My nephews

I posted on Thursday about how my nephews were coming to town for the weekend,and although I only had a few hours to spend with them,I had time to take a few pictures (ha,who am I kidding,I always have time to take pictures).

{Here are my lovelies}

THIS I love

Zané and Nico enjoying the bit of cooler weather.She's trying to teach him how to ride his bike


These are all pictures of what the sky looked like yesterday afternoon at 5:30 when I was walking home after work.Thunder clouds were coming in,and by 9pm last night,heavy raindrops had started falling.It must've drizzled through most of the night,because you could see some waterpools in the streets this morning,even though it was 24 degrees celsius last night (yes!at night!).

February 22

Was my birthday!I had a very quiet,relaxing day,only going out of the apartment to have lunch at my mom's house.She made the most delicious lasagne (which I had 2 plates of) and a peppermint crisp desert (which was totally delicious,as always).


They even laid a pretty table for me.

I got some presents - mostly thing I can use around the apartment,which is great,because I'm usually too cheap to buy these things myself.After lunch JC and I went back to the apartment,and started watching some old movie.I really wanted to sit with him and cuddle,and watch the movie,but after the HUGE lunch I'd just had,all I wanted to do,was take a long nap (in my defence,I had been up since 6:30am - couldn't sleep again once I was awake).

I slept for about 2 hours,and after that I decided to eat some more!

So yeah,that's basically how I spent my birthday ~ eating and sleeping.So,basically,I spent it just the way I wanted to.JC and I are going to a small beach town this weekend,so that will be my real birthday weekend,seeing as I had to work on the actual weekend.I can't wait to go to the beach,with a little cool weather.Heaven!

Thinking of my Dad

This is the way I remember my dad.Reading a book on the porch,listening to FM radio,with one or another cat keeping him company.This particular kitty is Poena,who,much to my dad (and my) sadness,died a few months later.So did my dad

My very un-Valentine's weekend (and Maya pictures!)

Like I predicted,this was not at all a very romantic or 'special' weekend,but rather,one like all the others.I was not in a good mood for most of it,and spent most of the time just relaxing at home and watching bad tv.The only time I really ventured outside the apartment,was on Saturday afternoon when my sister came and picked me up,and we spent the afternoon making her wedding invitations.She had decided early on not to waste money on getting someone else to make her invitations,seeing as they are keeping the wedding guests to the bare minimum (only about 40 people) so we decided that we would make the cards ourselves.As soon as they are completely finished,I will put up a picture of what they look like.Very plain and simple,but very cute.

Saturday night we went for a very quick drink (which I wasn't really in the mood for) and saw the end of the Bulls vs. Reds,Super 14 Rugby match,which the bloody Bulls won (I hate those guys).My team,the Stormers,lost by a mere 5 points to the Sharks,so I'm hoping it was just a shaky start and that by next weekend they will have recovered and proceed to kick some serious ass.

This week is going to be extremely hot,according to the weather services,and there have been lots of veld fires in the Western Cape,while the eastern and northern part of South Africa is basically drowning in all the rain.We are indeed having really strange weather for this time of year.Although the heat is a constant here where I live.I can't wait for winter.Seriously.

I took some new pictures of Maya,and just have to show you.She is getting so big,and is getting prettier by the day.She is really adorable,but we have decided to keep her in the apartment during the day when we are at work,because our next door neighbour is a big old grouch,and even though he has like 5 cats of his own (including 2 kittens),he actually had the nerve to say that Maya came into their apartment on Saturday and pee'd on his carpet.WTF?!Like there is no chance that it was one of his own cats that did it?And this after I explicitly told him that he should chace her away from his place if she bothered him.He's an asshole.

A very wet weekend

Nothing too extraordinary happened this weekend.Well,except that our bedroom got flooded.I was so shocked,I didn't even get my camera to take a few pictures.

The problem is that JC and I are kind still getting used to the new washing machine and its little quirks.This time,the pipe where the water comes out,slipped out of the sink and thus led to a water-filled bedroom (our apartment is so small,the washing machine has to be in our bedroom - how romantic).

JC obviously wasn't impressed at having to conduct such a major cleanup on a Sunday morning,but since it has been very hot lately,it all dried out pretty quickly,and by this morning,most of the water was gone.

On a nicer note,my sister and nephew are in town,and I am absolutely loving having them here.Ludwig is the most adorable boy,and is always smiling,and posing for the camera.Just my kind of boy.

Other than babysitting Ludwig so my sis could get a bit of much needed sleep,we just made a lot of food,and stayed indoors watching movies,because it was scorching outside.The old school aircon we have in our apartment was working overtime yesterday,poor thing.

The weather forecast showed temperatures of in the 40 degrees celsius for the whole week.

Yay!Can't wait,because I absolutely love feeling like a boiled (and thus sweaty) piece of meat.Very sexy.

Monday Morning Madness,sort of

It has been a very hectic Monday morning at work,that I only realised now that I did my 100th post on Friday,and in just little more than a month!I rock!In my own mind,at least.

I'm one of the select few (it seems) that don't own a home computer,because in all honesty,I don't really like computers all that much,and mostly just use it for work.So I only post during the week,and therefor tend to be very behind on all the other incredible bloggers,who keep up to date posts going,even on weekends.

