Category: Humour
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“Just kidding”
Be prepared, long rant ahead. Joking. I’m all for it. I love being silly with Alun and my friends. Dad used to tell the worst “Dad jokes”. I wanted so badly to have no reaction, so I didn’t encourage him, but I couldn’t help but smile, which would make Dad cheer and then we’d both…
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Dad trying to live vicariously through me.
I suspect my Dad wanted to be a sports legend. Because he’d “missed his shot”, Dad tried to achieve his goal through me instead. At first, trying new things was fun. “Netball!” Dad exclaimed one day. “Huh?” I didn’t even look away from the TV. I’m a couch person, me. “All Aussie girls play Netball,…
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Bloganuary – How do you define success?
This one’s a tricky question because I immediately think of wealth as a sign of success. I think of power in terms of what a person can do at any time they want to as a success – which are pretty much powered by wealth. But what is success really? I would define these as…
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Bloganuary – What brings you joy in life?
These things bring me joy: Time with people I love ❤️ Books. Reading a good book is so good for resting and resetting. Singing. Omg I love to sing. Even when I’m hurting, singing brings me so much peace and healing when I’m struggling. Gardening. I love plants and seeing them grow is such a…
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New Year’s Eve
Raaaaaa. Where to even begin? So much has happened in the last 4-6 weeks, I don’t even know how to tell you all about it without going on a huge RANT and boring you to death, lol. Let’s just say it’s been an emotional rollercoaster that I have wanted to jump off many times, but…
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The heart of my Memoir
I signed onto a free online class about Memoir writing today. It was difficult to concentrate solely on the class and not look around the room or let my mind drift off to other things. Something I picked up on was finding the heart of my Memoir. The Lecturer said her Memoir started out as…
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My Ideal Reader (IR)
I’m 3/4 through Stephen King’s Memoir “on writing” and have loved every minute of it. He comes across not only as an incredibly talented writer but as someone I’d hang out with because he seems like a pretty nice guy. I love how much he refers to being guided and blessed by his wife when…
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The Girl before
I used to be her. Bubbly. Full of life. A mischevious laugh. A big – yet charming – flirt with guys and a best friend to all girls; especially to the shy introvert. I couldn’t help but adopt them. I was an extrovert – loud, brash, mouthy, cheeky and filled with rainbows, forest green glitter…
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The little things
A fellow blogger has a blog titled “the pauses in between”. It’s a gorgeous blog, I highly recommend it ☺️. We Filo’s gotta hype each other up, huh? Anyway. What I wanted to write about was about the small moments in life – the ones in between all the big moments, because they’re the ones…
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Square 1. Again.
I’ve re-drafted my Memoir and feel really confident that it’s a beast right now. Yass! I’m anxious to have an Editor read it, but it was ready…so this evening I’ve sent my Memoir to my new book Coach/Editor to look over. Squeeeeeee! I’m hoping Annie likes it and hope the feedback won’t hurt. Fingers crossed…
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