Life, Love and the Everyday

LIFE: For the past few years, my New Years Resolutions have always been the same: 1. Study my Childcare Diploma 2. Graduate from Childcare Diploma 3. Get my driver's license 4. Lose weight. Those were going to be on the agenda for 2015 too - until I realised I was constantly worried about it all and becoming discouraged. Last year I worried about the money to achieve my driving and losing weight goals. I seemed to be having more luck with the weight loss back then so I decided that something had to give - so I chose the gym and am slowly losing weight and learning to make healthy food choices. (Sometimes the hard way!) Last year I worried about those goals and going all what I like to call 'Baby Crazy'. So this year I'm practicing hands off. No worrying about the future and focusing on the here and now. No worrying about studying until I get a steady job to pay tuition, no worrying about driving lessons either. My intentions for this year is to concentrat...

LIFE: Twenty-Five years is a pretty long time to be alive. It means that you have been alive long enough to mind your manners, learn responsibility, to fall in and out of love a couple of times before finding The One.  It is also enough time to have a few pieces of wisdom from the mistakes of youth and pass them on.  I suppose now is a good time as any. 1. Love With any kind of relationship. If you give a lot of yourself don't expect less in return. 2. Yo-Yo's and Candy Yo-Yo's are people who swing to and fro, unable to make up their mind about what they want and may unintentionally take you for granted. They taste sweet but leave a sour aftertaste in your mouth and leave you feeling like you have been on a rollercoaster. If possible, distance is a good idea. 3. Don't Mistake Lust for Love A common mistake. The intense feelings and needing that physical connection are the same; but where the similarities end is this pure fact: Love is sel...

Melbourne is like a hard-working Mother. She wakes up early at six in the morning and is asleep at nine'0clock. It took me and A. four days to get used to day-light savings and on our last morning, we were up at seven'0clock and that was as close to a sleep-in as we could get! In Melbourne, 8:00am is the new 9:00am and that is when most stores open; perfectly handy if you want to do a little shopping before work! A. and I arrived in Melbourne at 11:40pm on the twenty-fourth of December and were tucked up in bed at his Aunt and Uncle's place at 12:30am. "We have to be up early." A. warned me before we fell asleep. "Early" turned out to be six-thirty, which isn't so bad - that's when A's alarm went off. "Time to wake up!" A. said as he shook me awake. We left Sunbury train station at 7:00am, arrived at Southern Cross around seven-thirty. Stepping into an elevator a familiar smell filled my nostrils, an unwelcome one! ...

Life Today I had a terrible epiphany that is really so shameful I will definitely regret saying it at all! I think my writers block is the equivalent of Erectile Dysfunction! I have all kinds of stories in my head and for some reason unknown to me, I am sitting at half-mast and cannot perform! I start writing something that I reckon will be fun and then...well, all of my fictional heroes and heroines are disappointed while I am frantically scrambling to revive the excitement and anticipation for their tales. This is one thing that frustrates me about being a writer - lots of good story lines sitting on my desktop but they come to an abrupt pause mid-sentence. I want to write something so sensational that people will still be talking about years from now, the kind of book they will keep in a special place on their book shelves and read it once or twice a year, or whenever the mood strikes them. Something they will always remember an...

With one manuscript finished and in the middle of revision, I can't seem to get excited about writing anything. (Except maybe my blog.) Due to shifting furniture around my little two-bedroom unit, my desk is submerged in everything you can think of except stationary and that is a potential reason why my inspiration is ebbing. But the first and foremost reason could be because when nothing is happening, nothing gets written. This morning I went to the gym for an hour and when I got home I started to tackle the task of laundry. Between laundry and the Sex & The City marathon I had today, I gave myself a make-over in an attempt to make myself somewhat presentable to meet A's boss and co-workers tonight at the Morrison Hotel. Yes, very house-wifey of me, I know. On the days I am not working (which is most days) my uniform is "grandma shoes" and an airy dress. But today I wanted to do something spontaneous for a change. As much as I love being a glorified house-spo...

LIFE: My no-sugar challenge was too good to be true! Four days running I had a bizarre amount of energy, was less stressed and my skin glowed with health. I also lost two kilos. On the scales last Tuesday I was standing on 93 kilos! The closet I have ever gotten to 90 kilos! This morning I am back to 94.4 kilos. I have a feeling the junk food rampage I have been on the past five days has contributed greatly to this debacle. What brought on this relapse? Other than the fact that going cold turkey on sugar was a stupid idea? I guess I should fill you in on the events over the past few days. Let's rewind back to last Wednesday, it was the Ladies Breakfast Club Christmas Party. The Ladies Breakfast Club is a Bible connect group which meets on the third Wednesday of every month. Our group consists of women from all walks of life. Elderly pensioners, career women, house wives and me. I fall into all those three categories with the exception of "elderly". My Mum and I have...

Life After writing potential best sellers, it is very normal for a certain aspiring writer to simply relax and wait for the next best seller to drop into her brain whilst trying, seemingly in vain to look for publishers who are not greenhorn shy. Other than that, the rest is life. These days life is mostly about family, A, work and learning to use a sewing machine. You might say "Big deal!" but I am fixated on the goal of sewing my own wedding dress when the time rolls around, so I have to get in lots of practice! Love A. and I are going absolutely, spiffing, awesomely fantastic and needless to say, I am a very happy lady! & The Everyday... Stifled by the clutter of A.'s and my humble dwelling, I walked to one of my local libraries in hope that a window of inspiration would open. And it certainly did, I just didn't know it at the time. I walked past "I Quit Sugar For Life" by Sarah Wilson once or twice before picking it up and reading the b...