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Actually had a fulfilling day for once...and yes, a Monday at that!

Was on time for work, the telephone was behaving, no REAL overflow of emails in my work Inbox, pretty normal day I say..other than!

The roads and everywhere seemed SO wet, and flooded, and like the little river looked as if though it were going to burst its banks any minute...then I understood, it hit me...it stormed this weekend?

R was telling me that there was a hectic storm approaching Cape Town on Thursday i think, but i forgot about that until today. So you asking yourself, damn, how could you not have heard it? Err, I was indoors for most of the weekend? I heard rain etc but that's it.

Saturday attended a friend's 30th birthday dinner party. Was wonderful. Mexican food, lots of strange and unmet unknown faces all around me, cool to see the familiar ones that I had not seen in MONTHS, fun fun fun...in Edward Street! lol
Yes! Edward street on the other side of the curtain near Durbanville in Cape Town.
It was shit cold on Saturday but some chicks dressed up in skimpy clothing as if it looked sexy walking around with hard nipples, hair standing up from their legs, arms hugging themselves and desperately trying to hide the shivering behind the fake smile. No jackets? Come on woman! It's hot inside the club and surely these places are equipped with a coat service / coat hangers etc? Why torture yourself before getting inside and then being miserable the rest of the night cause you had to go through all of that cold weather ?

One of my many tasks for today was to renew my library books (due today). My mind already told myself that there was no need to carry it to work cause I was going to be able to renew it. No one surely is interested in reading 'Beginning Ubuntu Linux', 'Learning Xhosa'

So I was told that I can renew my books online. I log onto the library website and try to use the pin they advised to use. No luck! Tried the other pin, still no luck. So I braved the walk in the rain to the library, produced my identity card, asked for the renewal.
Library Assistant(LA): But you already renewed your books and it is only due on 3 October.
Me: What? I did not renew these books yet?
LA: Yes, you renewed it on Saturday
Me:

I think that the librarian on duty on Saturday must have erroneously used a staff number similar to mine and that poor person will have to pay a hefty fine when they return their books?
How weird is that! Yay! Another UCT system going wonky! They can't even "take care of the books"...

Other than that, I have been getting a lot of compliments about my photo taking skills. Apparently I take really good pictures and many people have now indicated this. So much that I had a DJ ask me to take pictures at this big event taking place at the Artscape Theatre this weekend...I take pictures at gigs but I take them for myself and yes I do share them with the person in the photo. But when someone asks me to do it, I might just get nervous and then take bad pictures? I dunno. But yes I will give it a shot, excuse the pun.

Tags: cold weather, edward street, library books, photo taking, photography, rain, renewing books

If you staying near to or have an opportunity to spend time with you family, treasure it!

On Friday fetched my mom and eldest niece from the airport. Its always fun to see my family. They reside in Johannesburg and me in Cape Town.

Had to drop my mom at my aunt's place - when we arrive, the table was already laid with muscles and salti crax biscuits and peanuts and luxury stuff. For me, she made vegetable curry and rotis and her specialty; the tomato spaghetti cheese thing! R and I chowed that up within minutes.

Spent all evening talking nonsense to the cousins, downloading music and movies from each other...played games on my cousins XBox 360...ermm...then i got tired..Fridays are my sleeping nights and Saturdays i sleep in.

Woke up on Saturday still thinking about that really nice food. Good thing my aunt gave me the spice that she used to make the curry. She says that the woman that mixed the spices said that she added all spices to make it...so i cant even share the name? It has this really nice sweet not spicy not strong taste to it. So now I am going to attempt to make the same pot and invite T to come taste. He said he coming either Monday or Thursday...if you wanna buy some rotis, she sells those at R2 each and still frozen.

All in all, i had loads of fun, missed the family time alot and happy it turned out well. There will be more days like this at least, mom stays here until August.

Anyway, work waits...marks are due on 4th July...yes I will most likely be ignoring the blog this week.

...other than the pressing time at work, life is slowly get back to normal;

Friday, and arb'ly so, went to beer club the usual 5pm time, there was only me, one other and the beer? Weird! Approx 15 minutes into being there, the rest of the gang miraculously joined in.  It was fun, interesting cold, dark, wet.  Only left after 8pm.

Saturday chilling as usual - my one day in the week that I don't HAVE to wake up early.

