10 things I won't be doing in 2011

None of this resolution stuff. Here's a list of things I won't do instead!

1. Give up coffee. Or tea. I love them both and enjoy them.
2. Take up eating chocolate. I'm not going to apologise for it but - I do not like chocolate. It does not like me if it's anything fancier than Cadbury. I don't like it or need it in my life. 
3. Floss more often. I find it a really horrible feeling and it is disgusting to do and I've never had a prolem with my teeth because of it so why bother? I hate going to the dentist as it is, without also adding the trauma of squeaking floss every day.
4. Do some extreme sport! No bungy jumping, skiing, skydiving for me.
5. Eat coriander. I detest the stuff and refuse to eat it.
6. Get into vampire stories more. Yawn.
7. Commit to losing weight - I refuse to play that game with myself or society. If my thighs offend, avert your eyes.
8. Call people more often. I hate speaking on the phone and hope people don't mind email, FB, text, smoke signals etc.
9. Assume that I can do more, financially, physically and mentally, then survive this year. It is going to be a FULLON one and I'll need my A-game just to get through it so nothing extra - no budgeting to achieve dizzy financial heights of success, no grand plans to expunge the clutter from my life, no writing novels or giving speeches either.
10. Get divorced, move house or have another baby.

10 things I might do, especially if asked though:

1. Pose for my photographic friend Billie - you can see her amazing photos on her new website and there are a few of me too! Because being behind the lens most often, means that there are few photos of me!
2. Read a book that doesn't have to do with midwifery, parenting or babies.
3. Go for a swim in the freezing cold, just off the iceberg from Antarctica water that inhabits the coast near Adelaide. It is COLD and I don't like it.
4. See any friend that asks me - tea, opshopping and so forth is fun and I want to hold my spare time close!
5. Write to people more often.
6. Take a photo a day. I may only publish once a week though.
7. Get a good night's sleep.
8. Order lamb from Wychwood, and maintain our subscription to Food Connect.
9. Have an anticonsumerist year - undies, presents, food and fuel are fine, but continuing with 2010 where minimal stuff was bought in the shops.
10. Go to the zoo.

Resume of what I am

Not what I want to be, or what I'm developing skills in now, but what I am. I stole this from Kate at Craftastrophies, who stole it from a cup of tea and a wheat penny.

Likes to wear colours rather than black. A lot of them all at one time. Because she likes deep, rich colours, they do go together. She hopes. Is known for telling other people, in the cafe or the store, that she likes their scarf or stockings, while being aware that it may come across her desiring to steal said item of clothing.


Must have one of "those" faces, as is regularly mistaken for someone else. Will give directions to confused-looking pedestrians, shoppers or tourists. Prefers to write with a fountain pen, with orange ink. Carries a large bag as a handbag, complete with just enough stuff to make it full but able to be navigated.


Likes to write letters by hand and owns boxes of stamps to post them with. Carries an old-fashioned address book and notebook to write important things in. Has an uncanny knack for reverse parallel parking and finding lost objects.

Considers herself active but in reality hasn't ridden a bike in years, loves to make stock from scratch, detests corriander. Is mistaken for a Kiwi occassionally and wouldn't mind going there again. 

Has silver hairs starting to show through and doesn't care. Does stop to smell the roses and loves to do the puzzles in the paper, but only after reading the cartoons. Was tortured with flying insects as a child with long hair to put them in and has a phobia of them now.

Sings in a choir for a university she has never attended. Loves cats, small children and the colour red.  Is untidy and impatient and grumpy when hungry. Can write with her left hand but can't brush her teeth with that hand.

10 things to do this week

1. Pay our midwife her fee (this is on my list of things to do because it requires me to go to the bank, which is a drama in itself!
2. Plan a birth (as much as possible)!
3. Interview a woman to be her follow-through student midwife
4. Finish my portfolio for 2009 and
5. hand it in
6. Decorate some of the bedroom
7. Take photos every day - have missed one so far this year but that's ok!
8. Send off my report to the lawyers to move foward in settling claim
9. Get a mattress topper
10. Spend a day with my husband

When I'm not feeling like so much wet tissue, I will get back to writing real posts. I'm sure my lists are fascinating to people .

30 weeks this week. 5 and a bit weeks of work to go. YAY!