HAHAHAHA! It's a one-question quiz... HAHA weird result!!

What People Think of Your Mouth

People see you as both seductive and intimidating. Other women are especially put off by your womanly powers. And men either fear you or obsess over you - sometimes both. No way to fight it - you're a natural vamp.

What Does Your Mouth Say About You?

okay.... I rather LIKE green eyes....

Your Inner Eye Color Is Blue

You've got the personality of a blue eyed women You're intense and expressive - and always on the go You've also got a sweet, playful side - which draws men in

What's Your Inner Eye Color?

what flower am I... I'm a heather-lily!!

You Are A Lily

You are a nurturer and all around natural therapist. People see you as their rock. And they are able to depend on you. You are a soothing influence. You can make people feel better with a few words. Your caring has more of an impact than even you realize.

What Flower Are You?

movie kiss time!!

Your Famous Movie Kiss is from Spiderman

"I have always been standing in your doorway. Isn't it about time somebody saved your life?"

What Famous Movie Kiss Are You?

hmmmmm

Your Celebrity Boob Twin:

Claire Danes

Who's Your Celebrity Boob Twin?

alrighty then............

Your Celebrity Boob Twin:

Claire Danes

Who's Your Celebrity Boob Twin?

very odd quiz - surely it should ask him??

You Have Him Totally Hooked

Your guy is all yours - and happily so. He loves being around you, and he totally sees you as a couple. It looks like you two have a great future together - if you want it!

Do You Have Him Hooked?

I wouldn't *have* to choose a 2nd time.... :P

You Would Pick Your Boyfriend Again!

While the initial new couple spark has faded for you two, You've built upon your attraction - and formed a deep love. And although things are never perfect, they're usually pretty great. So don't let your eye wander. You've got the best catch for you, at home.

Would You Pick Him Again?

AWWWW

What You Know About Your Guy: Practically Everything

You have gotten to know your man really well From his hopes and dreams to favorite things... You definitely have enough info to figure out if he's *the* guy In fact, you may know him a little better than you know yourself

How Well Do You Know Your Man?

UHOH!!

Your PMS Disaster Level: Medium

You definitely are a bit of a wreck once a month. But as long as remember to take it easy, your PMS isn't a major crisis.

Are You a PMS Disaster?

AHAHAHAHHA!! Ar e you ready to move in together?

Start Hunting For That New Apartment

You two are ready to live together - and probably have been for a while You're a perfect match, even if you don't agree on everything What's important is compromise... a skill you and your guy have mastered So head out to Bed, Bath, and Beyond. It's time for your new life together!

Should You Live Together?

Are you a good girlfriend?

You are a Great Girlfriend

When it comes to your guy, you're very thoughtful But you also haven't stopped thinking of yourself You're the perfect blend of independent and caring You're a total catch - make sure your guy knows it too!

Are You a Good Girlfriend?

What kind of sexy are you?

You Are Girly Sexy

You're a youthful spirit, and your energy is infectious. Men love your innocence and lack of emotional baggage. You make every kiss seem like the first and every moment magical. How could any guy in his right mind resist that?

What Kind of Sexy Are You?

How bitchy am I? O_o

You Are 26% Bitchy

You're a pretty sweet person, and you're definitely not prone to bitchy outbursts. Sometimes, though, you can't help thinking mean thoughts about people. But at least you don't act on them!

How Bitchy Are You?

AWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

He's a Great Boyfriend

You guy definitely loves you and knows how to treat you right. You have a five star boyfriend - so make sure you treat him right too!

Is He a Good Boyfriend?

Ok FINALLY I can upload pics!!!!

We have finallly got the internet up and running.

The Telkon guy came on Friday to install the phone line and the adsl stuff... and I tried to set it all up and it DIDN'T work. When G came home from work, he tried to sort it out - still didn't work. Tried dial up, and it worked but terribly slowly.

Went this morning and bought a phone, it's now charged and ready hehe.

Went to Synd and got sis to switch the router there off (it's got my username and password set up) so that we could try the net when we got home, and VOILA!! It's worked! Strangest bloody thing ever... but anway. Bloody glad that we don't have to phone Telkon and get someone to come out and sort it out blablabla.

Anyway, I got a lot of stitching done the past few days, and TA-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, here's the most up-to-date pic of Warpy!!! (and sample pic, specially for W)

I have work Monday - not looking forward to that AT ALL. Bleh!

Anyway, cheers for now, my software is updating and I'm tired and I want to google for info on canaries cos I want a pet bird but think a budgie would get bored but dunno if a canary is "exciting" enough LOLLLLLLLLLL!!!!

Cheers for now!

YAWNNNN

Ok...

I'm a bit moeg to post more. I wanted to post more stuff but have been catching up on all my regular reads and stuff...

*yawns*

Heading home in a bit, just gotta log off and stuff.

OOH wait! Yes! Quick thing to blog about: our internet (and phone line) are going to be installed on Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!! So most likely Friday afternoon I'll be online!

Ok, night everyone!

A long post... catching up

Ok it's 10th Jan now, I've been posting everything into a wordpad document which I'm going to copy and paste now. I'll add stuff in another post if I feel like it LOL

Ok, what all has been going on since I last posted properly...

After flat-sitting for about 2 months, finally someone took G's flat. In those flat-sitting hours which were from 17:30 to 19:30 every weekday and from 9:00 to 11:00 every Saturday (almost like detention but at home), I got a lot done on Warpy. I'm nearly finished the first half, his face, which seems the more time-consuming half because it's all blending and different colours. The other half, his neck, is mostly shades of white. With hand-prints. And a feather. I'm so amped to get the face-half done! Wanted to finish it before the end of 2006 (that's LAST YEAR already!), but that was *rather* optimistic.

With 2 weeks til the end of the year and no place to go, G heard of a place through his previous/at-the-time rental agency, and we went to see it. I have blogged about it already, and am going to post pics too. We decided to take the place with (for now) a 6 months lease, in case it turned out to be dreadful and we wanted to move asap. So in the 2nd last week of the year, we got the keys (it'd been vacant) and moved G's stuff to the new flat. Was a mission carrying boxes and boxes down 3 flights of stairs; my legs felt so rubbery after that! Luckily there wasn't much that we ourselves couldn't move, all that was left was the bed, cupboard, drawers, 2 bookshelves, a desk, 3 couches, a tv-cabinet, a kitchen countertable and a bar fridge.

G's gran was down from Jhb for Xmas, and we had Xmas lunch at his parents' place. Was lovely - a delicious lunch and all smiles. Got cool gifts too! G's gran also told us she was going to pay for a removal van to transport our stuff, rather than us battle with it. Ah, grandparents! Organised that and got them to take G's furniture, and my wardrobe, bookshelf, desk and drawers. The rest of the stuff was small stuff or full of non-vital stuff and not particularly useful to us in the new place (stuff I'd need to sort through at some stage - procrastination!!).

We'd had Xmas eve celebrations at my place, basically gift-opening and stuff, and then we'd had a 2nd Xmas lunch on 26th Dec. M and J came too. More DELICIOUS food and fun!

Ok so then we'd finally moved everything in to the new place but we were sans bed and, since the fridge is a bar fridge and we were going to get a bigger (proper) one soon, we didn't plug the fridge in. So we were all but moved in.

Went between my place and the flat to move stuff and basically everything is here now.

Went shopping a few days later, and bought a big bed and a big fridge. It was to be delivered the Friday. We stayed over at my place the Thurs night, and left home quite early to be there when the stuff was delivered. We waited the whole day. G phoned at about 16:30, and heard that the Town deliveries only go out at 16:00. Nice, after waiting the entire day! We waited some more. He phoned a few more times. We sat outside in the warm evening air as it approached 19:00. "They'll be here at about 20:15", according to the person on the phone. We waited some more. And more. It was going on for 22:00. We were staying over at my place again that night, and decided to leave then. I was basically packing my bag when G announced "guess who's arrived". At 22:05, our fridge and bed were delivered. If they'd come 5 mins later, we'd have left already. The "excuse" for coming so late? "there were roadblocks". Sure, *that's* credible… but only if the delivery note didn't say that the items were checked out at 17:48 for delivery! So basically, when G phoned the first time, they hadn't even bloodywell sent it off yet. Nice one.

