Hold onto your seats people, because there’s an announcement that will make you say “what the fuck??” at your desk in your open plan office space and make you spit coffee over your keyboard….
M asked me to marry him. And I said yes.
Uh huh – you still said ‘what the fuck’, didnt you?
In an unexpected [...]
When you’re unemployed, you have all the time in the world – but no money to do anything.
When you’re employed you have money to do the fantastic things you’ve dreamed about – but no time to do them.
People say “oh yes, but you’ve had a year off work, that’s a good enough holiday”.
Well, yes and [...]
People have told me just to go to Paris. They think that anything is possible in the City of Romance.
Let me tell you, if you dont have a working visa, not much is possible work wise in Paris at the moment.
Some people think that you can magically wish for a job and it will arrive. [...]
Two peas in a pod! A great description of our motivations to step outside the box for a while…..
why-i-quit-my-job-to-travel-around-the-world.
I was looking back at my horoscope for 2009 (thank you Jonathan Cainer), and thought that, yet again, he really hit it on the head.
I took his advance and really DID try to just not be too hard on myself even though I really DID feel like things were all too hard, not clear, being [...]
I didnt realise how good my life was until I got here and realised it was gone.
That’s not to say that I didnt realise my life was good – I knew it was great.
Thats not to say either that I didnt appreciate what I had – I was so grateful for what I had.
But I [...]
I’m going back to Australia in a couple of weeks, just for a quick family visit. I’m starting to organise appointments and dinners and lunches with friends and old work colleagues. I’m dreaming about eating at my favourite Asian restaurants again. I’ve been thinking about my beautiful apartment I had before I left, and how [...]
So I’ve had some interesting thoughts over the past few days………
JB said at dinner the other night that I’m either really brave or really crazy to be here without a job, a place to stay, not many friends, no family etc. I think I’m a little of both. In one way, if it was really [...]