Whether you’re sans-family for the evening, your partner is out of town, or you’re single and looking for something to do, here’s my Top 5 list of things to do with your night to yourself!
1. Curl up with your favourite DVD and a bottle of wine.
Sex and the City. West Wing. Bridget Jones. Frasier. Whether [...]
Archive for January, 2009
# Top 5: Ways to spend a partnerless evening
Posted in Beauty, Feminism, Life, work life balance, tagged girls' night in, taking care of yourself on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Funny of the week: 8 years of ‘Bushisms’
Posted in Funny of the week, Humour on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You have two choices: rejoice that his reign of terror and ineloquence is at an end; or cringe that he ever got to the White House in the first place!
I’m so proud of me!
Posted in Family memories, Feminism, Life, tagged empowered, IT gadgets, wireless Internet access on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today I bought a fistful of electrical do-dads and finally managed to hook-up my new TV to the DVD player and get the channels tuned in. Then, I dismantled my computer and installed a PCI card on the motherboard, so now it has wireless Internet access.
I did all this myself – and it all works!
My [...]
Funny of the week: The mom song
Posted in Funny of the week, Humour, Parenting on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mothers everywhere will laugh ’til they cry (and teenagers will roll their eyes) at this anthem set to the tune of the William Tell Overture. This witty ditty takes so many of the daily catch-cries that mothers repeat ad nauseam over the course of a day, and distills it into a couple of very funny, [...]
Wild, crazy ideas: Write your obit!
Posted in Life, getting organised, taking control of your life, work life balance on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Want more meaning in your life? Write your own obituary.
Oh, sure, it SOUNDS crazy. But is it?
At the end of it all, if you had lived the life you wanted, what would be said about you at your funeral? What would the focus of your life have been?
Writing your own obituary focuses your mind on [...]
My New Year’s resolutions
Posted in Life, career, work life balance on January 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My rant on New Year’s resolutions notwithstanding, I’ve decided to go ahead and make some nonetheless. In attempting to keep them realistic and meaningful, the general theme is mostly an extension of stuff I’ve already started, with a focus on being more consistent at pursuing those things.So, *drum roll* here are my New Year’s Resolutions [...]
New Year’s Resolutions
Posted in Life, work life balance, tagged New Years Resolutions on January 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When it comes to New Year’s Resolutions, it’s easy to get carried away with the usual suspects: quit smoking, lose weight, get a new job, get out of debt, get more organised.
They all smack of a common vein - a desperate yearning to shed the heavy yoke of obligation, to spring forth into the world and lead the [...]
