The final word on Fashion!
Well at least for a while!
After five months working with a very small team team of polished and professional people, the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival Brisbane has wrapped up and my job of getting some attention for it and on it has too.
I’m more fashionable than I thought!
It’s not very often that I am wrong.
But when I am, I am bold enough to admit my mistake (solo, not plural) and move on.
A few months ago I outlined some misgivings I had about embracing a new media position, because of a self-perceived lack of style.
I was so wrong and I’m sorry.
Let the Games Begin!! Homegrown Olympic village.
Like so many people I cannot wait for the Games to begin.
It seems like only four years ago I was there, brandishing my valued infinity pass which allowed me access to…well everywhere.
In the Birdcage mid-track 
aka Usain Bolt (see pic), courtside at the US Dreamteam versus Boomers game, Federerside at the tennis, poolside at the Phelps eight medal haul, podiumside at the cycling…ahhh the glory days.
But in the theme of inspirational sporting quotes such as :
“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”
Pierre de Coubertin (founder of modern Olympic Games)
… it’s not really that far removed from my own amazing Olympic village at home…the competitors all take part and they all fight!.
Want to test your self-esteem? Go to a model casting.
This week I visited the Land of the Giants.
These giants though, weren’t green and gnarly and built like rectangles.
No! They were mostly blonde or brunette and smooth and built like pencils.
ONE DAY IN NEW YORK! This will be hard to beat.
A sneaky photo with Hugh Jackman backstage after the Boy from Oz, snaps with transvestites on floats in the gay Mardi Gras, the New York baseball local derby, breakfast at Balthazar, window shopping on Spring St, cheering Aussies in the New York triathlon in Central Park, a visit to the Guggenheim Museum and a trip to the top of the empire state building.
These are just some of the many things my fun-loving friend Teena and I experienced and did on a two-woman trip to the big apple.
Except we did all on that list and squeezed in a few drinks and a curbside cafe lunch all in just ONE DAY!
I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts!!
He didn’t scale the palm tree with his bare hands and feet.
The modern ladder was a much more efficient method to reach the top quickly and stand there safely, while he machete’d the ring of green coconuts to the ground.
There was no denying however, his traditional Fijian coconut gathering and chopping skills.
It took just seconds for him to spin the coconut in his hand and slice off the top in equi-distant portions and puncture the perfectly formed crater, to then present to us a full-to-the-brim green cup of coconut water. The kind we now know to be chock full of electrolytes and about five bucks or more a bottle. We just added ice (ok, some added vodka) and drank the refreshingly, pale liquid pretty much all day.
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Suprise! What kids do to amaze you!
When it comes to kids and surprises, there’s nothing that, … well, suprises me!
This car is an example, as you’ll soon see.
Forced to give up your kids…Could you imagine anything worse?
It’s on the front pages of all the papers and on all the television and radio news reports.
The mum on the Sunshine Coast being forced by the courts to give up her four children and send them to live in Italy with a father they claim is abusive.
At the moment the girls are in hiding with their grandmother and aunt but the two women have been ordered to front court to reveal the children’s location.
So that they can be put on a plane to Italy.
It is the most traumatic of circumstances.
How to…..feel like you have fifty shades of no clue!
Tonight I am off to see the Queensland premiere of Fifty Shades of Grey, the film. I am going with an open mind, but I don’t think the words “I liked the movie better than the book,” has ever come out of my mouth or anyone I know who likes to read. Here’s what I thought about the books back in 2012!
After reading the Fifty Shades trilogy, by E.L James, I now know 45 new ways to have sex. In theory that is!
Forget plot and storyline and character development.
You don’t need to assign a genre, like erotic romance or relationship thriller.
Instead these books should be found in the self-help section , under How To.
Karryn Wheelans 