NEARLY done with Part I

Warpony - the first half, the right half, the face half is NEARLY done!

I'm a bit too tired now to carry on and finish it. It's just past 1am. G's up late, working on something for tomorrow. I was stitching while he worked but I'm sleepy now hehe.

Just a few last confetti-stitches left, as you can see in the pic.

Project: cross stitch - chart kitting [Status - awaiting quote]

I've emailed 123Stitch! asking about charts I'm interested in and whether they have a kitting service. A lady from the company replied to my email and is currently compiling a quote for the charts I want kitted.

These are the ones I'm going to do:


Heremia - Character Creations


Motion - Arabian and Swallow - Character Creations


Golden Ice - Kustom Krafts


Gentle Strength - Dimensions

I've chosen different fabrics for Heremia and Motion, which the lady is incorporating into the quote.

It really is so expensive to kit charts here, what with 8m of a single colour skein of thread costing R6 (that's US$0.78 - non-sale price of thread is apparently $0.30 each), bearing in mind that each chart uses anything from 30 colours to 89. Then you have to source fabric, which I would imagine is no easy task if you want a different colour/type fabric than the standard plain aida. The price of the thread alone is more than the price of the whole kit from overseas.

Saw in a crafts shop nearby a very crappy kit of (say for eg) a watering-can with flowers on a table. That was R700 (almost $100). It wasn't a BIG design either, not NEAR the standards of Warpony and the others I want to do. All 4 of the 'kits' I'm ordering shouldn't come to more than R1000, which works out to R250 each which *I*'d say is a FAR better deal than paying R700 for a kit I don't really like. A R250 kit here makes a tiny little design of about 15cm x 15cm.

I'm eagerly awaiting the quote on the cross-stitches!

I've also been working on Warpy, the right-hand half is SO nearly complete! Tonight G probably will have 'homework' to do (overtime) so I'll sit up late with him and STITCH!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAh I'm so impatient to go HOME!!

Tomorrow we're going to go see T, she's back in the land of R S of A (much to her depression and frustration!!).

Thursday is the carnival, so G and I, my sis and (her)G and M and J are going to go have FUN! Can't wait for that either!!

Then it's almost my birthday!

I have time!

Friday afternoon I phoned the (S)watch shop to find out about my watch that I'd sent away for them to check if they can fix it. They can't. Why? Because it's a 'sealed unit'. WTF? They offered me a 33.3% discount off any watch I buy from them up worth R799 (my watch's value). Like hell. I don't want to have ANOTHER dead watch 2 years later, thanks.

G and I went to the mall earlier, and after brunch we went straight to the (S)watch shop and I collected my watch. (Heard after we got home that it still TICKS fine, it just doesn't move. WTF?)

Went around looking in shop windows at watches. Checked out Fossil, and any other brands in jewellery shops. OMG they are SO EXPENSIVE! A Fossil watch is CHEAP compared to most of them in the jewellery shops! Then after "liking" a Fossil watch (more like the best of not a WONDERFUL selection), we went to a shop which sells a LOT of brands. It is exclusively a watch shop. Checked out their stuff... There was one that appealed to me. It wasn't as expensive as most of the other watches in the whole mall, but it was more than the Fossil. So we went back to the Fossil shop where I took another look at the watch, and then (with not a lot of ease) got one of the assistants to take the watch out for me to take a closer look. It was alright. Didn't blow me away. I had become more impressed with the *other* watch in the *other* shop before leaving that shop to come look at the Fossil, so we went back to the watch shop where I could take a longer look.

The assistant came to me and asked if I needed help (which was far better treatment than in the Fossil shop - although the ladies in the Fossil shop had offered us assistance at first, but they hadn't actually come around their counter to talk TO us, they just called out across the HUGE 5m shopfloor, this lady had). So I got to take a closer look at the nice watch in the nice shop with the nice shop assistants. I liked the nice watch. It became nicer and nicer as I handled it. It became more mine too. So I decided to keep it. No, I didn't steal it!

I'm now sitting at the pc with MY new LOVELY watch... it's pretty and matte and shiny in tiny bits and it's metal and it is blue and patterned in the face and it has glow in the dark bits but it has no gold-colour and it has no faux-bling diamante crap on it ANYwhere ;) (that was one of the turn-offs of the Fossil watch)

It's so cool!!

Oh, and apparently the ppl from (S)watch decided that it was more of a virtue for their watches to be innovatively waterproof than for them to be repairable, so although my watch is broken, it will never ever be damaged by water!

Damn it!

Damn everything!

Damn everything ever! Damn it!

I hate work. I started enjoying it but it turns out it's shit. Bloody personal shit, like calling medical aid and getting stuff pre-authorised or finding out why they don't pay for something they did before. What the fuck does wifeykins do at home all day that SHE can't phone?! *I* have to phone MY medical aid when *I* have a query! It's MY medical aid MY problem. Damn it! Bosses' wives BLEH! Bloody lazy asses! Personal shit! Bugger it all!

