30 seconds

Last night my Marja had friends over to play “30 Seconds”. There were 11 people without me so I agreed to play with to make the teams even.

It was probably the most interesting and stressful game of 30 Seconds I’ve played ever. And I mean ever.

No one (including my Marja) knew how to play so I had to explain it to them through the constant babble and chaos of ordering pizzas for 12 people (A TASK!)

We then played. Boy was it traumatic! After we had played a few rounds it was clear to see who the competitive ones in the group were – friends got frustrated with friends and family members got loud with family members.

A few people were so disinterested when it was another team’s turn that actually left the room to go do their own thing! Needless to say my team won (yay!) after which I sneakily snuck off to bed without saying goodbye – strangely enough I had quite a bad headache ;)

What’s your favourite boardgame to play

Ps I really love this artist's work! I found these pics of TheGiven blog here. 

walk on the beach

Yesterday I got home and the house was empty. My mom had gone for a walk on the beach so I decided to join her. It’s the first time I’ve been on the beach in months which is ridiculous as I literally live 2 minutes away from it.

It was so therapeutic to listen to the waves crashing and have the sand between my toes. We always like to walk along the side of the beach where the dogs are allowed cause we love watching them gallop past, slobber trailing for miles behind them and their faces are just the epitome of happiness.

We met a 6month old Boerbull and she pee’d on my foot she was so excited. It was kinda gross but more cute, and I just washed it off in the sea.

Anyways, it was lovely. Think I should make a point of going for a walk along the beach more often.

Which is your favourite beach to visit?

Oh, and today for lunch I have a deliciously yum ham, cheese, tomato and mayo sandwich on white bread. I can’t wait to eat it with a cup of tea. Yay!

(It’s amazing the small things that can out you into a good mood)

Ps, I found this image here. 

Crowded House Y'all!

Oh my gosh, I totally didn’t tell you all, last Tuesday night (October 26) I got to see Crowded House live at the oh-so-swanky Grand Arena!

It was amazing. I’m a big fan of theirs and have been for a few years so to be able to hear songs like “Fall at your feet” and “Don’t Dream it’s Over” gave me goose bumps!

I went with my lovely Marja, the Actor (my big brother from another set of parentals), the Actor’s brother and of course the lovely drummer.

I bought the drummer his ticket as part as hi birthday present and was a little worried he wouldn’t enjoy himself cause he had never really listened to the band before but turns out he loved them!

It was such a special evening and one guy even got up on stage and proposed to his girlfriend. The audience were like “whaaaaat!?” It was cool.

Oh. She said yes (thank goodness or that might have put a bit of a damper on the whole event).

Anyways, if you ever get a chance to see Crowded House live, do it! They have such an amazing onstage sound and presence and are just all round awesome.

What awesome bands have you seen lately? (Or bought tickets to see)?

The Weekend That Was

Woah, I’ve been so super busy I actually haven’t had time to post anything up for like a week! So sorry everyone … well, this weekend I

+ Found a giant gold clock on the street

+ Had a studying fashion designer turn my gold clock into the best neck-bling a girl could ever have

+ Drank too much Hunter’s with the fantastic wal

+ Went to PopShop24

+ Saw the lovely drummer boy’s gig at the Turtle

+ Lost my phone

+ Went and slept in the sound dungeons on Saturday while the lovely drummer worked on his projects
+ Bumped into Miss Bobby from Bobbylicious and her rockstar boyfriend at the You, Me and Everyone We Know Market

+ Bought a R20 Boobtube from the You, Me and Everyone We Know market

+ Bought tickets to see Maniac at the Labia

+ Went to fetch my phone from fantastic wal (who found my phone!)

+ Went to Fruit & Veg City (alone), bought myself lunch (alone), ate/shared my lunch with some pigeons, and really enjoyed it.

+ Watched Maniac with the lovely drummer boy, his brother, wonderful meh and fantastic wal

+ Met up with lovely Se, dressed up and went to a 21^st at Julep

+ Then went to Assembly’s Halloween gig with lovely Se and wonderful Meh

+ Felt exhausted

+ Woke up super early, caught a train home to go on a township tour only to find out that I wasn’t going

+ Felt even more exhausted

+ Went to the Noordhoek Market and had an amazingly relaxed (fell asleep in the shade under our table) day!

+ Saw the pupps! They’re looking beautiful! (Pics to follow)

+ Got to have a pizza and coke date with the lovely drummer boy on the grass before he went back to the sound dungeons

Phew! What did you do this weekend? 

Ps, Happy Halloween for yesterday

xx

I'm sorry I've been so quiet....

Things are super busy at work, will post a weekend blog later or tomorrow

Happy Tuesday!