Thinking now, about what else to blog about. The neighbours... or now (thankfully) EX-neighbours. Lovely people. The days that we'd been delivering things and packing stuff in the flat, we had heard kids shrieking and going on like mad. All day long. Not a WHISPER of a "shhh" from either of their parents. They would bounce a massive (about the size of a basketball) inflatable tennis ball ALL AROUND THE ENTIRE BLOCK OF FLATS! Around and around and around! For hours on end. If they weren't doing that, they were running around the entire building, running past/under our bedroom window which is on the same side of the building as their porch/balcony-thing. Oh yes, and G's car is parked just across from our bedroom window, and it's on a raised level so it's about 1.5m higher than the ground by the building. The kids would bounce their ball against the little wall/edge of the raised bit G's car is parked on, and it'd inevitably bounce up, and it bashed his car's grille and I heard it bounce off the bonnet at least once! That's just the kids. They'd also throw a toy helicopter or something up in the air and watch it crash down onto the bricks. Over and over again. Mesmerising entertainment. And that'd go on ALL DAY. Well past 8pm, which was MY bedtime when I was a kid. Or at least Mom would come and tell my sis and me to quieten down, "it's late and time to settle down now". Nope, these people had no concept of "other people".

That was clearly visible when they were packing. It seemed, WONDERFULLY, that they were moving out. They had a little bakkie parked in one of the bays and were loading stuff on it when someone in one of the other flats arrived with stuff to be delivered. A wash machine and a couch. The man of this lovely neighbour-animals group STORMED across and started shouting at the driver of the little truck to "use your fucking brains a little! how the fuck am I supposed to get out here? What the fuck are you thinking? Fucksakes man! How the fuck are we to get out? What the fuck!!". Totally unreasonable. For one thing, he was still busy PACKING, so no URGENT need to get past, for another thing, the truck wouldn't have been there longer than about 5-10 mins, and another... HE COULD HAVE MOVED SO ASSHOLE COULDA GOT PAST!!! Hardly as if he was stuck... but assholes like that just overreact completely.

A bit later, when we were sitting outside enjoying the evening air and warmth, he walked past us after going out to buy something and muttered to us "enjoy your stay here, you're going to have fun staying here!". Almost seemed like a threat. BUT...

THEY'VE MOVED OUT!!!!

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's peaceful now, no screaming shrieking banging shit! YAYYYYYYYY! It's awesome now. I think if they hadn't moved out I would have gone nuts very soon. It's hard to live with inconsiderate bastards like that. Imagine: this man stands outside and shouts into the house to his wife... charming. Swears at his kids. Lovely. But anyway, not our concern anymore - YAYYYYYYY!!!

Yesterday, G's parents came to my place to fetch the fishtank and bring it carefully to the flat. It was a MISSION to catch all the fish, one of the black neons somehow went UNDER the undergravel filter plate and hid in the muck with 2 of the kuhli loaches. Little sods! I had to dig up all the gravel that was on top of the filterplate and lift it up, dislodging all fish poo and muck in the process, and try to catch them despite not being able to see much in the murk. Lucky I got them quite easily. Easier, in fact, than catching all the others ABOVE the gravel! For being such a little bugger, that black neon got to enjoy the ride to town in the kuhli loach bag *see previous post about kuhli loaches* All the other fish were separated according to species, except for him! I also had to separate the male and female congos cos they're just too big and skittish to fit into one bag.

Drove to town, offloaded the tank & equipment & brats, and G's parents had a look around the flat while they were here. They also love the place. We're having a flat warming tomorrow evening so they'll see the tank now that it's set up. Everyone will see the place! So exciting.

Ooh I haven't blogged about NY's yet! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ok after saving that post yesterday and coming back to it today (6th Jan 2007), we’re waiting for 19:00. The flat-warming is tonight! So exciting! It’s gonna be great to see everyone together.

The fish are completely at home, no problems whatsoever. I’m dying to get a bird, maybe a canary or something like that, but it’d be quite lonely during the day. And birds’ sounds carry. Although (pleasantly) surprising in this place, neighbours’ sounds don’t carry so much. There are a few people who have little dogs here but you NEVER hear them, except when they’re going through the stairwell area on their way (excitedly) for a walk. Good, that, not having much noise (specially after those un-neighbours!). Sometimes we hear junky music coming from the flats opposite, which are above a restaurant, but that’s for about an hour hehe, so it’s tolerable. Just means that we close the windows/door when we’re playing music here, cos their music just clashes with ours. Yes, it IS that loud to interfere, but not if the windows/door are closed!!

It’s 18:10, I’m hungry. Mustn’t get tempted to start on the cheese puffs………………….

I’m starting to get anxious about the GI&GS order… I haven’t had any email replies (emailed twice) and still haven’t had an email confirming that they’ve been shipped. The transaction has gone through… but it’s a month later and still nothing. The moment we get our internet connection (after posting this LOL), I’m going to yahoo-phone them, to try to find out what’s going on.

My hifi is very frustrating. Its CD player lens keeps going off focus/blind/cannot read the CD. So you put a CD in it, and sometimes it plays, other times it reads how many songs there are and the playing time, but doesn’t manage to find the start of track one nor any other tracks. Sometimes it cannot even read the tracklisting or running time and spins the CD superfast and then throws it down again into the tray still spinning – CHARMING!! Time to get it serviced, AGAIN! It’s been a problem with this hifi since I got it, basically. I dunno, maybe a temperamental hifi, generally LOL.

Ok I think I’ll save this now, see if there’s anything that still needs preparation for nownow. Don’t think there’s anything. Would be nice if Fe and Te were coming, but sadly they’re all a plane-trip away now!! Miss you guys, see you soon!

Ok signing off for now, will add more to this later... Oh wait! I didn’t blog about NY’s! It was at W&S’s place, a bring ‘n braai. Basically the whole Anti-Social Society was there, as well as (obviously) W&S, and also X and L. Had a lekker time, chilling and chatting and joking and talking shit and having a ball, and having nice nice drinks. Mmmm nachtmusik and cinzano and something else. OMG did that have a sting in the tail! All the “power” sank to the bottom so you had a super-whammy when you got to the end of the drink! I felt RATHER wonky!! Got to witness the eye-toy, wasn’t up to playing with it though cos I think I might have wobbled a bit too much! Saw in the new year watching the countdowns on TV and well, each channel we tuned into had theirs when we tuned to them, so they were almost staggered hehe! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!..... ummm… HAPPY NEW YEAR PEOPLE!!..... oh ey, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!! ….. YAY HAPPY NEW YEAR…. Ermm…….

Ok signing off for real now, to be continued….

And I’m back. It’s now Monday 8th January 2007. The party was WONDERFUL! Thanks everyone for coming and making it such a special evening!! Caught up with everyone, at first we were all in the lounge and then the guys all basically ended up outside and the girls indoors still, then more people went outside, then I kinda rounded everyone up and everyone was outside. It was actually quite warm in the lounge and it was refreshingly cool outside. As the night settled in, it got colder and it was nice and warm indoors again, but by then people were starting to leave... time is abstract hehe, it was already later than it seemed!

Friday was B & N’s flatwarming/farewell/birthday party/get-together. Went to their place for snacks and chatting. N is leaving for UAE to work there. 2 months there, 1 month back... or something to that effect. I’m sure that’s going to be very trying at times, but they’re staying positive about it. Luckily “in this day and age” there are so many ways to communicate hehe!

Yesterday (Sunday), we went to my place and took Sis out for lunch with us to a lovely little restaurant/art gallery, Tibetan Teahouse. I had Thukpa Soup, VERY yum! Then G and I went to his parents’ place, to fetch *the curtains*! Friday we’d bought one curtain, to divide in half and put in the lounge cos those two windows are a bit small to warrant a curtain each. So on Saturday, G’s mom took the curtain and divided it and made it into two curtains for us! It was already ready very early on Sunday, hehe! Sounds like she’d worked overnight or something but apparently this curtain had a very simple construction which made it quick to do. We had supper at their place, and as soon as we got home we put the curtains up. They look STUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today was a rather mellow day for me. G went to work and I stayed at home, being still on leave. I washed up, vacuumed, washed my hair, read about [theories about the universe] and dozed a bit in the little sunny spot in the bedroom. Ended up going to nap properly in bed, it was so nice!

