Sparkle!Girl

Most people know that South Africa is hosting the soccer (football) world cup next year. The Confederations cup just finished this weekend and it was sort of the test phase by FIFA to ensure that we are on track for next year. We scored a 7.5/10, so we're pretty much on track. Cape Town's Green Point Stadium has been getting an upgrade in preparation for this and this morning someone sent me a gorgeous picture of the city with the stadium peeking out and I thought I would share this with you all. Credit goes to the fabulous photographer, whoever you are, for taking this.

Three topics that have been getting far too much attention:

1) Jon & Kate Gosselin
2) Spencer & Heidi Pratt aka Speidi
3) Adam Lambert

Everyone is sick of hearing or reading about it and yet everyone keeps talking about it. I'd like to open a paper, website, newsfeed, blog, etc and not see an article about any of them. There are far more interesting things going on, even in the entertainment world.

And that ends today's mini-rant.

Wacky Wine Weekend

 

Last Saturday, my cousin sent me a text to ask if she was going to see us at the Wacky Wine Festival. I had no idea what she was talking about but wine, a road trip and a chance to see my favorite aunt was enough to make me say, “Let’s go!!”

 

So at 1pm, we packed up the car and drove off toward Robertson. Our first stop was at Clairvaux Cellar. The way the festival works is, you buy a ‘passport’ and a glass for R60 (about $7.50) and this entitles you to unlimited tasting opportunities at all the participating farms.

 

At Clairvaux –this will probably be the only place where I can remember all the wines we tasted – we started with a muscadel. Definitely not for me, way too sweet. We moved onto a Pinotage, a Rose, Cabernet Sauvignon, Port and something called, Sandberg Purple.

 

From  there we met up with my cousin and aunt and started on all the cellars in the Main Road. We went to Roodezandt Cellars. That was hilarious. Crap wine, good food, great entertainment. They had a “Wine Dive” where you basically go down a slide into a pool of wine!

 

 

From there we went to another cellar, the name of which I cannot remember. We also explored little stalls and stores, which was quite fun.

 

Then we moved onto Golden Kaan. Really gorgeous place. They combined there wine tasting with an art exhibition. Some beautiful (and pricey!!) pieces were on display.

 

Right next to Golden Kaan was an Art Gallery that we could not resist. That place was incredible. They had a few artists do live portraits so you could actually watch them create a piece.

 

 

Next to that was another cellar that we stopped in briefly. From there, we got into the car to go the actual farms. First stop, Springfield. I was bummed I never had my camera with as we drove up because the foliage was so stunning. The farm itself was really beautiful. They’re one of the more pricey wine makers.

 

Next on the list was Cloverfield. They were kinda boring, no entertainment or any other extras, just the wine tasting – that we missed anyway. But we stayed there for a bit to catch some fresh air and hot beverages (damn cold!!)

 

(yes that is 3 bottles of wine you spot!)

So we moved on. This is where things got crazy. On our way to Bon Courage, we started seeing cars lined up – quite far from the actual farm. Bon Courage was quite possibly the fullest farm we encountered. You could barely move! This was the last farm where we could buy any wine because they had to stop sales after 5pm. There was a really cool wine press that we could not get a picture of because there were waaay too many people milling about.

 

We moved onto Van Loverens, hoping to get lucky and buy more wine but no luck. This was really disappointing because they make the best Rose. They were fairly busy too and there was a great atmosphere but it was starting to get dark and bitterly cold so we quickly moved on.

 

Our last stop was Arabella. Obviously no wine but they had a pretty big concert with a number of local celebrities. Everyone else was being lame so we skipped the concert and headed for my Aunt’s, where we stayed overnight.

 

All in all, the day was a great success. Apparently there is another festival in August and we’re definitely planning on going for the whole weekend so we can experience everything – there were so many other activities (like tractor rides!) that we missed.

