As you know I spent the weekend at Problogger, Australia’s biggest blogging conference. There were 700 bloggers there and all of the sessions I attended were brilliant.
I learnt so much and came away completely inspired and ready to dream big! So stand by for Cooking With Kirsten 2.0 to launch on Friday 28 August, because it’s going to be a weekly feature and I think you’re really going to enjoy it!
But, like most things that seem to happen to me in life, the best & often funniest parts of the weekend happened behind the scenes. You know, in glamorous places like the toilets or that random empty space that’s always there when you walk away from the bar with a drink in your hand after standing in line for what feels like 375 minutes for it.
Because I like to learn something from everything that happens to me and because I like to share that information with you, here are the 5 Things I Learned On The Weekend:
1. If you have a habit of spilling things down your front and you decide to wear a white jacket to a networking event on the first night of a conference, it’s probably best to drink something other than red wine.
2. No amount of water, sparkling or otherwise, will remove the red wine that you successfully managed to spill down the front of your very white jacket within 4.5 minutes of holding the glass.
3. If people introduce themselves to you and tell you they recognised you because of your curly hair, it’s probably best not to reply with, “Thanks so much for not asking if it’s a perm” because the response will go one of two ways: side splitting laughter (always my favourite) or a long, awkward silence (probably because they’re now wondering if it’s a perm and really want to ask if it is, but don’t want to because I just thanked them for not asking and so what do they say now and omg this is just so f*&king awkward. FYI it’s not a perm!)
4. If you’re waiting in a really long line to go to the loo and EVERYBODY in the line is staring at their phones and you’ve had a couple of wines (one of which you’ve spilt down the front of your jacket, so you might look just a little bit disheveled, even though you’re actually not) that is NOT the appropriate time to say out loud to everyone, “In the words of my husband, who by the way, is known as Guns on Instagram, I think we should all put our phones down and get some piss into us!”
Because if you do that, everybody will look up from their phones for approximately 2.5 seconds before someone says, “Oh yeah, my Mum tells me to put my phone down all the time too!” The phone scrolling will then continue and you will stand in front of a toilet cubicle wishing the door would swing open RIGHT NOW so you could get in there and die a slow and very embarrassing old lady death.
5. If you’re sitting with a group of women and one of them mentions how someone she knows has been a bit out of sorts and you pipe up with, “Maybe she’s getting her period” and everyone laughs so hard at your very dry, borderline inappropriate sense of humour that drinks are spat out across the table and snorts can be heard, you might have found your tribe.
When was the last time you had a good laugh with a group of mates? Isn’t it just the best thing?!
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