My list of things to do is something like this:

Study for my learners, and do the test, and go about doing driving lessons to get my drivers license

Stitch

Read

Ok it doesn’t sound like very much to do, like un-goallike, but that’s all that I feel like setting for myself at this point because on Monday, my new job starts, and I want to see how that affects my life first. Hopefully not too much. I think it will cut out my blogging/surfing/MSNing though, because at the ‘meeting’ the bosses and I had, they mentioned they were getting an IT co to assess our computers and needs, and they’re going to restrict which computers have access to the internet, most of them only being able to email. Basically I think they’re going to replace all the computer stuff. Which is a bloody godsend! First up I hope (although it will no longer be my problem) the (to quote many previous posts) FUCKING FAX PROGRAM!!!!!! OMG that HAS TO GO!! But I think I’ll be getting a decent PC, if not a new one. And hopefully I’ll get internet, being a secretary to HBBM and maybe needing to do online bookings/etc for him. Etc. I’ll see what happens. Anyway, yeah, I might not be able to MSN anymore during working hours, which is crappy but I reckon I’ll be busy enough with work hehe!

I’m getting amped for our internet connection to be installed here now, to post this stuff, and to catch up on my usual surfing! Dying to know what’s been happening on the pond, and I want to check my emails properly too... and also (of course) chat!!!

Ok I’ll save this for now... nothing much to post, I’ll start blabla’ing about nonsense in a min if I don’t stop!

Cheers for now, peeps!
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Lots of blog stuff to come...

This is just to keep the blog active, I haven't been at the pc much lately and the new inet connection will be up and running in about 2 weeks' time. So there is a lot of stuff I will want to post: pics, details, etc.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! :-D

EEEEEEEEEEEEEK

Ok today I'm excited.

We checked out the place yesterday evening, and it's a very cute old-style building. It's pink. It's got quaint small-paned windows. Creaky wooden floors. It's very big, quite cute, really, in a big, old way. The parking bay is across from the front windows.

I've made a list of things that they need to fix up, like there's a broken tile on the side of the bath, the basin is cracked and yucky, there's a UK-style wall plug (what's WITH that?), the light switches are a bit fidgety, the cupboard in the 2nd bedroom doesn't close properly, but most of all, the windows are a bit dodgy. They (to me) look like they'd rain in, and would not be the most stable/strong windows. Also, their burglar bars are basically THICK chicken-wire, which is just NOT FUNNY. So I'd want them to fix those things up then I'd wanna stay there for ages. Also, strangely, there is no phone fitting. Is that because they CAN'T put a phone in? If so, then we can't get internet = shit.

Best of all, the place is VACANT, so maybe we can move our stuff asap! That would be nice. His place has been taken, so if we can move our stuff before the end of the year, that's perfect. We're gonna go to the agents at lunch time.

Stuff we'd need to get for the place: curtains! A double bed. A proper-size fridge. A stove/oven. Couches. PLANTS!! I guess I'm all excited and want to make it a home asap!

I'm also amped because I'm making serious headway with Warpy. He's looking STUNNING!!!! Apparently the office is closing early today so I'm going to have hours more to stitch!!!!! (with treats and music, of course!)

Yes, the office closing is another exciting thing. It's one of the bosses' birthday today, so we're having pizza for lunch. At 12:30. And apparently we're going home after that!

I'm bored now. My ipod is charging - bummer. Lunch is in half an hour then we are going home!!!!

YIPPEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

Will post a pic of Warpy as soon as I can. YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!

Frantic Festive Season

Been stitching a lot on Warpy, it's coming along fantastically, I'm still hoping to finish the half before the end of the year. It might not happen but I'm still gonna try.

G's place has been taken, so this evening we're going to look at a flat in another part of town. At least for a 3 months contract to look for a better place, but hopefully it'll be LOVELY and the real thing! Can't wait to go look.

Sis got a car! So exciting! A 1600 automatic Citigolf. Not sure what year it is but it's not brand new. It looks good though. Have yet to see/experience it in action, hopefully will get to soon! Dammit I MUST get my learners soon and then drivers, I want my *own* car!

I hope GI & GS arrive soon, I'm really getting overexcited impatient about them! I CAN'T WAIT!

I also can't wait for tomorrow to come, actually for it to be this time tomorrow, cos then it's just an hour and 35mins til HOLIDAYS. But still a day to go. I'm amped about Xmas eve at my place, Xmas lunch at G's parents, 2nd Xmas lunch at my place and then NY's party near W's place! YEAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! It's PARTY TIME!!

Strange how updown things are LOL! Could be due to sugar ;) I've been sipping a Just Juice so maybe that's why.

Got a physio appointment on Sat, 3rd one, my muscles are fine now but it's just to fully relax them. I seem to have a rather tense "rigid" back, I guess my muscles are stringy and tight. At least that pain has gone!

Nothing else much to write about here, am busy trying to read Thud by Terry Pratchett.

Oh god, that's something to blog about: the temp like stinky-ass food! She goes out and buys stuff that stinks like all fucking hell! And this was 11 in the morning! Fish and chips! Holy fuck but did I feel nauseaus!

Anyway, it's 15:30 now, I'm so impatient for today to END!!!!!!!!

Happy times, sad times

It's nearing the holidays, there are only 5 days (including today) til then. Then I'm on leave for 3 weeks. I need the break.

Christmas is coming! Going to have Xmas eve at my place, Xmas lunch at G's parents' place and then a 2nd Xmas lunch on 26th at my place. Cos Mom and sis are going to be at aunt+uncle and I'm going to be at G's parents, and it'd seem lousy having a no one home Xmas, so we're just having it a day later.

That's in a week's time. Xmas!

Then New Years', but I don't know what plans have been/are being made.

Mom has finally come to the realisation that Honey (our 16 year old Flabrador) is old and unhappy. But only because Honey's basically incontinent now. Sometime this week she's going to be put to sleep. I don't know how I feel about this. Despite having been upset how old and unhappy she's been, it's still sad. But I almost feel detached and unemotional. Not sure. Not nice. I won't be there, at the time. Is that a good thing? A bad thing? I don't know. I don't do these things well. Not with the pet hen, not with the budgies, not with dad, I just don't.

GI and GS should arrive soon. I haven't got a reply to my email yet.

We might have found a nice place, but it's not certain yet.

I dunno.

Bla

this is a very very bla day.

We didn't get that place. Some cow got their MOMMY-dearest to do a deposit in the morning, thereby basically *ensuring* she got it. Which is shit because she would have seen it AFTER us and the agent KNEW that we were interested. Shit-heads.

Felt decidedly bla anyway, despite this. So G and I went out for lunch. I went a bit late because I'd been in a meeting with bosses. They were talking to me about my new job etc and stuff. Found out about my pay increase which isn't that much but anything will do.

Got to the coffee shop only at about 13:10, and G was there already. Ordered a cappuccino and a salmon and cream cheese toasted sarmie, G ordered a coffee and an egg-burger. We waited for about half an hour, and THEN only got our coffees. Our food was delayed so we had to take it away. Thankfully the lady was very nice about it and we didn't have to pay for the food. But still. So I got to have my sarmie an hour later and a microwave-turn later so it wasn't as nice as it would have been.

That seems to be the gist of today, really. Everything so bla. Can't find any nice places online, anywhere.

Looking forward to Friday, I hope I survive that long!!

Can't wait to just go home and chill. Want to stitch. Concentrate on something like that. Therapy. Accomplishment - making it look more and more like a picture, even if it is slow.

I'm very annoyed that I haven't received any email from the Xstitch kit people. Yes, they SAY on their site that their replies to emails aren't really snappy, but still. If they've already "made payment" which they do only when it's being shipped, surely I should have had an email? Dunno. I'm so fed up.

Can this year be OVER already?!?!?!?!

It feels like Friday

Today (and basically every day this week so far) has felt like a Friday. I think because it's quiet and I'm bored, and cos it's sunny outside and it feels like something big is happening soon - which it is. Office lunch, holidays. Moving place! That is going to be so exciting! Might have found a RATHER nice place quite nearby to G's current place. It's quite posh, it's got a lift, security gate/electronic gate and everything! Very nice. Probably going to go see it tomorrow, if all goes well.

