Rachel Sarah Murphy

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As l lay in bed on the eve of my 50th Birthday l am filled with gratitude for the wonderful life l have been gifted. All the wonderful people l have had the pleasure to know and what they brought and still bring to my life. John Doyle, Cliffy, my Dad, Granny, my Daisy so many wonderful spirits that are never far away.
I look at my daughters beautiful face everyday and still can’t believe she’s mine & l have the absolute honour of being her mummy.
I don’t have many friends. I love my own company too much for that but l do have great friends & for them l am truly grateful.
Life never promised to always be sunshine & roses. I think that’s what l love most about this experience. To me there are no problems in life just challenging situations l need to navigate cleverly to overcome. The only thing that really truly matters is our loved ones. End of.
Now it’s onto the second half. Always a little shorter but always the most exciting. In this half l will walk a little taller, speak a little softer & love a little deeper. This half will be my best yet 💪💕

Thought provoking article in the Times for all women.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/03/16/how-is-it-feminist-to-feel-a-moral-obligation-to-look-beautiful/

How is it feminist to feel a moral obligation to look beautiful?

The weight-loss drug Ozempic has soared in popularity, generating shortages for those who require it medically

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It is a shame to think that second-wave feminism liberated women to join the workforce, only to spend these newfound earnings on becoming more beautiful.

There is no limit to self-optimisation. And there is no financial cap on the self-optimisation industry. Self-help books routinely fly off shelves, fast fashion piles up in landfills, I could fly to Turkey and buy a new nose. How much was that skin cream I saw on Instagram the other day? Only €80? Perfect, sign me up. Buy, buy, buy: being beautiful is not just recommended, it’s a moral obligation.

I cannot help but feel whatever movement of feminism we are currently in (fourth, fifth wave?) is not servicing the needs of women at all. Instead it has permitted a culture of constant physical manipulation; it has encouraged women to defy their essential nature; and it has sold the lie that youth can be bought back with expensive injections and trips to Harley Street. All of this operates on the false premise that anything a woman does out of personal choice is necessarily feminist.

How did we get here? This is certainly not the first point in history that women have painfully and irreversibly modified their bodies in pursuit of an ideal: think of the women of the 16th-century French court whose insides were compressed under an impossibly tiny corset; or perhaps the women who bound their feet in late imperial China as a mode of status symbolising.

But it seems to have taken on a different, contemporary flavour. Adapting our bodies is no longer just the preserve of the upper class, it’s an aspirational pursuit sold to women as necessary for their economic advancement, as central to their role in society. Photo editors have always warped images of beautiful celebrities on magazine covers, but now we can achieve much the same effect at home on our mobile phones. Plastic surgery used to be prohibitively expensive, now women can get Botox on the way to work.

It is a shame to think that second-wave feminism liberated women to join the workforce, only to spend these newfound earnings on becoming more beautiful. In the 21 years since Botox was approved for cosmetic use, demand has increased tenfold and is skewing towards younger and younger women. In a culture where invasive injections to erase wrinkles is so normal, we might forgive women for receiving the message that aspiring to smooth skin is necessary and dutiful. The message is clear: women, you can get all the benefits of being in the workforce, but looking beautiful while you are there is necessary penance for the extra equality.

Botox may even be a little passé these days. There’s a new trend on the block – a miracle drug called Semalgitude (brand name Ozempic). It’s technically an insulin regulator for pre-diabetic patients, but some noticed a side effect: it’s a weight-loss drug. It has taken Hollywood by storm, saturating the industry, and helping the very wealthy further upgrade their “beauty”. It’s a full-time job for the great and the good in Los Angeles, after all.

Women can work and aspire to professional success... but they can never outrun the insatiable demand that they be attractive

Entertainment magazine Variety reports on the pricey drug, administered via injection: “In a matter of months, it has become the worst kept secret in Hollywood – especially given that its most enthusiastic users are not pre-diabetic and do not require the drug.” As Ozempic has soared in popularity as a weight-loss aid, it has generated shortages across the world for those who require it medically. In the endless societal demand for self-optimisation, we might consider this a low point.

