I am about to get my first ever tattoo. What advice would you give me?

Well, firstly you need to find someone professional and reputable to do your ink for you. There’s no such thing as a cheap tattoo!! To put it plainly, avoid Disney cartoons, brand logos, superhero symbols, oriental or eastern words and symbols (unless you can read and translate them yourself), and IMHO- never ever tattoo the name of your boyfriend or husband on you EVER, no matter how much you love him!! Butterflies, dragonflies and dragons are the most popular, for obvious reasons, but tattoo artists love a challenge!

I want to kill my ADHD kid at times. Is this normal or do I my Happy Pills need to “upgraded”? I’m currently using Nuzak.

In my humble opinion darling, you’re perfectly normal! I was on Nuzak for a long time and it works like a bomb without being overly… um… side-effecty, if you know what I mean? If the feeling never ever goes away, you may want to look at your ADHDers meds and treatment!

What was your favourite part of your wedding day?

Hhmmm… there are so many… I’d have to say that my favourite was in the chapel- I simply loved the moment my darling Glugs put my ring on my finger. And I loved when we did our “first look” moment and he saw me in my dress and I saw him in his suit for the first time, all dressed up and handsome.

Where did you go for your honeymoon?

We spent a gloriously relaxed week in Cape Town! It was bliss! We had a hotel room and we had a rental car, and no other plans whatsoever! And I do love spending time in Cape Town.

If I want to start tweeting can I follow you?

You can now! I had a closed protected profile for a long time but its open again. B)

What is your favourite cupcake? Who can I go to for cupcakes in Cape Town?

My favourite cupcake is the strawberry cheesecake cupcake with cream cheese icing! There are still a lot of recipes I am dying to try, so I may yet change my mind… but I’m a sucker for berries and being able to put them in cupcakes… fabulous! My Glugs’ favourite is the chocolate with a caramel secret centre.

As for Cape Town cupcakes… I haven’t tasted them, but I do love The Cupcake Boutique’s website…

Cats eat when they want to, sleep in the sun, stretch occasionally and get love whenever they want it. In my next life I so want to be a cat. What do you want to be in your next life?

Well I hope to Christmas there is no next life! I seriously hope I will go to heaven! The last thing I want to do is come back and do everything again!

How are Thelma and Louise?

The girls are fine! They’re wonderful! We’re doing a little bit of training every day, focussing right now on car training. Thelma gets really carsick and Louise gets very nervous and shaky, so we’re doing a little bit of training every day. I blog about them occasionally on my cats’ blog

When you start hanging out with someone you’ve met online IRL (in real life), at what point do you start to *really* let them up close? Is it an immediate thing or do you take a while to suss them out before you would call them a “friend”, as opposed to a “blogging friend” or “acquaintance”?

MeeA, I think it depends entirely on the people you meet in real life. Some you “gel” with instantly, and others you just don’t.

For me, usually when I meet a blogger in real life, I have been reading and commenting on their blog and vice versa. This very often means you know the bloggers you meet fairly intimately. You’ve read about their parenting woes, work hassles, relationship grief, their ups and downs, just about everything. What I share on my blog often doesn’t get to my family or even my close non-blogging friends because firstly they don’t read me, and secondly because it isn’t necessarily something I want to share with them… I don’t mind if they do read it, but its not necessarily something I’m going to go out of my way tell them. Does that make sense?

It takes me a while to call someone a friend in the full sense of the word, for the simple reason that to me, friends hang out together and celebrate together and chat and email for fun- not only at 27 Dinners or blogger meets.

And for me personally, I’m not a mingler. I don’t do well when it comes to introducing myself to strangers. Its actually easier to meet and open up to people when I have been reading their blogs because they don’t feel like total strangers to me.

Does that answer your question?

Where and how did the love of cupcakes originate?

Well Blackhuff, I can’t remember exactly when or where my love of cupcakes came from specifically… But who can resist them! They’re so pretty and versatile!

Anyhoodle, I have always loved spending time in my kitchen. Especially baking. I baked all of Damien’s birthday cakes, letting him pick a theme every year. I baked cookies, cheese cakes, cheese straws, muffins, cupcakes, I even made my own chocolates for Easter and Christmas!!

When I changed jobs and had unfettered access to the internet with my new employers, baking and recipes was one of the first things I Googled, apart from my discovery of blogging of course!

I discovered that cupcakes have an almost cult following and there are HUNDREDS of websites dedicated to them!

Then when my Glugster and I started seeing each other, I suddenly had a kitchen upgrade as well and I could bake to my hearts’ content!! And it grew and grew from there!

Does that answer your question?

Girl Guides is live!

Girl Guides is gadgets being reviewed by chicks for… wait for it… chicks!!

Be it a GPS, phone, laptop, PC, mouse, printer, AV device, camera, you name it- chances are you’ll find a review of it here eventually!

Anyhoodle, I was pleasantly surprised and hugely honoured when I was invited to be a part of this project. I’m a blogger and a mom, and I do love gadgets, but I am not an uber-tech-savvy geek or anything! Now I am priviledged to be part of a team of awesome people who get to test and review products supplied by the manufacturers specifically for us to tell them what we think- as women!! Of course, it wouldn’t be a chick thing if it didn’t mean we had the opportunity to get together over wine and nibbly things to swop gadgets and talk about the ones we have!

The website is a beta version (which means there may be hiccups or little things that don’t work properly), so pop over and have a look and leave a comment or some constructive feedback in the “Give Us Your Feedback” box on the right hand side of the screen. Its very important that you comment on the reviews and such and on the site as the format to be used for the comments is still to be decided!

Its going to be awesome!

My reviewer profile isn’t up yet, but pretty soon you’ll be able to find me there and read reviews of products I have played with.

Ooh, and you can find Girl Guides on Twitter and Facebook too!

Brace yourselves, the women are taking over, one website at a time!

Last week, because i can challenged me to make a list of things I’d said during the week, but the only thing I could remember was telling Damien that no, he could not have a tank built out of a four wheeler. He came home with a bullet proof jacket that afternoon, so I think I may need to start asking questions.

Instead, and while I work on some posts, you can ask me questions!

Be it about food, books, ADHD, cats, family, cupcakes, weddings, love, tattoos, parenting… Ask away! What have you always wanted to know about me?