Posts Tagged ‘Gen Y’
Happy Father’s Day
I was going to do one of those self congratulatory posts for my first back from my unplanned blogging bludge break. This is what I had in mind. Gorgeous filtered photos (I got an iPhone while I was gone). There were going to be glamour shots of a [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
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’d rather have Facebook than cash
Oh those Gen Y kiddies. They're a funny lot. They'd rather be connected than cashed up. Well that's what a study from the US says anyway. CBS reports on a Cisco conducted survey on 400 students and 1,4000 young professionals aged 21-29 in 14 [...]
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 [...]
Surpise, surprise. Reality TV may not be as real as you think.
Fancy yourself as a Masterchef? Or one of those masochists from The Block. How about a stint on The City or The Only Way Is Essex? Or maybe they'll bring back Big Brother. Well here's an insider's guide to what really goes on on reality tv. My [...]
How old are you really?
This is my Gen X Girl column from this week's Townsville Bulletin Savvy Magazine. Cold weather getting you down? Feel like you’re getting old and tired before your time. Well here’s a way to check and provide a bit of self-inflicted [...]
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