I’ve been a bit sick. It’s been shitting me to tears. I go around spouting about how sickness is created by your thoughts and held emotions and yet I have fallen prey to various ailments. Aside from the swimming too much earache, the emergency root canal on NYE and the subsequent clacker catastrophe from all… Read More
I haven’t seen my colleague KatieJ since I left work for my holidays on 17 December. She has been busy working on a circus (literally). Today she came in for a meeting and the first words she said were ~ “Wow, you’ve lost weight”. It took me by surprise. The last time anyone said that… Read More
An update from overnight from my brother ~ We believe the worst of it is over for us. The water here is receding, it started moving away rather quickly about 4.30am. They have now re-opened the Bruce Highway behind us so things are looking good for us. The city has been hit very hard. The… Read More
I just received this text from my brother who is trapped in the Brisbane floods. The cars are both packed and ready to go but we are still here. Pine river had its high tide at 2.37pm and it was far less than expected. Next high tide is at 3.42am so if we can make… Read More
I remember the exact day when I finally hit rock bottom. I had binged the night before, first eating pizza and then buying mountains of sweets and icecream from the shop afterwards. As a counter measure I had taken laxatives before going to bed. When I woke up that morning, I barely made it to… Read More
The flooding in Qld is horrific. People are being swept away as the rain keeps pouring down. Some of my friends are in trouble. My brother and his wife are sitting at home in Brisbane watching the creek rise at their back fence. They can’t leave, as the streets are blocked by water in and out of… Read More
→ Describe what happiness means in just six words. Love. Passion. Laughter. Nature. Knowledge. Magic. Now it’s your turn.
I had known Duckfish for precisely 6 days. In those 6 days we had emailed, chatted on MSN, talked on the phone, had a cyber-date (video MSN), kissed for hours and made love once after which he jetted off to Melbourne at 4am in the morning. The next time we spoke after our liaison he… Read More
I think that’s what New Year’s Resolutions are about: they’re lists of all the ways this year that I will collect and claw and accrue more shiny things to attract more attention and followers and lovers and mates so that I will be loved and happy. If being loved and appreciated is what you want – that’s what I want… Read More
I have slain many dragons, I have let some fall merely fall asleep and others I have made friends with. Today I summoned a dragon I wanted to befriend. Today I faced the scale in the hope that I could deal with the number and use it to help monitor my weight loss progress. Last… Read More
One of the most challenging things when you have a public weight loss journey is to meet people you know online in person. When the perfectly well-intentioned “I’m in Sydney, let’s have coffee” invitation appears in my inbox, my first reaction is to decline. Not because I’m anti-social (just a little shy) but because I worry… Read More
→Name someone who deserves more credit than they get. And for bonus points, how to change things so they get more. I’ve never had a child. I don’t know really know why except that I always felt too young to be someone’s mother. Perhaps it was because I was adopted and my birth mother was… Read More