New Moon

After watching the extended New Moon trailer on YouTube – my obsession is back on – I am counting down the days till the movie comes out! I am busy reading Breaking Dawn for the 3rd time! As you can imagine my husband is NOT impressed! I must admit that I will probably be in tears again for the scene in the woods where Edward leaves Bella – when i read that part in the book one of my colleagues caught me crying at my desk and she asked what was wrong I sobbed ‘Edward just broke up with me!’ – the office was very amused. I cannot actually read that part in New Moon again – the heartbreak is too unbearable!

Twilight and Edward and what I’ve realized

For the past month I have been feeling like a giddy teenager inlove with Edward Cullen. I have read all 4 books in the Twilight series and as Bella says have ‘fallen irrevocably inlove with Edward’. Like a lovestruck teenager I have become obsessed! I don’t remember being vaguely this obsessed about anything when I was 16 or thereabouts. Probably a very delayed teen thing on my part. I used to get irritated at people who can watch a movie over and over again, but now I have probably watched Twilight 365 times! Watched the New Moon trailer about 100 times since it came out last week and watched all the interviews with the twilight team on Youtube at least twice – and there is quite a lot of videos! And signed up on Bella’s Diary – yes people I have it bad!

 

On the way to work on Monday (reading Breaking Dawn again) and ignoring my husband – he said that he is going to drop me off on the side of the road and I can wait for Edward to fetch me there! After being very much amused with my obsession these last 4 weeks, I think he’s a bit worried. But what I’ve realized these last few days is that I am not inlove with Edward Cullen but rather the love-story itself.  Of two people destined to be together – soul mates forever. They survived everything that stood against them. And what I realized is that the recipe for a lasting relationship is PATIENCE, RESPECT AND COMPROMISE.

 

Though I feel a bit less-obsessed today I am still counting down the days to New Moon! And still would strongly recommend that you read the books – it’s the most exciting read and Stephenie Meyer writes in a way that you makes you feel like you are a character in the story. The books are available at Exclusive Books, kalahari.net and take2.co.za – and get them soon before they are sold out! I am sure with New Moon coming out soon there is going to be much more obsessed fans out there – Harry Potter can go to bed now – the vampires have arrived!

Presidential Convoy

If, like me, you travel on the M3 in and out of Cape Town everyday during peak times you will be familiar with the presidential convoy that often barges through the traffic and we all have to give way.

Now what I find interesting about the presidential convoy (or whomever it is being transported) is that it is always 3 black BMW’s headed and tailed by police marked cars with sirens blaring.  And I always assumed the reason they use 3 black BMW’s was to confuse any snipers or criminals as to which car the president was actually in.  But I don’t know how confused they’d be if only one of the black BMW’s had tinted windows and the other two clearly had no passengers…… unless the president was the driver?……. (or maybe I’ve got it all wrong).

Back at work

I took a few days leave (to coincide with the public holidays) and what bliss. I spent a few days in Gansbaai with my husband and his siblings and have decided that I want to retire there.  It felt as if time stood still there.  Surprisingly I did not miss email or facebook or work for that matter…..

It felt so good to do nothing – absolutely nothing.  Caryn said what she missed most was boredom and I thought she was mad, but she was so right.  My body and mind definitely needed this break to recharge. We’re so busy that we never take time to admire the scenery around us and we really have such a beautiful country and city with so many friendly people.

 On the drive home from Gansbaai as we came over the mountain and I looked over the ocean – my thoughts were: My God I live here – what a beautiful place.  I am with my soulmate surrounded by this beauty and (for a minute there) without a care in the world.  That feeling did change the closer we got to home and real life.

What I did realize (shockingly) is that after only two and a half years of marriage I am already living past my husband. We live in the same house, we travel to work together, we talk – but really we have gone onto auto-pilot.  We are not living – we are doing the routine everyday things we have to do to survive and get through the day. We don’t have kids, so there shouldn’t be any reason why we are spending less time together.  But all that is going to change.  Yes we are at work 8 hours a day, but a day has 24 hours – so that is 16 hours we can spend together and if we start thinking that way, things will get much better. Don’t get me wrong – we are happy – but we’re just not spending enough time together.

So from now on my husband and I are going to concentrate on spending more time together and making our relationship rock solid.

