Friday downer

So my sales & marketing manager resigned to be with her husband in George, but was working for another 2 months till the end of November until they would find someone appropriate. In the last month, the bosses have been grinding her and pressurising her so much so, that he had been overworking herself and doing everything to give them what they wanted. This afternoon, at 15:20, she got called in by the MD and told that she doesn't have to come back again on Monday, and today is her last day. This is shocking as she has got so much running at the moment that she has to hand over, and now she has to rushly do it in an hour. I have never seen anybody being treated like this, and it is horrible, and it makes me question my decision to be here.

Children

I must admit from time to time I find myself living in a sheltered world, because I have been convinced by various people to stop watching News, and I am not a news paper reader. So today I have to get back on my soap box and talk about something that shocked me yesterday, when I happened to read the paper. Five boys were kidnapped from a primary school in my neighborhood (Walmer Estate) this week. This only a few hours after a girl was raped in the toilets of the same school. Then there is the girl that was raped in Michells Plain and the headmaster only contacted the police about 4 hours after she was raped. I just struggle so much to understand what kind of animal rapes a child and or kills children. Surely its nothing from this earth. Even animals shelter and protect their young. I am extremely upset about this and don't know how to express myself, which is a first for me. I would like to get hold of these people, and hang them by their genitals from a tree in the Karoo, and unleash a band of wild dogs on them. Better yet, I would like to shove a light pole up them and see if they like it.....

This upsets me because I have a 10 year old nice, who is just as vulnerable as any child. But I lay this at the governments door, along with all those human rights freaks who voted to abolish the death penalty. You can say whatever you want to about wrongful convictions and all that shit, but at the end of the day, degenerates like these people where too shit scared to do something like this before, because they knew the chance that they might die, was very real.

BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY!!!!!

The Merry Go Round

I am still on the merry-go-round
It is still spinning out of control
Now my hands are slipping
and its all slipping away
Hold on and get white knuckles
Let go and fly off to smash my head against the pavement and let my brains run onto the street
Choices are tuff

Short hair

How hot is he with his hair short!

Diwali

Yesterday was Diwali so to all my Hindi friends...Specially to Suchismita

Happy Diwali

Engen Sea Point

So when i get good service, I like to tell people about it. My company has a petrol account at the Engen in Sea Point, so I just drive up there, and fill the tank and hand over my petrol card. Nice and easy. Yesterday I attempted the same, but got met by a petrol attendant who told me they have no unleaded petrol. Having my petrol light hurling abuse at me, I started to panic slightly. Would I now have to fill my tank....out of my own pocket???? Thank goodness the nice lady asked me if I have an account and when I said yes, she promptly walked over to my passenger side door, asked me to unlock it, got in to the car and said: "ok, we got to Total'. Half shocked, half amused, I drove to Total where she filled my tank and took my account details, so they can pay Total through my account. I thought this was a very good show of customer service. Because I was a account holding customer, they had a contingency plan for me.

I am very impressed and will now go back to Engen Sea Point all the time...Mainly because our account is there, and I get free petrol....

Today

Sorry but not feeling the writing stuff today....

Monday morning screw ups

This Monday has started with a bang..... a bang right up my ass!!!!!

Yes, I am slightly annoyed this morning, as everything at work has gone wrong from the first minute I stepped into the office. Deadlines for designing flyers, getting artwork from our design company, embedding word documents into emails....and I am just the sales rep...not a fucking designer.

So needless to say, I am on my second cup of coffee for the day, real coffee, and snapping at everybody that comes near me. I need a pee but cant move coz my director needs something right now, and I haven't made a single appointment for this week yet. And then to top it all off, my mouse stoped working this morning and I suspect it needs a battery, so now I am working on my laptop mouse with fingers crunched on a small spot about 3cm wide....

Working is GREAT and I love it sooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!

No Sleep

I had a very restless night last night. I constantly got kicked by "someone", and when he wasn't kicking me, he would turn around, jerkily, and pull the duvet off me and my two dogs. Eventually one dog got so fed up with this, that he went and slept in between Tristan's legs, because at least there he would be covered all the time. In between these jerking awakenings, I had weird funny disturbing dreams that I cant remember now. All in all it was a very restless evening.

Natural light

You might think that plants are the only living organisms that need natural light to survive and grow and prosper. Well that is not true. In fact ALL living things need natural light. Especially humans. Studies done in Canada on primary school children have shown that kids in classrooms exposed to natural light show better attendance, because they are healthier. They have better dental records, they grow taller, and have increased concentration. It keeps people calmer and tests done in a Veteran's hospital showed that patients exposed to natural light suffered less depression and healed faster. Natural light also has been shown to reduce eyestrain, increase productivity and even decrease absenteeism in the workplace. It also lifts the spirit and people just function better in natural light filled spaces.

