This week the big Ultimate Rock n Roll Jam Session you’ve heard me talk so much about, kicks off in Melbourne!  So as you can imagine I am running around like a crazy person for the next few weeks.  There is always so much to do, but oh so much fun to be had; and I want you to come and have some fun with me! The show officially opens this Thursday night and runs right through until Sunday 19th December, so you’ll have plenty of opportunities to get down. However…

This Friday 10th, (and next on the 17th) is 50′s Friday!! A chance to break out your fancy frocks, shine up your cars and come and enter the Best Dressed contest!  This isn’t just one for the ladies, but one for boys, girls, and cool cats of all varieties.  So come down to the Comedy Theatre and join me for a night of fun. Tickets are available now at Ticketmaster, BUT for one lucky reader and their partner I have a DOUBLE PASS to 50′s Friday for you! All you have to do is leave me a comment in the next 24 hours telling me why you have to be there, and the best answer as chosen by me will win that double pass!

If you’re extra clever you may just be able to snag another double pass for the winning Tweeter. Just tweet out a link to this post and the winner will be chosen by random number draw by 8.30am tomorrow! You can follow The Ultimate Rock n Roll Jam Session on Twitter here and add the hash tag #turrjs to your tweet so you make sure I can see you.

Right, well I’m off to start fancying up some special girls for Friday night’s secret fun!

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You know how sometimes things are one way in your head but something completely different to everyone else? I do, and that’s just one of the reasons I flipping love Cougar Town. It’s one of those guilty pleasures I have because there are just so many moments I sit there killing myself laughing, as Jules does something she thinks is uber cool only to have the rest of us shaking our heads.

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If you haven’t heard about Cougar Town yet (where have you been?), you’re missing out.  From the creator of Scrubs, the show is based around Jules (played by Courtney Cox), who after seventeen years is recently divorced and trying to get back into the dating game. She’s still looking ridiculously hot as the mother to a teenage son and fills out innumerable spandex jersey dresses throughout the duration of the show.  And while she has a very sexy, very single neighbour across the street to impress, she also has an ex-husband with an IQ of a thirteen year old boy hanging around. (See – drives a golf cart everywhere!)

Now, while I can’t relate to her single and seeking status, there is something far more engaging and hilarious I can. Those stupid day to day things we do that land us in all kinds of embarrassment.  The question of, just what is worth shaving your legs for? Is wine an acceptable accompaniment to cocoa pops on a particularly bad morning? If I leave a suspect 3am message on your answering machine, should I leave another 10 to explain why I did that?

Now given that I have absolutely no embarrassing dating stories to tell you, I’ll tell you what happened to a friend of mine when she went out with a new man and decided to get all sexy..

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After picking up a very cute pair of new knickers, pink gingham with frilled trim that did up in little bows on the sides, she put on her new purchase with a beautiful dress and headed out with said new man.  After a few glasses of wine at dinner, she nipped off to the bathroom, where re-tying those side bows on her pretty knickers was a somewhat acrobatic feat in her every so slightly tipsy state. Nevertheless, she persevered thinking of just how cute they’d look later that evening if all went well.  She powdered her nose and headed back to the table to meet her date.  Only to trip midway through the restaurant as the bows loosed and she was left with a trail of frilly gingham tangled in her stilettos and a pair of very red cheeks!

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It’s that mixture of cringe worthy moments we all know and some great examples of what not to do when dating, which make Cougar Town such a crack up. Although you may not find it quite so funny if watching it with you current partner and he looks at you and says, “ Ha Ha! That’s just like you!” (Note to Mr.  SKM: My victory dance is WAY more coordinated than that!)

Cougar_Town_S1 – Click for a sneak peek at the show!

Cougar Town has just become available on DVD through TV4ME, the place to get your hands on all those titles you’re secretly addicted to.  That way you can have all those laughs on hand when you most need them and no fights over who gets to pick the channel that night.

Want to win a copy of Season 1 for yourself? Then leave me a comment telling me your own funny dating story.  Make sure your comment has a valid email address so I can find you again too! You’ve got two weeks to get you’re your entries in so fess up!

(Contest open to Australian residents only)

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For today’s latest Super Kawaii Mama post, simply scroll down for more!

Remember Donald Duck’s uncle Scrooge? I used to watch those cartoons when I was a kid and always dream of swimming in a big pool of money just like he did. Ducking and diving between the notes, with big golden coins flying everywhere. It still sounds good in theory, but these days my ultimate indulgence is something a bit different, because after all, no one wants a paper cut from a $50 on their butt!

I’d like my very own personal live in chef. Fancy a spot of crème brule at 2 in the morning, or have a twenty people coming for dinner at the last minute? Having a skilled chef on hand 24 / 7 would be enough to complete me.  Even just fantasising about what I might do with such a talented individual is enough to make me salivate.

Perfect chef would know that my breakfast should look like this..

Then bring my morning coffee in bed..

Perfect chef could also make this devoid of any significant calories…

And have the food carving skills of Michelangelo.

It isn’t so much about which dishes they could cook me, but the simple fact that I wouldn’t have to do it myself. Because of course, being a premium chef the shopping part of the job couldn’t be left up to me either.  So you see, not only would I not have to cook, I wouldn’t have to grocery shop again! It’s the gift that keeps on giving.  And this is why I’m no food blogger – I love to eat, but the cooking part… meh.. I can do it I just prefer not to.