G's starting the packing process. He's gotta be out by the end of the year. He doesn't have that much stuff but it'll still need packing. It's fascinating to see his stuff, particularly old photos! So cute!!!!

I'm so bored now, nothing to do. I'm sitting listening to my ipod and sending faxes right now, as well as blogging and blobbing on the Pond. NEARLY completely done with my Xmas shopping....................................

I'm so eagerly awaiting the arrival of GS and GI... the payment's been made, but I haven't had an email saying that it's being shipped. I have emailed to ask about it and am waiting for a reply... EEEEEEEEEK so exciting!!!!

Sis passed all her subject for this year/semester/study unit! YAY 'BONE!! Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!

What else do I have to blog about? Well, it's now been 4 months since G and I went on our first date!!!!!!! HAPPY 4 MONTHS, G-MAN!!!

AH SHIT MAN! My ipod battery just died! And there's still 50mins to go til hometime!!!!!!

Anyway! Now there are 38mins to go.

I'm bored again.

ZzzzzZZZzz. There are so many things I WANT to be doing but can't cos I'm stuck at work. It's so annoying!

HAHAHAHAHAH check the comment on this blog post

Horse Fight

Oops un Doons

I felt like blogging but now I don't.

Today is Thursday

It's one of those lovely drizzly days, not cold and not windy.

I love this kind of weather. Ideally I want to be in bed with hot chocolate... dozing and taking it easy.

I'm so bored. I was about to type "intensely bored" but how can boredom be intense, if it were intense it wouldn't be boredom it'd be an experience.

My eyelids feel nice and heavy now, it is after all approx 12:30. And today is a no-lunch day so BLEHHHHHH. I have to stay awake through that too!

My fish are all fine now. The 3 lone neons in the little tank are skittish but that's to be expected since they're used to lots of other fish being around them. If they look healthy enough I'm going to put them in the main tank. Only worry is whether they're just a tiny bit under-healthy and if they'd pass that on to the others. I REALLY need to do a waterchange this weekend, cos now the tank is full it has to be cleaned more regularly (once a week).

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GI & GS

For y'all who dun kno what I'm talkin' aboot..

NEWS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

I got called into the boardroom during non-lunch, both the bosses wanted to see me.

Went in, nervously, cos they never really SPEAK to me like directly other than instructions etc.

In short: I'm getting a promotion, I'm gonna be hbbm's secretary, and also do some work for them too. I'm getting more to do, which is great cos I'm so bored LOL. The one said that if I WASN'T bored, they'd be rather disappointed in me! HEHE. But anyway, yeah more work and ...........MORE PAY wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ima be a secretary!!!!!!!!!!!

Wooooooooooweeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure of all the details, they said they're going to speak to me about it next week, they just wanted to let me know before people start coming for interviews next week cos they didn't want me to have a heart-attack!

Hehehehe wheeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

Weekend wexperiences

Went shopping on Saturday morning, finished all my Xmas shopping except for 3 people. The centre was quite busy. Popped in at G's parents' place for a bit and got talked at by their parrot. Even got to scratch his neck!

Had a rather mellow Syndicate, just chilled and chatted and had pizza.

Sunday mom, sis and I were supposed to go for a drive in memory-acknowledgement of dad's birthday, but the weather was unpleasant so we couldn't. It was extremely windy and hiking/going to a look out place on a mountain wouldn't have been fun.

Dumped the black neons into the main tank, so all that're left in the little tank are the 3 neons (the 4th one died) and the kuhli loach. This time I had the energy to catch the black neons but I don't catch the kuhli loach unless there's a maximum of 10cm of water hehe. Otherwise it's impossible. The black neons settled in nicely.

Was horrified to find a packet of freeze-dried tubifex worms (fish food) had been infested by weevils. Dumped it all into the tank and the fish ate a lot of the worms! I just hope they ate the weevils too.

Supper last night was RATHER STRANGE. Mom brought crayfish and 'hotnotsvis' home with her from her holiday, and it was rather gross to see the whole fish and whole crayfish defrosting in the sink. The fish had its fins, eyes, everything. It was RATHER gross. And crayfish are just creepy anyway. Mom cooked the fish whole, so it was rather gross seeing the fish with EVERYTHING, cooked. Cooked eyes? *pukes* Mom shelled the crayfish after cooking them, but yuck, it was so ugh. And then I got to taste the crayfish a bit later, I took only a small forkful cos it REALLY DIDN'T APPEAL. Took a sniff and then took a taste: it tastes like the smell of a stinky dirty fishtank *puke puke puke puke puke!* GROSS MAN it's so gross!!!!

I so badly wish I could just go cuddle up in bed. I feel so tired and sleepy, I just want to doze and sleep and curl up and snuggle. The office closes in 14 working days' time (including the 2nd half of today and the first half of the day of our office lunch when we have to come work).

Ahhh to sleep, sleep sleep and away!

*yawns*

I think I have other news but I forgot. If I remember I will post it.

OOOH wait yes, I remember!

G put an order through for Golden Ice and Gentle Strength! I'm gonna transfer the $ back to him once they've taken it off his credit card. It's so exciting! Lemme try find a pic to paste! Ok no, I'll post pics from home.

YAY I CAN'T WAIT!!!! Can't wait yay yay yay! Still got a lot to finish on Warpy, but I'm sure it won't take THAT long. Done most of his head, still got a bit on his face to do, and then his whole neck! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Memories

Smelled something or was reminded of a smell from years ago:

It reminds me of (a) cold, miserable, rainy day at school... frozenly walking in the corridors, past the office area with staff room. The smells of coffee or tea, and biscuits. The hint of warmth, comfort on soft couches, the warmth of proper clothes. Not for us, such comfort. That's the only word I can think of, to describe it: "comfort".

Freezing in my uniform, in skirt and shirt, with stockings which don't keep the cold out. Nothing keeps the cold from going up your skirt. Wearing a jersey and blazer, which do nothing to keep your body warm. No chairs even, at breaktime. And cold water to drink, no warm drink. No food to be heated, just pre-packed sandwiches. Nothing to warm you up from the inside. Chilled to the bone. Blotchy, pale, blue skin. Frozen.

A bad day

We've seen all the messages that say that "This happened to a friend of a relative, so I know it's true." Well, this one combines all of them into one. Delving into virtually every hoax currently circulating, the anonymous author of this gem paints the picture of a very bad day!

Subject: I know this guy...
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Dear Friends,

I know this guy whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. So anyway, one day he went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over. When he got out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEYS HAD BEEN STOLEN and he saw a note on his Mirror that said "Call 911!" But he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would destroy his hard drive if he opened an e-mail entitled "Join the crew!"

Now, this guy knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working on software to save us from Armageddon when the year 2000 rolls around. (By the way, it's a little known fact that the Y1K problem caused the Dark Ages!) His program will prevent a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute the $250.00 Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates. (It's true! I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES HIMSELF, who is also sending me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000 if I forward the e-mail to everyone I know!!! :)

Anyway, the poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing kidneys, but reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped a note that said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS."

Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital-the one where that little boy who is dying of cancer is, the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he receives.

I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a bunch of X's and O's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to 10 people, you will have good luck. But, send it to less than 10 people, and you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS).

So anyway, the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving along without its lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation.

So, forward this to all the friends who send you their junk mail and you will receive 4 green M&Ms. If you don't, the owner of Procter and Gamble will report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad luck, your wife will develop breast cancer from using the antiperspirant which clogged the pores under her arms, and the US government will put a tax on your emails forever!

The Ultimate Chain Letter - love this and HAD to post it again!

Hello, my name is Basmati Kasaar. I am suffering from rare and deadly diseases, poor scores on final exams, extreme virginity, fear of being kidnapped and executed by anal electrocution, and guilt for not forwarding out 50 billion f--king chain letters sent to me by people who actually believe that if you send them on, then that poor 6 year old girl in Arkansas with a breast on her forehead will be able to raise enough money to have it removed before her redneck parents sell her off to the traveling freak show.

Do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to give you and everyone you send 'his' email to $1000? How stupid are you? Ooooh, lookyhere! If I scroll down this page and make a wish, I'll get laid by every Playboy model in the magazine! What a bunch of bullshit.