Today I woke up early cause i was just to excited to see the french Formula one race.  I was getting the live time feed from the FormulaOne website, the Twitter updates to my mobile phone, and watching the race on the big screen...now thats the shit!
Needless to say that Ferrari came first, second and Toyota (Truli) third. Hamilton...sigh...my boy! He had a tough weekend. He was penalised the 10 positions to start off the race, i.e. whatever place he qualified in, he had to start 10 places below that :-(    if you aren't aware, he drove into the back of Raikonnen at the last race. All through the race he eventually made it to 12th position when Alonso decided to mess things up and that pushed them both down a couple of places.

This week will most definitely be tough on the shoulders, yes i get tense muscles etc when I stress...Wednesday the occupational nurse will come to assess my working environment.  I kind of get a feeling that my chair at work is too high and too fat for my thin body, the desk is too low, the desk space too little.  Daily I leave work with sore muscles, tense body, knotty back.  This ain't good for a 26 year old! OOHhhhh! Found a grey hair! OMW~!!!  Not that stressed out about it though.

Friday my mom and neice arrives...can't wait!  They are no longer living in Cape town with me so the chance to see them is considered as a blessing.  It was my neice M's birthday yesterday...19 years old.  Yay!  At least I get to take her with me into clubs etc now...it feels weird but cool at the same time. We  only seven years apart but this reality has only just hit me now...she's legal!

Me personally, the thoughts about him are a bit less now, the calls to his number have completely stopped, I sms him him occasionally with no response of course, emails minimal etc.  I hate having a break up with no contact whatsoever afterwards.  Accept the fact that it did not work out and then remain friends in my opinion.  Why can he not face me nor be friends with me?  Why has he never bothered to see me since 16 December when he broke up with me telephonically at that?  Yes there are the questions about how he suddenly managed to move on and claim to love her in just two months!  I also found out that he attended two events with her without my knowledge and during our relationship so for all those out there that have been told that i cheated on him, judge after you heard my part of the story! I always teased him about getting with her and we called her "virgin girl" because he told me that she was saving herself for someone that she marries one day. He always said that I was mad to think that he would go for her and that she was his friend and that he loved me...well ya! So enough bad mouthing! I'm just sick of all this shit...life moves on. At least mine won't be moving on with a guilty conscious and a new relationship built on lies and about loving that new person.  Can anyone out there please tell me that it is possible to love someone for six years and then two months later love another? Because if yes, then I will hear your story and give it some thought. I chose not to move on early because I would have lied about not loving him anymore. 

It saddens me to see that after a breakup, suddenly the whole family suffers and is affected. He no longer calls my mom nor sister etc like he used to just to say hi ... I mean, if not for me, at least for my mom; after all she used to make him lemon meringue and mince pies etc and now he doesn't even greet her?  Besides that, his sister that obviously only heard his part of the story suddenly hates me and wants nothing to do with me? The point is that my mom had no dealing with the breakup of the two of us, nor did his sister have anything to do with us.  Why am i now suffering the loss of 3 friendships/acquaintances (possibly more) - him, the sister and the new current gf.  and then my mom just basically been thrown into the gutter to put it bluntly.  Well, at least I wasn't off work at least four times this year already ... bad things come into your life if you treat others bad. 

R turned about to be an amazing support companion and i appreciate every comforting session he gave me. I appreciate when he wiped my tears, let me talk about how i missed my ex,  i cried for him and we made it through all of this. I stayed at his place for a while because mine just reminded me too much of the ex.  Do you know anyone who would do this for you - thank you R. 
Yes we still are just friends but i grow fonder of him each day. I know I am a stubborn, moody, troublesome person that can be absolutely crazy and do weird things, but no matter what, he still ask "why the hell do i put up with this".  The reward, a heart that has no guilt, no love for another, and no unresolved matters or yearn for any other than him...

so for now we leave it at that...Peace!

Last week Wednesday after the Chris Rock show at Grandwest Casino I fell asleep; tummy was full, it was after twelve, I had one Smirnoff Storm at the restaurant outside the Arena and yes I was quite tired.

I never woke up for work on Thursday...AT ALL...I only opened up my eyes on Friday morning thinking it was Thursday. I was disappointed in myself and horrified that I never heard my alarmSSS ... yes it is the stressful time of the year currently and my body is quite tense and tired.

I know I have this waking up problem so I set a couple of alarms. There is the digital clock radio one that is powered with electricity and not battery and this one is extremely loud and irritating and it has no snooze option; there is cellphone #1 that is set to go off four times (four different sounds) and then there is cellphone #2 that is just as irritating but it has the snooze option.