 

Anyway, despite not being able to buy at all the farms, I managed to come home with 9 bottles in total. 3 out of the 9 are Cabernet Sauvignon. No prizes for guessing my favourite wine!

The rest: pinotage, shiraz, sandberg purple, sauvignon blanc, shamrock red and a sparkling wine called Blush – which was the big hit of the festival.

You may have seen a few of my profile pictures on various sites had newborn Yorkshire Terriers. They are my cousins puppies and have gotten so big now! Most of you know I am not big on animals, I really cannot stand the smell, but these little pups are too cute. So for all the animal lovers, here they are.

That's all folks. I know it's a pain to click on all the links but there are some beautiful pics of the farms on some of the sites.

2 posts in one day, woo!

Generally speaking, I don't like to draw attention to myself much. So I tend assume other people feel the same. And so I try not to direct traffic to other sites much - unless we're talking Southern Gothic Productions.

I was catching up on some of the blogs I read and this one kinda struck a chord. So I will be sending the 3 of you who reads this :P over to Petroville

Happy Hump Day, one and all.

I love Joel McHale.

"Twitter - it's the digital macarena" lol


:P

I have been so tempted to just delete this LJ. Instead I've just gone back and deleted a ton of posts or changed the status of other posts (read: friends only).

Feel like I've become too accessible. Even my FB feels a little bit invaded now :/

Anyway, I just thought I would write that in case you were wondering where your comments went. Also, I probably won't be writing for a while either.

I generally don't read my horoscope or take much stock of it but this week I was paging through a magazine and read mine - Aquarius (think whatever of that).

"You're in your element when you're surrounded by like-minded people who think and communicate like you do and you seem to have plenty of chances to do exactly that this week. As a result you might relax your privacy rules but be careful these are not overstepped towards the 26th. You might come to regret either saying too much or trusting someone too soon"

Now that was just plain scary. I've been thinking lately that I have already "relaxed my privacy rules" by too much of late and the thought that it may go any further frightens me a little. I've already started pulling back the reigns a little and I suspect they'll be pulled even tighter in the coming days.

In other news, I drove home in a thunderstorm today. Loved it! I also had such a fun time listening to new music. And I had lemon meringue pie for lunch. And it's been exactly 3 months since my last birthday. Oh and there was some more of Bibis on SoGoPro. All in all, a pretty good - albeit quiet- day :)

I have nothing better to do with my time. I've completed all my tasks for the day, the phone has not rung for a while (thank you baby jesus), email  correspondance done, tired of following the election results - it's disappointing anyway.

So what do I do? Spend far too much time online. Should have brought my book with. Playing around at Zazzle (like I really need to spend more time shopping online!!) and thought this would be cool - if you're into that sort of thing. Clicky for biggie.

I am often disheartened by the lack of good music on the radio so I stick to discovering unsigned artists with amazing raw talent, online. Since I've been hanging out at Southern Gothic Productions I've been amazed by all that they share with us.

Their newest gift to us, is the talented Bibis! She is an incredible artist. Head on over to SoGoPro to check her out and support the amazing team over there. While you're at it, buy a signed T-Shirt by Hilarie Burton. Not only are the shirts awesome, but you'll be helping to get great films made! SoGo!!

ETA:

Give your cheek muscles a work-out.

Pimpin by Shakespeare:

"A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. “Never leave that till tomorrow,” he said, “Which you can do today.” This is the man who discovered electricity. You’d think more of us would listen to what he had to say. I don’t know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I’d say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure. Fear of pain. Fear of rejection. Sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you’re wrong? What if you make a mistake you can’t undo? Whatever it is we're afraid of, one thing holds true: that by the time the pain of not doing the thing gets worse than the fear of doing it, it can feel like we're carrying around a giant tumor."

"The early bird catches the worm; a stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we haven't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to ‘seize the day'. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves like Benjamin Franklin meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping. And that even the biggest failure, even the worst most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying."

Early Grey's...you know, when the show was still good.

