Declaration of 2015

There are lots of things I love about this time of the year. Lots of things I really look forward to.

One thing that has hopped up on my nerves early this year though is the end of year countdown. We’re counting down 2014’s best music on MTV and celebrity stories on E! and My Year on Instagram et al. All this before Christmas has even happened let alone the final week of the year.  

We’re not there yet people: calm.down*.

To distract me from these final countdowns, I'm going to jump right over Christmas, skip looking back on the past twelve months, and just get down to the business of 2015.

Rebranding resolutions

When I was living in Australia with Fox and Willo, we often wrote down our New Year resolutions. I mostly rolled my resolutions over from one year to the next, never achieving any of them. Fox would do better than me by getting quite a few of hers done, but it was always Willo who would nail his every year; usually by March.

Because of my dismal effort and the fact I'm a slow learner, I’ve decided to rebrand my resolutions into declarations. Instead of being specific with a task like “save more” or “get fit” I’m going to theme the entire year with a couple of ideas with the intention that they will soak into my life and produce some kind of output.

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I am declaring that 2015 for me will be the year of :

  • SELFIES
  • LUNCH
  • MORNING

What on earth will that even mean, Michelle?

It means I want to:

  • be the subject of my life more often;
  • be more organised about nutrition during my workday;
  • have a better relationship with sleep.

Here would be a great opportunity to share a photo of me, making my lunch, in the morning - but I’m not going to do that - have to go watch MTV’s Wonderful Christmas Time! Top 40 countdown and wait for the first day of January 2015 to make it the best year yet.

 

*stop watching so much television, Michelle.

When I rule the world..

By cheesus that's an ugly car - god people suck - who'd buy a car like that. Gar I hate people. So many people to hate - so little time. You can't bend everybody to fit into your Universe, you know I think there should be only one kind of car and every time you go, say, to the Supermarket you drive your car there, park it, do your shopping. When you come out again, you take the nearest car - might not be the one you arrived in - just pick it up and take it home. what if it was low on fuel? If it was an electric car, whenever you parked you could charge it - each car park would have a charging socket so they're all ready to go all the time. Yeh, that'd work And we should do that with umbrellas, too - have umbrellas on buses to pickup if it's raining when you're ready to get off or leave on the bus if it's fine after all. You know you're only saying this cos your car was stolen and.. where's your umbrella? My umbrella was in my car Heh. Sucks to be you.
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Quality Time

me: that's a cool looking QuadBike. you: That's a very cool looking QuadBike. me: Oh it's like a beautiful bracelet I saw in that shop earlier. It was wide, enamelled panels - purply, with all these bits and beads and crystals and chains all over but in a good way but what was really cool was that right in the centre of the centre enamalled panel was this sparkly ladybug with it's wings half open... you: What the hell does that have to do with QuadBikes? me: if you let me finish you'll see that.. you: Arg! so you said you saw this bracelet and I thought cool, a QuadBike bracelet.. then you said it was wide enamelled panels and I thought you were going to say they had QuadBikes on them then you said it had all this stuff and chains and stuff and I thought maybe it had a QuadBike on it then you said right in the centre there was something sparkly and I thought it better be a frickin' QUADBIKE and it was a *ladybug* ? how the hell do you go from "thats a cool QuadBike" to "ladybugs"? me: the QuadBike's wheel guards look like the ladybugs wings half open. you: You suck. me: Can you top telling me that I suck, it's not very nice. you: Ok. You "teh rock". me: You are using different words but you're still mean that I suck, don't you? you: Yes.
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