipes in the ‘700 Ways With Baked Beans cook book for dinner every night
9. The words tax refund cause you the same excitement as the words ‘Saturday night and it’s time to partay, get your disco boots on’ did a few short years ago
10. You have to be physically restrained from strangling your 20 something male stoner neighbour when he tells you he’s exhausted because he woke up early to get a surf in before he took his girlfriend out for a late brunch
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One Hit Wonders Part Two
Posted: October 22, 2013 Filed under: ART, SONGS | Tags: 80s disco, favourite songs, hit songs, one hit wonders, Player - Baby Come Back, radio friendly 70s songs, S-S-S-Single Bed Noosha Fox Film Clip Countdown Australia, sexy songs, the golden age of disco music, tragic 70s and 80s music Leave a commentI forgot so much fabulous music in my original post I could’t live with myself if I didn’t highlight other neglected 70s classics like Pussyfoot’s 1976 hit The Way That You Do It, Noosha Fox’s S-S-S-Single Bed and Lene Lovich’s Lucky Number. Or what about Patrick Hernandez’ Born To Be Alive or Player’s Baby Come Back from the golden age of smooth disco? My current favourite is Divine’s 80s hit You Think You’re A Man? My list of wonder hits is so very, very long if I read it out loud the accompanying soundtrack would be the Bee Gees’ song Tragedy (except they were no one hit wonders). What are your favourite 70s and 80s tragic tunes? Or 50s, 60s, 90s or current one hit wonders?
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