A day in the life of me

08.02.2011 - 12h30 to 17h00

Today's fashion shoot was at the Elephant Sanctuary... it was the most fun we've had on a shoot in a long time. We've decided that we need to do more adventure pregnancy shoots... we want our next shoot to be a heavily pregnant woman shark cage diving - AWESOME!

06.02.2011 - 07h52

Yesterday I bought these "so ugly they're cute" velskoen type shoes from Mr Price... They must be the comfiest things I've ever put on my feet!

06.02.2011

Ethan left at around 10am to go and play at his cousins house. This gave me a day to myself. Was very impressed that I didn't go and crawl back into bed for the day. Instead I scrubbed the house top to bottom, went shopping and mucked around for my blog...

Andrea gave me these two pretty tops - love the blue one. Thanks friend.

Bought some more spray paint... this time I sprayed the shelves in my kitchen blue. Pretty.

Went on a hunt for a plain swimming costume that I can wear at the gym so I can go swimming with Ethan. It makes me feel like the flat chested nerdy redhead I was was back in primary school...

05.02.2011

Today involved watching DVD's, swimming, eating pizza and playing play station. Was lovely!

04.02.2011 - 20h00

Was planning on staying in and watching TV but a) I have a rubber arm and b) my DSTV wasn't working... so... I went to Guin & Jo's housewarming and then to Wolves. Fun.

04.02.2011 - 16h00

The urge to be a big couch potato, TV watching slob was too much. Went to Game to buy the smaller cheaper TV and walked out with the larger more expensive TV.

Not to self: Don't go shopping when you're tired, hungry and lonely... you will spend more then you planned!

Got home and then had to figure out how to asemble the thing. Used my screwdriver AGAIN! and managed to put it together all by myself *patting back*

04.02.2011 - 15h00

I want to be this man tonight. A couch. A packet of chips. A remote. A TV. I just want to be a couch potato!!!! But I have no TV *sob*

04.02.2011 - 12h00 - Twins seperated at birth

When Andrea arrived to fetch me for lunch we both packed out laughing... matching outfits! We both have such great style! Love it. Love you my beautiful friend. xoox

03.02.2011 - 20h00

I did more driving last night then I have since 2011 began...

A-B (Sandton to Illovo): Fetch Ethan and take him to Illovo to his dads house. He convinces me to help him with his homework so we sit in the car outside the flat doing maths crosswords. Fun. This makes me rather late so I try to rush from...

B-C (Illovo to Randburg): to get home but alas, get stuck in traffic. Get home and frantically try to get ready to make it out by 8pm. Get a phone call with a weeping son on the other end telling me that I need to bring him his spare school shorts as he has left his at school (AARRGGHH!). Give up trying to make myself look presentable.

C-D (Randburg to Illovo): Jump in the car and race back to Illovo... ignoring all speed limits and robots. Get there in record time. Hand deliver the shorts and jump back in the car. Try to find point E in the map book (shit, I really need GPS!)... have no idea were I'm going by head of anyway.

D-E (Illovo to Douglasdale): Stop at a garage and ask for directions. Think it sounds pretty simple. It's not. Spend the next 20 or so minutes driving up wrong roads, doing u-turns and tearing my map book apart trying to find this place.

BUT after all that... I got there almost an hour late... gulped down my wine... relaxed and enjoyed some good company, good pasta, good wine, good music (impressive guitar skills) and even got to lay my eyes on some DSTV! Thanks :)

03.02.2011 - 10h00 - wtF

Hahahahaha. Jen found this post on FB... it's going straight up onto our WTF wall!

This woman seems to believe that if you have a headache you need to ask your baby daddy to rub his penis on your head and you will be cured!!!!

What's even funnier is that because of the terrible lol chat that is used I totally misread the 6th comment and thought that she had written "the THUD of it on ur face" instead of the thought of it. Too funn!

03.02.2011 - 07h00

Ethan's dad usually fetches him from school on a Thursday but can't today. I had to draw this on my hand this morning in the car when I took Ethan to school. We're both worried I forget him. I promise I have never forgotten my son at school (probably cos I draw reminders on my hand...)

02.02.2011 - 19h30 - The CARD!

OK. We went to Sandton yesterday to do some birthday shopping for Ethan's best friend, Bjorn. Ethan saw this card in CNA and said his dad had bought it for him for his 10th birthday. Now, the problem with this card in that Ethan and I interpret it VERY differently.