*An e-mail I thought I'd share:*

IT’S CALLED MINDSET

 

As my friend was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by a only a rope tied to their legs. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from the ropes they were tied to but for some reason, they did not. My friend saw a trainer and asked why these beautiful, magnificent animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away.

 

“Well”, he said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free. My friend was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they were. The powerful and gigantic creature has limited its present abilities by the limitations of its past.

 

Like the elephants, how many of us go through life holding onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before? How many of us refuse to attempt something new and challenging because of our so called MINDSET?

 

Your attempt may fail, but never fail to make an attempt…

 

&

Choose not to accept the false boundaries and limitations created by the past…

*it's very long, you have been warned*

So we were having the most bizarre yet on topic conversation in the SGP chat last night and the topic of music came up. What started out as a simple idea to put together a list of songs that had Girlfriend or Boyfriend in the title, rapidly snowballed into a possible soundtrack of the new “short” that we don’t really know much about. I decided to take the song titles that were thrown about and use them to make my version of the short. These titles would then go into one playlist. I then went and looked for other songs that would fit the storyline that I came up with. So thanks to all the chatlings (thanks Sue for coining that phrase!) for the suggestions and welcome to just another level of SGP randomness ;) PS, the llama made the list…llama llama duck …

 

*note: the words in caps are the song titles that were thrown around last night, which are [mostly] related to the props/clues*

 

 

 

 

The True Love-Tale of Girlfriend and Boyfriend – Street Team Style

…may the madness begin…

 

They were always different. Unique. Not just their personalities but their names too. Girlfriend is our hero. A strong, silent type that would go the distance & fight tooth and nail (and rat!!) for the ones he loves. Yes, I said he!

Boyfriend, the heroine, is the lovable, free spirited young lady. The one you just can’t help but love.

These two had always been destined for each other. And their story is epic!

 

Girlfriend worked at this funky little place called, “Funky Face Tuba”, an interesting little store that sold tubas which were made to have a face on them. Surprisingly, there was great demand for these funky tubas. Girlfriend himself was an avid tuba player. He loved to break out with a TUBA POLKA on his favorite tuba named TUBBY THE TUBA (this favorite tuba of his had an awesome Col Mustard-esque appearance, complete with PENCIL MUSTACHE, just like Girlfriend). Whilst playing LA TUBA, he would often gather a crowd of people. One of the faces in the crowd was a beautiful, blonde, tall, leggy creature, named Boyfriend. Boyfriend was a regular at these impromptu shows and often these two, who had become good friends, would go for walks together when he had a break.

 

Their friendship started on a crisp, fall morning when Boyfriend bumped into Girlfriend at the local cigarette outlet. They were both reaching for the last pack of CIGARETTES. There was an instant connection between these two and in that moment, they wanted nothing more than to prolong their time together. They decided to split the pack between them and Girlfriend asked Boyfriend if she would like to walk with him to work. It was then that Boyfriend noticed Girlfriend’s nametag and burst into a fit of giggles. Put out by this, Girlfriend went into defensive mode and declared, “THAT’S NOT MY NAME”. Boyfriend immediately realized her mistake and told him she was not mocking him, she was intrigued because her name was unusual too and she introduced herself to clarify.

Marveling at this coincidence, Girlfriend got over himself and the two resumed their walk to the Funky Face Tuba. On their way, they noticed a flock of PEACOCKS and Boyfriend told Girlfriend that they reminded her of him as he was as proud as the peacocks and perhaps he should consider taking the feathers of the exotic creatures and making himself a PEACOCK SUIT! Rolling with it, Girlfriend spotted some Llamas in the distance and said that he thought Boyfriend was like the llamas in that she was feisty. Highly amused, Boyfriend told him, he could RIDE MY LLAMA anytime when WALKING THE LLAMA LLAMA was not interesting anymore. And so they both became firm friends. A bit of the random will do that for you.

