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• Bullshit-free Bride: Curating the Guest List

  With a wedding venue found and a date set (May, and luckily I was flexible – i.e. had trouble choosing a date – as it wound up being dictated by availability),... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2012 COMMUNITY, TRAVEL

• Friday Five: Things I Can’t Get Enough of

  

  Payday If only payday could be every day. Alas, next week marks my last payday for the year. When’s yours? Putting money into savings I transfer my whole... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2012 COMMUNITY, TRAVEL

• Struggling to Eat Healthy

  My eating habits have gone to hell in a handbasket lately.I don’t know about you, but when things get busy, my diet suffers. You’re short on time, so you end... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2012 COMMUNITY, TRAVEL

• Link Love (Powered by Honey and Lemon)

  Thanks to a systems failure, T was off work for two days this week. Being hourly, that meant no pay. Boo. Overtime brought that up to more or less normal levels... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2012 COMMUNITY, TRAVEL

• Guest Post: The Day After the Big One – What Spouses Should Expect from Each...

  Goldie Spivey is a full time staffer at a wedding invitations company and a freelance bridal make-up artist.Today, flash mob weddings are becoming more and... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2012 COMMUNITY, TRAVEL

• Friday Five: New-to-me Auckland Cheap Eats

  

  Moustache Milk and Cookie BarWhen I first learned there was a new place in Auckland that sold only milk and cookies (plus ice cream and coffee, etc), I knew I... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2012 COMMUNITY, TRAVEL

• Work Lunches: Bring Your Own, Save Money

  You might have noticed a distinct lack of monthly spending recaps on this ole blog of late. I’ll admit, I’ve been less than upfront about our spending recently. Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2012 COMMUNITY, TRAVEL

• A Month of Reduced Income (and the Risk That Comes with Trading Time for Money)

  While I’m usually all for writing about what’s going on in my life, for some reason I didn’t really want to write about what happened last month while it was... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2012 COMMUNITY, TRAVEL

• Self Promotion WITHOUT Crossing the Line into Douchebaggery

  It’s a fine line, isn’t it?The topic cropped up at work the other day – how some people successfully build a profile without coming across as total asshats.... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2012 COMMUNITY, TRAVEL

• It’s Official: Just Call Me a Caitlin Moran Groupie (or, Moranthology Rocks My...

  Regular readers may well recall my professed love for Caitlin Moran. Incredibly hilarious, with a too-extreme-to-be-true life story, with a Tumblr devoted to he... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2012 COMMUNITY, TRAVEL

• Link Love (Powered by Sugar Cookies and New Faces)

  It’s slightly strange being on the opposite side of the fence from everyone in the northern hemisphere. You’ve all just switched your clocks around – we... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2012 COMMUNITY, TRAVEL

• Snapjoy – the Ultimate in Photo Storage?

  

  My current first world problem relates to photo overload, as I bet some of you can relate to.Taking photos is rad. Sorting through and deleting the chaff, not s... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2012 COMMUNITY

• The Importance of Being Yourself (or, Every Blogger’s Biggest Asset)

  Think about it. What is the one thing that makes your blog unique?(It’s you.)Since JD Roth and Richard MacManus (a Kiwi, incidentally) fully stepped away from... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2012 COMMUNITY, TRAVEL

• How I’m Saving Money This Christmas

  

  It sucked growing up and not getting birthday or Christmas presents. But now that I’m an adult, I’m really glad my family plays it that way. Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2012 COMMUNITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Friends Are Living out Pride and Prejudice

  Except with an Indian twist, that is.The unattached ones find their love lives open to public scrutiny. Family, friends, etc are all invested in finding a... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2012 COMMUNITY, TRAVEL

• Link Love (Powered by Mochachinos and Coldplay)

  It must be bloody near impossible to study when you have a kid. Infinitely more so as a single parent. It must be incredibly hard, and lonely, to study in a... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 COMMUNITY, TRAVEL

• Friday Five: The Facts of Life

  Things I have learned about adulthood:Arriving two hours ahead of your flight at the airport is usually overkill.That said, I’m too chicken to risk it, because ... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 COMMUNITY, TRAVEL

• Review: Fatherland

  

  Fatherland By Robert HarrisI picked this up randomly off the ‘recently returned’ bookshelf at my local library. Turns out this book made the author, a humble... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• On Unabashedly Saying No to Booze

  

  As I get older, my tolerance for BS has shrunk to near negligible levels. I just don’t have the time or energy for the things I don’t have time or energy for. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 COMMUNITY, DRINK, FOOD & DRINK, LIFE COACH, RANTS N' RAVES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Online Shopping: a New Zealand Perspective

  Since I got my first and only credit card back in 2007 (I still have the same one, although obviously not the exact same physical card as I’ve been through a... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2012 COMMUNITY