So basically, this message is a big F--K YOU to all the people out there who have nothing better to do than to send me stupid chain mail forwards. Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into my apartment and sodomize me in my sleep for not continuing the chain, which was started by Jesus in 5 A.D. and was brought to this country by midget pilgrims on the Mayflower, and if it makes it to the year 2000, it'll be in the Guinness Book of World Records for longest continuous streak of blatant stupidity.

F--k them. If you're going to forward something, at least send me something mildly amusing. I've seen all the 'send this to 50 of your closest friends, and this poor, wretched excuse for a human being will somehow receive a nickel from some omniscient being' forwards about 90 times. I don't f--king care. Show a little intelligence and think about what you're actually contributing to by sending out forwards. Chances are it's your own unpopularity.

THE FOUR BASIC TYPES OF CHAIN LETTERS:
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**Chain Letter Type 1**
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Make a wish!!!




No, really, go on and make one!!!




Oh please, they'll never go out with you!!!




Wish something else!!!




Not that, you pervert!!




Is your finger getting tired yet?




STOP!!!! Wasn't that fun? :)

Hope you made a great wish :) Now, to make you feel guilty, here's what I'll do. First of all, if you don't send this to 5096 people in the next 5 seconds, you will be raped by a mad goat and thrown off a high building into a pile of manure. It's true! Because, THIS letter isn't like all of those fake ones, THIS one is TRUE!! Really!!! Here's how it goes:

Send this to 1 person: One person will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.
Send this to 2-5 people: 2-5 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.
Send this to 5-10 people: 5-10 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter, and may form a plot on your life.
Send this to 10-20 people: 10-20 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter and will napalm your house.
Thanks!!!! Good Luck!!!

**Chain Letter Type 2**

Hello, and thank you for reading this letter. You see, there is a starving little boy in Baklaliviatatlaglooshen who has no arms, no legs, no parents, and no goats. This little boy's life could be saved, because for every time you pass this on, a dollar will be donated to the Little Starving Legless Armless Goatless Boy from Baklaliviatatlaglooshen Fund. Oh, and remember, we have absolutely no way of counting the emails sent and this is all a complete load of bullshit. So go on, reach out. Send this to 5 people in the next 47 seconds. Oh, and a reminder - if you accidentally send this to 4 or 6 people, you will die instantly. Thanks again!!

**Chain Letter Type 3**

Hi there!! This chain letter has been in existence since 1897. This is absolutely incredible because there was no e-mail then and probably not as many sad pricks with nothing better to do. So this is how it works: Pass this on to 15,067 people in the next 7 minutes or something horrible will happen to you like:

Bizarre Horror Story #1: Miranda Pinsley was walking home from school on Saturday. She had recently received this letter and ignored it. She then tripped in a crack in the sidewalk, fell into the sewer, was gushed down a drainpipe in a flood of poopie, and went flying out over a waterfall. Not only did she smell nasty, she died. This Could Happen To You!!!
Bizarre Horror Story #2: Dexter Bip, a 13 year old boy, got a chain letter in his mail and ignored it. Later that day, he was hit by a car and so was his boyfriend (hey, some people swing that way). They both died and went to hell and were cursed to eat adorable kittens every day for eternity. This Could Happen To You Too!!!
Remember, you could end up just like Pinsley and Bip. Just send this letter to all of your loser friends, and everything will be okay.

**Chain Letter Type 4**

As if you care, here is a poem that I wrote. Send it to every one of your friends.

--Friends--

A friend is someone who is always at your side,
A friend is someone who likes you even though you stink of shit, and your breath smells like you've been eating catfood,
A friend is someone who likes you even though you're as ugly as a hat full of a--holes,
A friend is someone who cleans up for you after you've soiled yourself,
A friend is someone who stays with you all night while you cry about your sad, sad life,
A friend is someone who pretends they like you when they really think you should be raped by mad goats, then thrown to vicious dogs,
A friend is someone who scrubs your toilet, vacuums and then gets the check and leaves and doesn't speak much English... * no, sorry that's the cleaning lady,
A friend is not someone who sends you chain letters because he wants his wish of being rich to come true. Now pass this on! If you don't, you'll never have sex ever again.

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The point being? If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave you shagless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it. If it's funny, send it on. Don't piss people off by making them feel guilty about a leper in Botswana with no teeth, who's been tied to a dead elephant for 27 years, whose only saviour is the 5 cents per letter he'll receive if you forward this mail, otherwise you'll end up like Pamela. Right?

Now forward this to everyone you know, otherwise you'll find all your underwear missing tomorrow morning.

Today has been boring

I have been bored. All day.

I am glad today is (nearly) finished.

I just hope that hbbm doesn't come in and want to dictate a fax/email/get me involved in some work that makes me late. I'M SO IMPATIENT to just GET OUT of here!

Tarra pplz!

Have a fun weekend y'all! Rock on, funk on, have a BLAST!!!

Today was boring and bla

Ok it started well, when everything I needed to do fell into place and worked beautifully.

Then it became un-lunch time. And I was already starving by that point. Got a lunch bar and small niknaks (got the messenger to buy me some). So all I've eaten today is a bowl of cornflakes, a lunch bar and a small packet of niknaks.

I'M SO HUNGRY NOW!!!!!

G's flat-viewing curfew sucks. The traffic up from work to his place is so bad we only get there at 17:30 which is when the hordes are supposed to attack. They hardly do.

Ok but I have to run now it's nearly hometime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Updates

Ok here are THE PICS!!!!!

Warpony, as of this evening, and the tank, as of Sunday.

News and views

Stayed over at G's flat last night, and had a rather unpleasant wake-up this morning.

In that state of complete confusion you get when you are woken up by something and you can't comprehend what is going on, I woke up and there was this penetrating sound, going through my head. As I woke more I realised it was someone's car hooter that was stuck and being disturbed by it I sat up and moved the curtain aside to look out the window.

Across the garden in the parking lot outside someone's car was up in flames. The flames were 3m high or so, covering the entire car. The hooter was stuck, probably the wires had melted together. It went on and on... this unwavering, mournful note.

There were people around, possibly the car owner who was shrieking and shouting, absolutely in shock. There were some people with hoses which were rather ineffectual, seeing that their hoses weren't long and they were basically creating steam since they didn't actually go close to the car. Which is perfectly understandable because every now and then something would happen like a window broke or a tyre burst, and then the engine flamed bigger.

The hooter kept going.

Flames, flames and then smoke when the fuel tank burnt up.

Still more sounds of glass breaking, tyres bursting...

Finally, the hooter died too.

After everything seemed to have been burnt up, and the flames were digesting the well-charred body of the car, a fireman came and took charge of one of the hoses. Sprayed the flames, killed the fire.

The fire died. The fireman had taken charge and, in his hands, the hose became a thing of power, able to kill the fire that it had merely spritzed a few minutes earlier.

Disturbing, that. The whole episode. What it symbolises. A loss. Irrepairable damage. Of something seemingly so stable and reliable. A car is always there. Perhaps temperamental, sometimes or often not starting, or broken down, perhaps with a broken window smash-n-grab, but always there. Stolen is something different. Then it's just gone. But burnt to a shell... no. There is something more upsetting about that. Specially if you leave things in your car, trusting that it will be safe til next time. Drivers' licence, sunglasses, CDs, usual things a person leaves in their car.

Seeing the car shell a few hours later when looking out the window while getting ready for work... such destruction. Sabotage most likely. It was a jeep and had a canvas roof, but even so. Something had to start that.

Malice. Spite. Hatefulness.

Such incomprehensible things to someone who hasn't that kind of thought process. It's like stealing: it'd never occur to some people to steal something. They simply don't think in that way.

Mantra: streamline your life.

Leave nothing behind... but keep your precious things with you. Precious things being "fellow beings". Not saying live like a monk; take care of your possessions, but it's the people (and animals) that count.

First things I'd run in to rescue if the house was burning down: the dog+budgie, because my family would be running with me.

Good grief but this is a FUCKING DEPRESSING POST!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

OK *grins* enough of the sombreness.

Cheerful thought for today: Telkon has reduced their adsl fee, so at the end of the month I'm going to have an extra R50 left over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Project Fishtank - Status: AWESOME!!!

