Welcome to March! Can you believe we're two-thirds of the way through the first quarter of 2012?? Me neither. After my abysmal efforts with my mission last month, I'm looking to redeem myself.
Giving up: Shopping
I'm not a compulsive shopper. I'm not even a particularly 'good' shopper because unless I'm visiting somewhere new I can't just wander through shops aimlessly: I need to have something specific in mind.
Hubby on the other hand is the daughter his mother wishes she had.
He LOVES to shop and can do it for hours without looking for anything in particular.
But he can't do the groceries.
He cannot walk the 20m across the road to our local IGA without calling me to double check he's getting the right thing, even if the shopping list consists entirely of tomatoes, sausages and Pepsi Max. Once, he made me visit three different supermarkets to find the best deal on tissues. I understand shopping around for a car, computer or mobile, but tissues??
That has been the only time I've questioned our relationship.
Hubby will try to tell you the reason he calls so often - despite the separation anxiety - is so he doesn't "get in trouble for buying the wrong thing."
I cod understand this if I ever had gone PMS on his ass for buying the wrong colour grapes or the wrong brand tea, but I haven't: EVER.
So unless it's work related I'm giving up shopping for the month and leaving it up to him to do. We started this morning and 10 minutes into the venture, the first call came, though admittedly it was to gauge my preference on favoured health bars.
Taking up: Politics.
I should point out that I'm not actually going to become a politician (which my mum seemed a bit disappointed about), but given the current political environment in Australia I figured this would be a good time to fully immerse myself in political goings-on of our country and get a thorough understanding of all the different pieces.
Because if there's one thing I hate it's people making public statements for or against something when they have no bloody idea how the process works.
I'm fortunate enough to have studied public affairs at uni, and am currently employed by a federal government agency so I've had reasonable exposure to government processes, but I think it's time I work out once and for all where my allegiance falls.
Who knows, maybe it will lead to a career change??
Giving up: Shopping
I'm not a compulsive shopper. I'm not even a particularly 'good' shopper because unless I'm visiting somewhere new I can't just wander through shops aimlessly: I need to have something specific in mind.
Hubby on the other hand is the daughter his mother wishes she had.
He LOVES to shop and can do it for hours without looking for anything in particular.
But he can't do the groceries.
He cannot walk the 20m across the road to our local IGA without calling me to double check he's getting the right thing, even if the shopping list consists entirely of tomatoes, sausages and Pepsi Max. Once, he made me visit three different supermarkets to find the best deal on tissues. I understand shopping around for a car, computer or mobile, but tissues??
That has been the only time I've questioned our relationship.
Hubby will try to tell you the reason he calls so often - despite the separation anxiety - is so he doesn't "get in trouble for buying the wrong thing."
I cod understand this if I ever had gone PMS on his ass for buying the wrong colour grapes or the wrong brand tea, but I haven't: EVER.
So unless it's work related I'm giving up shopping for the month and leaving it up to him to do. We started this morning and 10 minutes into the venture, the first call came, though admittedly it was to gauge my preference on favoured health bars.
Taking up: Politics.
I should point out that I'm not actually going to become a politician (which my mum seemed a bit disappointed about), but given the current political environment in Australia I figured this would be a good time to fully immerse myself in political goings-on of our country and get a thorough understanding of all the different pieces.
Because if there's one thing I hate it's people making public statements for or against something when they have no bloody idea how the process works.
I'm fortunate enough to have studied public affairs at uni, and am currently employed by a federal government agency so I've had reasonable exposure to government processes, but I think it's time I work out once and for all where my allegiance falls.
Who knows, maybe it will lead to a career change??
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