I’ve mentioned on twitter that my day job is having a crazy amount of Christmas parties this year. It’s getting a little silly when you’re invited to five different parties. The main one is a cocktail-style party that I organized with a person from the other department on my floor. It’s at a bit of […]
Month: November 2012
The Wrong Gut
Around a year ago I had a strong gut feeling. I’d never felt anything like that before. And I’d certainly never had a gut feeling that strong before. I trusted that feeling and had absolute faith in its truth. It didn’t turn out to be true. I thought of that feeling this morning […]
Wednesday Food Post – Breadmaker
On the weekend I was given a breadmaker. It was bought at a garage sale for $10 and given to us as a present. So I got stuck into it. I even read the manual! The problem is that the only bread we can eat is mutligrain, so there was one recipe I […]
To Blog for Not-Business
As I’ve said before, I like that I’m not a “commercial” blogger. Is that even the right word? Anyway, I mean someone who blogs because they want to & doesn’t want to work with PR’s or brands or have advertising … I was asked recently what that means in terms of readers. Do […]
Inspiration
Being around similar people is critical to motivation and inspiration in your life. This is even more important when you’re talking about your business. I don’t run this blog as a business for many reasons (discussed elsewhere). I absolutely loved the mood of the ProBlogger event this year. Inspiration I read […]
Storm Season
This is a bit of a departure from my usual kind of thing, but it’s something simple I think everyone should do. Be storm ready. As the last few years of Brisbane weather have shown us, wild weather doesn’t only strike the top of the state. Would you be prepared if you were cut off […]
Too Much or Not Enough?
When I start new projects, I always have this fear that I will become totally overwhelmed with too much work, and that I’ll simply crash & burn. It has happened before. When I was at uni I had classes 4 days per week, plus study (yes I actually studied at uni), I volunteered one day […]
People & Saying NO
I could have been on a flight to Adelaide tonight. All expenses paid and probably staying in the Hilton or some swanky place. Tomorrow I would have been taken to a place in the Adelaide Hills for a corporate team building activity surrounding cooking. Fun! But I said no. I don’t think many people will […]
Terrible blogger
As in me. I am the terrible blogger. Some weekends I get all organized & schedule posts up the wazoo. Then I get lazy & don’t blog for a week. Then a week is two weeks. The problem isn’t lack of content. I have tons of things to bore you all with. I have around […]