Dead again...

My car has died again.

On the way home yesterday I had just made it to Twini hill, when it felt like my tyres suddenly deflated and I was driving on my wheel rims. Surprisingly, my tyres were fine (ok, well mostly fine, they are worn) but something else has happened to my car. That something else is where the details are a little sketchy. It has something to do with my wheel bearings, a CV joint and the breaks. Yes, all of that together. How hectic hey? Altogether it's going to cost around R3000. That's right, R3000 that I just don't have. My mom's bf is going to pay for the repairs, and I'm going to pay him back when I get my bonus. I'm sad and stressed about this, but there is f-all I can do about it. I need a car, so I'm going to just have to cough up the money.

Very quick weekend catch up...

Overall my birthday weekend was pretty great, with only the odd hiccough.

So, the birthday weekend started on Saturday, however, Saturday was also the day that my friend's dad died. So it was a bit of a sad day. I got an sms asking me to please put my make up on by her house, as she needed to see me. So I jumped in the shower and then made my way over to F's house. After some tears and a chat we got ready and went out. She still wanted to go out to get her mind off her dad.

The show we went to see, Sleeping Beauty and the Little Prick, was... well... it was good, and hilariously funny, but also a complete shocker. It was very risqué to say the least, and the sexual connotations weren't hinted at... they were in your face, literally, in the form of a sewn on set of "accessories" on Nobby the house elf (yes, they did get that from Harry Potter). So it was a good evening, even though there was an underlying sadness there. We also had dinner there. The tickets were R200 each, which included a starter and a main course. The food was very good, although way too much.

After the show we went to Bean Bag and had a cocktail, then went home.

On Monday mom and I went to SARS (I kid you not), to sort out her tax. We were there for 2 hours... But it was ok, it needed to get done, so we just went and did it. After that went to John Dory's for lunch and ate waaaay too much food. My diet actually went out the window this weekend because we really did eat everything that we shouldn't have been eating, including cake. But it was a good day. We ended up doing some shopping, missioned around Gateway and eventually got home around 5:30ish.

In the line of pressies I got some lovely cream and shower wash stuff, a new watch, two Wii games (Super Mario Galaxy and Ratatouille), and a R1700 office chair. This chair is gorgeous. It's a high-back leather chair. It's incredibly comfortable, so my bum and my back are now happy when I'm working at home. Oh, and I also got a hair straightener. It works fantastically.

So ya, that was my weekend...

Thank you to everyone who called and sms'd me :)

It’s FRIDAY!

I'm so over this week. I am, would you believe, sick again. However, I'm not going to let that spoil my weekend.
I'm going to dose myself heavily on meds, and hopefully get an early night, so that I'm ready for my hectic Saturday.

Feeling a bit bleh...

I don't quite know how it happened, but I seem to have caught a bit of a cold again. I think the cold was brought on by my sinus. Le stuffy head and sore throat is not a good thing to have two days before your birthday evening.

So this is the weekend round up as it stands, thus far:

Saturday:
Drop off album for printing in the morning
Veg in the afternoon until it's time to get ready
Head to Fluff and then Supper Theatre from about 6:00pm
Cocktails at BBB afterwards

Sunday:
Meet my client at the Pav to discuss her wedding, which is taking place the following weekend
Maybe waffle around Pav for a bit and see if there are any "stocking fillers" I can buy for my mom

Monday: (Yup, I've taken Monday off)
Wake up - open presents
Head to the shops after breakfast with mom
Mission around for a while
Head home, play with new stuff

And that's it... that's the weekend!

Hope ya'll have a good weekend too!
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7 Days...

Until my birthday

Ok... I give up...

Ok, so I've totally given up with the whole G thing. I'm over trying to be friends. The outcome of the sms I sent was an sms back that said he'd phone me and we'd make a plan to fix my pc. Cool, that's a step forward, right? Wrong... I have yet to hear from him. I did make a single attempt to contact him via Skype, which he ignored... so I've officially given up. I don't care anymore, I'm over it all... My level of irritation out-weighs my wanting to be his friend.

It’s confirmed...

...the big package wedding is booked! EEK!
I'm totally excited and totally terrified all at the same time.

The implications of this are huge though. If I can keep these packages coming in for 2 years I should have enough income to be able to do this full time.

No Freaking Way!

I am getting a 13^th cheque this year.

Now, to some this is a norm, however, I have NEVER received one. NEVER!
Wow... I'm elated and shocked all at the same time. Wow...

I have new hair!!!

Check it out... I had my hair cut and coloured :P
Ok, yeah, the webcam pics don't exactly do it justice, but it looks great. It's essentially red with blonde, and black streaks, and the bottom tips are black :D

Sorted out mah tax!

