Simple and Loveable

PR vs Substance

I had a conversation last week about two competing businesses. One with substance, but no PR machine, the other with great PR but not a lot a lot behind it. The one with good PR is currently winning out. Having come into contact with PR based businesses, I feel like I've ...

We have awesome customers

After going to Verity's birthday party and winding up today with a sore throat and a longer battle with this stupid flu, I was feeling quite sorry for myself. Until Dave, one of our awesome customers walked in with a PRESENT! You will never guess what it was.... A whiteboard eraser and whiteboard ...

A hardcore weekend.

So Thursday afternoon all my partying came back to severely bite me. I have never had the flu before, but I do not recommend it! Thank goodness my mother is the reincarnation of Florence Nightingale and as soon as she heard a whiff on the grapevine that I was not feeling ...

How to get a job you love.

A friend of mine was recently worrying about his lack of motivation and his lack of interest in his job. This is not something I generally suffer from, and I think the reason lies in one of the things he said: "I can't get paid for doing anything I'm interested in". Which ...

The Gym. Month Two.

So, aside from continuously growing, I feel like the gym is going well. Amy has just joined and we are now doing combined sessions. So far this has meant her arriving to pick me up off the floor of the office and force me to run on treadmills, cycle machines and ...

Mid Winter Wine Touring

The newest dance troup to hit Wellington (we call ourselves 'Interpretive Spears'), went on a road trip last weekend to the lovely, slightly less freezing Wairarapa for a day of vineyards, shared lunches and chocolate. Apparently we are all going through a quarter life crisis and some of us wound up ...

Appreciating the good side of life

My crisis of trust last week was the result of several things, the largest being a substantial betrayal on the work front (for the sake of other people involved I wont go into it, although one day I think it would be good to put it out there). What I learned ...

Swinetastic - don’t constrain, just sustain!

This is a joint post from the Oink nest. Natalie and Claire (authors of the joint post) and holed up in Gipps St, Abbotsford, Melbourne to avoid infecting more of Australia with Swine flu - even though they infected us first. We have had an intense 6 days which got ...

Why Risk it?

I've taken chances in my life. I'm the kind of person who just wants to get stuff done and wont let a few risks get in the way of doing it. The only problem is, those risks are real and I'm tired of working with people and ideas on the basis ...

IT Rockstars and Hairdressing Parties

Last night I went along to the second IT Rockstars event, it was remarkably different from the hairdressing event I went to the night before. Apparently, when in the midst of recession, several businesses have decided that it's time to party. Either that or IT recruitment and hairdressing are the industries ...