never say never...

i was convinced i worked for a pretty decent boss... but after giving her my resignation yesterday she IMMEDIATELY told me that my 14 working days leave that i still have, she doesn't have the money to pay me for them...so before 1 November i will be on leave a lot... cause I'm sure as shit not taking that... do you feel sorry for her? don't... cause she actually does have money to pay me... but she just doesn't want to... she's stingy that way...behind my back she enquired from my colleague if in fact the one calender month notice i gave her was stated in my contract...

so here's a few things I've learnt...

• if you want loyalty, buy a dog


• nobody is ever indispensable


• never think twice taking a better job, no love lost at all...

so there... it's a done deal... I've been told to take leave next week, knocking off the first 5 days off the 14 days... leaving me with another 9 days... *giggle*

so I'll probably won't be blogging next week... my kids are on holiday so I'll be spending my time watching movies and eating popcorn...

it's all good :)

hot dog hoochie

we have a hot dog stand right around the corner from work... it's the only place to get something to eat in the near vicinity so obviously i have a lot of hot dogs... anyhoodle... i get to the stand the other day and there is a guy waiting for his order... he had to repeat his choice of sauces to the hot dog guy a few times, cause it wasn't the standard mustard and tomato sauce (like ketchup)... well let me just say i was amused... watching this whole episode... so while the hot dog guy is busy finishing the guy's order... he asks me what sauces do i want, so i say "mustard and tomato" while looking at this other guy (of course not thinking) and say...

I'm easy see?

whaahahahahahahhahhaa

shit, earth swallow me now...

and if that wasn't bad enough i winked at him while saying this...

ffs... i have no brains whatsoever...

heritage day

today is a public holiday in South Africa... we're supposed to celebrate our heritage and according to wiki...

Heritage Day, September 24, is a Public Holiday on which South Africans across the spectrum are encouraged to celebrate their cultural heritage and the diversity of their beliefs and traditions, in the wider context of a nation that belongs to all its people....

quite cool i think... i will firstly be celebrating my Irish heritage by sleeping in and then wearing a Voortrekker kappie while having breakfast :)

i trust you as far as i can throw you...

i was going through all my post drafts hoping to find something to post today... cause my nails are too long to type ... yeah that's the main reason why i didn't want to blog today... cycadellic* baby hehe... typing difficulty!!... i mean if a girl has to choose between typing and beautiful nails... gha... no contest... anyway reducing my typing speed... and here we go :)

i received the offer from the new employer, looking good! didn't blow me out of the water or anything but I'm satisfied, so now i still have to deal with resigning properly... my boss is in quite a polite and foul mood... what an odd combination yes? so not making it easy for me to break the news... and she's going to one of our most difficult client's this morning... so i didn't want to add to her bad mojo... so I'm leaving it for this afternoon or Thursday, cause tomorrow is a public holiday!!! heritage day... I'll have to google it and make sure what's happening tomorrow... i know... i know... very unpatriotic of me...

i never told you guys about my plumbing problems... hehe... so the pipes were installed... and of course literally blew off the first time i opened the water... so that was a bust... and of course trust Batman to come to my rescue... he fixed the pipes... i apologise for all the nasty things I've ever said about you Batman cause honestly you surprise me sometimes... before i go on with the sad story of the appliances, another batman tit bit... my car is now 3 years old and no longer under warranty, so i don't have to have it serviced for an arm and a leg at the manufacturer... so i asked batman, if i offer you X amount of money would you please service my car, totally expecting him to take the money and laugh his evil laugh... he said... ag please... i don't mind servicing your car sweets... no problem, no payment please!!... so another apology... i am so glad he's doing this, i can sure do with the saving! so a few feathers for your robin hood hat batman, I'm sure your new batgirl won't be liking this one bit... but hey it seems bearing you two healthy sons made quite an impact after all... hehe...

so the second time i used the washing machine i didn't secure the draining pipe... oh dear... i was actually standing in the kitchen reading something and didn't notice the waves of water under my feet... Jay was looking for something to eat and when he said... "what is going on here?" as if it was my fault... it was everywhere... oy... so basically i just don't trust those damn pipes... i check them for any leakage every 5 minutes while the machines are on... and then every other 2 minutes if the draining pipes are still in place... it's a horrible sad day when you loose your trust in your appliances i gotta tell you...