This brings me to my new office. We used to be away from the head office staff in our own office that had so many windows and natural light. It was great. Someone then thought it would be a great idea to move us downstairs to be in the head office, and now we are in an office without a single window in sight. Its depressing, morbid and makes my mood very bad. I have been cranky since we moved down here and its because of the space we are in. I am seriously considering speaking to the big bosses about this issue, as it is affecting my work, my health and my life.

The Springbok Saga

This government is really out of control. They are trying so hard to change everything and anything that was put into place by the previous government, that they are loosing sight of reality. Now they are targeting the Springbok from the rugby. How ridiculous. Its an animal that roams the South African plains. Granted it was allocated to the Rugby team by the previous government, but you can not tell me that a Springbok on a jersey is a symbol of an oppressive government. That is a load of bull. Symbols only has emotion if humans attached emotion to it. In fact the Springbok has probably been the only symbol in this country in the past 15 years that has united us all. EVERYBODY, black, white, green, blue, red, orange and every other colour stood shoulder to shoulder on both world cup tournaments where we won. I think the government should stop trying to wipe out the past, and start working on our countries future.

Europeans and Religion

I have now met two separate European individuals who tells me it is accepted practice in their country to use Jesus like we use thank you. They use it constantly and without even blinking. I had a little argument with a girl in the office today about it. I asked her to please not do that, and she said no. She said its part of her and I cant ask her to change that. In Ireland everybody says that all the time. She is a Catholic and she says she bows her head every time she says it, but she cant change it. I then explained t her that she is sharing an office with other people and there are some things that are offensive to others. She said to me that me speaking Afrikaans to someone is then offensive to her. I stopped speaking to her, coz I realised that there is no reasoning with her. She has been caught out on something that she as a Catholic knows she is doing wrong, and is therefore defending it coz nobody likes to be told they are wrong. Also using the Afrikaans as being offensive is just a stupid argument.

So I have gathered that most Europeans have a false sense of religion and don't really know who God is as they use His Son's name in vain just as an exclamation.

Lucca Kruger

Finally the bandages have come off my Lucca, and I must say, he is looking and reacting much better. He has got life again and is ready for anything. Granted he still shakes his ears and from time to time the one ear still bleeds, but no splatters of blood on the walls anymore. The only problems are; because of the wrapped up ears, and no ventilation holes (he would be able to get his paws in the holes and pull the bandages off), he has got a little infection in his left ear, and a few scabs in the same ear. The thing that bothers me the most is that he looks a little like Freddy Kruger from Nightmare on Elm Street. You cant really see in the pic, but he has hair missing on top of his ears, and under his chin and around his face, and it is raw and scabby and red. He looks much worse than he is. I am very happy that he is better though and that he has got that spark of life in his eyes again.

My Favourite Anglican Prayer

Prayer for Africa

God Bless Africa.

Guard our children.

Guide our leaders.

And give us peace.

For Jesus Christ's sake.

Amen.

My Little Lampshade

This is what Lucca has looked like for the past week, and what he has gone through. I can only imagine how happy he will be when this is over, my little lampshade!!!

The Big day

Today is the big day that Lucca's scrum cap is coming off and his ears will be healed. I am very nervous for him, and didn't sleep much again last night because he was in a state again. So off to the vet now, will let everybody know how the ears are doing.

Sean Kingston

Was lucky enough to go to the Heineken Greenroom session this Saturday with Sean Kingston and Euphonic. The first was a ok but was in need of a good evening of dancing, and got it!

Tired and run down

I am feeling so tired the past few days. It might have something to do Lucca and sleeping very lightly at night. It might just be that I am run down from everything and need a bit of a boost. Whatever the reason, I am battling to concentrate and I can feel that my whole constitution is down and my body is telling me that I am neglecting it. So its time to take care of myself for a bit.

105 and counting

Its only 105 days until my cousin Chris and his fiance Ginger are tying the knot at the every beautiful 12 Apostles. I can not wait for it. Everything is organised, I hope, and its going to be soooo romantic. They are getting married in the garden at 12 Apostles, and then the reception is going to be in a little side room, with lots of windows out on the ocean and candles everywhere. It is going to be so nice. We haven't had a nice wedding in our family for a while, and this one is very special to me, only after my sisters of course.

So guys. Hope you are ready!!!

Spinning away

I feel like my life is spinning at high speed, like a merry go round and I am holding on for dear life, trying to see something or someone on the outside, but only get glimpses of them as I speed past.

I feel like I am constantly walking around in a dream world, and this is not real.

I feel like things are out of control, or my control.

I feel like my fingers are slipping of the railings and pretty soon I am going to be flung across the floor, scraping my arms and legs and bleeding with pain.

I need to stop the spinning.