Does a man want a woman who looks like his car?

This is my new theory – you can tell a lot about what a man is looking for in a woman by the car he drives.

Examples:

• A friend’s late 30-something colleague has just bought himself a Porsche. He reckons it will make him more attractive ‘to the ladies’ but is already calculating what he’ll be able to sell it for when he needs to get a SUV to cart the kids around in.
• Another single male friend just bought a very nice, sporty, quite flashy car and was agonising over whether to get the silver or white colourway as he tried to work out ‘what he wanted the car to say about him’.

Hey, you’re OK

Do you watch TED Talks? They are the most amazing collection of ideas, education and inspiration. One of my favourite online innovators/designers/funny people/creative thinkers is Ze Frank whose ‘How to dance properly‘ educational video (LOL!) was possibly the world’s first truly viral video, back in 2001. I have a soft spot for his clips about his cat Annie, but also can spend hours on his site playing with the little creative tools he develops and checking out the seriously interesting projects he runs with his online community.

The perfect birthday

My birthday’s coming up quite soon and I’m trying to decide how to celebrate it.

Definitely taking the day off work (it falls on a weekday this year) so I’m thinking a bit of a lie-in, followed by breakfast at my favourite coffee-and-croissant place… then maybe a morning movie followed by lunch with whichever friends can meet me… and maybe a pedicure or some other form of pampering in the afternoon, a little retail therapy (must get myself a birthday present after all!) and then dinner with my family.

How would you plan for your perfect birthday, assuming it’s all about YOU and doing things to treat yourself?

Priorities, obligations and guilt

I really am persona non grata with my family at the moment. Why? Because I’m not joining them all for Christmas in the cold, dark, wet UK – I’ve booked myself a trip to Egypt and Dubai for three weeks.Pyramids, camels, sphinxes – here I come.

Not the reaction I’d expected

Almost two years ago I had a falling out with two of my closest friends (let’s call them Friend A and Friend B). At the time I was very hurt and confused – particularly because I didn’t understand what had happened, and neither was willing to discuss it. The whole episode was very upsetting and to this day, it is unresolved.

Finding the fun

Ever find that you’ve become too serious? That there’s a fun side to you but it’s buried beneath tons of work, professionalism, stress and responsibility?

That’s me, right now. And it’s time to find the fun again. I can be silly. I like being silly! I love to laugh, to tease my friends, to banter and flirt, to let my hair down.

Something’s got to give…

Sheesh. I am so snowed under with work at the moment that I’ve not had time to post on here for ages. I love what I do, and I have great clients, but I can’t keep all these balls in the air much longer. In fact, I dropped one earlier and am bracing myself for the client’s response tomorrow (eek!).

Anyway, when I am really busy with work, being single sucks.

Tweets that deserve a slap

“Hubby away for three more sleeps. How will I cope??!!”  <– Crikey, it’s going to be touch and go for a while but hang in there, you can pull through.

“Cooking for one is not much fun Don’t think I’ll bother.”  <– same person as above

“Eating dinner on my own at home – hate it. So glad I’m not single.”  <– and again… swiftly unfollowed!

What makes you feel ‘grown up’?

I still think of and refer to myself as a ‘girl’. When news reports mention ‘the suspect is a man who…’ or ‘… is the first woman to…’, I always mentally picture people who are much older than me. At what point do you stop being a girl/boy and are described as a woman/man? Puberty? 18? 21? 40?! If it’s when you have kids, I look forward to being a girl for ever

So while I still feel like a ‘girl’ most of the time, there are occasions when I do feel grown up – and I was wondering what those times are for the rest of y’all? A few examples from my life:

Missing the ‘oooh, cute baby!’ gene

Please tell me someone else is with me on this.

I think baby animals are just gorgeous. Puppies with fat little tummies, tripping over their oversized paws. Kittens with their you’ll-grow-into-them-one-day ears and squeaky mews. Baby bunnies, newborn foals, fuzzy bear cubs – who doesn’t squee a little when they see them?

So why don’t I feel the same way about baby humans?