* the spelling of cycadellic is prolly wrong... in the spirit of heritage day... forgive me :)

doing the sweetass jive...

jip

i got the job :)

i actually still can't believe it!!! but it's happening!!

better salary, medical aid and pension... AND it's quite a bonus that I'll enjoy what i'm going to do :)

now i have to resign... so looking forward to that... not!

my head is in overdrive so no post today...

:)~

freaky friday

ok before i get down to Friday business i just want to thank all of you for your support with my job hunting... firstly i had no idea so many of you were in the same boat ... you have no idea how much it helped... it's been such a long time for me, jumping back into the job hunting business... i was really stressed out yesterday... but after some zzzz i feel like a new sweets :) i sent my cv through yesterday, got a reply immediately and will hopefully go for the interview next week... it's the perfect job... how strange that stuff just falls into place when it's the right time eh? yeah... awesome! ok have a groovy weekend, i promise to do my best to be as naughty as i can... LOL

~ * ~ * ~ * ~

ok this next piece... from this guys lips to God's ears man!! LOL :) thank God i haven't hit 40 yet (so sorry for those who have) but this applies actually to woman over 30 too... very interesting and entertaining read! and who knew... it's not so bad being the dark side of 40 after all... apparently the sky does indeed NOT fall on your head... :)~


As I grow in age, I value women over 40 most of all.

Here are just a few reasons why:

A woman over 40 will never wake you in the middle of the night and ask, 'What are you thinking?' She doesn't care what you think.

If a woman over 40 doesn't want to watch the game , she doesn't sit around whining about it. She does something she wants to do.

Women over 40 are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you in a public place. Of course, if you deserve it, they won't hesitate to shoot you if they think they can get away with it.

Older women are generous with praise, often undeserved. They know what it's like to be unappreciated.

Women get psychic as they age. You never have to confess your sins to a woman over 40.

Once you get past a wrinkle or two, a woman over 40 is far sexier than her younger counterpart.


Older women are forthright and honest. They'll tell you right off if you are a jerk if you are acting like one. You don't ever have to wonder where you stand with her. Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal . For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize.

For all those men who say, 'Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?', here's an update for you.

Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

have a shamelessly good weekend ya'll :)~

edited in later in the day... omg! i sent my cv in yesterday and i'm going for the interview this afternoon at 1h30... *freaking out completely*...

now if i can just stop...

hyperventilating

get rid of this stress induced headache

and stop biting my nails...

i'll be just fine :)

greener pastures

I'm officially job hunting!!!

I'm so excited!!!

and bloody scared all at the same time...

i like my comfort zone too much...

i need to cut those apron strings and then.. hell i hope a better job, that's what!

... I've done my CV for the first time in absolute years... which was surprising in itself... but then i couldn't get my damn head out of the gutter... sentences like these... in my CV... just kinda made me giggle...

"always putting the client’s satisfaction first..." mwhhhhhhhhhahahahahahaha...

so yes, I'm out there... it's very scary for me... there are so many "what if" scenarios running through my head... but i just have to do this... I've been with the same company and boss for a whopping 12 years straight... i feel like I'm betraying her for some reason... but then again~ maybe she should feel SHE'S betraying ME every time she pays my salary... ha... and that obviously doesn't bother her one bit...

wish me luck!

twilight years

like I've said before, recently Kay has turned into a slightly different person... and apparently it's only going to get worse before it gets better... dear God help me!

