From Mama’s Losin’ It, Ok I did it, I skipped last weeks blog prompts because, well they were boring and didn’t make me want to write anything and so I haven’t really until now. Inspired by Dave, I am Writing a Letter. I was blog surfing and looking at a blog I had never visited before, a single mum raising …
Project 365 * Day 1: Stuck
Lou loves soccer, he is very good at dribbling but he can’t seem to get his head around how to score a goal. He seems perplexed. I hope this isn’t a symptom of more serious issues. I thought since we moved to the farm that we had dealt with his depression and doggy-Prozac wasn’t going to be needed. We can …
Writers Prompt
From Mama’s Losin’ It: List ten things that make you HAPPY, I skipped last weeks prompt which was 10 things that you are sick of, too bad I’m sure I could have rattled that list off in about 12 seconds. Doesn’t that suck? I wonder what that means when you have to think a little bit harder to come up …
Full List of Stuff White People Like « Stuff White People Like
Full List of Stuff White People Like How classic is this! The stereotype is so perfectly broken down by this list that it MUST have been written by a white person – though I doubt that they would be able to call themselves a redneck. I love this so much I am going to comment on the Top 50, and …
The Feminine Mystique: Chapter 1
I have been meaning to read this book since my Uni days as a sociology major, in fact hindsight wonders how I managed to past my feminist papers without reading this? Anyway, I googled ‘Housewife syndrome’ today just for kicks and lo and behold it is (or was at least) a real condition, treated with a delightful mix of drugs, …
Reply from John Key's Office
Thank you for your correspondence concerning the treatment of intensively farmed pigs and the footage screened on the ‘Sunday’ programme. The conditions depicted in the footage were highly disturbing and unacceptable. The Minister of Agriculture has made it clear to his officials that animal welfare is an absolute priority of this Government and that we would not accept cruelty to …
Oh yeah…that's why I used to be a vegetarian
News in New Zealand this week is the much publicized disclosure of video demonstrating the vile state of the pork industry. Local comedian Mike King, formerly the spokesperson for the NZ pork industry snuck into a pig jailpig farm and filmed the undersized sow cages that farmed pigs live in. It’s abhorrent and torturous, the pigs can’t move, some can’t …
Mum & Dad Time
It has been a pretty hectic two weeks since we moved house, Ethan has been on holiday with me as we wait for a place to open up for him at his new kindergarten (hopefully the first week of June) and Dave has been working some long hours at the restaurant. So to mix it up Ethan stayed the night …
Wow, 8yrs ago!
Nate must have been dredging his archives because he came up with his blog from 2001, and look at young me! I was 22! Wow. On the eve of my thirtieth birthday it is nice to be reminded of how long I have known Nate and Julzy. Back then things were obviously very different; I was dating Nathan, Julz was (and …
Birthday Wish-list
I will be officially old at the end of the month. No longer happily skipping along in my twenties I will soon turn 30. It’s quite a corner turned really, as you enter your twenties without a care in the world, a free agent, a completely selfish and self-absorbed person who has nothing to tie you down. You want to …