Thursday 29 September 2011

Another Thursday

Another Thursday
 

Hey all, so sorry to not have been around for a while, I unfortunately spend a week in hospital; this is due to a chronic illness I have been suffering from since a little girl. But which does not kill you will only make you stronger.

So last week I started the week with pain in my leg due to Chronic Osteitis, sorry for the spelling but I am not a doctor, so I went to the doctor and he booked me into the hospital for the Wednesday, A lot had to be done between the Monday and the Wednesday, I had to get some summer pj’s and had to get myself another book, since I thought my book won’t last the couple of days. Since I wanted this book for so long, I started reading it immediately and totally forgot about the other oneJ, anyway I got everything together and organised everything at work, and on Wednesday was admitted to the hospital.

I visited the grumpy sleep fairy (that’s what they called him when I was small), the anaesthesiologist and he made me sleep and the doctor fixed the pain and so I spend the week in the hospital and just slept the whole time. So yesterday I got released from my sleepy state and got to go home. So spend the afternoon just getting everything paid that needs to be paid at the end of the month and getting ready for first day of work which is today.

So after catching up the whole morning, I have been stuck on www.pintrest.com again, this is my favourite site and I just seem to lose hours on it. My parents are out of town this weekend, and I scored an off weekend since I can’t stand the whole time, so who knows might actually get to do some of the things I have been pinning since I stumbled across it a few weeks ago.
 
Tomorrow our national team plays their match against Fiji in the World Cup so I am going to have to make sure my supporter t-shirt for tomorrow. Hopefully we win then we can go through to the next round.

Well that’s all folks.

Thursday 15 September 2011

DIY projects

Morning All



So yesterday I was browsing some of my favourite blogs and I came across this wonderful website filled to the brim with wonderful DIY ideas and as I am a 23 year old who at this moment is just sitting at home every single night not doing anything remarkable except keeping up with Super nanny and Grey’s Anatomy I thought I should attempt some projects to just keep me busy. If you want to check this site click on the link below and go check it out






Okay so I have a couple of ideas which I am going to be attempting to do (well we will see how far I getJ) Here are some pictures of the projects I tagged, there is also one which I am still looking for the plans, I have this old dresser in my room that I want to redo, my grandfather build it and it was in my room ever since I can remember, but we never actually gave it any attention so it took a beating, so now I want to make it look new again. I bought the sanding paper weeks ago and have been looking over DIY websites explaining how to go about doing this project. So now I finally feel ready to go at it. So this will be started tonight.


Since it is now spring I thought I might try this one

This one just screams summer,


This one might adorn our door for Christmas

This one is my all time favourite and will defnitely get a special place this festive season


So after work this afternoon I am of to some craft shops to find supplies and then I am going to start sanding the dresser, wish me luck.


Monday 12 September 2011

Manic Monday

Manic Monday



Morning all! Hope everyone is doing absolutely fabulous, here is South Africa we are on our way to summer and it’s already very warm at about 27˚C, which is very warm for spring. Here it was a quiet week and weekend.



Since last Tuesday the following has happened...



My baby cousin started school in the UK, she is only 3 so it seems very weird for us here to think of her a school girl, in South Africa the kids go to pre-school which is mostly just art and play, I may be wrong but that’s what it mostly consists of. I checked her schedule; they have real classes such as French, English Lit, Math, art etc. That is a heavy load for a little person isn’t it? She is even wearing a school uniform! I wish her all the luck in her school career, love you lots little Princess



Since Friday everyone is going Rugby crazyJ the Rugby World Cup is in New Zealand and people are getting up early in the morning to watch matches, not even mentioning yesterday’s stunt where people skipped church to ensure they are home at 10:30 to watch the South Africa vs Wales game. By the way the Bokke won!!!! Go team. Anyway back to the fact that people are going bonkers over the rugby, we even had a guy at work that missed the whole morning Friday to watch the opening ceremony. Why I don’t know, it’s not like they have been repeating it on TV like a thousand times since Friday.



Yesterday after church we thought we will indulge our self’s in some shopping for my mom’s garden for summer. She has these pots on our porch which she fills every season with seasonal flowers so we had to get some for summer, was a lovely day and the weather was really nice, except for a horribly strong wind, not the best day to decide to wear a dress and loose hair me thinks J



So when we got home my parents went to visit my dad’s cousin and we didn’t know what to watch and while I was channel hopping I landed on History channels broadcast of the World Trade Centre plane crashes 10 years again. Living in South Africa and not having DSTV back then we only got the watered down version of the story and back then I was a primary school girl and didn’t really know what it all meant, just remember my uncle being in New York the week before that... I think, still have the postcard in my collection. Anyway, so yesterday we landed on this episode where they showed everything, from the planes crashing and the towers falling with real people filming and the response team radio broadcasting. It was such a big shock, it was like I watched it for the first time, the people who jumped from the windows, falling to their death, people running in the streets trying to avoid the smoke and ashes when the towers fell, My heart goes out to those families, I know everyone always say you will recover, life goes on, and yes it does, but people lost mom’s, dad’s, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, you don’t just forget something like that. My heart goes out to all those people who stayed behind, may your hearts be mended and one day the ache in your hearts dull. Our prayers are with you al still.



