Life on the hill: December 2012

Thursday, December 27, 2012

24 - upgrade to iPhone 5 - tick

I have been so busy playing with my latest toy phone that I have forgotten to tick it off my bucket list. Since getting my first phone 11 years ago I have been a Nokia girl through and through. When iPhones hit the market I briefly considered getting one, but the thought of stepping outside my Nokia comfort zone swayed me from stepping into Apple territory. Last Christmas I was very lucky, and got an iPad. We have been having a love affair since, with it hitting new intensity when my laptop...

A stranger broke my veneer

I've been living in struggle town for the last few months. In the month leading up to moving house, and the month after I had moved, anxiety had its gnarled claw firmly around my throat. For the first time in a long time I found it hard to go into shopping centres, and avoided them like the plague. Being around people in general was hard, so I isolated myself, and did what just needed to be done on a day to day basis. Not long after i moved, I finished my medication for the month, and remembered...

I have started working through that bucket list of mine. Aston and I created a herb garden this afternoon. We have coriander, chives, curly parsley, Italian parsley, basil, mint, chilli bush, rosemary and a cherry tomato plant. I think I will build on these, and put in some thyme, rocket and oregano. Aston told me while we were doing it that I was "the best mum in the whole world". It's amazing how little things, like creating a herb garden, create a huge amount of love in his...

The Bucket List

Image Credit 13 months before I turned 42, I made a bucket list, 42 before 42. A list of things I wanted to do, achieve, have before I turned 42. It was like a guide. Every now and then I would check back in on that list and see how I was doing. Some things on the list changes, or no longer were important. Not all the the things happened. Most of them did though. This last 12 months I have been adrift. With no list to guide me, I have felt somewhat lost. I'm an Aquarian, an air sign. so like...

Image Credit Four lucky people have won the Garnier Dark Spot Corrector and BB Cream packages. The winners are: First Time Mama DramaDecember 9, 2012 2:43 AM Adoescence was not kind to me,A face left scarred from bad acne,Pregnancy left my cheeks all dotty-Hopefully this cream can make me a hottie! MichVeeDecember 10, 2012 5:39 AM Living with lines and spots can be toughAnd honest, some days, I just have enoughI've tried endless products but no resultsA waste of money certainly...

Questions

Abuse is so damn insidious. It's like a cancerous growth that has spread out tentacles, entangling the innocent. Why do some people adapt and overcome, and others stay stuck in the cycle of dysfunctionality? Why do some people see the cup as half full, allowing the emptiness to fill up with opportunity and love, and others see it as half empty, and evaporating fast? How can two sisters come from the same starting place, yet be so diametrically opposed? What makes one person push...