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Adventures in couchsurfing

Posted: 28 May 09 | IT WAS with elation that I stumbled into work this week after losing my couchsurfing virginity. Tired, happy and a little worse for wear for a Tuesday morning, I was bubbling over with excitement to tell my friends how it went. |

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To bling or to donut, that is the question

Posted: 02 Apr 09 | DIAMONDS may be a girl’s best friend but they don’t taste anywhere near as good as donuts. |

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To cash in on mum’s cooking

Posted: 20 Mar 09 | LAST night I was banished from the kitchen under the pretence that I should relax. I think it probably had more to do with the fact that I couldn’t cook a chicken if it made a big show of seasoning itself, flew into my oven, sat patiently while roasting and squawked when it was done. |

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Vanuatu kayak trip relatively hard work

Posted: 05 Mar 09 | NEVER mix family with travel. Or perhaps I should say, never put family in a two-person kayak and set them loose on the Efate River in Vanuatu. |

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No fries with my fitness

Posted: 11 Feb 09 | There is nothing in the world so cruel as walking past a group of calorie-deprived, size 12 challenged women on treadmills with a bag of McDonald’s. |

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If you can't screw it, chuck it

Posted: 08 Jan 09 | WOMEN were not created to use tools. There is nothing about their shape, weight or size that is made for the average woman. If it can't be taken out or put together with a screwdriver, chances are it doesn't really need to be done. |

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What's in a name?

Posted: 18 Dec 08 | REPORTS the Queensland authorities have drawn the line at parents calling their children Gummy Bear, Coca Cola and King John I is good news for teachers the State over. |

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A kitten! Thanks, it's just what I've always wanted

Posted: 05 Dec 08 | I HAVE a problem with Christmas presents. That is to say, I have a problem with not knowing what is in them. This could be why there is still only one gift for me under our Christmas tree – and I already know what it is. |

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Wicked witch of the gym

Posted: 21 Nov 08 | I SCARED an 11-year-old the other day. Probably a few of them actually. It was not my intention. I didn't realise the affect the sight of my tight cotton-swathed arse would have on them. |

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Everyone suffers in hard times

Posted: 16 Oct 08 | WHEN people talk about these hard economic times, we hear words thrown together like market and crash, stocks and plummet, falling Aussie dollar and millions become billions become trillions. |

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A shoe for a stripper's thoughts

Posted: 09 Oct 08 | TAKING off one’s clothes usually isn’t terribly hard work. The exception of course is after one too many wines when you do the drunken hop while trying to remove your undies from around your ankles. |

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Beggars can't be choosers: A guide to cyber losers

Posted: 25 Sep 08 | THERE is nothing more unattractive than a guy that begs. But even more so when afterwards he says something like "I can't help it, it's not me. It's my heart". Gross. Vomit. Move along. |

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I would sell my mamma for a fake Fendi!

Posted: 18 Sep 08 | "MY NAME is Alysia and it has been one week since I bought a handbag." It is without a doubt an all consuming addiction second only to shoes. |

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Not so lovely "lady lumps"

Posted: 10 Sep 08 | IT IS a truth universally acknowledged by single women everywhere that behind every dimple of cellulite lies a man. Now before you begin with your “here's another Bridget Jones she-man hater that needs to take a tablespoon of cement and harden up and in all probability hit the gym” - hear me out. |

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All greased up and no gym to go to

Posted: 27 Aug 08 | There is a good reason why I don't go to the gym. He is called the amateur bodybuilder. Many would argue he is the best reason to go - all pecs and abs and biceps - what women wouldn't want to feel up that? |

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Hospital undies

Posted: 18 Aug 08 | ON THE first day of the rest of your life, be sure to wear underwear. If you never take any other advice to heart, take this for it is a true but shameful story. |

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Shoes and shares

Posted: 18 Aug 08 | WHEN you’re young knowing something is good for you and actually doing it are not compatible ideas. Healthy eating, saving money, exercising more, getting plenty of sleep, all of these are things that you tell yourself you will do “when I'm older”. |

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Leader journalist Alysia Ferguson provides readers with an entertaining insight into the lives of young women and why shoes are more important than stock market shares.