A Long, long time ago, in a very far place called Facebook, some dude stole me from a guy’s friends list [whom I liked very much at the time] [The friend list guy, not the random crazy dude] I didn’t know him from a bar of soap, but he felt it necessary to “like” all my statuses. He commented on all my photos, wall post, statuses, he even popped up in randomly bars and pubs where he knew I would be etc just like any other good stalker would do, but I must admit the standards of the stalkers really went south… Don’t get me wrong. I love stalkers, as much as the next person, but I prefer 1,000 muscle-bound men kneeling in front of my home or work chanting “we’re not worthy we’re not worthy” They are much more elegant. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me explain what happened on this one dreadful Friday night …
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My boyfriend refuses to admit that we met on Twitter. When people ask how we met, he looks around all shifty-eyed and then his voice goes up a few octaves when he answers “at a coffee shop?” – like it’s a question! *pffft* I love that we met on Twitter. It’s soooooo 21st century!!
Ok so maybe it doesn’t QUITE count because we didn’t meet on Twitter, flirt shamelessly, lose our cyber clothes and then decide to date before actually meeting in person blah blah blah.
We met at a Tweet-up and I first established that he was a lot taller than I expected him to be (head shots can be so deceiving!) and then about three seconds after that I had already decided that he was the man I was going to marry. Don’t ask me how these things work. I have no idea… But that’s the 100% truth of it. And yes – I know how insane that sounds! more »
I know what you’re all thinking: Oh geez REALLY? Another VALENTINE’S DAY post? Oh spare me I thought it was all finally over blah blah blah and I totally get where you’re coming from… but it’s not my fault that the movie I’m about to tell you a little bit about is called Valentine’s Day…
Now I am possibly about to embark on a blog post that will completely ruin my good name as a person of reputable opinions forever. Ok… granted the “reputation” may be mostly self-inflicted – you can’t blame a girl for wanting to be anything but an ordinary and completely trite cliché. more »
Almost ten years ago when I arrived back in South Africa after being in the states for nine months I stayed in Joburg with my dad for two weeks before coming home to Port Elizabeth. I remember thinking at the time that every South African should live there for at least a little while in their lives. Kind of like how Americans feel like you should live in New York just long enough for you to not turn into a New Yorker.
I have changed my mind!
Not a damn will I EVER live there. And not because of the crime or any of the million other arguments that people will generally throw at you.
This morning I drank a cup of coffee, a shake AND a cup of tea before jumping into the car for the “long” haul between Lorraine and Central. HAHA!!! By the time we turned from Willow Road onto William Moffet I needed to pee – oh dear god i needed to pee!!! The longest half hour OF MY LIFE eventually came to an end after a pit stop at MacDonald’s.
Now how the HELL do you deal with that when you’re stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic?
The whole time I kept thinking “Thank God I don’t live in Joburg! Thank God I don’t live in Joburg!!”
Now of only i didn’t have a MacDonald’s craving….
It’s the 20th anniversary of our Madiba’s release from prison today. It seems crazy that it’s already been that long. At “almost” 30 I can’t for the life of me remember the occasion that is today being celebrated, but I’m certainly happy that the celebration is taking place and I listened with pleasure as everyone’s favourite love-to-hate shock jock Gareth Cliff spoke fondly of our former president this morning on 5fm. For all the blushing embarrassments that ol’ JZ is currently putting us through, at least in Nelson Mandela we as South Africans will always have someone that we can be unwaveringly proud of. more »
Avatar got nine Oscar nominations. This is fine. I think I might even get it. But is this a bad time to admit that I didn’t really enjoy it all that much? And am I alone in my indifference?
Now really – don’t get me wrong. I didn’t hate Avatar, and I in no way view it at all as an abomination of Twilight proportions (I may have to blog my Twilight views later) but was it really THAT great? What did I miss?
I would like to start by saying that the idea of body swapping was awesome. I did like that part. Very clever as far as gimmicky things go. Also – I LOVE Michelle Rodriguez so really any movie with her in it gets a bit of a thumbs up from me because she’s awesome. But come ON! The plot of the entire movie was completely uninspired and predictable. Fail Blog actually posted the idea that the writers had got hold of the script for Pocahontas and just changed the names a bit. Yeah….that sounds about right… more »
Oh God! Seriously – I really do seem to have a knack for attracting the attention of the most random people and getting myself into the weirdest situations. And my powers of pissing people off impress even me in cases like this.
I have managed to have another hate post written about me. Ho hum. It might even be getting old. (Or young – If it feels like I’ve returned to high school does that make it young?)
Now, I must confess that this time it’s somewhat deserved. Bitterness is an ugly bitch and she always insists on an out. Piss her off and you get pissed on. Simple as that.
I pissed her off…
Sometime this week (I think it was this week at least…the timeline didn’t really attract the attention of my long term memory) a Facebook demon got hold of me and I aired my grievance on Twitter. An acquaintance posted on his status update about how he loves watching soccer players on the beach drool over his girlfriend and then shortly afterward posted a naked photograph of her lying in the water. I posted something arrogant and rather self-righteous like “nothing like watching a guy pimp out his girlfriend. It’s kind of making me nauseas”. I have almost a thousand followers on Twitter. I had no idea that his girlfriend was one of them… more »
I love South Africa. And not in a boerewors-en-braaivleis kind of way. I love her properly. In that innocent way that children love their parents, despite their faults. I make excuses for her. Our president has a dirty laundry list longer than his arm, and my heart goes, “That’s not South Africa, that’s just the president”. Bad things happen, and my excuse is that bad things happen everywhere. She embarrasses us. She lets us down. She seems irredeemable, unsaveable, lost in a downward spiral, and yet my love for her continues, steadfast and completely unshakeable.
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Lately I’ve been considering going to see a psychic. I don’t usually do things like this, though I have on two random occasions had my cards read and found the experience rather interesting. I love stuff like this. I love weird spiritualities. I love astrology. And while I have no idea how any of it works I imagine that anyone who believes in anything spiritual needs to be open to the possibility that all these weird things do possibly exist in some sort of reality. I don’t know. I won’t pretend to understand it. But I am open to the possibility that certain energies can cause certain things to happen. I’m open to the possibility that energy flows affect our personalities. If MY mind and body are linked then it stands to reason that other energies are linked. If my body works better, feels better and looks better when I am happy as opposed to when I am indifferent or sad, the is it really such a stretch that the same kind of forces could be at play outside the body? more »
So we’re halfway through January and I’m only getting to my New Year’s post now. Yeah yeah – how typical. Initially I planned to do a “oooh look it’s my blog’s birthday” post. That never happened. Then I planned to do a 2009 sum-up. That never happened. Then I planned to do a Happy New Year thing. And guess what? Apparently I was busy. Doing what I’m not quite sure. Probably nothing. more »