 

After a number of weeks, Girlfriend realized that he was starting to feel a lot more for Boyfriend than friendship but lacked the courage to ask her out in person. Instead, he wrote an old-fashioned LETTER TO A PRETTY GIRL and hoped that THE LETTER, nay, LOVE LETTER would be enough to win her over. Boyfriend was intrigued and wondered, WHAT IS THIS NOTE? … LETTER READ, she was delighted and decided that SENDING A NOTE in return would be fitting. Exchanging LETTERS, they decided that for their first date, they would go to this quaint coffee shop for some CIGARETTES & COFFEE and SWEET BLACK CHERRY PIE or possibly just regular CHERRY PIE.

 

With thoughts of a POTENTIAL NEW BOYFRIEND, Boyfriend, called her friends for some gossip, etc. The only thing they had to say was “I’m NOT GONNA TEACH YOUR BOYFRIEND HOW TO DANCE”

 

Girlfriend’s friends were a lot more vocal. They expressed concern that he may turn into one of those BOYS WITH GIRLFRIENDS who end up ignoring his friends. They reminded him of his CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND and thought that perhaps the new one would join the EX-GIRLFRIEND CLUB. Girlfriend said he was not in the least bit concerned because she was MY KINDA GIRL and that MY GIRL was MY BEST GIRL and would hopefully be MY BOO soon. Wanting to convince them further, he pulled out a picture of Boyfriend and said “TAKE A LOOK AT MY GIRLFRIEND, she will be my BRAND NEW GIRLFRIEND and we’ll have an epic LOVE STORY.

 

Date night approached. Excited and nervous, Boyfriend sat at her dresser and got ready. She thought about MY GUY while applying her LUCKY LIPSTICK and not her regular LIPSTICK.

 

He picked her up at the precise time they agreed upon and when she saw him, she thought THERE’S MY BOY, IF IWAS YOUR GIRLFRIEND, we’d be the best GIRLFRIEND/BOYFRIEND.

 

He in turn hoped and desperately wondered ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL and decided then and there that he would ask her to ‘go steady’ before he lost his nerve. She got in the car, they made polite small talk and within minutes he turned to her and said WOULD YOU BE MY GIRLFRIEND?, I really think YOU SHOULD BE MY GIRL. Immediately she replied I WANNA BE YOUR BOYFRIEND, sort of like an ALTERNATIVE GIRLFRIEND, which the both found extremely funny. He said, ‘thanks but I think GIRLFRIEND IS BETTER’.

 

Elated, they went on their way to have some AMERICAN PIE, enjoy each others company and share secrets. She found herself opening up to him and revealing that she had always wanted a DOLLHOUSE. He simply nodded but stored that information in the back of his mind. Before they called it a night, he asked her if she wanted to share a last cigarette with him and she said no thanks, I’d rather not leave LIPSTICK TRACES ON MY CIGARETTES, I think I will have some BUBBLEGUM instead. With that, they went on their way. They reached her place, he walked her to the door and they both stood there, wishing the night would never end. So she invited him in for coffee but he said he would rather just sit on the porch with her and watch the stars. Lucky for them there was a fireworks display and they sat back to JUST WATCH THE FIREWORKS, before sharing their first kiss and experiencing their own FIREWORKS.

 

Their relationship blossomed but Boyfriend kept feeling guilty about a particular secret she had been keeping from Girlfriend. You see, Boyfriend was psychic but she was hesitant about revealing this in case Girlfriend thought she was some weird SPOOKY GIRLFRIEND. A few days later, she no longer had a choice about keeping it a secret because she had a terrible vision that something dreadful would happen to Girlfriend. She told him the truth about her and shared the vision (which was not very clear). Girlfriend was completely thrown and thought Boyfriend was crazy. They had a huge fall out and the relationship came to an abrupt end. Devastated, Boyfriend was inconsolable. She could not believe she hadn’t “seen” that Girlfriend would become MY FUTURE EX-BOYFRIEND.

