Talking on the phone for three hours, and then the next day the other person calls you for three hours – spreading the costs out like you did in high school. Three loads of washing in one night. Learning Gangnam Style for the party shop. Wine tastings, five star hotel, 2am swims, crazy road trips to little German towns, leaving my purse in the hire car and missing the flight home in the Barossa Valley. Discovering Jeremy & Kathleen. Watching Madagascar Three and scoffing pancakes. Homework. Finding a dismembered possum in the back yard. Conferences. Treating myself to new dresses at my favourite shop. Being an adult and seeing an accountant, buying accounting software and booking my car in for a service. Being a kid and swinging on swings, running around playing chasey and dancing to Afro Circus/I Like To Move It. Driving my sister to the airport at 6am. New babysitting clients. Preparing for classes. Electric blankets. Feedback forms. Blocked noses and coughing. Being trapped in an elevator with a baby. Dreaming I had a baby of my own. Huge electricity bills. Throwing away old clothes. Eating large amounts of over-priced grapes. Milky Ways, Sprite, strawberries. Tiredness. Mistakes. Suffocation. Happiness. Disappointment. Stressfulness. Life.
