21 Things about me – Week 3

What kind of people do you surround yourself with?

I like to be around people who are spontaneous, intelligent and have a wicked sense of humour like myself.

I need a partner in crime to play tricks on someone.

Somebody who loves to rehash the latest episode of Vampire Diaries/Suits/White Collar/any other awesome series.

A person who gives me great advice when I need it

Somebody who cheers me up by knowing exactly the right thing to say to me without annoying me even further.

5 Things I Can’t Live Without…

1. My Cat – He knows when I am sad. He cheers me up when I am sad. He loves me unconditionally.
2. My family/friends – My parents are my rock and my pillar. I cannot even imagine how different my life would have been without there love and support. They do not judge me, they have never hurt me & they are always there for me
3. One Direction – Oh snigger away. These guys are more than a boy band with a fun rock/pop melody. They are wildly famous, yet down to earth. They make me happy. I could watch hours of interviews with them for their quirky sense of humour. I even had my parents watching them for a few hours (without complaining)
   Watch their new documentary This is Us (Directed by Morgan Spurlock of SuperSize Me fame) and then tell me you don’t like them.
   The only thing they have in common with Justin Bieber is their age. Otherwise the have manners and are not spoilt brats.
   Apart from 1D, I just can’t do without music in my life. I have to listen to music – whether it is angry rock, or calming soothing songs, or something light and happy – there is hardly ever a time when you will find me sitting in silence.
4. My camera – These photos I take today will be the memories of my tomorrow and the memories for my future generations. A legacy of who I was and where they came from. I want my nephew to look back at all my travels and adventures and be proud of who I was and remember me for what I was regardless of who I may become.
   It is also important for me to remember my life should anything ever happen to me (Alzheimers, demetia etc)
5. My cellphone – I could not go very long without my link to the world. Whatsapp conversations with my friends. Instagram – to keep in touch with the world through pictures. Facebook and Twitter. Google (how else would I know how to boil the perfect egg?) Also a handy backup to take photos when my camera is at home. A music player when the radio is being boring. My constant companion!

 What can you not live without?

Friendship

Vitamin F

Coming off my maudlin post from yesterday, here is something nice:

Why do I have a variety of friends who are all so different in character?  How can I get along with them all?  I think that each one helps to bring out a “different” part of me.

With one of them I am polite. With another, I joke.

I sit down and talk about serious matters with one. With another I laugh a lot. I listen to one friend’s problems. Then I listen to another one’s advice for me.

My friends are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. When completed, they form a treasure box. A treasure of friends! They are my friends who understand me better than I understand myself.
They’re friends who support me through good days and bad.
We all pray together and for each other.

Real Age doctors tell us that friends are good for our health.
Dr. Oz calls them Vitamin F (for Friends) and counts the benefits of friends as essential to our well being. Research shows that people in strong social circles have less risk of depression and terminal strokes.

If you enjoy Vitamin F constantly you can be up to 30 years younger than your real age. The warmth of friendship stops stress and even in your most intense moments, it decreases the chance of a cardiac arrest or stroke by 50%.

I’m so happy that I have a stock of Vitamin F!

In summary, we should value our friends and keep in touch with them. We should try to see the funny side of things and laugh together and pray for each other in the tough moments.

Merry Christmas Eve!

To all my friends out there…

Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and most of all I wish for you:

A friend to cheer you if you are sad
A friend to share your happiness just by understanding you enough to know what makes you happy
A friend who knows you without you having to say anything
A friend you can turn to without feeling embarrassed or shy
A friend who will get you through your darkest hours

Christmas is not just about exchanging gifts- its a way to be thoughtful and pick out a gift as a way of saying, “I thought of you and put much love into choosing this”
Its not a way of being flashy or proving how much money you have, its showing the ones you love how much you appreciate them.