A new frontier in class politics is opening up: can you afford preventive Botox on your way to work? How about $1,500 per month for the weight-loss drug? Can you pay to imitate a youthful face? These three questions trigger a horrible feeling that women can work and aspire to professional success, reaping the benefits of the second wave, but they can never outrun the insatiable demand that they be attractive. And so long as that demand for eternal youth exists, people will pay all they can for it.

It can be ta**ry to blame all societal ills on social media. But it is impossible to deny the impact that it has had. It is neither healthy nor normal for teenage girls or women to have access to thousands of pictures of beautiful women on their phone every day – flicking through a suite of desirable traits (perfect skin, plump lips, defined jaws, small waists), all now purchasable for anyone with a large disposable income.

It feels rather poignant. The referendum on women in the home is upcoming. It is welcome, if perhaps a little virtue-signally (some virtues ought to be signalled!). Irish women enjoy a greater level of gender equality than most in the world – if we believe such a thing is quantifiable. The text of our Constitution should reflect that contemporary reality, not the mores of 1937.

Why, then, does it feel like a difficult time to be a woman? It might be the Rolodex of optimisation treatments available at the click of a button – a constant reminder that the woman’s body is something to be optimised. Perhaps it is being told that we can – and should – buy beauty.

How is it feminist to feel a moral obligation to look beautiful? The weight-loss drug Ozempic has soared in popularity, generating shortages for those who require it medically

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I’ve been thinking a lot about our planet. To be fair who hasn’t. The climate is screaming ”l’m confused”most days.
I’ve also been thinking a lot about technology and it’s negative impact on the environment.
The life span of tech gadgets ie cell phones (which lets face it we didn’t need then and don’t need now). There only true genius is to keep our brains preoccupied with scrolling so we miss out on the real event. Life.
The irony is Ofcourse that big business promotes tech as a saviour. Now l’m not saying all tech is bad and it certainly isn’t number 1 on the emissions list but if you take the deforestation needed to mine for precious metals for components and the water pollution it’s responsible for and the transportation of goods and the small life span each gadget has before it’s dumped in some far away land that no one speaks of, then it becomes pretty clear that tech is not just about saving our planet but it is a leader in its destruction.
Lolly keeps saying to me “ why is it taking so long for someone to make solar cars mummy“.
Electric cars have batteries that have a life span. The destruction on the environment that the making of and getting rid of that battery have not to mention the human loss involved and when l say human loss l don’t just mean death from dangerous conditions in mining etc l also mean the walking dead whose heads are faced down onto a screen and whose lives are being taken right in front of us.
I can’t answer Lolly’s question because l don’t know why.
I don’t know why tech isn’t taxed to the hilt on its emissions. I don’t know why with all the geniuses in this world we can’t come up with a simpler way to do things and l don’t know why Governments don’t do more to promote simpler living by incentives and deductions in taxation.
Instead of ploughing money into tech that has the lifespan of a Mayfly why not plough money into keeping things sustainably simpler.
We don’t really need a cell phone. We don’t really need multiple cars. We don’t really need to go on a rocket into space. We don’t really need to take that cruise. We don’t really need private jets. We don’t really need a lot of STUFF.
We do need people to think outside of the box. Way outside and to come up with something genius that was right in front of us all the time.

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This was sent to me by a fan of the show. My gosh it seems like yesterday. How lucky was l to have such a wonderful actor like Seamus Power by my side 🙏

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Rent Reviews - Should you do them?

If the end goal is to cash in your investment down the line, then yes.
If you allow your investments monthly rental income to fall too far below market value and investor won't touch your property especially at present when you can only increase rent by 2 percent per year pro rata. So you need to keep as close to Market value as possible.
Also if you haven't had a rent review for a while then you could find that your monthly rental income isn't even covering the upkeep and unforseen outlays of your investment property so you may find yourself with no choice but to sell. This scenario is all too common.
Interest rates are going up and will contunue to do so. You now have to RTB your property yearly. Then there's the non sensical LPT aswell as all the different TAX’s.
Keeping this in mind, if you haven't rent reviewed in a while I would suggest you head over the the RTB Website to the calculator and do so.
Remember you can only go up by 2 percent per year pro rata at the minute so its not going to scare your Tenant, who has been benifiting from your lack of reviews for the last few years.
Infact they would prefer a rent review than a possible eviction down the line.
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Loving this new post going around of women B4 & after makeup. I’m standing with these women later today 💪