Posts Tagged ‘Gen X’
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, [...]
Happy birthday Kate and GXJ
I'm a little late posting today. All tired from singing a karaoke duet of True Colours with my girl crush Princess Kate. It's her 30th birthday today. She had an eighties themed karaoke bash. I wore a little blue slashed to the belly button jumpsuit [...]
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” [...]
First world problems
The following post is from my Gen X Girl column that appears in the Townsville Bulletin Savvy magazine each week. I was unpacking the dishwasher the other day, throwing a little tantrum in my mind about the cups. Why can't dishwasher [...]
Words that say you’re a generation apart
I accept no kudos for this post. I've lifted this from Robert Rosenthal's Huffington Post column. Sorry. But it made me laugh. To my father, Spam was canned ham. To my daughter, it's naughty, annoying email. Here are 21 more expressions which [...]
I’m a fadaholic
This is from this week's Gen X Girl column that appears in the Townsville Bulletin's Savvy magazine. I’ve always been one for a fad. If something new comes along, I’m the first one to jump on the bandwagon. Call me gullible, call me [...]
Stop drinking wine right now
This is my Gen X Girl column from this week's Savvy Magazine that appears in the Townsville Bulletin. It’s no secret that I enjoy a drop of wine. OK, to be fair maybe that could be more than a mere drop, but I’m hardly Robinson Crusoe. Anyway [...]
Behaviour test for teens
This is my weekly column from the Townsville Bulletin's Savvy magazine. Can you touch type? Kudos. Big merit to you. Well it would be a big merit if you were completing the 100 Point Behaviour Test for Teenagers formulated in 1953 by Dr George [...]
Five recently cool things
This is my Gen X Girl column for this week's Savvy magazine published in The Townsville Bulletin. I’m starting to think I might be quite old. I actually remember when the internet was discovered. OK, it wasn’t discovered like Captain Cook [...]
You think you look young but apparently you look dumb
Last Sunday morning I was sitting around with my husband and daughter drinking Bloody Marys at 9am. We were a bit under the weather from the night before, decided to do a bit of family bonding--good time had by all. I was relating the story to a [...]
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