 

Try as they would, Boyfriend’s friends could not get her out of her misery. They told her YOUR BOYFRIEND SUCKS, GET ANOTHER BOYFRIEND, he was a GAY BOYFRIEND – anything. Everything. But nothing worked. She asked them HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART? I’d rather be alone. For now, MUSIC IS MY BOYFRIEND.

 

Meanwhile, Girlfriend was conflicted. He was still in love with Boyfriend but he could not deal with another case of the crazy. Deep down though, he was concerned about what she had said. He thought about the girl he thought he knew and realized that there might be some truth in her vision. So he decided I’M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND WRITE MYSELF A LETTER. It might be an UNOPENED LETTER TO THE WORLD but it would be like a NOTE TO SELF:DON’T DIE.

 

Life went on. Girlfriend was still at FUNKY FACE TUBA where he could now PLAY THAT COUNTRY TUBA to all who would listen.

 

Boyfriend was assiduously avoiding all things related to Girlfriend and was slowly coming back to the person she used to be. She even started dating again. Girlfriend heard about this and the jealousy gnawed at him like A RAT in the sewers. How fitting he thought. RATS.

He spotted Boyfriend alone on a bench and approached her, “I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY BOYFRIEND?” Boyfriend exploded into a bitter tirade. At this point the new boyfriend approached. Still hurt and angry, Girlfriend sneered at the new guy, “well look, it’s mr I CAME AS A RAT”. Without skipping a beat, new boyfriend said, what’s it to you MR MUSTACHE? “Oh snap”, thought Boyfriend, “the gauntlet is thrown”. And like a scene out of a medieval play, they both magically drew swords and prepared to joust. Highly amused, Boyfriend shouted, FIGHT! Cue the FIGHT SONG!

 

“You think you can steal my girl, you sneaky rat?”

“It’s not my fault you let her go, you…you…you ALLIGATOR”

“Alligator? Is that all you got? Fine, I’ll show you alligator, prepare for the ALLIGATOR STOMP”

“Alligator stomp? Whatever! SEE YOU LATER, ALLIGATOR”

 

And so the fight ends with the new guy winning. Devastated and humiliated, Girlfriend leaves the scene and goes home to nurse his BROKEN HEARTS and wounded pride. Boyfriend in turn realized that she had made a huge mistake and may have lost Girlfriend for good. She breaks it off with new guy.

 

Both girlfriend and boyfriend had reached stalemate. Both realized that they still wanted each other, both too stubborn to make the first move. They acknowledged BOTH SIDES, NOW but had no idea how to move forward.

 

Days passed and the loneliness intensified. Worried, their mutual friends decided to take matters in their own hands and be a little MISCHIEVOUS and attempt to trick them into talking to each other. Plan in action, the two lovers finally meet. “FORGIVE ME”. “IT’S HARD FOR ME TO SAY I’M SORRY”. That was all they needed.

 

Elated at being a couple again, Boyfriend was happy to announce to all that MY BOYFRIEND’S BACK. In turn, Girlfriend could not stop declaring “I’M YOURS” whenever he saw her. After months of bliss, Girlfriend decided to step up his game.

 

He led her, blindfolded, to the cigarette outlet where they first met. He removed the blindfold and Boyfriend just stood there, stunned. “WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE”, he said. Together, they peeked inside and Boyfriend noticed a small square box. Inside, a ring! “Will you marry me?”. “Yes!”

 

The plans for the wedding started in earnest. Boyfriend was happy to PLAN ON FOREVER and could not wait to go to the CHAPEL OF LOVE

 

They both knew that THIS WOULD BE AN EVERLASTING LOVE and they’d be MAN AND WIFE forever.

 

And so ends the love-tale of Boyfriend and Girlfriend.

