The best and worst of the week

Like Sandra Bullock did to that bus in Speed, I have commandeered the post this week to share some big news.

I’m pregnant! With anticipation. I mentioned it in my open letter to the Prime Minister here, but at the risk of sounding like a slightly husky broken record (I’ve had a cold) I wanted to remind Sydney-siders about the marriage equality march tomorrow. I have absolutely no vested interest in plugging it here except, you know, it might be one of the biggest days in Australia’s history and, if we play our cards right, one of the biggest peaceful rallies we’ve held and it might change the futures of an entire group of people who have so far not enjoyed full equality in this country.

So, not a big deal at all. *Nods head up and down*

It’s my BEST because already this week it has been SO ridiculously lovely to see people across the country – straight and gay – who actually get why marriage equality is a big deal. It’s like being stuck in a big, national group hug. I’m not normally a hugger (ask anyone in the office) but I like metaphorical hugs. Where only our minds touch. Woohoo.

Lucy and I are spending a few hours today with a glass (or eight) of wine engaged in a Crafternoon of sorts as we make signs. There will probably be glitter and giant markers involved but beyond that we’ve not settled on any slogans. Feel free to suggest any below!

So, if you are not bedridden with Polio and believe in the cause, join us. I’ll be wearing a Liberace jacket in the colour of the rainbow. Here’s what you need to know:

WHEN: 12pm

WHERE: Hyde Park North (Sydney) by the water fountain

WHAT: We’ll march in our thousands to the Labor National Conference at Darling Harbour

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Worst: I’m going to cheat a little bit and refer you all to last week which I spent at home from Tuesday being all sick and stuff. I developed a crippling case of Cabin Fever and may or may not have held an extended conversation with a wall unit about the nature of free will. (The wall unit raised some valid points but then I was all like … you’re a wall unit). The drugs may also have contributed to this.

It was supremely nice to come back into the office this week, by contrast. I might publicly maintain that the people I work with are variously bonkers, strange and terrifyingly odd but then, so am I, and it was nice to be back with my people.

So, over to you, how’s your week been? The ups, the downs, the sideways … tell the Mamamia community. We’re pretty good listeners. And responders!

And THIS video has amused me greatly this week. Fashion predictions for the year 2000 … made in the 1930s. My favourite, the ‘electric belt’ to acclimatise the body and ‘one designer was even so bold as to suggest the skirt would disappear altogether’. Ooooh, edgy!