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30 Day Challenge, Day 11. What is your Favourite Quote?
The week before my attempted murder, I read a piece about a young girl who had died tragically. This was inscribed on her headstone. It touched my heart so, and I wrote it down. I have kept a hold of it throughout the years.
I love this one too! It is indeed true. If you never reveal your pain and struggles, people take it as a given that you are always strong. This leaves you with no room to move, nor to admit that you need support.
Premio Dardos Award
The Premio Dardos Award exists to acknowledge the values that every blogger shows in their effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values every day. These stamps were created with the intention of promoting fraternization between bloggers, a way of showing affection and gratitude for work that adds value to the Web.
The beautiful Erika Kind nominated me for this award. Please go over and check out her wonderful site.
Award Rules For The Premio Dardos Award:
- Include the Premio Dardos Award Picture and the name of the person that nominated you (Include a link to their blog)
- Nominate 5 other blogs and notify them!
I nominate the following:
The Bippity Boppity Beautiful Blog
30 Day Challenge. Day 10, One Food and One Beverage
If I could only live off of one food and one beverage for the rest of my days, what would they be?
I immediately thought of claret, blood-red and fragrant. 
I then became an adult, and realized that my beverage would have to be water.
This made me sad.
The food would be apples. All that goodness in one little fruit!
It would be quite boring, but I feel I could at least survive on water and apples!
Siren Empire
30 Day Challenge. Day 9; Pet Peeves
Okay, here is where you discover how grumpy a little pixie I can be!
- People who talk incessantly without drawing breath. What’s that about? I have to lay down in a quiet space after encountering these types.
- People who push into queues and pretend not to notice your eyes burning into the back of their heads.
- People who cough and sneeze on you. Thanks for that!
- Neighbours who have an abnormal interest in your goings-on. I didn’t think that my greeting a friend out the front, or collecting my mail would be that fascinating.

5.People who are always late. I am always early, so this frustrates me.
6. Women who talk incessantly about their Thermomix. I have one, as preparing food from scratch was aggravating my spine. Nothing like feeling bones grinding along your spine as you chop! Now, I just throw things into the bowl and it does the rest. It is a handy appliance, and that is as far as my obsession goes.
7. I find it aggravating that nobody ever calls by when the house is clean. They come en masse just as I am thinking of tidying!
8. Government agencies that keep you on hold for hours. Hours of my life that I will never get back.
9. People who cant make their minds up. I have had to make some very important decisions in a snap, and must admit, I do get irritated when in the company of an indecisive type. This is especially irritating when the time comes to order food.
10. People who take life too seriously. You have to have some fun! Most things that occur in a day aren’t life-changing. They are transient hiccups.
11.Movies that people see en masse. Its almost like a rite of passage to see a certain film, and people gather together in groups to view a popular film like 50 Shades of Grey. Most aren’t my cup of tea and I politely decline.
12. Noisy bars and restaurants. What’s the point of a night out if you cant even talk to the people you are with? Have these places ever heard of sound-proofing?
13.Too much emphasis on status symbols. I would rather my child and I not be branded and made to into a walking advertisement for a clothing company.
14. Noisy shopping centres. The ones with the whole disaster; garish lighting, crap music, hard to negotiate. My idea of hell.
15.Party plans of any kind.
16. Mean-spirited people who gossip.
17. People who kick the back of your chair at the theatre or movies.
18. People who continually ask why you only had one child. I used to ramble on about my fertility issues, as though I had to justify having one kid. Now I just smile and say “I stopped at perfection.”
I could go on, but I think this is enough for now!
30 Day Challenge. Day 8, 3 things you wish to say to different people
It hurts my soul when people I adore can’t see how incredible they are. I want to say each and every day, “Try to see yourself through my eyes…How would you feel if a friend chastised you like you do to yourself? ” If something I said helped them to love themselves, I would be thrilled. I would like to say, “let’s cut the small-talk. I see in your eyes that you are yearning to talk on a deeper level.” None of us really want to chat incessantly about the weather, and we bore ourselves with the stock answer of “I’m okay,” when asked how we are. I love it when a friend shakes me out of my apathy by asking deeper questions. “Why do you run around so fast? Are you avoiding something?” These recent queries shook up my world in a good way! “Forgive yourself, love who you are as we love you, you are doing a great job at this thing called life.” I would say these things over and over again, hoping that they are taken on board. Life is tough enough, without beating ourselves up added to the soup! “How are you really?” “I am proud of you!” Affirmations of love.
Sunshine Blogging Award Challenge
The wonderful Afternoon of Sundries has nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award. Thankyou my darling friend!
Now the rules are simple, I must nominate 10 people, thank my wonderful nominator, and create questions of my own!
Here are the questions asked of me:
- If you could channel your soul into a spirit animal, what would it be and why?
A bird. My soul has always been simpatico with these whimsical creatures.
2. Who do you secretly stalk online?
I can honestly say that I don’t follow anyone in secret. I only have interest in those that are in my life as friends.
3.What is your power outfit? The getup you wear to make yourself feel confident!
It would have to be a black or red dress, little heels and colourful jewellery. Oh, and red lipstick. It makes me feel brave!
4. If you could make one wish consequence free, what would it be and why?
To have millions of dollars. I could do so much to help the people I love!
5.What musical instruments are you proficient in, or wish you were proficient in?
I wish I could play the guitar. I think that its easier to learn an instrument when you are a child. I would like to learn how to read music one day!
6.What is your guilty pleasure TV show or movie?
Bewitched, I love Lucy, One Foot in the Grave, 6 Feet Under for TV, and Its a Wonderful Life, Les Mis, Wings of Desire and Far Away, So Close for movies.
7.What is your favourite food?
I love Italian and Indian food.
8.What book is your favourite read and why?
I loved Enid Blyton as a child, and was rather startled as an adult to uncover that she was a miserable and vicious lady! Anything by C.S Lewis, Ruth Parks, Alice Sebold, and many more!
9.What do you do for a living?
I have done many things; worked in health food shops, been in promotion, copywriting, been a published author and speaker. I am finishing off a series of children’s books with my daughter and work for Weekend Notes and Siren Empire.
10.What languages do you speak?
English, and that’s it, I’m afraid! My daughter picks up languages easily so I may ask her to teach me!
I nominate the following:
Here are a list of questions for you!
- What is your favourite song?
- Favourite Colour?
- What is your favourite quote?
- If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?
- Favourite movie?
- What brings you happiness?
- What was your favourite age and why?
- Favourite season?
- Favourite animal?
- Favourite Author?
30 Day Challenge, Day 12. Screenshot your Desktop
30 Day Challenge. Day 7, What do you Read?

At the moment, I read a great deal online. I am relishing the wonderful magazines that are being published in Australia and overseas. I will splurge on an expressed copy of a quality title. Here are some of my staples.


I adore reading books too, when I have time! I cant abide the crime genre; after having survived a violent crime, and enduring the court process, it wouldn’t be something I’d choose as a means of escapism! I love autobiographies, and stories about how people live their lives. I love anything by Nigel Marsh, an enlightened and wonderful Australian author. I have ten books on my bedside table, waiting to be read! As with my music choices, authors and books are an eclectic mix in my household. I will buy a poetry book off a self-published writer, and tend to steer clear of mainstream authors. Many authors have inspired me and propelled me forward in my own journey. Dorothy Hewett, Ruth Parks and  Clive James are three who come to mind. What about you?














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