Giving Back Girl

Just a little bit terrified

2012-01-24T18:00:00.000-08:00

www.pacificjules.com.au Have you done something recently that's scared your frickin' pants off and that's taken you above and beyond any acceptable fear factor level? We don't often take ourselves...

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A little humble pie

2012-01-22T13:58:00.000-08:00

According to the Dictionary for the Modern World," a 'humble brag' is a vain, bragging statement usually made on a social media that comes dressed in a thin veil of humility or depreciation. A...

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That time of year

2012-01-17T13:58:00.000-08:00

I need to some way of becoming part of Clarks shoes other than as a customer that is bled dry each January. I think this each year. And is it just me or do they do their own inflation adjusted...

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Getting it right

2012-01-11T14:23:00.000-08:00

You know me by now that often you get a warts and all version of real life events from me, I don't try and sugar coat it or myself, and I often fear the wrath of your judgement, although you're all...

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Holidays

2012-01-09T16:55:00.000-08:00

I'm in the deep of the school holidays. I'm at that stage where I need a little me time (and not the kind where I'm looking at the blue line at the bottom of the swimming pool as I escape for a 30...

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Howyadoing?

2012-01-04T13:07:00.000-08:00

Lordy, what happened to me? Not even a Felice Navida, just a snarky post about a swimming pool incident. Obviously not much pre-christmas cheer going on in my neck of the woods. The Husband always...

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Just telling it like it is.

2011-12-19T23:12:00.000-08:00

Interesting that in the season of goodwill I should post a story tinged with un-goodwill'ness. Don't shoot me. I'm just calling it as I saw it, and I truly am a very nice person. We're at our last...

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A Christmas Letter

2011-12-19T00:23:00.000-08:00

Dear Sister, First off, I just want to say how happy I am that we'll be together at Christmas, I really think that's important for you to know. I know that you have had the same "kind" of Christmas...

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A Love Story

2011-12-06T14:39:00.000-08:00

Once upon a time there were two girls, they became BFFs before that title was even thought up. As they grew up, they had each others back. And as they went through thick and thin, they always were...

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It's a new dawn, it's a new day..

2011-12-05T19:07:00.000-08:00

I'm reinventing my family. I'm inspired. I'm inspired by those who do fabulous things with their family that makes me envy them and wish that I'd had that idea. But inspiring ideas are too juicy...

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Growing up

2011-11-28T13:15:00.000-08:00

My 11 year old is growing up. I know this because there are cracks appearing. They were tiny to start with a "don't Mum", but have got bigger "Mum, don't say that kind of stuff" to finally a fault...

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Wanting what you've had

2011-11-27T16:42:00.000-08:00

Don't you sometimes feel that you haven't realised how much you've loved something until it's over. It's almost as if when you're actually doing it, you're not aware of how much you're loving it....

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The Boyos

2011-11-22T12:19:00.000-08:00

I went to a fabulous course the other night and listened to some very sage advice, if you haven't done yet then please drop by the gorgeous Kerri Sackville's blog lifeandothercrises. Anyhoo, amongst...

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The Eternal Search

2011-11-21T15:50:00.000-08:00

I am forever looking for that miracle cure, a youth elixir, that magical product that will salvage the remnants of a face long past. Why did I put baby oil on my face then cast my face towards the...

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A Moment

2011-11-16T17:02:00.000-08:00

Thank you for sharing this gorgeous image I want to start by saying, if anyone ever suggests it's a good idea to do a monster grocery shop at nighttime "while it's quiet and you can have some time...

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Stop the clock

2011-11-15T14:40:00.000-08:00

When did Leonardo Di Caprio become 37? He used to be a kid, a child actor? didn't he? What happened? I am no older, but somehow Leo is? I don't get it. And he's looking older too. He used to...

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A sign

2011-11-10T16:29:00.000-08:00

Oh gawd, here she goes, I know you're all thinking. Blah, blah, blah deep and meaningful stuff coming up... Well actually it's not or at least is only a little. You know my lovely peeps, that you...

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The Rocky Road to Purpose

2011-11-09T12:36:00.000-08:00

Hmmm, this makes it sound like a destination rather than a state of being. I wish it was, it might be easier to get there. Do you ever analyse yourself so much that you end up feeling so stink and...

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Alter ego

2011-11-06T19:47:00.000-08:00

Do you have another personality that sometimes pops out after two glasses of champagne too many? Guilty. I have a particular pose that comes out whenever the cameras come out. (which always seems to...

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Those that do

2011-11-03T20:42:00.000-07:00

Have you noticed that around you there are those that do and those that don't, and those that do what they've been asked to do ("but I don't want to run the thing")? Schools are perfect examples...

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Words

2011-11-03T04:05:00.000-07:00

Thank you itsrainingheaven.blogspot.com

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Good Intentions

2011-11-02T00:55:00.000-07:00

Thank you http://soulhunting.tumblr.com/post/10975485557 So you put a big announcement out to the blog-i-verse (ok, I'm not sure where I stand on blog'isms, sort of like the family stickers people...

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Living your best life

2011-10-27T20:42:00.000-07:00

Thank you http://kpeppler.tumblr.com/page/11 You all know that I'm on a bit of a personal crusade to find purpose in my life and to get amongst it. This is a good, productive theme for me, I have a...

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A story that just needs to be told

2011-10-24T18:20:00.000-07:00

Some of my friends have heard this story, but it's a doozy so you can suffer through it again. Most of you know that booking accommodation is a big stress point for me when organising any holiday....

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Oh say can you see....

2011-10-24T02:26:00.000-07:00

Three weeks in the USA has given me a wealth of material to write about. While I was there I was busting to write, it was so fascinating people watching, I was in social observation heaven! But now...

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