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Wife chart. Where do you rate?
Wife chart. Where do you rate? OK, are you a good wife? Well would be be a good wife in 1939. Check out the marital rating scale and see what sort of a wife you'd be if you were married to say Errol Flynn. Or someone really dapper from the [...]
Your domestic skills are wanting. So what?
OK, can you make a Victoria sponge? I can but big deal. What good is it to me unless I'm auditioning for Masterchef? Anyway if you can't don't worry. For you are one of a growing breed. A breed that is young mothers--young mothers without domestic [...]
There’s a list of ugly baby names
That Twitter is an amazing research device. Really we should just rid of all those people who do research for a job and just listen to Twitter. It's got its finger on the pulse of the world. (I just made that up but if anyone thinks it workable in [...]
I’m off the drink again. Wrong month. Again.
Gosh it seems like only yesterday that I gave up drinking in what I like to call Dry August. That was in 2010. Quite a long time ago. I stole the term Dry August from the Dry July campaign that ran the month before. I'm a little slow at catching on [...]
Nerdy stuff for nerds
I love to watch the SBS show Letters and Numbers. For the uninitiated it's a word creating and maths equation solving program. Rivetting? Not much, but if you tape it and cheat with the time it will stave off Alzheimers. Well that's how I'm [...]
Since when did eating out become so darn hard?
I don't know if it's an old person thing, but I'm getting really jacked off when I eat out lately. From being totally ignored when you stand at the please wait to be seated sign to being ignored when you are actually lucky enough to score a seat, [...]
Is your job stressful?
Sorry for being such a slack poster lately but I'm very, very busy at work (sadly blogging does not pay the electricity bill) at the moment. Like crazy busy. So at the risk of sounding like an ad for laxatives, I'll try to be more [...]
Spring cleaning Part 2
So here's the rest what I started yesterday on tips for getting your home cleaning monster under control. The article's authors say you should do each of these for just 20 minutes a day for 30 days. Sounds doable with commitment. Surface clean [...]
Spring cleaning schedule for the new year
I'm one of those psycho neat freak people. Well not really psycho, but definitely a tidy person. I've packed up the Christmas tree, put it away and have vacuumed the floor where it was. That all said, I admit to having a cleaning lady, but she's [...]
Hangover cures for New Years
Following is this week's Gen X Girl weekly column that appears in the Townsville Bulletin's Savvy magazine. I had a houseful of Gen Ys over after Christmas. They all woke up distinctly green tinged, hoarse voiced and shaking hands. “Hangover” [...]
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