November 28, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Inspiration & Lifestyle

Who Are You?

That’s a way trickier question than it sounds. It’s a question we answer in different ways depending on where we are, and it’s a question that has different answers at different times of your life or even different times of day or different windows on your laptop. I’ve been Gemma the temp, Gemma the Student,

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Fitness & Health

#Janathon Day 27 – Flat Mat Gem

Oooh, the end of Janathon is so close I can nearly taste it! This Sunday I shall be celebrating 31 days of of exercising every day by, er, going to a 5 hour Roller Derby boot camp in Manchester. Monday, though, Monday I might just stay completely still all day and burn NO calories. Today

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Fashion & Beauty

Hooked on Novelty Bedding

I can remember years ago bemoaning the lack of funky bedding for King Size beds. Back in the old days all bedding for “grown ups” came in white, or cream, or fetching florals, or occasionally colours like black for people who fancied themselves a bit sexy. Grown up bedding didn’t come with cool superhero prints

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Fitness & Health

#Janathon Day 26 – Run, Gemma, Run!

Ugh, yesterday was hard. I didn’t quite realise how hard till I woke up this morning and tried to move. I’m pretty sure I head some of my muscles screaming. It being Janathon there is no rest for the wicked, achey, or just damn lazy, but I decided to keep today pretty easy and just

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Fitness & Health

#Janathon Day 25 – Playing with the Boys

Wow, less than a week left to go of Janathon, how about that!? Day 25 dawned with a feeling of slight nausea. No, I didn’t accidentally drink another 4 bottles of wine last night, but I had signed up for my first ever Co-Ed scrim with the Brawds and Smacksons, plus some visitors from Suffolk

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Fitness & Health

#Janathon Day 24 – Keep On Rolling

Roller Derby practice is normally on a Saturday afternoon, this means I like to keep Friday nights a *little* restrained so I can actually function on Saturday. This week the session was moved to later, so we didn’t start till 7:30pm and finished at 10. Well, the evil little part of my brain thought, “surely

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Fitness & Health

#Janathon Day 23 – Zen Gem

So lets chalk today down as an active rest day shall we? I had vaguely thought I might go for a little run, but as I had to wait in for a parcel I thought maybe a spot of yoga to loosen up my back and hips was a nice idea. Yes, that’s right, I’ve

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Fashion & Beauty

The Perfect Black Skirt (and other Basics)

January has been a quiet month. Mr Chick has been away a lot, and I have been in a little routine of work, exercise, eat, sleep, repeat that works for my Janathon posts, but doesn’t provide much other interesting fodder for the blog that’s about the more glamorous side of life. Though I have still

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