Ok, I'm sitting down to snack on some Niknaks. It's 12:15 and I've been more or less busy the entire morning. Good for a change. Got to draw that map from Airport to Office, it actually looks cool but no thanks so far *rolls eyes*. I had fun drawing for a change, though.

Project fishtank update:

Yesterday morning woke to see the Congos mating. The other Congos aren't bothered, but the other fish keep close cos the falling eggs are FOOD!!!! So no chance of any baby Congos. Maybe one day I'll have a Congos/Hatchetfish-only fishtank, and they'll all breed. Not only do the little fish eat the falling eggs, but there are snails around too. And yesterday I had to do a waterchange so I'd have vacuumed up any leftover (not-yet-eaten-by-snails) eggs there.

So yes, did a waterchange. Tested the pH before putting the new water in it, and it's about 6.4. Quite acidic but it explains why they're so ready to mate: tetras like acidic water for mating. Teehee.

I also used a scourer-type thing to clean the algae off the glass. Not much build-up, but it DID make a difference.

After doing all that, and setting it all going again, I took the glowlights and the lone rummynose from the tiny-tank and put them in the big tank. The lone rummynose is a bit bigger than the other 4, but after a while (he? she?) settled right in as one of the shoal and got his/her bright red nose back - rummys' noses go pale when they're not happy. Originally in the big tank there WAS another rummynose, but that one also seems to have gone to fish-heaven. One day it was looking a bit sickly, the next day it's gone without a trace! I've looked everywhere for it, there is simply no sign of it whatsoever.

The glowlights settled in happily.

The black neons in the little tank are all healthy, I just didn't feel like catching them last night as they are RATHER frisky and damn difficult to catch!!!!!

The kuhli loach will mostly likely LOVE the big tank but he is also a bugger to catch.

The neons however, might be a problem. The one is looking a bit sickly (possibly age or neon tetra disease - probably will die soon), and the other has some strange cyst/growth under its eye. The other two look ok but I don't want to put those in the big tank like that.

But anyway, the tank is looking SO GORGEOUS!!!! Everything is working now, the only "problem" is that some of the plants keep uprooting themselves. A lot of the plants died off, but the ones that haven't are going strong. Perhaps I will go buy more of those plants seeing as they are successful. Not sure, don't really want to go to the aquarium shop anytime soon in case I am tempted to buy some more fish!! Although, maybe I should, seeing as I want to look into a water hardness testkit, and nitrate/nitrite/ammonia level test kits. Things like that.

AAAAAAAAAAAh it's looking GORGEOUS! Will post pics when I remember to take photos!!

Another thing that's coming along is WARPONY! I've been stitching a bit lately and it's coming along. I'm really amped about it now and hope to finish the right half (Warpy's face) before the end of the year. The left half (his neck) seems simpler, it seems to be bigger patches of single colours compared to the confettiyish face!

Te's somewhere in USA now, haven't heard from her yet, I hope to see her online soon! Hope you had a FANTASTIQUE trip!!!

It's already nearly 13:00. Oh yay, the temp who usually sits for me on a Monday has gone off sick. Yay. So today is a no-lunch Monday. At least today's gone fast so this afternoon should too. YAY. And, I have the Pond and other things to keep me entertained hehe!

Damn, if only work was quiet enough for me to stitch, or hell, even study the learners' book. Damn! That's something I've been pushing aside for a while!

Ok, things To Do this week include: tidy my desk and sort out all those papers!!! Make various payments. Stitch. Get last few people's Christmas gifts. Look into the learners' license thing *looks sheepish*

I love summer. The warm air, basically not being cold. I'm really enjoying wearing short sleeves without going blue and having bits fall off from frostbite!

YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! Isn't it amazing what ENOUGH SLEEP can do for a person? YAY!!!!! Caught up on sleep Friday night. YAY!!!

For the record

I am no good when I am hungry.

I am hungry now.

I am tetchy now.

ARRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's Friday but

I don't feel like people.

I want nothing to do with them. Today. People. Public. Colleagues.

Friends are exempt.

My whole being is saying "uhhhhh". I want to be in bed for at least another 10 hours. By then I should have regained use of my arms O_o

Ok, it's IPOD TIME!!! At work, it's quiet *checks the phone to make sure it's not switched off?!* it's friday and I WANT MUSIC!!!!!!

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>CHEMICAL BROTHERS YEAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Ok anyway. Yeah I've been feeling a bit bla lately, I *think* I know why (roughly) but I haven't sat down and processed it and thought about it to put it all into order so I can think it through from start to finish and find what is ACTUALLY bugging me. I think pms/moodiness might be making me feel a little more bleh but it wouldn't be at all connected hehe!

A lot of things are bugging me, I think mainly with regards to "home" affairs. Things I wish weren't the way they are.

Been a rather stressful week, but I was brave and got through everything I had to. Let me not speak too soon, as it's only 09:25 ... but I'm holding thumbs. Nearly went postal a few times, I HATE PEOPLE WHO DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT GIVING OTHER PEOPLE BASIC RESPECT. Example: people who PHONE or BUZZ THE FUCKING DOOR, and ARE BUSY MAKING ANOTHER CALL AT THE SAME GODDAMN TIME! Dammit, that's FUCKING RUDE! I'm supposed to KNOW who it is from the mumbles, grunts and general unwords you are making into your phone?? fuck off!!!!

Ok, I'm breathing. I *was* breathing on that occasion too, ok admittedly rather forcedly because I was trying hard not to burst out with a loud "FUCKER!!"

There are 20 working days til our offices close. I am counting. Apparently our office lunch is on the 15th, but I don't remember where. Hopefully not somewhere FAR cos that's a pain, living far from work already! Although I have been experiencing the joys of living close to work lately which is fantastic! Ahhh an HOUR'S extra sleep! An HOUR extra to DO stuff in, in the evening!!! Bring it ON!!!!

Ok I think I'll stop blethering on now...................

*yawnwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww*

And it's not yet hometime

Yes, I know

enough of the bitching and moaning already?

YES I wish so too, but UNfortunately, things just DON'T want to piss the hell off and leave me alone in my swampy, rubbishy mood so that I can recover.

Piss off@you who buzzes the door multiple times because I don't answer immediately. I have such a thing as a TELEPHONE to answer, you know? Oh sorry, right, you DON'T know, since people like you exist in a higher plane and don't know of the world of the LOWER people because they are provided solely for your comfort and service.

Another stupid f***ing task for the day/weekend. "I need you to draw me up a map from Johannesburg international airport to our offices" (offices being in CT CBD). "ok... Johannesburg airport?" "no... (insert 'are-you-stupid' facial expression here) Cape Town".

O...K...

So this weekend I have to draw a map for someone (not the boss) who MORE THAN LIKELY has access to the internet. Or can get to a bloody newsagent and pick up a "map book". One of those endlessly useful things which shows you almost the entire place, so that you don't have to WASTE other people's time.

Uhh.

Right-o. Not that I can DRIVE or KNOW the area very well, living on the tail-end of the country, or anything. Fine.

At least this SHOULD go a little better than the last task. I can't remember whether I blogged about it or not.

I'm pissed off enough to go into it again, because I heard the result of that work.

Instructions: friends are coming from Namibia, they want a self catering place for 2 people between 11 and 17th November, no meals whatsoever, as close to Bishops school as possible.

What that entailed: searching online for selfcatering places in Rondebosch, which came to 20+, and phoning them all to find out availability and rates. 9 were available. That whole exercise took hours.

Gave the info, which boss came back to tell me to scan in and email, which I did NOT get to do cos I nearly passed out from stomach ache but that's besides the point. A) the scanner is upstairs which means I'd have to phone someone to come take my position while I am upstairs, and B) I do not have their email address. They are BOSS'S friends. Anyway, he took it back when I phoned him to get the instructions again cos I didn't remember them cos I'd been nearly passing out.

Colleague tells me about a phone conversation she heard: turns out, these people have friends in Stellenbosch that they're going to be staying at, AND it was ACTUALLY for December and not November.

Gee thanks. Oh and I didn't get a thank-you for phoning all day.

What pissed me off the most about that? They are in Namibia. They OBVIOUSLY have access to the internet (cos boss was going to email it to them), so why the HELL couldn't they have just done EXACTLY what I had to do? Search for places online, seeing as they would know precisely what type of thing they are looking for.

UHH!!!

Ok yes this is a rant. Unedited rant.

