Helloooo...I'm quite excited about a few things that are coming up and thought I'd share them with you.

My class is going rock climbing in a week and I'm excited because this usually results in a catastrophe of some kind which is always exciting!! As a recovering adrenalin junkie, mayhem is my bread and butter.

The school is having its annual disco and I'll be chaperoning. These are a lot of fun, there is always a mixture of nervous kids, too much hair gel, too much white eye shadow, plenty of crimped hair, not enough embarrassing teacher dancing and waaaaayyyyy too much dodgy disco DJaying. Lots of fun and I've promised to absolutely shame my kids by mincing up to them and dancing in the most arrogant way I know how.

I've found a band that I'm really happy to be listening to. You know how I said there will always be new songs that remind you of old times? Well, this is one of those bands and the moment I heard them I knew I wanted to purchase all of their albums (lotto would be awesome in this instance). I don't usually like to share these finds because I'm a bit greedy but I can with you because you've taken the time to read this wee blab.

Firecracker has returned from a mini-break and had the best time with her rellies. The moment she opened her eyes from her long nap she looked at me, realizing she was now home and burst into tears. Didn't miss me one bit! Monkey!!

I saw a quote today, and I think it was an Earnest Hemingway one: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”  :-)

Good night!

Just a shorty...

serendipitous...might be falling in love with a song and finding out that the band is playing in the city you'll be visiting, at the exact time of your visit. Possibly a coincidence or (my favourite) it's the universe returning to me what I put out there :-)

It's been a mad week of small triumphs and exhausting failings but there are only a few weeks left until I finish this leg of my journey...one that has taken (on and off) seven years. So I'm keen to see this last bit through, pause for some unbridled celebration, a bit of reflection and probably a good hearty cry for the achievement, effort and sacrifices we have all made along the way, before we get on with the next stage.

Leaving you with a little ditty that has always put a smile on my face :-D Turn it up and dance like no-one's watching xx

revelations...

Hi blog :-)

So I've been a bit naughty. I have been treating facecrack like it's my own personal domain and posting anything and everything that I think my friends and family would like to see...turns out, they don't. That's why we have blogs.

I don't even have time to have one of these but I'm a writer at heart (not a very good one) and I heard that in order to get better at writing, you've gotta write a lot. And read, lots of reading. One of my lecturers thinks my writing in convoluted...feel free to comment, feedback is awesome.

Status updates not fit for facecrack, so bear with :-)

- I found out that I have soft spot for country music even though I swore against it (thank you Garret Hedlund). 

- There are always going to be new songs that remind you of old times and the people who write those songs are magicians. 

- You don’t have to be drunk to write a really interesting piece…you can just be dog tired. Editing could be the biggest mistake, it takes off the shine. 

- Punctuation doesn't always work…sure it breaks down sentences into a structured, readable piece of work but if I wanted you to understand how important the next line was…I might have to YELLandtalkreallyreallyreallyfast. 

- Relationships are everything, especially relationships with yourself, language, food, nature, and yourself as the consumer but most importantly, with others.

Firecracker is half my height now (aged 3.5 years), and that's a beautiful and scary thing. 

"Firecracker? Can I have it back, please?"

"What?...pardon?"

"My heart. Can I please have my heart back now?"

"(smiles) Nope!" watches me with a mischievous grin for a bit..."Oookaaayyy, you CAN have it" reaches into her mouth in an attempt to retrieve my heart which is naturally lodged in her body, and gags on her fist. "YUCK Mummy! Your heart tastes yucky!". I can sleep easy knowing that humans are off her menu for life. 

We might need to have the birds and bees chat sooner than expected, Firecracker is worried that women get babies in their tummies by eating tiny babies. I can't begin to describe the looks she has cast at heavily pregnant women in the shops and supermarket.

I'm waiting for her to whisper to one of them

"baby eater!"

:-P

(disclaimer: Fearnot doesn't condone the eating of humans...ever. Not even the mean ones.)