The thing that I would change about modern society would be to change Facebook. I would make it that people could only make positive encouraging responses on Facebook, that people would be banned from making negative or hateful comments. Facebook has been the avenue for many online bullies to wreck their venom, and I would like to see a total end to that. I would like social media to be a pleasant encouraging environment.
What do I listen to whilst I work?. A number of things. I normally have the radio on in the background whilst I go about my day normally. Gold 104.3fm, which is based here in Melbourne. It plays the music I have listened 🎶 to from my early teens onwards. I also listen 🎶 to YouTube clips and my Spotify playlist. It depends what I am in the mood for. I love all Australian Music from the 80s and 90s, but also like a variety of other music.
I have two types of comfort food depending on whether I want something aweet or savoury.
I am a true Aussie girl through and through because my go to savoury comfort food is a crumpet with lashings of butter and Vegemite. I have grown up loving Vegemite and my favourite way to have it is on a crumpet with butter. It has to be butter , for the taste, and I can’t stand margarine.
My other go-to comfort food, when I want something sweet, is a bowl 🥣 of warm custard 🍮 with stewed apple 🍎. Served warm, this is the ultimate in comfort food and takes me back to childhood, and now that I am diabetic it is the closest thing I can have, like my mother’s Golden Syrup Dumplings If I can’t have Golden Syrup Dumplings, then I will happily settle for custard and stewed apples.
What’s your favorite game (card, board, video, etc.)? Why?
My favourite card game 🎴 would have to be Uno, as it is simple and fun for all ages. My favourite board games are Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit because they are fun and exercise your brain and vocabulary. My other favourite games 🎮 ❤️ are those I play with Lily, eg fetch and tug of war. I love playing with Lily, and she just loves it. I make time every day to play a little with her. She is happy and contented because I play with her on a regular basis.
There are a few activities that can make me lose track of time.
I can lose track of time when I take Lily for her morning walk.
I can lose track of time in the company of good friends, particularly when there is food and good conversation involved. Chatting over a good meal is a way of losing time. Good times spent creating good memories are a great way to lose track of time.
Definitely reading a good book is another way that I lose track of time.
Definitely, writing this blog and my other writings are the main ways that I can lose track of time.
Watching a good movie or YouTube clips is a way I spend a lot of time.
Cooking a nice meal is also an activity I can spend time on and shopping at ALDI or shopping for pleasure 🙏🏽 is another activity that I can lose track of time doing.
There are a few things that bother me. Obviously, things like man’s inhumanity to man and evil behaviour in general are a big concern. .
I am concerned when people show a lack of empathy and compassion to one another. People who think they are doing the right thing but interfering in another’s karma are actually just generating bad karma for themselves as we all reap what we sow.
Discrimination in its many forms concerns me and injustice as well. People who are judgemental are also a concern.
People who are cruel to animals are another thing that worries me.
A lack of peace in this 🌎 world is something else that bothers me.
1. Change is inevitable. The only constant thing in life is change, so expect it and know nothing stays the same forever.
2. You will experience loss and grief in your life. Death is part of the cycle of life, and you will experience the loss of loved ones on your journey
3. Have faith in a higher power. I know God exists 🙏🏽 in my life because I have faith, and there have just been too many things happen in my life that could not be coincident.
4 Be an optimistic person. Seeing things through a half glass full attitude helps you in your everyday life in your dealings with the 🌎 world. It pays dividends to be an optimistic.
5 Wealth isn’t necessarily financial. Like me you can be wealthy in terms of quality of relationships and life whilst not necessarily having a vast amount of money.
6 Save for a rainy day. We all must, at some stage, learn to live within our means, and it is wise to learn to save for the special things we want in life. There is pleasure 🙏🏽 in delayed gratification, and we learn to appreciate what we have more.
7. Being grateful 🙏🏽 for what we have. This goes hand in hand of saving for a rainy day. Learning to be grateful for what we have is something that you would hope we all learn as we age.
8 Honesty and loyalty are important. This speaks for itself. A lot of pain is caused for us when people are not truthful or dishonest. Being genuine and authentic is important and helps to live life without pain or suffering
9 Live life without regrets because we can’t change the past, but we can change how it affects our present and future. Don’t lament what has happened in the past,because that can’t change so don’t invest precious energy feeling bad about things that have happened in the past, instead invest energy in making the future good.
10 Unconditional love is bliss 😊. The unconditional love of a child or pet is one of the greatest gifts in life. I may not have children of my own, but the unconditional love from my nephews and nieces and, of course, from my loyal little dog Lily is the absolute best thing in my life. I know from experience how enriching and meaningful having that kind of love is, so if you have, it enjoy it because it truly is a gift from God.
If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite?
If I were to have a dinner party and whoever I invited was sure to come, I would invite Sam Neill, Scott Aplin, Russell, Adrian , Liz, and Lani
I would love to share a meal and a wine with Sam Neill and just chew the fat with him, as I know he would make an interesting dinner guest. I would love Scott Aplin to come and play the piano for us. He is just do lovely and talented, and again, he would be interesting to talk to about his career.
Amongst my friends, I would invite Adrian and Russell because they are interesting conversationalists. I would invite Lani because she is my soul sister, and I would invite Liz because she is delightful. I am blessed with wonderful friends, and Sam Neill and Scott Aplin are two people in the world that I would like most to meet.
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