I thought I’d write blog-posts more often. But then, I thought I’d do a lot of things. I mean, simply put, I thought I’d paint the bathroom (whose walls have been mostly rough, ugly plaster since we tore down the wallpaper two years ago). I definitely thought I’d have figured out how to stop eating […]
There are days when waitressing is fun and there are days when it’s a right fucking pain in the arse! It usually boils down to one thing; customers. Oh the customers. Ask anybody who works in the hospitality industry what the actual levels of human stupidity are and they’ll vouch for me when I say […]
Sometimes we need to stop thinking. We need to shut off that mental-noise and move; move our hands and write, move our asses and exercise, move our minds and study – it’s not so much the type of action that matters, as the action itself. We have to act. We can sit and reflect and […]
It was a lazy Sunday – I had done very little bar morning yoga and a shower and as the afternoon wore on I became very unsettled, firm in the belief that by not being productive I was somehow wasting my one precious day off. Now a Buddhist monk may well have sat on his […]
I used to be someone who practiced Ashtanga Yoga in the traditional method six days a week – what I considered a real Ashtangi. Just saying that makes me cringe a little but, well, it’s true. Even though I had convinced myself otherwise, I was hyped up on a smug sense of superiority because I was doing it right […]
There are so many amazing things in my life that I can be grateful for it would take weeks to list them. Take any one of them away and I know I would be devastated. I am an extremely fortunate human being and yet still, my day-to-day life recently has been leaving me feeling empty […]
It’s been too long, unbelievably eight months too long, since I last blogged about anything. Where did the time slip away to? How is it possible that in so many weeks and months I couldn’t sit my arse down at a computer and write something, anything?? Well, I recently read this book that pretty much […]
For Christmas, one of my brothers gifted me a small beautiful book called a Five Year Memory book. On each page is the date of every day of the month from January through December, with five mini sections in which you are meant to write one interesting memory from that date over the course of […]
An interesting thing happened when I was driving to work a few days ago. It was about 9.30 am and I had been warned to leave early and go slow as the roads were icy. Then a car pulled out of a driveway ahead of me and I understood what real slow driving was. A lazy […]
It has to be said, this blog is going to be a bit of a rant. It feels like I’ve been teased, like the gods decided to play a mean little joke on me. Since coming back from India in October, I’ve been searching for a job, but despite handing out hundreds of C.V.s, no luck. […]
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