#firsteverblog

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Wanna know my senior high school life?

THIS.BLOG.IS.FOR.YOU :]

Introducing my section, STEM-E:

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My first Blog

Hi, my name is Graham, I am writing this blog to give some insight into what happens during a normal night at work. I work as a doorman in Glasgow and have done so for the last nine years touching on ten, I have collected a lot of memories, some will stick with me to the grave and some I will pass on in this blog. For some background as I said I am a doorman, this basically means I work every weekend at various bars and clubs around the city centre in Glasgow and I have done my fair share of festival work at the start of my journey when I was a lot younger and fitter. The next few weeks I am based at the one bar so my blog will be about what’s going on at the bar and how it compares to my first few weeks all those years ago, I also want to speak about how the public’s perception of doormen have changed and how my own perception of the public has changed as well over the years.

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What is it that scares us?

I am scared of telling people what i am actually afraid of. The fear about things that cannot be seen but only be felt. Apparently  opening up eases the fear. But what about the fear of opening up itself?

"knock knock!"

"who's it?"

" INSECURITIES"

yes. this is where insecurities gives its entry. our fear changes into our insecurities. so now the question is which one should be dealt with first? the fear itself or the insecurities? Does dealing with our fear first  eases out our insecurities  or dealing with our insecurities first eases our fear?

So, What is it that scares us?

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recreating the 1989 aesthetic in reputation lyrics and promoting #Lover coming this 23rd of August 2019

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Get outta town!

So we did it. In January this year we moved our little family from comfortable bayside suburban Melbourne to Nowra, South Coast NSW, population 35,000. Home to the Navy, a hospital, the mighty Shoalhaven River and the highest ice-using rate in NSW.  The last bit we didn't know before we moved. Why did we do it? Well, it’s complicated…

The dream began in 2009 while visiting to our wedding venue. We were casually flipping through a real estate brochure of the Bateman’s Bay Area without even an idea of buying, ridiculing comfortable suburban-like homes in a rural setting, speculating that partly cleared land next to state forest would be ideal, turned the page and there it was. 72 acres of our future dreams, set in the unspoilt NSW South Coast, with distant ocean views, adjoining state forest, partly cleared but with spotted gum trees stretching tall and straight into our imaginations.

For 2 years we kept a watch on it, from the UK we rang and asked for information. We moved back to the suburbs of Melbourne and planned a trip to step foot on that land. The price dropped. We were the winning bidder of two. We hastily sold the Melbourne house, and decided on an adventurous move into a one-room shack in the bush without running water or power. And then we got pregnant. Which was awesome, I just never pictured myself as a hippy with a baby and a dog all squished up in one room with a day’s drive between me and a supportive mother and loving aunties! So we stayed in Melbourne and then another bubba arrived and the coastal property slowly became over grown, the self-sown wattles obscured the ocean views.

The planning didn’t stop and in the time it took me to have two toddlers, council finally approved the road we need to build to even reach our top building spot. My pre purchase ‘back of the envelope’ calculations of a $40K road were out by $200K. To some the dream might have looked more like a mirage. Paying exorbitant Melbourne rent was working our bank balance toward zero fast. So we decided on a moving date, I started looking for a job, and that’s how we landed in Nowra - half way between the job I landed and our job of land. We’re now onto Plan B, building on the other side of the block avoiding the need for an expensive road, but this area has its own challenges with only a single access point and higher fire risk.

I’m telling you all of this not just because I’m prone to verbosity, but because the trajectory of our dream isn’t straightforward, simple or even certain. Council or the Rural Fire Service may not approve this. We don’t have nearly enough money. People say we’re living the dream and I guess we are, but the point is we are hanging way out on a springy branch. It reminds me of that saying, ‘You can’t cross a chasm in two small steps’. On weekends when we stay on our land and I wake to birdsong, walk amongst the trees and am caressed by the soft salted breeze, I know why we are doing this. We are committed to making this happen. With Zane’s creativity, skills and energy, and my environmentalism, planning and persistence we are going to build ourselves a beautiful home that is respectful of its surroundings.

I’m honoured you are joining me as I document our journey. I plan to write about fun stuff like bugs and birds as well as serious things such as change and architecture. Even this is an adventure for me, writing with the intent to be read. Onwards!

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I’m a blogger now. :) Hello tumblr ♥

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The gist of it

          Every day I stand alone. Not because I am alone, but because I work as a Front Desk Clerk at a Hotel. So many lives pass me by everyday that one can only imagine what all of them constantly do day in and day out. Coming to work and putting on a smile for the past three years has been a huge treat in my life. It seems to be the only constant in my life and with how confused I am, I will take anything that puts a smile on my face.          I enjoy dealing with people at work because it is not about my life. I get to ask the questions instead of being asked. I get to make people smile. I get to meet people from all over the world. I get to see into other peoples life and build myself around the ideas of the common business traveler.          I tend to enjoy helping random people out more than people I know, I think it is because I don’t want to disappoint people that are in my daily life. Which doesn’t make much sense in my head either. I’m excellent at holding a conversation or breaking the ice with people I don’t know and I can literally say I get paid to talk to random people. I just want to talk to people all the time, about nothing, but about everything at the same time.          I’m happy, I think, but I’m not sure I really know what happiness is.

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All The Wee Things

Hello World

Welcome to my blog.  

My name is Marion, and I have set up this blog to pass on “All The Wee Things” I have encountered in life that have helped make me a happier person.  

I turned 30 recently, and I suppose this has been the catalyst for reflecting on my life so far.   

I have met so many lovely people in life, and have often been told I’m a very happy person.  Now, I have my moments (!), but I take a lot of joy from life’s simpler pleasures, or “All The Wee Things,” and I just wanted to put them out there to the world, in case they somehow, helped someone, somewhere to find a little bit of extra happiness in their lives. And if no-one reads this apart from me, I’ll use it to cheer myself up as and when required! 

Thank you for visiting my blog!

Marion :)