I’ve had a tough year and I’ve been having a tough past few weeks. My friends have been there to make me laugh and take my mind off my worries and that is why I am going to have a Blessed Christmas and I hope you will you
Xxx

(I include my wonderful family in the above as well, because they don’t just love me because they have to, they love me because they want to)

I have friends like these….

Friends don’t have to understand, do you favors, care for you, give you courage and see you through.

Friends don’t have to be, but they do.

The Various Faces of Us

Tee & I have been friends for a couple of years now – having met through my original blog – before it was WordPress.

We share a common interest in Hot Men, cats, sparkles and Hot Men (oh wait did I repeat that? – Yes we love Hot Men that much!)

We have shared many adventures together – Thailand coming up is going to be another one.

We have perfected the art of self portraits and the other day having finally sorted out all my photos onto my pink external hardrive (birthday present from my brother) I was reminded again by just how much fun we really do have when we are together.

Tee understands me, she accepts me and she totally gets me. She is there for me when I need her without having to tell her that I need her. She has never let me down & has made me laugh on many occasions. We have some really happy memories & here are just some of the reasons why I love her dearly:

• Wine in a sippy cup as we rush off to the movies
• Playing damsels in distress by being rescued by a cutie who changed our flat tyre
• Searching for Chipniks when that’s all I craved after my operation
• Sharing my addiction to Hot nice Men
• Sharing the fun of Eden concerts together
• Moving house every year
• Sharing my love of bubbles
• Nights at Manhattans
• Anticipating my needs by making me food / buying me cute gifts / bringing me delicious fruit from Hoedspruit
• Pink Champagne
• Tim Tams
• Understands & shares my obsession for Vampire Diaries and Supernatural
• Commiserates when a man is an idiot
• Knows when I need a solution to a problem, or just a bitch session
• Road trip to Hoedspruit
• Share the same taste in movies and books – no matter how shallow they might be
• Endless hours (and I do mean hours) of chitter chatter on our Blackberry
• Knows what jewellery I will love
• She knows how to cheer me up when I am grumpy
• And she ALWAYS brings me coffee in bed (refer to previous point)
• She knows all of me and accepts me. Even Gloria.

Check out how good we are at self-portraits:

Goddess – Maybe. Domestic Goddess – Never!

As a way to cheer my friend up after being dumped over Blackberry Messenger (yes really) I promised my friend Marco that I would cook for him. From Scratch.

I am single woman – a social butterfly. I do not cook from scratch – what is the point? Woolworths’ (Marks & Spencer) livelihood depends on us single people to support them.

They do a lovely array of steam dishes that take a whole 2 minutes to heat. Chicken, veggies… you name it. They have pre-packed soup and vegetable mixes, all you need is a pot and voila!

But being dumped calls for some good ol’ fashioned cooking.

Now I can cook a mean roast chicken if I do say so myself, so I decided to try something a bit different.

Our local supermarket stocks a Roasting bag complete with spices, so I decided to give it a try.

Lemon & Italian Herbs. Chicken goes into bag, bag securely tied.

Shake bag to evenly coat chicken …. not such a good idea

The bag tore, chicken bounced onto the counter coating my Blackberry in spices.

Plan B: Cook in tin foil.

Worked out well in the end – Marco was impressed & after dinner we looked through old school albums and reminisced about the past.

Got to bed at 4am – who knew I still had it in me!?

Birthdays are awesome

I had the best birthday again this year – with all the work drama taking place I didn’t really count down the days or look forward to it as much as I usually do.

It started with a night of movies & sushi at friends & Sat night I went to my favourite pasta place & Sunday – the actual day – I spent it in Parys with my mom and closest girl friends.

We had lots of fun with feather boas and snapping photos and visiting the antique shops in Parys before stuffing ourselves with a delicious lunch at my favourite place to go in Parys – Rubys (hence the feather boas)

I was thoroughly spoilt & realised how much I love my friends & why they are so amazing. Its the little touches that make them so special and I love that my mom got to spend some girl time with them to understand them better & see why I love them as my friends.