I got tagged on Sunday,by the adorable Snickerdoodle Champagne,and only now have gotten the chance to do it.So here goes.

Step 1: respond and rework—answer the questions on your own blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own invention, add one more question of your own.
Step 2: tag other people.

1) What are the 3 things you would save out of your burning house?
My family photos,my cat and my purse (since my purse contains most of my important stuff anyway)

2) What was the last thing you read/are currently reading?
Dark Hollow by John Connolly

3) Do you nap a lot?
Once in a blue moon,like yesterday afternoon,and only because my headache forced me into bed

4) Who was the last person you hugged?
My boyfriend

5) What is your current obsession/addiction?
My little nephew

6) What is the last thing you said out loud? To my boss "These people are such assholes."And he agreed

7) What websites do you always visit when you go online?
Facebook,X17 Online,Evilbeet,Sasha is a Monster and Check my Secret

8) What was the last item you bought? A new watch battery

9) What is your most challenging goal?
To not strangle my boyfriend during PMS

10) If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished, anywhere in the world, where would it be?
That's easy,in Hermanus

11) Favorite Vacation spot?
South Africa's West Coast,like Yzerfontein or Elands' Bay

12) Say something to the person who tagged you:
Even though we don't know each other personally,you're an awesome blogger,and I look forward to reading everything you have to say

13) Name one thing you just can't resist no matter how bad it is for you: Highlighting my hair,even though I know it messes up my hair

14) What is your favorite item of clothing?
A jersey my mother knit for me

15) Favorite pair of shoes you keep going back to over and over, even though your closet is over flowing with a zillion others?!
I actually don't own that many pairs of shoes,because I have terrible feet to get shoes for,but I have this plain pair of little black boots,that were very inexpensive,look good with every long pant,and are extremely comfortable.

16) Name one thing you can not live with out:
My boyfriend (cliché,but very true)

17) What do you envy?
Heiresses,I would love to be able to just spend all day just worrying about my next outfit.Carefree

18) If you could only have one 3 course meal for eternity,what would it be?
For starters - prawn cocktail,main course - lasagne,dessert - malva pudding with vanilla ice cream.

So,that was quite painless,and since this is a game of tagging,here are the people I'm tagging:

* Creative Kerfuffle
*Chele
*Drollgirl
*Mmmadrid
*Belette

Whazzup?It's weekend!

Basic plans for the weekend:
1.Eat too much
2.Talk too much
3.Sleep too little
4.Play with my nephew so his mother has trouble putting him to sleep
5.Make a chicken potjie and rice (yummy!)
6.Start reading my new book

And if,somewhere in my hectic schedule I get the time,I guess I'll have to clean the apartment again,although I have no problem living in some degree of filth.I wasn't born in the Chinese year of the Pig for nothing,you know.

Have a great weekend everyone,and stay safe!

Thought for the weekend

If fire fighters fight fires and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?

Devils' Spawn (otherwise known as my nephew)

This is just the beginning,I'm sure.

My sister and nephew are coming!

Yay!I haven't seen my big sister and my nephew since he was baptised the first weekend of November,so I think it's about time that we get together again.Ludwig (my nephew) is 7 months old now,so he is getting to that really cute stage where they sit up,try to crawl and are basically all around cute.Can't wait to see them,unfortunately they are only coming tomorrow afternoon,because my sister still has to work til tonight,and maybe tomorrow morning as well.It would've been awesome if they could've come tonight already,just to have someone new to talk to again.

Our Family Weekend In L'Agulhas

Sign in the Struisbaai harbor
Andreas with his first fish caught
Making sure the fishy is ok
Two seagulls off the "Finding Nemo" set
Daniel going for the waves
Daniel on the beach
Andreas and Zané swimming in freezing water
The harbor walkway
Bella,boat named after my cat (Lulubella)

Some more little fishing boats
Andreas looking for the stingrays at the harbor
Me,not being able to take good pics of the boats at night
Ditto as above
Daniel,the way he always looks
Daniel,very smily
Daniel enjoying some sand for lunch
Andreas,our little monkey,climbing the tree
The tide pool,which is great,except the water is verrry cold
The Lighthouse in L'Agulhas,near the most southern point of Africa
Zané
And Zané
Zané and Andreas looking for fishies with their nets


A little bit of the traditional style houses built in L'Agulhas

PS. The shipwreck you see in the pictures,is that of the 'Meishu Maru 38'.

I live in a very beautiful country,and also in the most beautiful part of this beautiful country.So I like to show that off to people,because I know that lots of foreigners tend to believe that South Africa is all about apartheid and violence and basically all things bad.But we have lots going for us too.

Either way,I wanted to show you all some of the pictures that I took when we had a family get-together in September '08 in L'Agulhas,Western Cape.It's a seaside town,about 4 hours' drive from my town,but it was the ideal place for us all to meet,and we mostly chose it because it was only an hours' drive for my sister,whose baby was only 3 months old at the time.

We had an absolute blast,and I really hope we can do it very soon,but would love to do it somewhere on the West Coast this time,like Yzerfontein or Elands Bay.