Welcome to Mamamia’s open post of the week. It’s like a catch up coffee or an after-work drink with friends. It’s my favourite time of the week – some days there can be a million things going on and my head’s spinning and the open post is a great way to bring me back to the ground.
Office life
Sometimes I get home from work and I swear my stomach muscles hurt from laughing so much. Not that we’re all play and no work here, there’s just nice balance of laughs. It makes coming to work very, very easy.There’s always a million things happening in this office – no day is ever the same. Yesterday Mia was shooting a commercial with her dog Harry. Those shots plus what’s been happening around MM HQ this week are in the gallery…
The birthday
Twenty five today. That’s me. I read some research a little while ago about how a lot of people fall into a quarter life crisis when they turn 25. They wonder about where their life is heading, whether they’ve made the most of their early 20s. There’s something about this age that feels very… adult. Anyway, I’ve been thinking about the 2-5 a lot this week and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m okay with it. If you told my 18-year-old self (who was so worried about whether she’d ever find direction) where I’d be at 25, I think she’d be pretty happy. So I have to be happy with that too.
The celebrity after party
That headline kind of sounds like I went to some kind of star-studded event. And wouldn’t that be cool? Sadly it’s not true. These photo booth shots are from the Vanity Fair Oscars after party (which is the Oscars after party). I like these shots because they show a human side to the celebrities who we so often see posed on the catwalk and in magazines. It’s nice to see people like Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes being themselves, but not being followed by paparazzi. (And possibly under the influence of some champagne.)
Mamamia. Every day.
Some of you might have realised already that Mamamia is now posting 7 days a week. That’s right, it’s not just Monday to Friday anymore, we’re extending the love to SATURDAYs and SUNDAYs as well. So put down those newspapers this weekend and try your pancakes with a side of Mamamia.
The sloth video
Cute alert! This video has been going viral and I think I’m one of many thousands and millions of people who’d now like to adopt a baby sloth. It’ll make you smile.
Now over to you – what’s on your mind this week?
Top Comments
Mia where is your dress from in the first gallery pic?!
So maybe I missed it but mammamia seems really quiet on the whole baking home made goodies and delivering them to abortion clinics gig. How'd that go then? Did the promised "kick arse mix tape" for the abortionists turn up?
My spidey senses are telling me that mammamia hopes this will just sink quietly back into the Pool of Ill-Conceived Ideas from whence it came. There was a promise of a follow up article by Lucy Ormonde but oh well - that's the way the cookie crumbles I guess.
"Just like the women in the UK, Mamamia’s Publisher Mia Freedman, Managing Editor Lana Hirschowitz and I are going to bake cakes (Chocolate? Vanilla? We’re open to suggestions) and take them down to the clinic in Sydney where the vigils are taking place.
Mia, Lana and I will deliver our cakes to staff and women at the clinic in Sydney’s Surry Hills before the week is out. We will live tweet from the clinic and next week I’ll write about it and tell you all how it went.
If you want to get involved – please do. Take a photo and add it to the comments section."
Patience is a virtue ;)
Oh Rick you naughty crumpet.
Ha, totally stealing that as a term of admonishment from now on!