• he talks back to me every chance he gets... with a bloody attitude to match



• i have to break up physical fights between the two boys on a daily basis



• Kay accuses me of loving his brother more than him.... pleaaaaaaaase... are you feeling my pain yet?? *mom rolling eyes at this stage*



• he thinks i am totally without a brain, he always knows better than me...



• to name but a few...

so every chance i get, i like to show him who's the boss... i know i shouldn't... but for some reason i get SUCH a kick out of it to annoy him... but because he's 13 he has lost his sense of humor in the fog that is teenagedom (new word ok?!)... everywhere i look, everything i touch and everything i say... i am not cool... dare i say he's embarrassed? ha... well i don't take that lying down... so i have these little acts of love i like to bestow on his unsuspecting self when we're in a public place and i should rather keep my mouth shut and act as if i don't know him... cause that's what he wants... walking a few steps in front of me and all... to prove his point... so!

what i do is i say really loud... for maximum effect!

"looking good, good looking!" (in my American drawl no less)

"mom... stop it!" he hisses my way

"looking good, good looking!"


"STOP IT!!!! "
*stomp foot*
"STOP IT! :
"STOP IT!!!"
"STOP IT!!!!!!!!"

"looking good, good looking!"

i just can't stop myself... i mean honestly, if you're going to react to THAT like that, then you have to take what's coming... i am after not cool, so what did he expect??

oktoberfest pics...

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pretty please click and follow...

now dammit...

now :)

ok, done?

good!!

here's some pics of the Oktoberfest... it was a blast!! those Germans sure know how to party :) all i can say other than that is thank God there was no Jagermeisters on sale... Prost!

beers all around, Prost!

this is me with my oldest friend...

we've been friends for 27 years, i love her to bits :)

a friendly guy sitting behind me... i was trying to take a pic of the oompah band, funny!

robin hood type of little hats everybody was wearing, they were all sold out by the time i got there dammit...

until next September then! Auf wederzein...hic... :)

dirty addictions...

they're not really dirty... but thinking of a proper witty title can be quite tiresome, no?

on to my addictions... somebody tagged me on this, i apologise, for the life of me i cannot remember who...

ER... everybody is so hooked on Grey's Anatomy, and although i enjoy Grey's too they just are not in the same league as ER... ER is now on their 14th season and I never miss an episode, this is really an excellent captivating series, with blood and gore and a kick ass story line... when i thought about ER i wondered if anybody out there ever watched St. Elsewhere?... my goodness I'm showing my age now... but that was another classic.

biltong... njammas... i absolutely am hooked on chilly biltong stix at the moment... biltong is apparently similar to beef jerky but what I've read on jerky is that the meat is marinated and then oven dried... well here in south africa we of course do things differently, the raw meat is seasoned with salt and coriander and such... and then it's air dried, you can buy it ready made at the butcher or make your own... it's just the nicest thing ever, proudly south african ;) chilli stix are smaller cut pieces, and obviously flavoured with chilli...

smoking... alas I've not kicked this habit, and i doubt if i ever will... but I'm down to 8 cigarettes a day, for about 2 months now? and it works, i want to go down to 5 a day and when i achieve that well then I'll smoke 5 ciggies a day till i push up daisies...

dstv... (digital satellite tv) I've recently acquired this wonderful service (huge thanks to Glugs for giving me his old decoder)... i don't have the dstv premium, that's too expensive for my budget, i have the compact version with a lesser amount of channels, but i have to tell you that tv can be very time consuming so I'm quite relieved that i don't have such a big variety... i love tv... it's not a good thing... but there it is... no wonder dstv's catch phrase is ... so much more... yeah it really is so much more LOL

kids... don't want to sound corny like Slyde LOL but hey any parent will tell you that kids can be quite addictive... they are very lively, sassy little people and they are mine... so for now i love them every day and enjoy them as much as i can ~cause i know it's just a question of time before they fall flat on their faces while trying to escape my uncool household :)

finally it's freakin' friday :)~

this is why we don't speak dutch in south africa...

