May 19, 2022
I am a lucky, lucky, lucky girl.
I am sitting on my bed, in my warm, cute little house, which has been cleaned to within an inch of its life (I have no clue what that cliche means but I likes it) It is a very grey wet day outside and I am so grateful that I am inside, with my youtubes and sugar free chocolate .
I have the worlds bestest husband, I know there are people out there who think they have the worlds bestest husband, but you don't, you are wrong, his name is Scotty too Hotty and he is mine, mine all mine.
He has a new job n the city, which means he is leaving at some ungodly hour of the morning and coming home after dark. It is a great job and he is very happy in it and doing the thing he loves doing, which is learning new things.
Yes he is a bit of a swot, he always has been, and he is good at it. When we were both studying Degrees at the same time, he was much better at it than me. The entire way through he an was A++ and I was a solid B, granted I was studying Art and Design and he was studying Business, which are very different subjects, but he still kicked my ass every week.
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May 3, 2022
Hot sweaty flushes and the inability to make a cogent decision....that is me, about 150 times a day now. Yay menopause, you mutha fucka.
I am sitting on my bed with a fan blasting me with chilly air trying not to pass out.
This is me ...
It has been months and months since I've blogged anything and the reasons are many...
I have been working very hard (no I haven't)
I have been totally snowed under (no I wasn't)
I am overwhelmed (Yes I am), but just by life...silly every day things that most ...
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August 14, 2021
I recently did a poster for a classroom about concepts of tikanga maori and of course there were the usual suspects, 'Mana', 'Tino Rangatiratanga', 'Kaitiakitanga' and Manaakitanga. I did the usual designer-y things like beautiful landscapes, overlaying transparent kowhaiwhai with the usual meanings taken from the Maori dictionary...but I thought the meanings were long winded and quite frankly lacking in description so I narrowed each down to a few words. I sent the posters to my family and...
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June 30, 2021
I believe that everyone should have a "room" of their own, I know sometimes that isn't possible, but, when I say a room, it doesn't have to be an actual room, but a space in the universe to call their own. It can be large, small, physical, spiritual or mental.
A home in a suitcase My mother travelled the world for years working as a Shaman/ Matakite. She taught people to reconnect with the earth and themselves using the wisdoms that came to her through channel. She helped thousands of pe...
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June 27, 2021
Shit happens
Okay, lately its been drama, drama, drama, all around me. Other peoples drama, not mine. (I can't share that with you it belongs to others damn it , I loves a good gossip)
I don't get to have drama, I'm to busy in my garret (bedroom) knocking out my next masterpiece (playing scrabble on the computer).
By the time I am aware I am having a drama it has already passed me by and I'm like wait a minute, I'm sure something just happened...what happened?? shoot, missed it again.
May...
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June 8, 2021
Accident
When I was a little kid I was in a very bad car accident. I was hit by a van outside my Aunty and Uncles house.
I was at the front window waiting for my parents to come back from wherever they had been and pick me up. When I saw their car arrive, and park across the road, I ran out of the house to it, straight into the path of an oncoming van.
The driver had no chance, and I was hit head on and thrown a fair distance to land in a bloody heap on the road.
I remember two things from t...
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Posted by Olivia Giles.
June 4, 2021
Where the magic happensRejection is painful. And as an artist I leave myself open for rejection every single time I do anything. There is no way around it. I have learned that when it happens you have to feel it, all of it, every gutting shitty moment of it, because it will pass. Everything passes.
Rejection
I just got a rejection letter from 'Pikihuia Short Story Competition" telling me that none of the stories I entered made it through as finalists.
It was a very nice letter, but the t...
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May 27, 2021
My achy breaky heart
I’ve been getting heart pains lately, and I don’t know what they are. I’ve had the ‘tests’, and been told I’m old, and I should expect this, because things are falling apart. I’ve also been told that they are probably anxiety.
Whether they are all of the above or not, it doesn’t matter, I have things I need to get off my chest, and now is as good a time as ever.
A house a haven a home
I love my house. It is the first real home that is mine. My brother John...
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Posted by Olivia Giles.
May 13, 2021
I have written stories, short, long, middling all my life. I have
written a ton of short stories over the past 10 years, mostly because of
the Huia short story competition which is now called Pikihuia. I've been
a finalist three times, yay, with 4 stories yay yay.
When I say I have written "tons” I have started "tons" and
finished about 30% of them. I have to be honest here, I am a bit of a
digital hoarder and I hardly ever okay I never delete word docs so, consequently I
have a bajill...
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Kia ora everyone, I am Olivia, I am a writer, and an artist, welcome to my hectic mad world.
