I always dreamed of marrying a rugby player - preferably an All Black - and moving overseas where I would be able to play house and develop my handbag and shoe addictions. Excuse me while I vomit.
I might be married to an ex-rugby player, I might have a formidable shoe collection and a serious predilection for handbags but I sure as hell never thought I'd be playing house in Japan and doing things like make my husband lunch!
I've spent the last eight years clambering through advertising agencies and the world of corporate communications and PR. I worked too hard, almost obsessively so - but I loved it all the same!
I have a Bachelor of Communications Studies in Journalism and a Graduate Diploma thing in something else - long time ago, blah blah. So now I'm going to put those skills into play and share some of our ex-pat adventures.
Oh and in case you were wondering there has never been an All Black by the name of Papich - tried to get husband to change his name but he seemed reluctant - so I kept mine too!