certain words the dutch use as normal ordinary words means totally different things here in SA... this newspaper clipping from a dutch paper just proves that point...


translation:

poes = oer... nasty word that's used by very common people, poes is a really ugly word that refers to female genitalia in a extremely derogative way... if you call someone a poes you should really expect to be knocked to the ground with immediate effect... and then kicked some...

doos... another nasty word but more commonly used... generally means "idiot"... example: i felt like such a doos... or you are such a doos!

in english the caption reads:

Scared cat found in box...

hey hey it's Friday! hope you have a great one, I'll be off to the Oktoberfest tonight... drinking yucky german beer and screaming prost every 5 minutes... should be fun, it always is :)

auf wederzein en al daai lekker dinge!

why some animals eat their young

according to Kay i am SO lame ...

*pffftt... check the worry in my eye!!*

the other day i was talking to him about something and I innocently replied to something he said with...



"that's cool!"...



his reply?



"please don't say COOL again mom... seriously..."



*rolling eye action*



13 is straight out of hell...

true's bob

you know each of us have their own tastes... some like pink glitter boots... some like to eat sushi... some like boerewors... or running around naked outside in the garden...

different strokes for different folks...



so what i find sexy or attractive in men, somebody else will say... "my word Sweets have you gone off your rocker?"...



well here is my secret...


i think these guys are smokin' hot...

(unfortunately they are quite camera shy so i couldn't get any nice images anywhere...)

no lies...

i hope I'm not offending anybody but eish... it must be those prayer shawls or something :)


(don't leave nasty comments with regards to orthodox Jews please, this is just my weird thoughts and the Jews are not to blame for the effect they have on me)

snow white

i'm done feeling sorry for myself... so here's a new post to change all of the sorry for myself saga's of late :)

see i'm smiling even!!!

i am addicted to many things... alas... but the one good, healthy thing that i'm totally addicted to is apples...


big

juicy

sweet

red apples

i eat on average 3 apples a day... that's an conservative average... so if i started eating apples when i was 5 years old...i have consumed a whopping 31 248 apples in my life...

how do you like them apples?!?



(i have a new link ,top right ~

please go click and help Ivy)

strangely detached

the other day someone told me... or did i read it on a blog? anyway... they said they felt detached... and i didn't get what they were saying... at all... and today... well let me just say "detached" makes so much sense to me today... am i having an out of body experience? no... sadly not... am i actually living somebody else's life?... sure as shit feels like that sometimes... maybe it's the move... i just can't seem to get my groove back man!!! anybody who has seen the emperor's new groove? well i feel very unemperor-Llama-like today... and that bloody groove is just nofuckingwhere to be found...

i have to go back in my archives and read that damn silly post i wrote a while back about skipping into the sunset looking for a silly bloody elephant to kiss... (yes mock me now) cause when oh when will i ever feel like that again?...i know... probably tomorrow :)

i want to feel like kissing some strange elephant again!

i do, i really do... but sadly... my biorhythms are out of sync or something close to that...

i know

i know

i have so much to be grateful for, but i feel like having a teeny wheeny whiny little pity party... i may not have a jealous bone in my body but pity??? at that i excel... again... here is the perfect chanse to mock me silly... and because i'm so strangely detached it wouldn't even bother me!

if i have to analyze this detached feeling it has all got to do with money... yes... i have a lack of money, everybody has, i know... and when i look at my budget, including what batman gives me... i really shouldn't have a problem... but hey i do... money is like water... and i'm in the fucking dessert... mirages are appearing and disappearing at random...

shit

i have to get over myself...

sigh

bye for now... *imagine puppy face slash 2 year old crocodile teary face*

see!

i so have to get over it...

don't worry

i'm probably already over it... just have to check with the detached person i call Sweets :)~

my landlord

he's slowly but surely starting to piss me off... actually, come to think of it... I've been slightly irritated with him since day one... he has this subtle attitude of ..."i am doing you such a favour"... i'm sorry?! am i not the one who's PAYING you to live in your fixed asset (saffas have you seen that tv ad, hilarious)...

what i bring to the party, the short and sweet version:

• rent money that I pay into his bank account TWO weeks before the due date, so he's scoring slightly no?