It's my blog so nananananaaaanaaaaaaaaaaa! Ok only teasing about the nananananaaanaaa bit.

But yes, I'm quite peeved, it's always little SHIT things like this.

I really need a holiday. At the moment I despise all numbers and letters. The only things I like right now are emoticons and ipods. Ipods that block out the world. Oh and a comfy bed to sit and stitch on. With a boyperson who has a constant supply of hugs. And treats.

It's now 16:17 and I am hoping that the day won't dump more crap on me. It's had plenty of time to do that and I think it'd be kind not to. Thanks

People past

I'm sitting in the dining room typing this on my laptop. I can hear my budgie scratching at the bottom of his cage. If I (loudly) call his name he chirps and jumps up onto the perch and I have his attention. He has a large enough personality to fill up the lounge and dining room, even the whole house. All of the house except for my room.

I find myself walking to my room, expecting to be greeted by the other budgie who lived in my room. She isn't there anymore, hasn't been for quite a while now, but it's funny how you miss someone in little flashes of memory, or rather "expected" memory. It's the expectation that I will hear her chirp at me that makes me miss her. I think it is the same with people too. I miss our dog too, at times, even though she is still alive. She is painfully old. She isn't the same anymore, since she got old. And I miss how she used to be.

It's a thing that I guess is an auto-response, a self-protection mechanism - remembering something/someone how they (usually) were instead of how they were before it ended. Somehow less upsetting like that, when it comes to things that really meant a lot to you.

I guess it's not only about people but experiences too. Things that you did in the past. You kinda forget the nitty gritty hard work that went into it, and remember the (happy) overall feeling you got from it. Helping out with the Treasure oil spill of 2000, well, it was shitty and stinky and dirty and cold and wet and disgusting and exhausting and FILTHY and despite all that, there is a feeling of accomplishment, of having taken part. You amusedly remember the difficulty of trying to feed an unhungry penguin.

What has this to do with people past? Nothing, as far as I can tell. I just had those on my mind now and wanted to put them down in text.

Friday - frivolously, frazzledly, fatiguedly, finally Friday

Yeehaaa!! Is it nearly weekend or is it nearly weekend! (don't answer! I don't want to hear that it's only 9:15 ok? Don't burst my leetle cheerful bubbil)

For the first time since I've known G, all 4 of the band members were together at bandpractice!!! I wasn't there though, I had stuff to catch up with at home, but yeah, ROCK ON!!

It's strange how when you are dating someone your life becomes busier. Not only do you still have YOUR commitments like regular meetups with friends and time-consuming chores for example, he has his too. So you're both doing BOTH (or accompanying the other) on that, AND then there are so many things that you want to do together AS well, like go out together, have fun, all that jazz. So you're twice (or three times?) as busy as you were before! Which is quite strange since because you're dating someone, you WANT to do more things together OTHER than chores/commitments to other people but you basically have less time to!!

There are now 5 weeks on the dot til the office closes. So much to do before Christmas, the madness is now starting. Gotta sort out gifts for everyone, which is no mean feat. Specially when some of the stuff is to be posted!!!

Thought for the day: I want to sleep. Now.

Sorry folks, more craigslist... but where does this list end?!?!?

Today's Rant-People Who Have a Complete Inability to Leave a Voicemail

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Date: 2004-02-17, 11:31AM PST


I have a genuine question. Please help me understand why today's business callers REFUSE to leave a voicemail for their intended caller. I'm a receptionist/operator for a large company, and I would hazard to guess that 90% of the calls that I take, the caller will call back immediately when they get a person's voicemail. Invariably the tirade goes, "YOU (rude, accusatory tone accompanies) transferred me to an ANSWERING MACHINE (how dare you, horrid slut!)! I want to talk to a human being, NOW!" Now the thing is, if a person is out for the day, and I know it to be a fact, I state that at the time of the call, "So-and-so is out today, would you like to leave a voicemail?" (said waaaaaay too nicely for the motherfuckers that call in). If I don't say that little phrase, that means the person is here, SOMEWHERE in the big giant building. If they don't pick up your "emergency" call, let's use our imagination and think of some reasons why they aren't picking up the phone: 1. They are pissing/shitting/puking/jerking off in the bathroom 2. They are on another call (ooo, shock horror, you [caller] aren't the only person in this big wide world!) 3. They are in a meeting 4. They are getting coffee 5. They are bullshitting in someone else's office 6. They are getting files or supplies or a blow job in the copy room 7. They are outside smoking 8. They are concentrating on a project and don't want to be disturbed 9. They are IGNORING YOU. Because as it is clear, you are a horrible person Whatever reason you want to choose, they didn't pick up your call. That's why voicemail is such a great invention. You leave all your pertinent shit, and someone will magically call you back. That is, if you wait for longer than FIVE FUCKING MINUTES. No, I'm not going to get up and traverse this giant building to find Mr. Smith, who's in the bathroom masturbating and probably thinking about me. "Excuse me, Mr. Smith, please remove your hand from your dick and get out of the bathroom. Mrs. Jones just absolutely must know when her carpet sample will arrive. Be a dear and take this call. Let me go get a cordless phone so you can take the call right there in the stall. Thanks!" I don't know where Mr. Johnson is. I don't know why he hasn't called you back, or when he's going to call you back, or why he's never in the office, or why he thinks mauve is a fabulous color. I'm the operator. I don't know what kind of granite slab is the best. Don't yell at me because I'm the only person you can get on the phone. Do you realize I'm not the owner of the business? I'm the absolute lowest person on the totem pole. There is no one under me. I cannot make anyone here do anything, no matter how loud you yell at me or what names you call me. No, I'm not going to take down a written message - THAT'S WHAT VOICEMAIL IS FOR. So I don't have to do that. The person will get a voicemail lightyears before I will ever see them to give them a message. No I'm not going to "yell down the hall" for them. LEAVE A G-DAMN, MOTHERFUCKING VOICEMAIL. The thing is, if you treated me with even an ounce of human dignity, I would probably bend over backwards to try and help you in the meager ways I can. But since you are a hag bitch, I will keep transferring you to voicemail. I have a way to connect you to direct voicemail so even if the person is there and able to take your call, the phone won't ring and your call will go straight into the voicemail system. So be nice to me.
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Life thoughts

Was chatting with an overseas friend's hubby, she recently had a baby and he was talking about "paternity leave", and he was saying (complaining?) that he wanted to take leave a little while later because he wasn't getting any rest and stuff so it wasn't like proper leave. I can't speak for other countries, but here in SA, there is no such thing as paternity leave. I suggested to him that he enjoy the time off.

Was asked a strange question by him, along the lines of "do you like children", but I hadn't a chance to reply to that when he laughed and said it was a silly question. He then went on to say that it is obvious that I would, apart from being a woman and it being my role in the world to carry it (a baby).

Basically he was telling me that I'm only on this earth so that I can pop babies out for some guy somewhere who decides I'm the one that should bear his burden and give birth to it?

Ok yes I agree that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and all that, but it's shit enough that your OWN BODY is convinced that that is your sole purpose in life without other (male?!) people telling me that that's my role in the world.

Ok sure, it's an opinion, along with things along the lines of "you will burn in hell for not believing in God!!" but hello, you have a choice not to pray if you don't believe in God.

My thoughts on the kids/no kids matter: I will have kids when I and I alone am ready. I cannot say whether I will or won't want; at this stage I do not want any. It depends on how I feel, when I am ready. I believe that the readiness to have kids comes about when you have such a close bond with your partner that you want to share such a thing with them. The lack of an urge to procreate doesn't mean you don't feel that way. It just means that you don't want kids. It's a personal choice.

No one can tell you to have kids, it is ultimately YOU who will have to deal with the results for the rest of your life. The people who pressured you won't be affected at all by your having kids.

It's YOUR life.

Awww this is SO CUTE! (still craigslist)

Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It...

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Date: 2005-04-03, 9:30PM PDT


In the wide world of dating, there are many options. Do you go for the flashy guy with the smooth smile, or the dude in the corner typing away on his laptop? The following are reasons why I think my fellow females should pay more attention to the quiet geeks and nerds, and less attention to the flashy boys.