What a mission. Next year I am delving into the realms of e-filing. I got to SARS in Mt. Edgecombe at about 9 this morning. I only got back to my office at 11:30. That is just INSANE! If you haven't sorted your tax out yet and need to go to the SARS office, do yourself a favour, get there at 6:30am and wait until they open at 7!

3 x booked...

I've got 3 weddings booked for next year. Well, 2 confirmed and one on the brink of confirming. It's not as good as last year, but it's still good none-the-less.

Getting there...

 

 

Game-a-holic

I think that next year one of my weddings is going to pay for an Xbox 360. By then all the bugs will be sorted, and the price of them will have dropped a fair bit.

Diet of Doom Update

Oh, by the way... today was weigh-in day (actually every Tuesday is weigh-in day)

I've lost 15kilos in 11 weeks! Yes, I still have a "weigh" to go, but I'm getting there... one rabbit leaf at a time...

Oh hell...

... I shouldn't be allowed a cell phone. I really shouldn't. I always talk myself into doing something stupid, then regret it afterwards.

I sent G an sms. It was ok... not soppy or anything, but I shouldn't have sent it. And I really shouldn't have sent it at this time of night.

*bangs head on desk*

Oh why do I do these things? WHY!?!?!!!

*Sigh*

Been thinking a lot about G lately...
Why can't I do what I am so good at and just take a step past all of this? Put it behind me whilst I wave it goodbye...?

Ugh...

October... the crummiest of months...

I hate October, and have always hated October since I was in high school. It's a terrible month. If anything is going to go wrong in your life, it normally happens in October.

To make my point - This October's events:

My mom went to 3 funerals
D's granny died :( I'm sorry Shnooks
And a friend's dad has been diagnosed with lung cancer

October... I'm so very thankful that you're over and done with for this year.
Now to pick up the pieces from the havoc you have wreaked.

No way…

This weekend I met a couple who are getting married next year September. I showed them my storybook (block mount) album and told them about the new ones that I’m going to be offering next year. They’re the same as the one I showed them, but they’re bigger and hold more photos. The package is like… R7500… They’re taking it.

THEY HAVEN’T EVEN SEEN THE LARGER ALBUM!

I can’t believe that I sold that package. I’m shocked and stoked all at the same time!!!

… wow …

… like … just … wow …

Design Cuties...

...that totally rock my socks...

All from www.fordesigner.com :)

Stressing somewhat...

I have no idea where my Canon IXUS has disappeared to, which is a bit stressful, because it was a R3k camera. I’ll have to have another look at the office and hope (read: pray) it turns up.

Hairstyle and Colour Reference

Ok, I know they're totally emo. I know this... But I can't help it! I just LOVE the look!!! My hairdresser is going to have such a wobble when I pull out the pics.

Shifting Paradigms

I don't know whether it's because I'm turning 30, or because I'm just bored with life in general, but I've decided to make some drastic (albeit cosmetic) changes to my life. The first, of course, is my hair. Whenever I feel the need for a change in my life, my hair is the first to feel the force of that change. The second is my room. I'm so over the whole "oak" look. It's tired, and I'm tired of it. I'm going to slowly be replacing the pieces of furniture in my bedroom for darker wood, simpler designs, although form does need to follow function in my case. I have limited space, and copious amounts of stuff to fill that limited space. So step one is putting up box shelves for my books. Step two will be to build the TV stand / unit to replace the wall unit. Step 3 will be to put up a wall shelf above that for DVD's / my dragons / whatever I can find to fill the space. Step 4 will be to replace my current computer workstation, and finally step 5 will be to sort out my bed. I want a headboard for it. I have much work to do to get my room in a liveable space, but at least I'm making a start.

14 Days...

Until my birthday

So tired...

...and I have no idea why! I got a decent nights' sleep last night, and my weekend wasn't a late-night one. I have no idea why I feel so bleh...

Quick weekend catch-up

Saturday was "computer mission impossible" day. I bought BitDefender from Incredible Corruption on Friday night, and so Saturday was taken up babysitting my pc as it did all of the updates that I've been avoiding (read: Service Pack 3). So far so good though, nothing seems to have freaked out, and although the performance of my pc hasn't improved (BitDefender found no viruses, malware or spyware) it's at least up to date. I still need to figure out why the heck it's so slow, which is a bit of a tedious task.

On Sunday I showed my album to a woman at Pav, and after that spent the day wandering around the Pav with my mom and her bf. We had lunch at Yiroll (which I will never do again – the service was beyond shocking). The only thing I ended up buying was a birthday present for Fluff.

That was my weekend. I didn't get anything done, other than update my pc, which is atrocious.

Surprised

David (from Australia) sms'd me on Saturday to say hi.
And today is his birthday, so I sms'd him a happy b-day.

General Stuff

Going to get the hair cut on Saturday, as I'm starting to look like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo again :P
I'll post pics when I get a chance.

That's it from me

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