Today (and weirdly so), I heard the very first alarm going off and being the lazy butt that I am, I just layed throughout it and never bothered reaching for the stop button ...

It was shit irritating - I hate alarm clocks... I heard and every one of them going off and never bothered stopping the sound... well at least I am up early and supposedly getting done for work now ...any takers for waking me up every morning - the winter season is here and I'm gonna need it ...??

I used to be dependent on my ex boyfriend whom I will refer to as TJC here. I will forever be thankful for his kind deeds. He would drive some from 40kms in the traffic in the morning to my place, he had a key so he would let himself in, he would make filter coffee and bring that to my bedside and wake me up with a hug and a kiss and a smile and I would enjoy the coffee. I guess since the breakup six months ago, I don't look forward to waking up as I know he won't be there - no one jumping into my bed to warm up and no one driving me in to work...yeah i know, i looking for excuses not to wake up but anyway. i miss him :-(

I visited my doctor to establish a new solution to my oversleeping problem and one of the question popped up: "do you maybe think that someone spiked your drink at the show?" another was "I think you might be depressed" lol

I'm looking forward to having seeing my mom - she will be arriving in Cape Town on 27th and staying here until 4th August - yay...breakfast in bed...and a personal alarm clock :-)

In this day and age, people (like me) who happen to surf the internet daily, would have experienced or is going to go through a similar series of events like I have.

I have been actively surfing the internet since my first year at Technikon (which calculates to a total of nine years). Nine years of signing up to / joining whatever social sites, whatever web album  page, blogging pages, email accounts...bla bla bla...many many passwords to remember!

• Initially I used bookmarks, (this sounds SO old-skool now but yes we all still use it);  I even created an "Often Used" folder which currently sits at approx 40 URL's anyhow so this totally defeats the purpose;
• then along came Live Bookmarks (synced bookmarks) - which did not help much with the passwords more to keep track of the accounts I had;
  
• then i tried text/pop up notes as reminders for passwords;
  
• I thought that I had found my ultimate solution to my "remembering passwords problem" when I discovered the add-on in Mozilla Firefox called Tab Mix Plus  but not long thereafter Speed Dial was introduced;
  
• Yes of course, this was however overthrown by Fast Dial  (in my opinion)

I have no idea how this news was so well hidden from me.  As usual, when I find something interesting, I get excited and would share it with some friends. When I came across this URL, my dear friend 'R' said to me: "Gawd no, not Flock, I was hoping that you would never find that application". (Apparently I ignore those around me when I am in my other world - my online world...but do you blame me?).

My oh my.  And along came Flock...

Excuse me for just a moment...I am still in awe!

So yes this is old news for those already using Flock and exciting for most others...this is a free browser for people who love web socializing and staying connected and the best part of it all, is that it is built on Mozilla Firefox  (used the same code base)

The project started a while ago and go look up the information if you really feel the need to.  I am however just thrilled at what I have found and can't find the time nor do I feel the need to go back in time.  I am happy I discovered a product that I enjoy using.  Now I am really sounding like a marketing/sales person but I thought I would have you know that

Flock The Social Web Browser....is the proud winner of the 2008 Webby Award in the category 'Social Networking'

...the other nominees included Bebo, Facebook, ChangeEverything.ca, Ning

Usually I would have ended off my post here but not this time - sorry...I just can't help myself telling you all about the niceness'ness of it all...

• it remembers my accounts WOW
• it integrated my web albums, social type accounts, email accounts, blogging accounts and more into one whole piece of niceness
  
• all my accounts that would have been set up in Fast Dial anyhow is now available at ease
• now i get updates to all my friends, in all my accounts, all at once, in one page (well rather sidebar)
• feed reader - oh the feed reader...yes it is (sorry Google) but yes it is better than GoogleReader in my opinion
  
• am able to upload to and from all my web albums (Flickr, Picasa etc)
• able to blog from the browser to ANY or ALL of my blogs
• sticky notes/ pop-up notes / notepad / whatever you use - introducing web clipboard...yum yum yum
• favorites now no longer need exporting and importing...it available to you online..ha!
• and of course your link to your Inbox(es)

So yes, I already got "B" hooked, and all she did was read the post for me before I posted it...this is truly the one tool that will finally get those die hards  (that are still stuck in their IE ways) to convert to use the best browser on the planet...and it is by time...maybe now the Pledges to download Firefox 3 will increase ...
                                                                                               
                               ...so come on, Spread the Word!