by JASMINE GARNSWORTHY
If you have never been involved with a website launch, please, allow me to educate you…
Basically it involves your best and your worst magically merging into one. The best being the launch and the worst being absolutely exhausted.
Over the past week I’ve taken several naps in the Mamamia office boardroom at 1am, before continuing to work through the night, I learnt how to do a whole lot of things in Excel that I really never wanted to know and I received a text from my housemate questioning whether I was still alive. I had red bull for breakfast guys. Twice.
Last week we launched Mamamia Shopping.
Just a quiet, soft little launch. We weren’t telling anyone just yet. Because we needed some time to test the site and, you know, sleep. JOKES! That was the plan until A Current Affair called Friday at 5pm requesting a story for Monday night. And when ACA wants to say nice things about you, you basically do whatever they want.
So a little over 48 hours later (thanks to a massive effort from the MM Shopping team) we had a boardroom filled with pretty clothes, the entire office dressed head to toe in new stuff from Mamamia Shopping and a camera crew from Channel Nine capturing it all on film.
Did you see the story on Monday night? Well, if you didn’t, here it is:
If you like what you saw (which we’re pretty sure you did) you can shop some of my favourite outfits from the story here.
Here’s a glimpse of what went down this week at Mamamia (and Mamamia Shopping):
Now over to you… How’s your week?
Top Comments
It's so hard to find past Best & Worst of the Weeks and the other open post whatever it's called - what section do they come under????
Also I have asked many times before if the date of them can be put on them so you can look up past ones easier, but still that doesn't happen.
Geez I seem to have to deal with one massive, and no I'm not exagerating, problem after another.
I have a very unhinged, very dangerous stalker. A woman who is in her late 50's and very very evil. I became friends w her for a short while and then noticed that she was extremely vicious and fighting, really badly fighting, with the entire world. And extremely vindictive.
i realised that i had to be careful but I'm a good person and didnt' think here would be a problem. Wrong! she turned on me like a wild fire!
She ran to the police in a small country town (she's an ex cop decades ago) and lied to them, really lied to them. They just believed her and targeted me and caused terrible problems for me.
She and her equally terrible husband caused enormous problems for other people in the town including stalking a very old woman (over a neighbouring fence) and terrorised her so badly she packed up and left town, too scared to ever return.
Yesterday I found that she was stalking me on Facebook so I blocked her and tonight I received a number of vicious, threatening, truly shocking emails from her. Each one I replied pretending that I was the postmaster and the emails were not received, bouncing them back to her, but she kept emailing me.
In these emails she tells me that she's been in contact with my recent and past clients (now i know why I've been fired by them); past landlord, etc etc. She's been contacting everyone I know and telling them terrible things about me.
She is obviously a very disturbed woman and she is trying to destroy my life. She's seriously affecting my livelihood by contacting my clients. God knows why they would even speak with her but they obviously are. She is a good actress.
What can I do? It sounds like something out of a soap drama, but it's really happening. I'm completely alone, single, no family and have to deal with this on my own.
Good grief, this is the stuff of nightmares! If it was happening to me, I think I'd take the emails etc to a solicitor and get him to fire off a warning letter to her. Don't let her think she has the upper hand and that you're frightened öf her. Make her think you're even more of a lunatic and terrify her back. Tell her your brother is about to come out of the slammer for some horrendous crime, that he's coming to live with you, that he's a psychopath .... or do what I'd really do, leave town in the dead of night! Good luck.