We're off on holiyays this weekend! A whole week of... well... much the same really. But in a fabulously fun and new location (more on this on Sunday). And I don't have to go into the office, so that's well worth celebrating!! Look out for some fabulous guest posts here in Maxabellaland next week, all writing on the theme of 'what my children taught me about myself'. I can't wait.
This week I learned a few things worth noting...
1. It is possible to be too stylin'. As much as I eagerly anticipated the launch of Fleur Wood's
Food Fashion Friends ( I love all three of these things!) , on closer inspection I found it to be oh-so-very over-styled, forced and pretentious. The thought of sitting down to dinner with those fabulous... ah... well... wankers put me right off my food. Did I miss something? Perhaps it's a diet manual?
2. Finance types really do seem to think that we can predict the future with all this 'forecasting' business they insist on. Scoff, life is too short to plan, my friend, I may live like a gypsy but I don't carry a crystal ball. Sorry, what was that? You're paying me good money to know how to do a budget forecast? Oh. I'm right on top of that, Rose!?
3. I care about the fate of the Bali Nine. I appreciate that drugs kill and what they did was illegal and that they knew the punishment before they committed the crime. I know that. But the thought of these young people being
gunned down by a firing squad makes me want to curl up in a ball and weep for the loneliness of a life half lived.
4. I don't like spending nights away from home for work (I almost wrote 'on business' but I didn't want to join Fleur's wanky gang). I sort of knew this already, but here I am in Melbourne, away from my family and I'm missing them so very much. Which is a shame as I know I should appreciate the fact that my job gives me a night away here and there to myself... but indeed when it all comes down to it, the Missing seems to be far more important than the Myself.
5. Under no circumstances should you put more than two Eclipse mints in your mouth at the same time. Danger, I repeat, danger. I can still hardly talk my mouth was that numb. (I notice a few of you heading off to find the Eclipse mints... danger, danger! Oh, does no-one ever listen to me!?)
Did you learn anything new this week? Have you ever been a bit too zealous with the mints and lived to regret it?
[Image of Fleur Wood's Friends Food Fashion via The Kitchen Inc]