 

 

*it was so much longer than I anticipated. I sort of lost focus toward the end and I did not bother to edit much. Super tired. The point is, the song titles pretty much wrote the story. I just added the filler. Enjoy the music…

 

THE TRUE-LOVE TALE OF GIRLFRIEND AND BOYFRIEND – STREET TEAM STYLE OST:

 

1. Love Story – Katherine McPhee
2. Tuba Polka – The Backyardigans
3. Lovers and Friends – lil John feat Usher
4. Cigarettes – The Wreckers
5. Peacock Song – Bif Naked / A Peacock Rekevin
6. The Llama Song – Llama
7. Letters – Watershed
8. Take a look at my girlfriend –
9. Potential New Boyfriend – Dolly Parton
10. Summer Love – Justin Timberlake
11. I Say A Little Prayer For You -  Aretha Franklin
12. Girlfriend – Nsync
13. American Pie – Don McLean
14. Chew Chew Chew – Ella Fitzgerald
15. At Last – Etta James
16. Just watch the fireworks – Jimmy Eat World
17. Spooky Girlfriend – Elvis Costello
18. End of the Road – Boyz II Men
19. A Bitter Song – Butterfly Boucher
20. How can you mend a broken heart – Al Green
21. My Happy Ending – Avril Lavigne
22. Breaking up is hard to do – Neil Sedaka
23. Note to self: don’t die – Ryan Adams
24. Play the funky music – Wild Cherry
25. Jealousy – Queen
26. Thinking of you – Katy Perry
27. Fight Song – Aquabats
28. Kung Fu Fighting – Carl Douglas
29. I came as a rat – Modest Mouse
30. See you later, alligator – Bill Haley
31. Love on the rocks – Sara Bareilles
32. Both Sides now – Joni Mitchell
33. World Spins Madly On – The Weepies
34. Mischievous – Emma Bunton
35. Forgive Me – Evanescence
36. Hard to Say I’m Sorry – Chicago
37. Never Say Never – The Fray
38. I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
39. My Boyfriend’s back – The Angels
40. L.O.V.E – Nat King Cole
41. Plan on forever – Sue Ann Carwell / Start of Something New – HSM (I had to compromise, sorry. FWD button is love!)
42. Chapel of Love – The Dixie Cups
43. We are Man and Wife – Michelle Featherstone / Here and Now – Luther Vandross
44. This will be an everlasting love – Natalie Cole
45. Glasgow Love Theme – Craig Armstrong

 Play on Last.fm

 

Music Title Prop Reference Playlist

Tuba polka

Tubby the tuba

La tuba

Pencil thin mustache

Cigarettes

That’s not my name

Peacocks

Peacock suit

Ride my llama

Walk the llama llama

Letter to a pretty girl

The letter

Love letter

Sending a note

What is this note

Letter read

Letters

Cigarettes and coffee

Sweet black cherry pie

Cherry pie

Potential new boyfriend

I’m not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance

Boy’s with girlfriends

Crazy ex-girlfriend

Ex-girlfriend

Ex-girlfriend club

My kinda girl

My girl

My best girl

My boo

Take a look at my girlfriend

Brand new girlfriend

Love story

My guy

Lucky lipstick

Lipstick

That’s my boy

If I was your girlfriend

Girlfriend/boyfriend

Are you gonna be my girl

Girlfriend

You should be my girl

I wanna be your boyfriend

Alternative boyfriend

Girlfriend is better

American pie

Dollhouse

Lipstick traces on my cigarettes

Just watch the fireworks

Fireworks

Bubblegum

Spooky girlfriend

My future ex-boyfriend

How can you mend a broken heart

Music is my boyfriend

I’m gonna sit right here and write myself a letter

Unopened letter to the world

Note to self: don’t die

The rat

Rats

I thought you were my boyfriend

I came as a rat

Mr mustache

Alligator stomp

See you later alligator

Broken hearts

Both sides now

Forgive me

Hard to say I’m sorry

My boyfriend’s back

I’m yours

Plan on forever

Chapel of love

Click here to listen

My apologies if your song was not listed. Leave me a comment and I'll add it.

