You know how I’ve gotten serious about running this year?  I began by spending my summer break doing my own Bays Run (on the other side of the city to the Real Bay Run and featuring two bays instead of one) and teaching myself to survive the ascent up Heartbreak Hill.  Then I started increasing…

It all began way back in January 2010.  Facebook was in its infancy and I was one of its most consistent contributors.  While everyone else playing Farmville on FB, I was faithfully pumping out the status updates.  On everything and nothing.  I discovered that while I quite liked writing little quips about my life on…

Kmart is having a moment right now in the world of journals and planners.  My blogging buddy, Leanne at Deep Fried Fruit is a keen fan of Kmart’s work and reading her posts about her latest purchases inspired me to ‘have a look’ the other day. No one reading here today will be surprised that I…

These are glamorous and exciting times at SSG Manor 2.0. I’ve caught myself a cold and have had to feed myself one lemonade icy pole six hourly to soothe the scratchy situation that is my throat.  Unfortunately it’s all pain and no gain this time around.  My voice just sounds distorted rather than whisky and…

My biggest fear is change. I’m one of those people who tends to take the negative view on change. To me, change is losing what I have and know.  A new car means losing a car whose quirks I know and whose size is so familiar I can park it without my blood pressure rising. …

Of course today’s post is all about  The Wedding.  The ceremony began at 9pm local time in Sydney which explains why many of us with children were at home in their pyjamas and ugg boots watching live on YouTube (Today, you did an ace job).  Reality bites ….. as they said back in the day.…

Mother’s Day seems to take on more meaning and complexity with each passing year for me.  It’s grown from a ‘simple’ love of my own mother, to gratitude and respect and more recently to a point of understanding more and more about our relationship (and life in general)  from the perspective of being a mother…

This is a long overdue review of my first Grana purchase from way back in April.  In my defence, it’s only just started being cool enough to wear my purchases. Grana is an online clothing retailer based in Hong Kong whose range and price fits between Uniqlo and Everlane.  Similar to Everlane, the company is…

In a world of Kardashians www.narcity.com and their high maintenance, front and centre kind of beauty, www.peopledotcom be Rihanna. Be beautiful but also hilariously witty and self deprecating both in the way you present yourself to the public and in your off the cuff make up tutorials. Even if you’re only the most casual of…

It’s a bit of a mixture for ‘Show Us Your Snaps’ this week. Carb and caffeine loading ahead of a crazy Saturday at work. Finding the joy in an otherwise trying day.  Sitting in the work carpark getting ready to drive home.  Maroon 5 on the stereo.  Parked on Level 1B in one of the…