Makro Opening

Makro Opening

 

I know this is a weird post. On Wednesday the 26^th of September we in Bloemfontein had an exciting day. We got our own Makro store, for those who live in other parts of the world. Makro is a partner with Wallmart (don’t know about the spelling) so this is a BIG store with loads of stuff.

 

So on Wednesday morning we got up at 2 am to go and get into the queue to get into the shop before work. Now some people might find this as extremely crazy. I felt a little stupid, but we got into the shop at 7 and we were 10^th in the queue.

 

They had awesome specials my friend got a 32” tv for R1999. This is so cheap! I had two goals set for myself, I wanted a PVR decoder for our dish and my one colleague asked me to grab a CANON 500D that was marked down to R3999. I was done with my shopping by 7:30 but had to wait for my colleague to bring his money.

you will notice the cars at the top of the screen. those were in a queue from the city to get to Makro

 

I must admit I felt petrified with all those people pushing you out of the way, trying to grab all the specials up for grabs. I read in our local newspaper, that they jokingly referred to the fact that not even on an election day you will get so many Bloemfonteiners in a queue for hours.   

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The Vow

The Vow

 

Have any of you seen The Vow starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams? My sister wanted to see this movie in the cinema, but after I saw the trailer, I figured I did not want a repeat of our The Notebook catastrophe. O yes you don’t know about our Notebook episode.

 

When The Notebook was in the cinema, I think I was in about 10^th grade, I am not sure at this moment. A bunch of friends and I decided to go watch it. We did not really know anything about the movie; we just figured it will be a great movie to watch on a girl’s night out. So we bought our tickets, got some popcorn and cold drinks, went into the movies all dolled-up, looking pretty. When the movie was over we had to rush to the bathroom. Needless to say our mascara was all over our faces instead of just on our eyes. We were about 6 girls and between us, we had a tissue per person. We were not prepared for this movie. The best part was getting to the bathroom and seeing that we weren’t the only girls who were unprepared. The bathroom was filled with girls trying to fix their makeup. We burst out laughing then.

 

So you can imagine my reluctance. So we waited for the DVD, which came out last Monday. We rent it over the weekend. Let me tell you I was very glad we watched it at home. I could pause and get more tissues. This movie is one of the best movies I have watched in a while. The story was moving. I fell in love with Channing’s character. This guy had to get his wife to fall in love with him, twice!

 

The movie is based on the actual relationship between Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, who after being married for 10 weeks they were in a car accident were Krickitt suffered brain injuries, and Kim’s love was so deep that he had to make Krickitt fall in love with him again, since she could not remember him, or their relationship.

 

Here is a link to the trailer, and if you can, rent it. It is worth it.

 

 The Vow Trailer

 

 

 

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Heritage Day

Heritage Day

 

On Monday the 24^th September we had Heritage day in South Africa. What this means to us as Afrikaners (people who speak Afrikaans) it is BRAAI day (roughly translated Barbeque day). So this means when you drive around town you will smell people lighting fires, smelling the most delicious aromas of braaied meat.

 

We woke up to our lodger and her boyfriend having a braai. They didn’t want to pose for a photo, but they were still in their pj’s. It was so cute.

 

We didn’t get to braai until very late that afternoon, but we had lots of preparations. We made potato salad, stuffed mushrooms, and a lovely green salad. My dad went crazy and braaied a lot of meat, we still had left over’s until last night. Here is some photo’s of the yummy food we had.

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My moms famous stuffed mushrooms.

Afrikaners love us some Boerewors

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Pinaholic

Pinaholic

 

Have I mentioned before how big a Pinholic I am? Each morning when I get to the office I switch on my computer, and get my sites for work going, next step I log onto Pintrest and I keep this window open the whole day. Sometimes I see the same thing over and over, but guess what, this does not bother me. I love stumbling on new ideas, DIY projects, quotes and many more.

@ work

 

I have stumbled across many of my blogs that I follow on this method.

 

I must admit some of the DIY projects have ended in disaster, but others were real treasures. You might remember my post on the crayon art back here  and of course there was many failures. But this makes me grow as a person. If you follow me on Pintrest you will see, I have my wedding, friend’s baby showers and photo’s of my future family all planned out. So to end this confession:

 

My name is Elize and I am a Pinaholic

 

Catch up

Catch Up

 

So life has been very busy lately, I have a couple of things to catch-up on.

 

About two months ago we had to put our Boerbul to sleep, she had cancer and after two operations we felt that she was in too much pain. This left us with a crisis, with us living in South Africa, and having an open field behind us, which provides a walk through for people; we need a big dog to help scare burglars away. So introducing to the world. Our Leila, she is an 8 week old Labrador and the one of the cutest dogs on earth, she is also very playful, and luckily our year old Yorkie keeps her occupied.

Annien and Leila

 

We had a casual day on 7 September. This means that you dress up according to the theme of the year. This year it was pirates, sailors. So of course we grabbed the opportunity to dress up as pirates. Since we in South Africa don’t really have Halloween, we always look for the occasion to dress up.

Annien's Pirate gear

Roxy picking out a hat

Me in my pirate gear

 

I recently received a Kindle Touch, I totally love this, as you know I am a avid reader and this just makes it so much better, I have all my books at the touch of a button. So in love with this invention.

 

So this has brought you up to date. Will post the latest book review soon.

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