• i never pay late


• i could list a load of other trivial stuff, but obviously i won't, cause ka-ching... that's what it's all about, not?

what he must bring to the party:

• pay my deposit into an interest bearing account until i give notice, in whatever years... this is not my bright idea ...it's LAW! today I emailed him, requesting feedback of what was done to my deposit paid to him three months ago... his answer... he's still thinking about it! (come to think of it this is the second time I've mentioned it in a email to him, the other time he just ignored me)


• for fucks sakes...


• oh and jump when i say jump... but i'll forget about this one if he just pays my deposit into that interest bearing account!!

is this too much to ask?

did i do my part?

hell yes!

is he playing by the rules?

hell no!

stupid wanker... and what irritates me even more is that I'm just sucking it up!!!

who stole my spine???? why am i being such a passive aggressive?

every time i just don't expect him to be such an ass... I'm quite clueless at to what i should do, do i make a scene, force him? then our "relationship" is forever tainted with this incident... do i give him another month and then put on the pressure? it all is so simple... why he doesn't play by the rules i really don't understand... i don't like complications landlord... surely this is not too much to ask... if you don't comply i'll have to start doing what landlords absolutely hate...

put out my cigarettes on your carpet... (did i just say that?!)

friday funnies :)

have a great one :)

i want a tool belt!

i

am

such

a

rock star!!!

ok not really, i just amazed myself a teensy weensy little bit yesterday... but before i tell you about yesterday, please take note of the following... after and during the move there is loads of handyman stuff to do... so if you haven't noticed... i haven't got one of those hanging around anymore... you know the human equivalent of bob the builder... i really could have done with bob around during the weekend... but boohoo i didn't... so i got over it... and i did it myself...

oh yes!

*patting self on back*

i now can add to my repertoire... not only can i change a light bulb... but i can now use a freaking allan key people... ain't that impressive? i thought so... you? probably not so much.. but trust me... i am an expert with one tool only (wink wink)... so on Sunday i dissembled my bed! i am still amazed i got it right... AND got it back together... the right way nogal! then there is the kids bunk beds... yes i did those too...

and i put up blinds!

am i the only one that's getting a kick out of this????

but last night... well i was a little bit overwhelmed... so

*bright idea*

Kay sweety! get your testosterone pulsing bod over here and give your mama a hand to install the washing machine and the dishwasher...

and that's what we did...

ok tiny bit of exaggerating here...

i did what i do best...

i told him what to do...

only kidding, i don't do child labor... we did this thing together, washers and pipes and stuff... *imagine screams and tears and plumbing goodies flying all over the kitchen...*

we even applied plumbing tape! i know, how impressive is that!!! you see i took notes way back when when Batman used to do these things...

so voila!!! appliances installed...

now i just need to muster up enough courage to switch them on...

it's a bloomin miracle!

ok sweet famous blondy asked me about my miracle zit cure i mentioned last week... and i promised her some info...

so if you have no interest in zits...

gross i know!...

well then... see you tomorrow ;)

first some background... i also mentioned Ruacutane meds i used when i was in high school... it's very potent medicine... probably schedule 6 or 7... when girls go on this medication, they are forced to go on the pill, and after use of Ruacutane are NOT allowed to get pregnant for about 4 years... hectic meds? hell yes! if you get pregnant the fetus will be severely deformed... so anyway... there it is, these meds make you peel something awful, flake, your nose bleeds daily cause you just~ well dry up... you are severely sensitive to sun... and your lips... well you can just imagine... BUT if you can live with these symptoms for a while... cause face it, acute acne is just as bad, if not worse... acne just disappears... soos mis voor die son... i went on a severe 3 months course... and it literally changed my life, so did two of my siblings... and trust me when i tell you i had bad acne... shit i even scared myself when i looked in the mirror... so i would really recommend anybody to use it, who has severe acne of course, if it doesn't work the first time, try again... cause it's so worth it!

but my natural remedy is as follows...

