This morning I stood at my kitchen sink and ate a hunk of cold leftover chicken schnitzel, straight out of my hand. Like a savage. A sad one.
Being home is foreign .. it is America that is familiar. I bought some cream from the shops this morning, and made my own half-and-half for my coffee.
That cannot end well.
Here is my Bloco, my blog doco on the last two weeks. It runs for nine minutes.
Gee my hair shits me. How can I be 39 and still have dumb hair?
My next post will be BlogHer 2011 highlights - of which there were many. I am so lucky. I am so sad.
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Do you think, if I never eat lunch again, I could drink coffee with cream and sugar and never get fat?
Thursday, 11 August 2011
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Your glasses are awesome though! Does that help? :)
ReplyDelete:)
ReplyDeleteThat was great! That was the first time I've ever actually watched a Vlog. Or, a bloco :) Very cool.
ReplyDeleteawesome hair is overrated.
ReplyDeleteas always, just by being you, you rock.
~x~
Sometimes you need reality to believe in fairytales. And life is shit without fairytales.
ReplyDeleteThat made me really teary. I can just imagine the mix of emotions and jetlag and the experiences seeming so surreal must really get to you. And that coming home to a stinky toilet could be a very hard landing indeed.
ReplyDeleteHugs xx
PS. And your hair is just fine xx.
OK.
ReplyDeleteWhy do I torture myself?
Why did I click on this video...just to miss you worse than before.
You took America by storm.
What is it about you?
Ah, I know....we feel YOUR LOVE.
Eden, I can't say enough about the energy you send my way.
I can say this, though: you make me feel like a rock star.
I LOVE YOU.
Would have love to see Eden meets BlogHer in person! Sounds like you rocked that shit out.
ReplyDeleteKeep cleaning the crap off the toilet cause your sparkle shines SO bright.
ReplyDeleteLove ya xxoo
:) I think that you can definitely have cream in your coffee. I have it on weetbix, is that wrong? Ahhh, cream my friend...
ReplyDeleteHopefully the reverse culture shock will wear off quickly. Does it help if I say you look very vibrant and young for 39? I only wish i was still in my 30s.
ReplyDeleteLove, love your style. Have as much cream in your coffee as you like xx
ReplyDeleteI think it's the skids marks that make everything else in life sparkle.
ReplyDeleteOh we are our own worst critics. I hear you though, I want shampoo ad hair. Ya know, wake up and it just looks fab!
ReplyDeleteBut on another note, awesome bloco, loved it. Love your honesty. Love your fun, love your seriousness and the ability to know when to be what.
You're an inspiration to me to be more than I am now, to give more, love more, just be bigger and better and with that great things will come.
Thank you.
I didn't cry until you said keep going cos you never know what is on the other side. I needed to hear that today.
ReplyDeleteI'm concerned that America is no longer foreign to you. But they do really seem to like redheads and I'm sure that eating like a savage is not frowned upon in Minnesota, Ohio and parts of South Carolina. You could do well there, but we would miss our Aussie Blocomaker. As I am certain would your family. x
ReplyDeleteStop making me cry!
ReplyDeleteI am so proud of you for taking the right road.
You are always gorgeous slick hair or not xx
Now this made ME cry. We are having a vlog/bloco cry off. I know that feeling. All of it. I have no idea what sparklecorn is but I think I need some sparklecorn in my life at the moment. My time will come, perhaps a little more changing of those TORLET things will get me there.
ReplyDeleteYou ARE back. And I'm glad you are. Love you man x
Love it! Knew you'd make this 'Bloco' thing rock! ;)
ReplyDeleteOh Eden!
ReplyDeleteI think I am going to have to ban myself from your blog for a bit. You just made me bawl here with my Cadbury Twirl chocolate.
I want to adopt you as a big sister. You are so inspiring and wise. I don't have people like that "in" my life. I am that person, and it gets draining always being that person and not having someone to be that person for you. To help you unravel the tangle of life sometimes.
I am so very very glad that you had a wonderful time over in America. I am so glad that you, Mrs Woog and Brenda were there to represent all Australian bloggers, and that you got to read out your blog post (you did fantastically!).
Thank you for your blogco and sharing your journey with us.
Eden!
ReplyDeletei feel your pain. If you ever need someone to talk to in regards to your reverse culture shock, let me know!! Been there done that plenty of times. I've written an article on it if it helps
http://www.ytravelblog.com/dealing-with-reverse-culture-shock/
I've been living and traveling the world for 14 years. I came home after a five year honeymoon in 2007 and dropped the bundle. I just couldn't come to terms with not travelling anymore and what it all meant to begin with. It felt like all those experiences were for nothing. I came home last year after another two years away and have fallen apart once again.
We are constantly asked by people "Why aren't you happy?" and all the rest.
Our answer, "Do you know how you feel after you come home from a 2 week holiday? you feel detached, depressed, lost, pining for what you had. Just imagine how you would feel coming home after five years."
I've been home a year now and still not dealing with it.
Good news is that we are now currently planning our next overseas adventure. I've decided that I can't live any other way.
Stoked to see and hear you doing so well overseas and with your blogging. You deserve it. May the adventures continue
Judging from my own experience with my love of coffee with half and half -- no.
ReplyDeleteI swear to God what I carry around extra is largely the result of that ill-fated, but delicious, love affair.
