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Open post: Come and tell us how your week's going.

By LUCY ORMONDE

So… The Mamamia team has an apology to make.

Yesterday was Wednesday. And as any of our regular readers will know, Wednesday is the day for what we like to call Open Post. (Open post is the place where our staff and readers come together to catch up and talk about what’s happening in their respective worlds. It’s kind of like a virtual cafe, if you will).

Anyway, today is Thursday. Which is not Open Post day. But it’s going up a day today because, well, we forgot to put it up yesterday.

SORRY!

Moving on.

I’m feeling particularly zen this week. And that’s because I spent a few days of last week lying in THIS:

And wearing THIS:

On an adventure in the Daintree Rainforest.

I was lucky to be taken away by the kind folks at BT for a weekend of billabong swims, cocktails and life coaching.

Now, the words ‘finance’ mixed with ‘health’ would usually have me falling asleep at the dinner table. But the peeps who organised the trip were clever enough to mask the finance talk behind mojitos, scones and pimped out tree houses on the Mossman River.

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And it was RAD. We swum with turtles. Turtles!

I’ve never been to Far North Queensland before and it really got me thinking about how incredible Australia is and how little I’ve all seen of it. I’m always quick to jump on a plane to Bali or Thailand when I’ve got a couple of weeks spare, but the truth is I’ve never even been to Perth or Tasmania.

My other take away from the trip-o-awesome was a little more serious. All the talk of finance forced me to have a good examine of my own and I realised just how reckless I’ve been as a 20-something.

I’m a live-pay-check-to-pay-check kinda gal – and that’s all very well when you’re 20 and working at JB Hi Fi. But when you’re a few years older and working full time? There comes a time when you need to stop spending all your extra cash on Country Road Spend and Save offers and look towards the future.

And that time is now.

Anyway, that’s it from me. Your turn now. How are things?