Kay is now 13 and he's been getting spots for about 6 months now... it's not really that bad yet, but trust me, bad enough... no fun walking around with zits all over your face EVER... so... by accident I was packing away some of my toiletries for the move... and I took my bottle of lavender oil and read the directions on the back... anything to stall the packing ya see... INNOCENTLY they mention that it can help acne... so i thought... oxy isn't doing anything for this poor kid... lemme try this... i diligently put the lavender oil on his face every night... he smelled very sexy... actually i put it on one morning.... and my poor boy was smelling as if a lavender bush was ready to sprout out his ear, the whole day at school!... hehe... i won't do that again!... so, i put it on for a about a week, and the result is quite astonishing... without getting into much more detail... he had almost a coarse layer on his forehead... loads of little zit like stuff... anyway, it's gone... i also put on tea tree oil to help with infections with the bigger buddies... and between the lavender and the tea tree... it's quite ridiculous the amazing success I've had... so there... cool isn't it??

just call me the zit terminator :)

it's a lie!

so it's the 2nd of September today... officially spring... i mean look at the budding trees everywhere!! but i know it's like freezing... and then at noon it's freakin boiling... so i know, it's cold, but it's getting there!

ok the move:


oy... i HATE moving...

i hate it

i hate it

i hate it

i really do

some stupid wanker somewhere (statistically speaking) once said that death, divorce and moving house have the same level of stress associated to each...

excuse me?

that's so not true...

sure moving suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks...

but it's over so quick, it's like childbirth, after a week you can't remember the pain...

but divorce takes a loooooooooooong time, so honestly don't compare moving house and divorce, it's like comparing a horse with a poodle... just not the same thing...

my little flat is perfect, it's safe, in a security estate... i'm truly loving it, wasn't expecting that :)

all the boxes are unpacked, i was like a woman possessed, just wanted everything to be sorted... so by the weekend, everything will be in it's place again... i know... get a life~! haha... well i'm totally anal when it comes to boxes standing around...

then...

i want to give special thanks today!

glugs and angel are the best... truly, these two bloggers, whose become really special friends to me blessed me out of my socks on Sunday... they arranged for two cleaning ladies to come clean the place i was moving out of... and if it wasn't for them... i dunno... i would still be cleaning that darn place now... awesome guys, thanks a million, you really do not have a clue how much it means to me, i'm humbled by your generosity... so thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks!!!

ok that's my news, now to catch up on my workload... argh... is it Monday today? Tuesday? Sunday?

oh yeeeeeeeeeeeees

no ...

I'm not having an online orgasm...

it's Spring Day people!!!!

yeah yeah yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!

*doing the sweetass jive*

oh my goodness... I'm soooooooooo happy!!! can you tell? hehe... anyway... we didn't really have winter at all, so i shouldn't complain but wearing socks 24/7 is not my idea of fun...

so sorry for you guys up in the northern hemisphere.... but summer has officially arrived and fired your tanned asses ... look forward to hot chocolate and falling leaves cause we have had our share, thank you, thank you very much...

other nauseating news... I'm officially on a late spring diet... argh... i hate dieting... I'm not good at all at eating less, i could never see the point... so my diet is actually more exercise... and I'm so unfit it's just simply ridiculous... why ever get out of shape in the first place! sheesh... THAT pic gave me such a scare... i won't be eating cake EVER AGAIN!!

anyway... I'm on leave today (this is a scheduled post)... I'm unpacking, the move was yesterday, will tell you all about it tomorrow... so think of me while i try to make home just that once more :)