This begs the question, what is your ultimate indulgence?  All the day dreaming, vision of lust that a question like this can lead to is well and good, but is that going to get you any closer to realising said indulgence?  This time it just might.

Thanks to Magnum and their new ultimate Indulgence icecream, you have the chance to WIN $1000 just by telling me, in the most creative way possible, what your ultimate indulgence is!!

Here’s what to do: Play the Magnum Indulgence game and have a roll of the dice while you contemplate just how you’d like to spend that $1000.

**** THIS CONTEST AND GAME IS NOW CLOSED *******

Then, leave me a comment with your highest score in the game and tell me what your $1000 indulgence would be. It’s that simple!  Make sure that your comment includes you contact details ( eg: valid email address) so we can contact you should you comment win all that dough!

The contest runs from November 24^th until midday on Tuesday December 14, 2010.

See the full terms & Conditions here.

Ha ha! Nah, not really.. but I thought I was about time I got my act together and told you all why I’ve been doing all this travelling about the country of late and why my postings have been a tad sporadic.  I’ve been working with The Ultimate Rock n Roll Jam Session on their national tour! ( You may remember me meeting them here)

We started out doing a bit of a sneak peek in at the Queen Street Mall last week, before kicking off the season last Friday night.

And although they were riveted, most of the crowd looked at us like we’d just been dropped off on the last space ship!

Friday night was the first of the big 50′s Friday night’s that we’ll be doing in Brisbane, Melbourne and then onto Sydney. Just what is that you ask? To help set the scene for this moment in Rock n Roll history, we put together a Best Dressed in 50′s for the audience as well as a classic 50′s fashion parade, showcasing some of the most beautiful evening dresses of the time along with some cute updated 50′s looks.  And we’re doing it all again this week before heading to Melbourne for the next leg of the season!

So I’m spending a lot of time running around making sure things look spiffy, hanging out with beautiful women and talented musicians.. Geez what a job!

Images by Clive Fox- Fox Media Marketing

From left to right – Me, Ms Vicki, Ezra Lee, Mistress Chrissy, Nick Barker, Chantelle,Dave Larkin, Bettie Butcher, James Blundell.

Seriously, could we be having more fun?!  If you’re in Brisbane this Friday and want to come and join us, please do! All the details can be found in the ticket section of the Ultimate Rock n Roll Jam Session website. But if you can’t make it, don’t despair… we’re also having an online Best Dressed in 50′s Facebook contest! You do need to be an Australian resident (or in Australia next June) to take advantage of the big prize for this one though. Check out the details here and send in your photo to win an ALL ACCESS double pass to the big Rock n Roll  /Rockabilly Festival, Wintersun 2011 worth over $500!!

I’m off again to Brisbane on Friday morning for the show and I’ll be live tweeting all the fun from backstage too, so if you want to follow along, just search the hash tag #TURRJS. You can also follow the show on Twitter here, and as always, Super Kawaii Mama on Twitter here too.

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I was once told that geniuses choose green. I have no idea why that is, so perhaps I’m not that much of a genius after all.

I was asked by Holden to design my own custom Barina Spark and showcase my style. Given that the car is such a small, cute thing anyway, going for the full on pink Kawaii-ness may have been a tad much.  So instead I decided to think about it in a practical way (shock horror).

I’ve actually been spending a lot of time looking at cars recently, trying to figure out just which car says ‘Me’, and that I can actually afford too.

This says “Me”…. but poor.

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This also says “Me”… but completely broke.

The only problem is that just like my taste in clothes, my taste in cars tends towards the outlandish and expensive. So having a chance to put my own personal stamp onto something that my bank manager will approve of was rather cool.

Here is my very own Barina Spark; I like to call it Style to Burn.  If you click on the image it will take you through to the page where you can view the car from several different angles to see the full design.

First off this may not be what you’d expect from me, (but then many of you have come to expect the unexpected, so perhaps you would? Confusing much?) but stick with me.

When it comes to cars, my tastes run to two things – Classic muscle cars and things that look like they could bite your head off.   I wanted sleek, stylish, slightly dark and something that would make you look twice.

I could have gone for a predictable black with pin striping and flames, but that just wouldn’t work quite the same when exiting it in a swanky evening dress. Instead I wanted something that that made you double take. Something smooth and sophisticated, that on a second look, revealed a layer of wickedness and the potential for some racy moves.

I’m not sure I’m going to be able to stop at designing just one though, Designer Spark is as addictive as those online paper doll games! Even better than those though, is that Designer Spark has a whole swag of chances to win awesome prizes, just by bunking off from what you should actually be doing and playing around with colours!

When you check out the Designer Spark website, you’ll find a bunch of different designs from various personalities, and just by voting on which ones you like best, you can win some very cool prizes like Myer vouchers, iPads, Goldwell hair products, Kit Costmetics packs… the list goes on!

Of course even better than all that is that there is the chance that you could win YOUR very own Spark Eeeep! How incredibly cool would that be?  I’m all over this one and already thinking about how I could trick it out.

So clickety click across to Designer Spark where you can vote for my design if you think its as cool as I do, or create your own!

P.S: If any of you are awesome Steam Punk masters, I SO want to see what you can do with this challenge!

P.P.S: If anyone wants to give me one of my stunning namesake cars too, I may just tattoo your name on my body!!