I hate things damn it! I'm so FED UP with shit always. It's quiet at home. Routine and stable, the moment you have any interactions with anyone or anything, it turns shit. I'm tired from work shit. I can't deal with stuff like that now. I can't solve it. Problems I CAN'T SOLVE! Damn it, I'm not qualified to sort that out! There's nothing I can do to FIX things. I want to fix things. I can't fix anything. I can't do anything. She argues and goes off about things, I can't argue with her. She has a reason. I can't stop her having a reason. I can't FIX what she's angry about. I can't fix it.

I can't just BE, with you. Can't just, have a cup of coffee with you. We can't hang out together. It's always the same. I can't explain why, because it ends up that we argue the same way she and you argue. I can't talk to you because we would argue. I don't want to. But I can't just *be* with you, it exhausts me and drains me out completely. I want to. It's so simple. But it's too complicated, everything's too complicated that's why you can't ever just BE. I can't fix that. I can't. I can't be your self-esteem, I can't fix you.

I can't.

I want you to be fine. I can't fix it.

The LITTLE DUDE!!!

He isn't afraid of the camera which is EXCELLENT, but he was a bit shell-shocked after the flash went off.. poor little chap.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate you, you inconsiderate fucks

Yes, you, you loud ASSHOLES. You who had the TV on so loud that I heard all the news headlines from YUGOSLAVIA! And then you watched a sitcom and laughed LOUDLY too. As if I wouldn't already know when the funny bits are, since I can hear the studio-audience's laughter loud enough for it to sound as if they're in our lounge. Then, obviously, your show ended at 23:30, because you became quiet.

May I now go sleep?

Fuck you.

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The Little Green Man

I read this blog post quite a while ago (around the time when we moved in together)and I still think it's very funny! Ok not so funny, but ... well... it struck a chord, cos we had to experience the same thing. Exactly the same thing. With G's flat, they wanted to redo the floors. They wanted to redo the bath. They wanted to do so many things but how on earth is a person supposed to just take time off work to go supervise? ANYway... nuff said.

Valentine's was a strange day. We were actually going to celebrate the 13 Feb rather, that being our 6 months anniversary, so we met up for lunch during the day, but in the evening we ended up doing laundry. Gave G goodies though.

For Valentine's, we didn't meet up for lunch or anything. I went out and got some extra goodies for G for the evening, some yummy chocolates for us to share. We didn't get much time to hang out after work, G had a short band practice to get to, so I caught a lift home with the intention to hang out with my mom and sis. But they were out *hmph!* hehe. So I went online and checked my mail and stuff.

G came and fetched me and we came home again, and we were so hungry that we scoffed some chips almost before putting his band stuff down! Then I went into the bedroom to put something down, and on the bed was a cute little green budgie in a little blue cage! A sleepy little chap, all fluffed up and ready for bed! It was the cutest thing!!! There was a ribbon on the cage and a lovely card G'd made. It was so ... AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The little green man doesn't have a name yet, I have a feeling that "chappie" is going to turn into "Chappie" and become his name though! He's got a good place on my shelf in the lounge so he's able to watch TV with us and enjoy music and even watch the fishtank. He's too cute!

And the long story behind the surprise! Wow! So crafty!!!!!!!! When we went to G's parents' place to do laundry, he was apparently upstairs! Both times! And there was no short band practice, and G's parents weren't out (we were going to go fetch laundry that evening but couldn't because they 'were out'). Nor was S (W's S - all these initials are getting confusing HAHA) which was why I wouldn't have had fun at band. W played along with G's story of there being a short band practice that evening! G rushed around "during band" fetching the little chappie from his parents' place and taking him to our place and setting everything up and then rushing back to fetch me and driving back! HEEEHEHEHEHEHEH :D awww it's so wow!!!! :D Phew! Ingewikkelde tale!

This evening G and I are going toy-shopping! The little dude's cage is rather bare, so we're gonna see what all toys there are, and pick up a seed-bell and a cuttlefishbone or so. HE'S SO CUTE! He chirped this morning, as we were going out the door :D Awwww!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll take a pic later and post it asap.

A LITTLE GREEN MAN :D

The day Google became Googe

Pulled Google up this morning and it being Valentine's day, they have prettied up their logo. Except it seems they made a spelling mistake:

My Name According To Spam

I can choose between the following:

"Delicata Andrew" and "Satish Sehgal".

I think I like Delicata, it feels right plus it's a female-sounding name.

Had a nice relaxed weekend. Friday night G and I caught up on the sleep we'd missed out on the previous night (see previous post), then Saturday morning we went to the mall. G got two CDs and we had brunch there. We went to the ATMs before having brunch and there was a queue for the two of my bank's ATMs but one guy left the one ATM and said something to the guy in front of me, who when I asked what was wrong (because he wasn't going to that ATM and he was next in the queue) said that the ATM had swallowed the other chap's card. "no big deal, if it's swallowed it, it's in the machine now and shouldn't cause trouble with my card" I reckoned, so I went to use the ATM. Tried to put my card in, it didn't go in, instead it spat the other chap's card out! Credit card too, so I took it and looked around for the guy but he was gone. G and I had a nice trek to find the nearest BRANCH of that bank, cos strangely they don't have one in the mall (silly, really). Felt really strange to be walking around with someone else's credit card in my pocket!!

