We went away this week, to a place called Augusta. I used to go there every year since I was a baby until I was 18. I probably came along and stayed a couple of nights sometimes later than that. Our last visit was 5 years ago (we had a run of coming with Mr Tween – I’m still not sold on this nickname! Help! – for a while when he was a toddler). I often fantasise about the memory of driving down alone and spending time alone in my tent reading true crime books from the library, whenever I felt like it. Sleeping in. The freedom! I had no…
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2021: Week 2.
Heeeey! I’m a bit late posting about the 2nd week of 2021, because we left for our camping trip before I could find the time to blog! I’ve got a bit of catching up to do, but I’m glad that I want to write again. I’m enjoying the ritual of journalling daily. Just an A5 page each night before bed. Something to jog my memory for the blog at the end of each week, but also a quick way to decompress from the day. Anyway, here’s week 2! 8 January – Friday I was awake early after Mr Unprepared left for work, so I blogged about week 1! It felt…
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2021: Week 1.
I am an incurable optimist, it seems. Every year I set out to document my life in weekly updates, but I stop every time it doesn’t feel good anymore (usually due to what is going on for me at the time). Maybe I’m a slow learner, but I’ve decided to try again. In some ways, I regret not having more of a record of 2020 (the dumpster fire that it was) and while I feel a bit like 2021 will be more like 2020: Part 2, it is a time that will go down in history. This is also honestly an opportunity for me to keep up with my writing.…
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Sporadic ‘Newsletter’: December 2018 edition.
Oh hey. I thought I’d revive this newsletter format (it’s been almost two years). How’s that for sporadic?! Nailed it haha. Basically, it’s a chance to write chatty little life updates. Things that have been on my mind. Things we’ve been up to. Whatever. You get the idea. I used to actually send out proper news-letters via email but I was a bit too lazy to keep it up regularly. This suits me better! Gosh, if you made it through that atrocious pre-amble, I applaud you. That’s how little I’m feeling my writing efforts lately. via GIPHY Selling stuff I don’t want anymore I’m trying to be more proactive in…
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Are we grown ups now?
This week we welcomed a new addition to the family. Yep. I know. The Little Miss is only 8 weeks old, but we did it. We bought a car! The Unprepared household is pretty excited. See, it’s the first time we have had two decent family cars at once. Now I’m not talking anything super flashy. Our vehicles are quite modest. A station wagon and a dual cab ute – both second hand purchases and a few years old. But we are thrilled. Because Mr Unprepared usually drives crap-heaps, while I run around in the better car. He used to work FIFO and those guys are renowned for having shitty…
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2017: What a year.
It’s December (in case you hadn’t noticed haha) and we are fast approaching Christmas (yay!) and the beginning of a new year! People are starting to reflect on the year they’ve had so far. How has 2017 treated us? For some people it was a dumpster fire of epic proportions. Some years just suck. I totally get that. That’s how 2015/2016 felt to me a lot of the time. That’s why it’s been such a relief to be able to proclaim that 2017 has been hard work, but rewarding. A hard year is so much easier to take when there’s a reward – something that makes it so worth it,…
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100 Happy Days wrap up.
Yep. It’s me again. Talking about happy stuff. As usual. Geez. Give the corny gratitude shit a rest, you psychopath! Is what I imagine people think when they see yet another “happy” blog post title from me. The thing is, I am not always happy. I get anxious, flat, sad and angry. And I don’t think it’s realistic to make yourself believe you can be happy 100% of the time. That’s a lot of pressure and a lot of inevitable disappointment, right? But I look for the ‘happy’ I can find, whenever I can. I work really hard at focusing on the positives – sometimes I succeed and other times I…
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Sporadic ‘Newsletter’: January 2017 Edition.
I think the school holidays have mashed up my brain, because I have not been able to form a coherent blog post in over a week now. So I thought I would bring back my sporadic newsletter. It’s really is actually very sporadic. I think the last one I published was in June 2015! It’s basically a chatty post, designed to catch you up on the sometimes quite random things that we’ve been up to or that have been going through my brain. You know. So I don’t have to string one single idea together into a palatable post…ha. Sorry not sorry! So, here’s what’s been going on… The 24…
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Stuff to do in Kalbarri, Western Australia.
Have you ever been to Kalbarri? It’s just over 500 km north of Perth. It’s a bit of a drive, but it was just the thing we needed after a long, cold and ridiculous winter. It was quite the family affair: my brother in law, sister in law, a couple of nephews and my parents in law were all in attendance. I was excited for sunshine and a bit of camping. Well, when I say camping, it was all rather civilised. Powered sites, our cosy camper trailer, roast dinners (not joking – Weber BBQs can do amazing things), those super comfy camp chairs that I got on sale at an…
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Sporadic ‘Newsletter’: June 2015 Edition
Look, these ‘sporadic’ newsletters aren’t really sporadic, are they? I mean, I seem to pump them out monthly, with alarming regularity. And sometimes I feel like writing them more than monthly when a lot has been going on but I don’t know how to label them so it’s all a bit of a grey area. I might possibly be overthinking this. I mean, do I rename it the ‘remarkably regular newsletter’? Or the Unprepared Monthly (which just sounds like code for ladies’ issues)? Or do I leave it like it is and write the actual, specific date on it instead of a whole month? I mean, what if I want…