I know how you're feeling -- I am still trying to hold onto the dregs of my vacation in light of the cat having eaten pebbles of styrofoam and strewn them about the house, Z refusing to eat but instead squirting her yogurt into the oriental rug -- shit EVERYWHERE -- eyebrows wolf-like....
You get the picture.
I promise to watch your video during naptime. I can't wait.
OXXO
P
Glad you made the correct turn...
ReplyDeleteNobody has fantastic hair without a staff and a whole lot of time invested. I like your hair as is.
How is it that you only come back from the US with our worst eating habits?
I am going on a business trip for a week at the end of the month. Half the reason I'm looking forward to it is because my husband will be left alone with our daughter for a full week for the first time in her almost 5 years. I suspect I will return to him having a nervous tic and a new schedule for deployment to Afghanistan because it's easier there. But you make me glad I don't live in a house full of stinky boys!
I love word sandwhiches and I love yor Bloco! Thanks so much for sharing all that with us.
ReplyDeleteit's always appropriate over here in the good ole USA to eat like a savage, particularly while standing over the kitchen sink...and I have vanilla cream in my coffee, every single morning. Not even the low fat kind. I reassure myself by pretending that every afternoon I'm going to the gym. Ah America land of overindulgence!
ReplyDeleteI am going to BlogHer 2012 if it kills me.
Hey Eddie,
ReplyDeleteLove your work as always. Reading your blog is my daily fix. I am so happy when there is a new entry, especially your video ones. I am an addict.
Well... what a massive and amazing trip. You have done so well and had so much fun!!!
I know why we always got on so well, we both love the highs and are not so keen on the lows. Those bloody lows....
Hang in there mate, smell the fresh air and embrace the awesome view from that fabulous back deck and plan your next high.
Hope to catch up in the real world one of these days.
Xxxxxx Pauline
Michael Moore can go suck it. You rocked xxx
ReplyDeleteLoved the bloco, love your hair, love your glasses! So proud of you and the other Aussie bloggers who went to BlogHer this year and I can't wait to read all your posts about it.
ReplyDeleteI can't help but think that there is so much I can learn from you. You are what I'm like inside, or used to be, a long, long time ago. Somewhere along the way I lost myself. And I don't quite know where I am...
Go Eden!
I love you my friend.
ReplyDeleteAmalah posted a video of Sparklecorn. YOU and Woog and Brenda were in it.
Made me happy sad.
Well there is FAT FREE Half and Half! That is what I use!
ReplyDeleteNOW You understand my pain. I cannot drink coffee without half n half and I grew up with it on my cereal. ACK
ReplyDeleteYour bloco was beautiful, just like you.
And with every high there must be the subsequent low :-(
ReplyDeleteLove your bloco, Eden.
You made the right turn.
xx
I see your dumb hair and raise you:
ReplyDelete- dumb hair
- cystic acne not seen since my teenage years
- a bung ankle
- a bung finger
- the flu
- a cyst in the cartilage of my ear OR an infected gland
- vomiting AND diarrhoea
AND I live with my mother, who despite all this, expected me to chase a magpie out of the chook house today.
You rock my world dude, and basically remind me every single day to live my goddamn life. Even if I did poop in my jammie pants this morning.
Classy.
I see your dumb hair and raise you:
ReplyDelete- dumb hair
- cystic acne not seen since my teenage years
- a bung ankle
- a bung finger
- the flu
- a cyst in the cartilage of my ear OR an infected gland
- vomiting AND diarrhoea
AND I live with my mother, who despite all this, expected me to chase a magpie out of the chook house today.
You rock my world dude, and basically remind me every single day to live my goddamn life. Even if I did poop in my jammie pants this morning.
Classy.
Thank GOD you chose the right way and kept going. The world is a better place with you in it making Blocos.
ReplyDeletex
PS. Mrs W's cameo attempting to count the number of wines she had had on her fingers was too effing funny
You do realize, it is only hotel/public place toilets that have auto flush...we still have to scrub the gunk in our home ones. Will you be back for NYC 12? I think I am gonna try again and I owe you a seventy dollar burger.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting how our perspectives spin on their own axis! I'm an Aussie living in the US (10 years). What I have (an opportunity to buy/have half and half or cream where ever I go) you miss...but what you have (the Blue Mountains at your back door - that's what I grew up with) I miss. Life is not always greener on the other side...sometimes it's just a different shade! We all live for the Sparklecorn days...they sustain our crud cleaning and give us something to think about while scrubbing the toilets. Light is what gives colour to our lives literally and figuratively! Enjoy the gum leaves for me and I'll put some half and half in my coffee for you (I actually prefer and ask for milk lol)!
ReplyDeletebtw I like to think about my dumb hair as always being better than no dumb hair! ;)
ReplyDeleteI loved having you in America--and it misses you.
ReplyDeleteCannot tell you how happy it made me to HUG you!
I think your hair is FABulous!
Eden Riley, you are a G-E-M! Period. Fullstop. That.is.all!
ReplyDeleteYou have such a way with words & life!
You are fast-becoming [if not already!] my daily Laugh-Out-Loud. Seriously!
Keep the craziness alive - we need more of THIS to rock the Antipodes :D
Koala hugs 'n all that jazz! xoxo