Have a wonderful week to all,


Tuesday 6 September 2011

Tuesday Thunder

Tuesday Thunder



Hey all, so it’s already Tuesday and I totally forgot to let you know what happened this weekend. So here goes...



As always I worked on Saturday morning, which usually just sucks a bit, because I already work full days the rest of the week and I’m usually beat by the Saturdays, It’s a small material shop in my hometown, I have been working there since I started to study, and sometime I really enjoy it, and other times I wish I could be spending the time with my family instead of being there. But anyway after a long 4 hours I get to go home and fetch my sister and friend so we could go shopping for supplies for our pizza party that night.



I must admit we probably bought more things than we could actually put on the pizza’s and since it was our first time making the pizza’s ourselves, we weren’t really sure which topics would work well or which will be a total flop. So we ended getting ham, cheese, mushrooms (lots of mushrooms, we are all big mushroom fans), Salami and some deboned ribs. On our way home, I got the message that we could go and fetch my mom from the course she was attending for the day, it was a short course in sign language, I really wanted to attend it but since I work I could not attend. Needles to say I have been hounding my mom to teach me everything she learned. My mom is an Audiologist & Speech therapist, so it’s part of her job...



Okay back to our pizza building...



When we got home we started to knee the dough, so that it could have enough time to rise and make lots of pizza’s J I must say I made the big mistake of putting in enough water to make the recipe 4 times but we quickly rectified it with my friends brilliant mathematical mind. Must say we got more pizza’s out than we expected. I then also made our pudding which was a quick recipe, but it takes a long time to set. All you need for this quick pudding is a 2l ice cream tub, packed of Romany creams and a tin of caramel treat. You then let the ice cream melt enough to make it easy to stir something in, and then take ¾ of the tin of caramel treat and stir it into the ice cream. You then take the Romany creams and smash them into a pulp (works best if you’re in a bad mood and want to whack all your frustrations out) when the Romany creams are smashed you mix the rest of the caramel treat with them and then form a base in a biggish dish. You then pour the ice cream mix on top and then put it in the fridge. Best ice cream tart ever.



Anyway so our pizzas were a big success and we gobbled them all up in the one evening. We played wii, which was so much fun, my friend got an extra remote and now all of us can play at one time, needless to say that we were rolling around on the floor half of the time. We enjoyed it very much.



On Sunday we went to a friend of ours baby’s christening. The church was packed and we got stuck at the back of the church looking at a pillar instead of the christening. Would probably teach us to show up early to a christening in a popular church. Afterwards we went to my gran who lives in Edinburg which is about 80 km away from Bloemfontein. And due to construction on the highway which has a waiting period of 20 minutes per stop we had to take a detour road. Our poor poor car got so shaken I don’t think it will ever recover. There were so many potholes on this one road, it was unbelievable. If you dodged the one you promptly fell into the other. Not nice L Thank God we made it there in one piece and had a wonderful day, just chilling with my gran spending time with her. Thank you so much granny. Love you lots.



Well so the new week started yesterday and so also our resolution to start the battle of the bulge, our fight started with a 5 o’clock Zumba session. I can really recommend this, after being breathless we just kept going and enjoyed it immensely, so much giggling so early in the morning is really good for you J you should really check it out.






And today we are going for a long walk, with our new shoes which I got on a special at Reebok for R200 which is a big difference from R1000 I think. I just love a bargain.





Well I wish you all a wonderful rest of the week. Chat soon




Thursday 1 September 2011

Happy Spring

Happy Spring

Happy spring to everyone out there!! I hope you all have had a wonderful day, Our garden has sprung to life almost overnight with blossoms covering every fruit tree and small extra green leaves sprouting from the trees, it’s always so fascinating for me to see how everything goes from dead to alive in almost a day. Even the grass has this special green shine to it, everything looks so new. I guess that is what makes spring so special for me, that green is not the same the rest of the seasons. I must say we have gone from almost ice cold weather to scorching hot, so the doctors in Bloemfontein will make lots of money this season, people have been wearing shorts in winter and scarves and jackets in summer,



My friends and I spend our lunch today in a local party shop, we didn’t think it through properly before going because tomorrow is Casual Day and it’s a rocker theme, so everyone and more was in that shop getting their outfits for tomorrow, I am still undecided but I have bought my special sticker so still have some time to think about something to wear J Well back to the reason why we went there, my one friends boyfriend is graduating in about 2weeks and she really wants to make it special since his parents aren’t going to be there. So we bought little things to put into a cracker, and cup cake decorations, etc. She is going to spoil him so much, but how many times does one get ones doctorate degree?



I can’t wait for the weekend we have been planning a pizza party for a while now and it has finally come to the weekend to actually hold it. We are going to be building our own pizza’s not the store bought kind that everyone pays way too much for, and honestly my mom’s homemade pizza’s are easily way better than the store bought kind. We even make our own dough, and since it is so warm outside we can probably eat it outside.



Well that’s all for today, I hope everyone enjoys their Spring day, and for those who aren’t in this part of the world where it’s autumn. Enjoy it...