It's election time in Australia today so all Aussies will be heading off to their local school/bank/polling booths to cast our votes for who we want as Prime Minister. By later tonight we'll have a pretty good idea if our first female PM is back for another term or whether the other chaps get to have a go. Regardless of who gets in, I'll be glad to ( Read more... )

See my Mad Men icon of Betty? On the couch at the psychologists? That could be me, right now. Or perhaps should be me maybe. (Except I wouldn't be smoking. But drinking? Ah, yeah, I could definitely be doing that, lol ( Read more... )

Is there anything as frustrating as male pride? From my viewpoint of the world today, I tend to think not. Women are much better at dealing with the emotional 'stuff' that comes along during the course of your life; we acknowledge and process it, let it go, then move on ( Read more... )

OMG. I need to upgrade/pay my LJ account so all those damned ads will disappear from my journal... it looks freaking awful with all that crap over it. (Not to mention the severely decreased number of icons available for me to use, argh ( Read more... )

I saw this pic a while back, but it so eloquently explains how I'm feeling right now. Although perhaps I need to change the word 'teenagers' to 'young 20-somethings' or maybe even 'Gen Y'?!

( Put under the cut to protect the innocent... )

Late night vent before I go to sleep - if I keep this in, I'll explode ( Read more... )

Grrrrrrr!! God give me strength.

Do you know how hard it is to verbally pull into line a smart-mouthed 10 year old when the right side of your face is still badly affected by several numbing dentist's needles?? (Had first of two specialist dental appointments to finish my root canal today *sigh ( Read more... )