perserverence

Keep Swimming

3 September 2010

If only I could swear in another language.

Or maybe two, or three..you know if I really needed to let rip. To let it all out. To vent my spleen.

Constant craving.

Constant frustration.

It’s bad form to tell you what, in colourful lurid detail. So it would be helpful to explode in fluent French (for example). I don’t know anyone in France who would be offended.

Suffice to say ….

STUFF!

In BIG capital letters with exclamation marks, maybe even a  couple of asterisks, and a few intimated read-between-the-lines f words.  Read more... (562 words, 1 image, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

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Vegemitevix has a Mona Lisa Smile

2 August 2010

What was she smiling about?

No one will ever know. The theories suggest everything from a grimace to a saucy little come on smile.

Three  things have really made me smile over the past couple of days.

First up was a beautiful bunch of roses my Englishman bought me on Saturday morning. I love flowers. Thanks hun. Second was the lovely comments on my post yesterday. Thanks everyone. I wasn’t trying to be completely self-indulgent and wallow in self-pity, I was just feeling a bit overwhelmed. School holidays and working hard on about five dispirate projects simulataneously and then trying to push through and get my business established. I just felt I was running on empty, and needed a break. All of a sudden it’s half way through the year and I’m not at the point where I can really hand on heart say I am definately coming Down Under at Xmas.  Read more... (397 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

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