My interpretation of the card...
...is very simple. A 10 year old has all these signs on his door because he doesn't want his irritating mom to come into his room. Especially because the room is a disgusting pigsty and he knows his mom with turn into a raging monster and scream at him to tidy it up. The card says "come out, come out whereever you are!" because you can't even find your 10 year old under all this mess!

Ethan's interpretation of the card...

Before I write it I must just let you know that this was apparently told to him by someone very close to him - someone he really looks up to and believes tells him the truth - will not mention a name. He believes it so much that he got a little angry with me when I argued it...

...the age of 10 is the easiest time to die... (please note the signs on the door)

I was so amazed I snuck a photo of the card so I could get some more interpretations of the card from all of you...

Charlene's interpretation of the card...
...the 10 year old is coming out of the closet

02.02.2011 - 18h00

At around 3.30pm, when the storm was in full force I received a BBM from Charlene warning me that I'd better leave work NOW because traffic was bad and about to get worse. Jen and I rushed out of the office. I got in my car and prepared myself for the worst traffic of my life. There was none. I got to Ethan's school in record time. I laughed a little at Charlenes "terrible traffic" and then proceeded to do some shopping with Ethan at Sandton City.

Well... when we left Sandton, just before six, Kharma once again said paid me a little visit in the form of road rage filled traffic! CRAZY! Sorry Charlene, I will never again laugh at you and your terrible traffic.

Alas, I remembered the viedo I posted on Facebook where people are literally being shoved into already packed trains... looked around my spacious car, put the music a little louder and "enjoyed" my slow ride home...

01.02.2011 - 19h00

Lightning struck our place last night and blew the lights. When they eventually came on I discovered that both our TV (Karen's old TV) and the DSTV were dead! There are lots of things that could have blown... like the big ugly fish tank that holds the big fat ugly fish (actually getting quite fond of the fish these days)... but it had to be the TV!!! I think it's Kharma kicking me up the ass for a) not helping behind the counter petrol man and b) not helping Ethan look up his words in the Afrikaans dictionary!

Anyway, one good thing came out of it... I decided this was the perfect time to sort out all the machines that are sitting on the TV stand. There's an old DVD player that no longer works that I left there because there though of trying to sort though all those wires exhausted me. I finally did it and felt something rattling around inside it. Took my screwdriver (I swear it's 2011's best buy so far!) and opened the machine up... found this Ben 10 DVD inside. Feel quite bad now... have spent the last 2 years thinking Ethans friend stole it (had to pay DVD hire store R200 bucks for it!)... Happy Birthday Dylan!

01.02.2011 - 18h30

This is Ethan upset with me because I wouldn't help him look up all his words in the Afrikaans dictionary... (strict mom of 2011 - we will see how long this lasts). He later said he loves me very much... so don't think he was too annoyed with me.

01.02.2011 - 17h00

Ethan convinced me to go for sushi for a VERY early dinner. We tried the little sushi place at the William Nicole Pick 'n Pay... was nice enough. Actually went there as we heard it was half price Monday to Friday... but it's only half price between 6.30pm and 7.30pm...

(I love Ethan so much but wouldn't mind if he was a little taller... these double chin shots are getting a bit old now)

01.02.2011 - 17h30

Saturday night, Karen and I went out for dinner. On the way home I decided I couldn't go another night without a chocolate... so decided to stop at the garage near my house.

I'm pretty cautious when it comes to garages, especially at 12.30 at night. Anyway, when I pulled up I looked inside the shop before I switched my car off as there was one other car there. All looked fine. There was a man standing by the counter, he looked like he was buying something.

Then next minute another man appeared. He stood infront of the doors (on the outside near my car), blocking the way and looking at me. He had his hand in his pocket. It looked very much like he was holding a gun. It felt like he was warning me not to get out my car and to bugger off. I reversed and drove out of there, fast.

For a couple days now I have been wondering if I was imaging a robbery... wondering if I'm just too suspicious. So yesterday I went back to the garage. Whilst I filled up with petrol I asked the guy if they were robbed. He said yes. That freaked me out totally and now I feel incredibly guilty! That poor man behind the counter probably thought someone was about to come and help him out of a horrible situation... then I just drove off. Sorry behind the counter petrol station man. Next time I will call the police...