Vote for the best dancer

Nevermind voting for the next government.  I think we should be voting for the best dancer.  I’ve noticed that the various political party leaders have added dancing as part of their campaigns.  Jacob Zuma started it, followed by Helen Zille and now Patricia De Lille has also joined in at the rally over the weekend in Delft.  Whoever wins at least we know they can dance……

Lady Luck is going to come my way

So I forgot to mention that when I stepped out of my house to collect hubby at the aiport, I stepped into a big pile of doggy poo on my front doorstep. My neighbour (not the muffin, the one next to her) has a new small little fluffy dog that has taken to pooing in my garden. I’ve been okay with it thus far cos little fluffy is so cute, but if my stepping into his poo is not going to produce any luck he better stop it. Because if he doesn’t I am going to scoop up all his poo and drop it in front of his owners doorstep and see how they feel stepping into doggy poo.

I am an addict

A Desperate Housewives addict that is. I spent my weekend watching 14 episodes of Desperate Housewives and can’t wait to get the rest.  But let me backtrack and tell you how I got to my addiction.

Last week my body decided that it needed a bit of a break after deadline, so I put in leave for Thursday and Friday. On Thursday I woke up at 9AM and cleaned my house from top to bottom. (I warned my husband the night before that if he had anything laying around that he needed he had better pack it away because when I get started, anything that is not on its place ends up in the bin). I did my washing and ironing and was quite exhausted by the time hubby came home.  

On Friday I defrosted and cleaned my fridge and stove. And then went and did my monthly grocery shopping.  On Saturday morning dropped hubby at the airport and then went to my nephew’s sports day. I then went to the mall and did some toiletry shopping (always exciting). On my way home I decided that I was going to spend the rest of the day lying in bed watching movies, so stopped off at the movie shop and that’s where the addiction started. I saw Desperate Housewives Season 3 and hired discs 1 and 2..  Each disc has 4 episodes. I was hooked after episode 1.

Sunday morning I went to church, and then went and hired discs 3 and 4.  My mom phoned at 3pm to say it was unhealthy to be holed up indoors for the entire weekend (she’s not a tv fan – she just doesn’t understand) – anyway I felt a bit guilty about neglecting her so went to visit her for a while.  But quickly made an excuse that I needed to get home to start supper so that hubby had something to eat when he came home.  Got home and hubby phoned that he was arriving earlier and I was not impressed because this meant that I would not be able to finish all the episodes on disc 4. So put it on quickly and managed to watch 2 of the episodes on disc 4.  As episode 2 came to an end I realized that I had forgotten to make supper.  So when I collected hubby at the airport I convinced him that it was too late to eat anything heavy and a Macdonald’s grilled chicken wrap will do the trick – he agreed.

But now I can actually kick myself.  Why didn’t I discover this addiction before! All those Saturdays that my hubby was playing cricket I could’ve been feeding my addiction. But cricket season is finished now and we are supposed to be spending quality time together. Damn! He needs to find a new sport. Will direct his thoughts in that direction so that I can watch some more Desperate Housewives.  It definitely gets better with each episode!

Rihanna & Chris Brown continued….

If there were rules in Hollywood – the one golden rule should be : Do not make a sex tape – it will come out – eventually. As if Chris Brown and Rihanna don’t have enough bad publicity – yes you’ve guessed it  - there is now rumours of a sex tape – click here for the full story.

Internet slang

I am so excited! I finally know what LMAO, IDK, MYOB and LMK means!! Yes I have been dof people. Everytime someone sends me a message on facebook and ends it with  one of these abbreviations I try to figure it out for a while and then get irritated and just go “whatever”.  I am used to proper words.  I hate bad spelling.  So these abbreviations just scream laziness to me! And also a bit worried that the youth of today all suffer from dyslexia.

But I am no longer ignorant, thanx to www.internetslang.com which my colleague Anel came across (while she was trying to figure out what MWA meant). So now when my teenage cousins send me messages I’ll be able to reply in their language!

Goodbye Summer…….

Winter has arrived overnight.

For weeks I have been sleeping in my underwear because it’s been way too hot for any type of pyjamas. I so can’t do the “sleep in the nude” thing. It’s too uncomfortable.  But hats off to those who can.

But this morning when I got up my room was icy! I had to put on a nightie and a gown to get some warmth! Not a happy chappy! I love summer! Was loving the hot water!

Took a walk at lunchtime and almost every other person was wearing a coat – what’s up with that? I have to ease myself into a coat. Starting first with cardigan and then jersey and then coat.  If I had to wear a coat today, my body would be shocked at this turn of events.  My body and I are not ready for winter yet!!! But I think we’ve seen the last of the hot days. So goodbye summer……was fun….please come again soon.