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 [...]
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# 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 »
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 [...]
Reclaim your life in 15 minutes (The 15 Minute Rule)
Posted in Feminism, Life, Parenting, work life balance on December 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We all want to be more organised in our lives, but it’s easy to get too busy to know where to start. Unable to see the forest for the trees, we become overwhelmed with our obligations, expectations and the myriad of demands facing us every day. When we’re overwhelmed – we shut down. We don’t [...]
I am woman – hear me squeal
Posted in Feminism, Humour, Life, work life balance, tagged spiders on November 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I like to think I’m an empowered woman in charge of my own destiny.
I have navigated my way firmly towards the pointy-end of a divorce by my self.
I’ve bought and sold a number of houses over the years, have negotiated contracts and currently manage complex legal and governance issues on behalf of a government department.
I [...]
A minor oversight…
Posted in Feminism, Life on September 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The only drawback of the mini-pill, my Dr informed me with 20/20 hindsight, is that it’s much more prone to accidental pregnancy.
A notable draw-back, one might think, for a freaking CONTRACEPTIVE!
Gee whiz Doc, thanks for the high-quality professional advice. Where’s Donald Trump when you need him?: ‘You’re FIRED!’
Top 5: Reasons it’s hard being a woman
Posted in Beauty, Feminism, Humour, Life, Relationships, Top 5, men, work life balance on August 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
# Top 5: Reasons it’s hard being a woman
1. Promoted on your back vs pat on the back
When a woman gets promoted, men assume it’s because you used your charm to get there, or your appointment smacks of tokenism. In fact, women are more likely to apply for a job that’s ‘beneath’ them, than a [...]
Boy, oh boy!
Posted in Feminism, Humour, Life, Moments of bitch, men on August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Who’d be male?
They may still (for the most part) rule the Boardroom, but I wouldn’t want to be male for quids!
A close friend and her young daughter came over for a cuppa recently. Her daughter wore a T-shirt and jeans. (A nice change from the Bratz-style prostitute-like outfits she so frequently wears, but that’s a [...]
Neurotic numbness
Posted in Divorce, Feminism, Life, career, work life balance on July 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Like a scene from The Neverending Story, the Nothingness washes over my life like a tsunami – leaving only the echo of empty rhetoric painting a beige white-wash atop the decomposing elements of a promising life.
I’m feeling a tad melancholy this week…
For no particular reason, I’ve been reassessing every facet of my life:
Finances: I need [...]
The rise and sprawl of the Ladette
Posted in Feminism, Life on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Long before Juno, (was it really 22 yrs ago?) Madonna preached to her papa about teen pregnancy and told me to respect myself and make my man express himself. Since those glory-days of punky feministas, the wave changed to angst-ridden and now angry young chicks, culminating in Christina and Pink teaching our youngsters to be [...]
Book in 6 words? Brilliant idea!
Posted in Bi-polar, Books, Feminism, Life, Parenting, Writing, love, work life balance on June 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Communicating with meaning is difficult. Concisely? Almost impossible (well *ahem* it is for some of us!).I completed a job application recently which limited the applicant to 350 word responses to the criteria. *ug*.
I was riddled with anxiety. HOW could I explain to these people in just 350 words that I was so much more qualified, [...]
