A Big Hot Mess

I shaved my legs for...THIS?!? Newsletter #70

Hello!

We’re back! Sorry for the drop in regularity, you can be assured my mum has already complained to me about it! I’ve been busy working on my next show and a few other fun and exciting things. So we might be a little up and down for the next wee while. But you can always keep up to date with what’s happening over on Instagram as well.

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The Content

THE PAY WALLS ARE OUT OF CONTROL.

Not only will every single website I visit insist on me turning off my Adblock before I indulge, but then I’m also getting ads for Adblock. They want $35 for the privilege of ‘using’ their software that every website in the world can detect immediately. It’s not that I don’t want to pay for anything, but it is practically infeasible to try to pay for everything. Could I delete it all together? Maybe, but what if it does do something after all?

Constantly, I will click on a link to The Cut only to find that the article is quite boring, but then when I find another article with promise but then I’m BLACKLISTED from the whole damn site. How will I leave the next article up in a tab for two weeks before recommending it to you after a quick skim?

Perhaps this should be taken as a sign I need to just get off the internet and read my teetering stack of unread books for a change.

The Food

I went to 100 Flinders Lane on Friday night for a glass of wine when I had an hour to kill between a meeting and watching Greg Larsen’s fantastic London-bound show.

I turned up looking more than a little dishevelled and they took me into their arms and poured me a glass of Yugen Tropical Sunrise. The wine is a delightful drop not dissimilar to a glass of Passiona. Luckily similarity to Passiona is one of the main things I look for in a sophisticated drink.

I don’t know how it happened but when I went I was so affected by the Melbourne Pollen that I forgot how to properly behave at a restaurant. I was trying to do fine lady dining but I was spilling water down my shirt, knocking cutlery off the table and shoving too big a bites of cheesy focaccia into my mouth. It was frankly, uncouth.

I had to go back again the next day with my boyfriend to try and do better. Or at least that’s the excuse I used.

The Social Stuff

I’ve been betrayed by a nasal spray.

I’m not opposed to using a nasal spray. It takes me ever closer to accepting my fate as a giant nerd. Two squirts on a plane have saved me from blocked ears and intense sinus pain on more than one occasion. But this week I learnt that nasal sprays are not to be messed with.

I started a new spray with steroids and antihistamines and it has destroyed my nose. It’s constantly burning like I’ve dived into a swimming pool right after a chlorine overdose. I looked up a review of the medication and people that used it were complaining about everything from brain fog, spontaneous nose bleeds and increased anxiety.

Worse than anything else - it’s the most foul taste I have ever experienced. I know I’ve spoken here about “If you taste it, you waste it before” and please know I’m doing everything I can to avoid this taste and it’s proving impossible. So for now, the spray will be binned and I will continue to suffer from a hayfever induced post nasal drip.

Doesn’t that sound much cooler?

The Miscellaneous Stuff

What’s been happening around here? I’ve been procrastinating with these links.

• Loving chair week at Clever and these chair reviews.

• Love this website about the gender inequality in street names.

• For any comedy nerds, I’ve been enjoying the book ‘Finding your Comedic Genius’. Of course, I’ve already found mine but it might help you.

• I love Autumn. Spring is the devil.

• Cried when he signed his name on the boot. Great Cobbler video.

• As ever, I enjoyed Season 3 of Rose Matafeo’s Starstruck on Iview.

Final Words

I hope this edition has satiated your ravenous appetite for I shaved my legs for…THIS?!? That is of course my endless and eternal goal. I appreciate you sticking around to read it as always and will try and get more regular on the updates.

Right now though I need to go grocery shopping on a Sunday afternoon and I can only hope that everyone took the Monday off for an extra long weekend so it isn’t so much of a nightmare!