Thought for the day:

 

“Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘good doggie’ while looking for a bigger stick”

I am suffering from writers block. Seriously. I started working on 2 posts just now and got to about half a page and … zilch. Nada. Nothing. So in the meantime I thought I would throw this together. Sommer net omdat ek lus is.

 

5 THREE THINGS

 

3 things I’d hate to be without: earphones, blackberry, laptop

 

3 songs that changed my life: Maybe Tomorrow – Stereophonics; Wild Horses (Am partial to the Sundays and Alicia Keys/Adam Levine version) and Soar – Christina Aguilera ( :P )

 

3 memorable moments: graduating from UCT; 46664 concert in 2003; EMA’s in 2003. Ok so that last one may the most random thing ever but I have one word for you: EPIPHANY. That is all

 

3 books that rocked my world: The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath; Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter – Simone de Beauvoir; The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald. There is another but I left it out to remain cool haha (you may roll your eyes)

 

3 things I’d like to do … soonish: get a tattoo; visit Russia (I never recovered from my Russian History Lessons); learn to play the guitar. For real.

 

Ok, your turn.

I have so much to say and not at all sure where to start. I guess, for the sake of updating, we’ll do the usual weekend post.

 

Friday was dedicated to cake frosting. This was an extremely slow procedure because I was ridiculously sick. In fact I’ve lost so much weight in the past few weeks. I would be worried if I wasn’t enjoying being back to my old size so much. We’ll see how it goes in a few days before I head to the doctors. Anyway, the frosting went fine. It came out much better than the last.

 

Saturday was a little bit manic, running around trying to get everything sorted for the wedding. It was such a beautiful day all round. Even the weather played its part after threatening to rain all morning. I am still regretting not packing in flat shoes. My feet are so sore. Danced the night away, which was nice. It was good to just forget about everything that’s been bothering me and just letting my hair down. It was also rather nice to hang out with my family again.

(Hanging out with Abby)

I am so relieved to be off cake duty for a while. I can’t even think of planning any easter baking. Feeling so drained. I think 20 cakes and 150 cupcakes in the space of 2 weeks might do that for you.

 

I think the next couple of days I’m going to be attempting to get my life back in order again.

 

So much more to say (which is far more interesting) but to tired to care. Check back for a more meaningful post when the world decides to stop sucking for a bit. It may take a while.

"Sometimes I feel incredibly disconnected, uncomfortable in my own skin. Or, kinda like I don't fit into this world. Like I was born at the wrong time, and I don't belong." - Haley on One Tree Hill

Today seems like a good day for introspection. And re-evaluating priorities.

There is something to be said for blogging/journaling/writing. It’s a wonderful release tool to let it all out when your brain gets too full, when you’re really in it (see Garden State). On a public platform however, it can be completely daunting. Scary. Intimidating. Of course one can edit a lot of the things that exposes more than you bargained for, but for most, the unedited, unabridged version of ourselves are put out there. Just as we are.

Part of me is amused at the idea of revealing pieces of yourself in such a way especially since you don’t know who is reading what you’re writing. (Of course, with livejournal, there is the option to make the posts available to your friends only). Another part of me is intrigued at how the whole writing thing (online) has been embraced by so many. And more still, how many has taken to reading what other people has to say.

I write a lot. I write about the things that amuses me. The things that touches my soul in a profound way. The things that haunt me. The personal anecdotes about the state of my life. And more often than not, about absolutely nothing at all. Almost all of it gets purged. *pondering the fate of this post* But every once in a while, I hit submit and I put just a little bit more of myself out there, all the while praying that it gets received in the spirit with which it was posted.

Writing about the idea of putting yourself out there and in a certain sense, choosing your audience, came about after having a very frank conversation (online) with someone, who, for all intents and purposes, is a complete stranger to me. It was completely daunting yet I felt absolutely safe the entire time, like talking to an old friend. So as I write here more often, I feel like it will become less daunting and perhaps, a little bit more like chatting to an old friend.