Went to G's parents for a bit while he did washing, then went out with sis and "her" G and my G for supper to celebrate her birthday. Had a lekker supper and stayed over. Came home Sunday morning and just relaxed. Not often do we get a chance to just BLOB. Sit lazily on the couch, or lie in bed and blob. So we did that. Went to the shop first, got the vital groceries, but then had a nap afterwards - LOVELY! Read and blobbed, G tried to fix his record player but the elastic has broken. We were going to "copy" LPs onto the computer to put on CDs in case the LPs get scratched or the record player (mom's) breaks. We'll have to kidnap mom's record player for a bit.

Back at work now. Still haven't had a chance to try out the DMC cross stitch program that I got from W/S :D Can't wait! Gotta do a waterchange too, and iron some clothes. Eish gotta go to the laundry today. This is a very boring part of this blogpost :P

Back work. It's cold and I have allergies and the state of being cold and sneezy is exacerbated by the fact that the painters have hbbm's windows open and are painting with varnish - cold and stinky. LOL. Today is still "new" so it's gonna be a loooooonnnnnnnnnnnnng day.

Thoughtful...

Seems I'm most likely to blog when I am thinking a lot. I guess that is what blogs are about hey?

Was going through my cellphone phonebook, and saw someone's name in it. It's strange how a person can embody the concept of 'could have been'. We could have been great friends, we seemed to get on very well, or at least that's what I thought. She was just 'biding her time', "letting" me keep her company because it (to her) must have seemed to make me happy, regardless of whether she actually enjoyed it. That knowledge somehow completely nulls any enjoyment I actually got from her company.

Ok the stuff above I typed a while ago, but saved it as a draft.

Last night the asshole neighbours were playing music very loudly. I couldn't sleep. At 1:30am I logged onto the computer, downloaded antivirus and antispyware updates and ran those. I went to the lounge and tried to sleep on the couch at about 3am. I managed to doze off til about 4am. The lounge is the only place where their music doesn't penetrate as much, cos their front door/lounge is right by our bedroom window, and the kitchen/computer room gets the noise coming through their rooms through our kitchen. Earlier I'd gone outside enraged and went around to see where the noise was coming from and the fuckers had their lights off and their door WIDE OPEN so that the whole fucking city could enjoy their music. After sleeping on the couch for a while, I went back to bed but they were still playing music and talking very loudly. I fell asleep (passed out) at 4:30, and here I am at work now half-dead at 11am after getting up at 7. Thank you, FUCKERS, for 2,5 hours of sleep!!!!!!!!!!

I just phoned the rental agency, spoke to the woman there. She said she'd get hold of them. I also told her about the lovely couple upstairs who get drunk and then argue and fight and throw things around.

FUCK YOU ALL! BASTARDS!!! 4:30 in the morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel like I'm an undead. I'm so irritated already this week, this just TOPS IT OFF!!

Hbbm's gone out for meetings and hopefully to enjoy some golf, if the weather holds. Hold thumbs that the weather holds, I don't feel up for much work today. This morning I was having my breakfast oats and coffee at my desk, so he calls me to type up an email for him, IN THE MIDDLE of my eating. He KNOWS I was eating, he even commented on the fact that it looked like kid's/baby's cereal (mush). But it doesn't matter, the email can't WAIT 3minutes!

I'm so tired of this place. Just when I thought things were going to be good and I'd have something worthwhile to do, it gets snatched away from me. I thought I was hbbm's PA, and I asked the accountant to confirm it (cos the job title is printed on my payslip), and she informed me that the bosses decided my job title is 'admin assistant'. What the fuck is an admin assistant???? Dogsbody? That's like even less of a job title than receptionist!!! How the hell will that look on my CV? "I have 4.5 years experience as a receptionist and x years as a ... well... um... I did PA duties but officially I was admin assistant..." Gosh, it's not allowed that someone actually feels proud and motivated in their job? "Heavens no! I mean, imagine, her actually liking her work? No, that's not on, by jove, she'll get a big head and think she's important and meaningful and appreciated *gasp*. Only us head honchos can get job satisfaction, you know. Along with our fat pay! Hehehe, go us!!!"

So anyway, I'm admin assistant, doing PA duties. It's so petty. I hate it. Just let me do work, and acknowledge it and allow me headroom to ENJOY IT and grow into it and feel motivated. To quote a graffiti: *fuckshitup!*

What is news. I miss my budgie. My fish (the congo tetras) are randy and lay eggs all the time.

I feel like a zombie. I want to curl up in bed and just sleep. It's cold and rainy too, so that is making me want to cuddle up too.

*yaaaaaaaaaaawnnnnnnnnnnnnns*

FINALLY ...

Pics of our place!!

I just stuck all of them here, so you can see the entire place. As well as G, unlocking the front door.

Love the place, but the neighbours are annoying. But love the place!!