the short history of the international women of mayhem - taras perspective

the international women of mayhem really began back in early 2005.

nell and i started hanging out a little more after dan and i broke up. she was with lindsay at the time, and after work drinks she came around to my place in ariki street, grey lynn.
we were working together at vodafone - and were probably two of the loudest and the most independent females in the building (ratio of men to women was about 15:1)

i decided to move out of the house that i had shared with dan and into a house in mt albert with sally.
sally and i had gone to camp together way back when we were 15. we had recently got back in touch and thought it was a brilliant idea to flat together.

anyway - nell and i started hanging out more. we were pretty much interested in the same kind of things - although she was a lot more athletic than i was. she also drank a lot more than me. but her friendship was what i needed.

i had a bbq at the mt albert road house for my birthday. nell gave me the cheesiest card and a lonely planet guide to central america. at that stage, we had just floated the idea of possibly going together.
the inside of the card reads ... " happy birthday! between is we now have enough literature to get us from the bottom of south america to the usa. lets have the courage to do it ! "

i know it sounds cheesy. but to me that was the very very very beginning.

the following year, we took a little trip to surfers paradise for her birthday. and fionas. but we wont talk about that anymore.

then we followed that up with fiji. fiji in october was when the international women of mayhem got their name.

then christmas, new year, whanarua bay and a whole summer of drinking and driving and diving happened.

then fiji again. this time we had business cards to take with us and a new slogan !

its now july. i have nearly $600.00 cash from selling my furniture.
my house is almost empty. and we're off to another spanish lesson.

i have one word for the lot of you .............

M A Y H E M ! ! ! !