My week (and a bit) in summary:
#winningatlife
Read MoreI went to Countdown the other day with my Mum and as we were walking out of the check outs I saw a familiar face. I shouted out her name across a couple of counters like she was a best friend who I hadn’t seen in a month or so. I asked her how the ball she went to last night was. It was only when it took her a couple of seconds for her to recognize me did I realise that the familiarity I thought I felt was purely because of her presence on social media. I had seen her life fold out via countless photos and tags. I felt like I had been there every step of the way. I knew where she had been and what she had been doing. Which is really kind of creepy.
Read MoreWoman in the kitchen.
Apparently that is where we are supposed to be. In all honesty the kitchen is my favourite place to be but why is there such a social emphasis on the woman of the household being responsible for the nutrition of her family or friends?
Read MoreI work for a food ingredient supply company in Auckland. I seem to have developed a bit of a baking rep with the warehouse boys there. It probably doesn’t help that I leave biscuits and brownie in their lunch room from time to time. The other day, a couple of them came up to me and coyly told me that they had a couple of bags of browning bananas and asked if I could please make them a banana cake. It was pretty cute so of course I turned up the next day with two totally massive banana cakes. They had both pretty much disappeared within the hour once I dropped them off at 8am.
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