I am sitting in my home, which is quiet and clean because my children are at their Nan's, and I am indulging in a little bit of that fabled "me time". Some women will exercise their way through their "me time", but I don't know those ladies. Some will pamper themselves by paying a pittance to young asian women to sand back and paint their enormous western feet, while they sit atop a back massaging throne reading old mags and nagging their husbands via text message. I would be...
Don't freak out, this is not a veiled "Invasion Day" post in which I'm going to try to make you feel guilty about anything. That said though, I do believe we should ditch Australia Day, (hear me out!!!) Instead we should have a long weekend every January called "Flag Fest" during which everyone is encouraged to display the flag in creative ways, or at least in bulk, to argue about the Hottest 100 and get a tattoo they don't understand. Why over-complicate it?
I'm quite serious....
My husband, from whom I'm newly separated, is deathly ill with gastro. I've just done another food drop to his flat, which consisted more of fresh linen and anti-bacterial products than food of course, but it required a supermarket stop none-the-less. I had a work commitment this morning, the nanny was late, and I barely slept a wink last night dealing with the ups and downs of children and dogs unaccustomed to a Melbourne heatwave. The youngest, (but biggest) dog and I are just discovering that...
Ch Ch Ch Ch Changes!
Is that enough "Ch"s? Doesn't matter, you know what I mean. There are lots of changes in my life at the mo, and I'm quite determined to make sure at least some of them are good!
I guess the biggest one is that my husband and I have separated after 16 years together. That completely sux as I'm sure you can imagine, but we're both hopeful of a reconciliation. I was chatting to a woman in a similar situation who described her moving out of the house as a "circuit...
Oh hi everyone. Just wondering if anyone has the contact details of one of those agencies where you drop your three-year-old off, and pick it up when it's toilet trained. I just can't seem to find one in my area, and I'm obviously not searching the App store properly either, because nothing there seems to fit.
As it is, I'm reduced to begging my twins to sit on potties on the lounge room floor, while I enact scenes from their favorite books and promise a lolly to anyone who can conjure a...
An update for those playing along at home; I hadn't taken any Effexor at all since last Thursday, I had to have last Friday off work, and today (Monday) I still feel like death warmed up. I feel like electric shocks are pulsing through my body approximately every 15 seconds and when I move my eyes, it feels like they roll around in my head for a few secs before they settle. Makes for interesting times when driving!
It has been brought to my attention by my good friend Saltmarsh, (real...
So I'm down to one third of my original anti depressant dose now and I'm doing a lot better! Still have the odd brain shiver, but nowhere near as bad.
I had such a stressful day yesterday - I was up at 5 to go and co host The Circle, which was fantastic fun as always. I know that seems crazy for a show that starts at 9am, but there's a world of hair, make up, meetings, and script writing to be done before Paul Henry knocks off.
I raced straight down to my car at 11.30 with a fairly...
I am currently on day 3, (I think) of withdrawal from my anti depressants. I'v been taking them for about 5 years now. Effexor mainly. It is killing me, and I'm not even going cold turkey. I'm taking two thirds of the dosage I was on, and it's really killing. I'll tell you what really kills me though; I've seen 4 different doctors across 2 states and described the same hideous symptoms, and each one of them has blinked, blank-faced at me like they've never heard of them before.
I told...
Mine was mixed. I spent the morning goofing around on The Circle, making testicle jokes with Russell Coight, and discussing Demi Moore's exhaustion with the other girls. I jumped into my car at about midday to head home, but before I pulled out of the channel 10 carpark I decided to have a quick squiz at news.com.au. I saw on my phone a tiny image I couldn't quite make out, but the headline was unmistakeable; "Prime Minister Dragged to Safety from Aboriginal Rioters."
It was pretty much...
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My fondest hopes for you, my little destroyer.
I hope you will always know that girls who make you feel bad are crippled with self-doubt themselves and should be pitied, but never believed. I hope you never think that Rihanna and Chris are fine and what's the big deal anyway? I hope you understand that privileged, western women who say they aren't feminists are part of the problem. I hope you never stop doing your bit to solve the problem. I hope you'll never grant sexual favours to the undeserving,...