1.) While geeks and nerds may be awkward, they’re well-meaning 9 out of 10 times. That smooth dude with the sly grin and the spider hands? Wonder what HIS intentions are... plus, I’ve never had a geek guy not call me when he said he would. Score major points THERE.

2.) They’re useful. In this tech-savvy world, it’s great to have a b/f who can make your laptop, desktop, and just about anything else that plugs into a wall behave itself.

3.) They’re more romantic than they’re given credit for. Ok true, their idea of romance might be to make up a spiffy web-page with all the reasons why they love you, with links to pics of you and sonnets and such... but hey. It lasts longer than flowers, plus you can show your friends.

4.) Due to their neglected status, there are plenty to choose from. You like ‘em tall and slender? There are plenty of geeks/nerds who are. You like ‘em smaller with more meat on their bones? Got that too.

5.) They’ve got brains. Come on now, how can intelligence be a bad thing?

6.) Most are quite good at remembering dates. Like birthdates and such, especially if they know it’ll make you happy. Due again to their neglected status, they’re more attentive than guys who “have more options”. Plus, with all that down time without a steady girlfriend, they’ll likely have mental lists of all the things they’d love to do once they GOT a girlfriend.

7.) Sex. Yep. Sex. I’m not really familiar with this myself, but I’ve friends who’ve been intimate with geek guys and it’s raves all around. They say a virgin wrote the Kama Sutra... all that time thinking about sex, imagining sex, dreaming about sex, (they are male after all) coupled with a desire to make you happy? Use your imagination.

8.) They’re relatively low-maintenance. Most can be fueled on pizza, Twinkies and Mt Dew. No complicated dinners needed here, so if you’re not the best cook, eh. Can you order a pizza?

9.) Most frequent bars as often as slugs frequent salt mines. You won’t have to worry much about your geek guy getting his “groove” on with club hotties because, frankly, he’ll be too busy rooting around under his computer wondering where that spare cable went. You won’t have to worry about him flirting with other women because, 9 out of 10 times, he’ll zip right by them in a perfect b-line towards the nearest electronics store. I’ve seen this happen.
Me: “Eww. Victoria Secret’s Models... They’re so skinny. How is that feminine? You can see her ribs!”
Geek Guy: “ooooooo...”
Me: “Hey!” *notices he is staring lustfully towards the computer store*
Geek Guy: “What?”
Me: “Never mind...”

10.) Although he may not want to go to every outing with you, you can arrange swaps, as in, you’ll go to his Gamer Con dressed as an elf princess if he’ll take you to the ballet. Plus, if he doesn’t want to go someplace with you, you won’t have to worry much about what he’s up to. You’ll probably come home to find him asleep on his keyboard in a sea of Mt. Dew cans with code blinking from the screen. It’s ok. He’s used to this. Just toss a blanket over him and turn out the light.

11.) His friends aren’t jerks. I can’t stress this enough. You’ll more likely get “Omg! A GIRL!! Can I see?!” than “Hey hot stuff back that ass up here and let me get some grub on...” They’re awkward geeks too and will, 9 times out of 10, treat you with the utmost respect and, more than likely, a note of awe. A cute girl picked one of their clan to date? It could happen to them! Hope! Drag some of your single girlfriends over, open up a pack of Mt. Dew, crack open the DnD set and get working. Nothing impresses geek guys more than a girl who can hack-n-slash (well ok maybe if she can code... a geek can dream).

12.) They’re rarely if ever possessive. They trust you, so you can be yourself around them. You like to walk around the house in a ratty t-shirt for comfort? He won’t care. He does too! They won’t get pissy if you don’t wear make-up or don’t want to bother primping your hair. If you gain a few pounds, they won’t try their best to make you feel like crap.

13.) They’re usually very well educated. Physics majors and the like. See #5. You won’t have to listen to him blathering on about his car (ok maybe a little), he’ll have loads of other interesting things to talk about. Politics, world events, how much the chicken burgers down at the local place rock, so long as you douse them in hot sauce...

14.) You’ll almost never have to hear, “Yaw dawg whazzap!!” plop out of their mouths. Unless it’s in jest. They spell properly, use correct punctuation, and are able to tell the difference between the toilet and the floor. They almost never get “wasted”, so you won’t have to worry about coming home to find him and his friends passed out on the floor amidst a pile of beer bottles. Mt. Dew cans, perhaps...

15.) And the final reason why geeks and nerds make great boyfriends: They actually give a damn about you. Not how you look (though that’s a plus), not how skinny you are, not how much make-up you primp yourself up with, but they like you for you. That kind of thing lasts longer than “DaMN baby you got a fine ass!!!” Believe me.

HAHAHAHAHAH

Give me back my STAPLER.

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Date: 2005-04-08, 9:20AM PDT


I keep a stapler on my desk. It is black and silver. The stapler is labeled with my name in three separate places -- including the inside stapler reservoir where nobody would think to look. I have made it clear that NO ONE is allowed to touch my stapler. All of the other staplers in this office are old, worthless pieces of shit. I went to Office Max and bought my own special stapler. I spent over thirty dollars on my stapler.

This morning I came in to find my stapler missing. Some WORTHLESS piece of GARBAGE came into MY office and FUCKING STOLE my stapler. For the past hour, I have been going from office to office, demanding the return my stapler. I have sent out five emails this morning, demanding the return of my stapler. I am very upset. People are telling me to "calm down". But people should know my stapler is very important to me. My secretary tried to calm me down by offering my a different stapler. I grabbed the piece of shit stapler from her fat little hands. I slammed the stapler against my brick office wall multiple times. I screamed "DOES THIS LOOK LIKE MY FUCKING STAPLER? DOES IT!? DOES IT!? I DIDN'T THINK SO!!" I think she went to human resources to complain but I don't care. I have been fantasizing about what I will do to the person who took my stapler. If they like my stapler so much than I'm sure they won't mind when I staple their eyelids and nostrils together. It is a very heavy-duty stapler and I am confident in its ability to securely staple flesh.

Give me back my stapler. It's not funny (at all). I know you probably read this board. Asshole.

-gordon

Dear Microsoft Word

Dear Microsoft Word (w4c)

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Date: 2005-04-14, 3:10AM CDT


Dear Microsoft Word,

Here are a few tips for you.

1.) Don’t ask me if I want help when I’m writing a letter TO YOU at 2:48am.

2.) Don’t do that stupid auto-format shit you just did when I hit enter after I typed “am.” That always messes up my outlines because apparently we don’t have the same style. I go “I.” then “A.” then “1.” then “a.” OK? I don’t want to print my fucking outline at 5am after I’ve worked on it all night and suddenly notice that my shit is all fucked up and you literally WON’T let me fix it. I have to have to wrestle you like a psycho bitch to get you to let me type how I want to. I get A’s in school, ok? Teachers like my outlines the way I do them. I’m sorry.

3.) My teachers want one inch margins. I know, it sucks, but they think I’m a slacker when you slyly auto-fuck with my margins. YOU’RE the slacker, asshole!!!

4.) If I’m writing a ten page paper about, oh, say rhetorical discourse, and I’m on page nine and we’ve (you and I) have been working together for about five hours and I suddenly type “rheotoric,” can’t you REMEMBER that I have correctly typed “rhetoric” nine thousand times by this point and just fucking fix it for me? I have a laptop. Right clicks on those are annoying as shit.

5.) Your dictionary/thesaurus is missing SO MANY fucking words! What’s up with that?

6.) When I hit “print preview” you really should let me actually EDIT there, too. Print preview means, ok, I’m gonna look it over one more time and see if it’s all good. When I notice something’s fucked up, I have to close print preview to go back and search for it to fix it. C’mon.

7.) When you say something is spelled wrong but really it’s just a word you haven’t learned yet, (it’s ok) and I fix it for you before I type anything else, you switch it back to being wrong! Fuck you is that annoying!

8.) Sometimes, I am just right with the grammar and you’re not.

9.) Is it going to hurt my eyes to see the whole damn menu if I click on File or Edit? What are you ashamed of?

10.) I’m sorry I have been such a rude bitch. We have had great times together, and overall you’re thesaurus has made me sound much smarter than I am in many, many papers. Also, I love it when you track my changes. That’s so sexy. And who can forgot Courier New, to turn a seven page paper into ten! Thank you!

Dear seat-hogging Backpack. Yes I have come across these on the train

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