Nightmare

Last night I had a crazy and very scary nightmare. I was on a mission and it involved catching up to someone (unknown) that was for some or other reason ‘bad’. But then when I caught up to them it turned out they were good and I had to help them with something (it’s all very vague as dreams are wont to be).

I ended up with this person at a poolside and saw my friend lovely Se and her new boyfriend. I realised that the person I was with was attempting to seduce her boyfriend and I was the one who brought them together. I was shocked and as I moved towards them I knocked a cat into the water of the pool. He sank to the bottom and me being the animal-lover I am dived in after the fur-ball. Only thing was that as I reached the bottom I realised I was too drunk to swim and ended up almost drowning with the cat in my arms. Slowly (painstakingly slowly) I walked my way to the shallow end of the pool and could eventually climb out – the cat was limp and lifeless and my heart dropped. I lay it down and tried to revive it. I then realised it wasn’t a cat at all but lovely Se’s boyfriend!

Boy did I panic. I started giving him mouth-to-mouth and frantically pushing down on his chest and when he eventually coughed up the liquids in his lungs it was blood. It went everywhere – all over him and me. And then I woke up…

I went to see Machete last night so that kinda explains the gruesiddity of my dream but man oh man was it yuck.

Have you had any nightmares lately?

Busy busy busy

Tonight I’m going to the Sketch Assembly exhibition in town at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. Am super excited.

If you’re in and around Cape Town you should come too! Check out the event details on the Between10and5 website here.

Also, a friend of mine is doing his final year at the Silwood Kitchen School of Cookery and he has invited the lovely drummer and I to his final exam. It’s a semi-formal sit-down lunch, and he told me that it’s going to be a psychedelic culinary experience. Erhm, very excited and only a little nervous – as the lovely Se has said before, I’m not the most adventurous palate.

And then it’s off to the Labia on Wednesday night with the lovely Se and the wonderful Meh for our fix of Horrorfest…we’re going to watch MACHETE. I’m the biggest scaredy cat so I hope it’s not too bad…

Are you doing anything interesting this week?

Ps it’s the lovely drummer boy’s birthday this Sunday, I can wait to spoil him with breakfast in bed, kisses and just all-round pampering. Love you drummer boy!

The weekend that was

I love weekends. That’s all I’m going to say. Other than this weekend I…


+ Helped the lovely drummer with his sound project
+ Went to the Lightly Salted exhibition
+ Had a really big and really late night on Friday (we got home at 5am!)
+ Bought the lovely drummer his birthday present
+ Went to a hot tip galvanising plant and had a personal tour
+ Remembered how much I love Maroon 5’s first album
+ Went clothes shopping and bought a pair of sunnies, tights, a plain white shirt, an awesome loose-fitting jersey and a pretty top
+ Said a sad goodbye to my aunt
+ Chilled with THE prettiest Guinea Pig
+ Hurt my back (again) and cried (again)
+ Had my Marja look after me just like when I was six and sick (thanks mom)
+ Helped lovely drummer clean his room (BIG job)
+ Met the fattest most fattest cat ever!
+ Had tequilas.

What did you do this weekend?

Playing at the Castle

So my friend Boomslang got the keys to the castle last week. Literally. He got the keys to the Cape Town castle and we (and by we I actually mean you and me – it was a public event) were invited to attend the exhibition of their work.

Boomslang works for the Zamani Project…and if you don’t know about this project and are an indigenous African then I super suggest you go check out their website here.

They create the data for the African Cultural Heritage and Landscape Database… the team go on these exciting expeditions to all the unknown heritage sites in Africa where they measure, photograph and do all sorts of other things to collect data about the specific site. Then, once they have all the necessary data they create an exact 3D image of the site as a referral to whomever will be maintaining the site in the years to come.

What. An. Amazing. Job. Right?

Anyways seeing as we were going to le castle I decided to wear one of my violently-loved seaquin dress/tops…yay! Here are a few fun pics of our evening spent at le castle (I just had to say it again).

The best part is that Boomslang has agreed to do an interview about the Zamani project for my blog (yay me!) It will (hopefully) be up soon soon (read: next year week).

Enjoy!

ps i love seaquins *squeals*

Biscuit Mill Saturday Market

So my aunt is down (or up...or sideways) from San Francisco and we all decided to go to the Biscuit Mill for a chilled morning browse through the shops, stalls and (most importantly) the foooooood.

It was my first time ever and I had an...interesting experience. First off everyone, and i mean EVERyone, there is dressed to kill in their leather-like boots, indie hats and vintage dresses but jeesh the overall attitude of the place played havoc with my hippy-go-lucky vibe.

But also, by the time I got there I really need to use the ladies and after spending 20 headless-chicken mniutes trying to figure out just where these are I slipped into the first (and only) open stall I could, unbuttoned my jeans and plonked my self down. It was at this moment or pure joy that I realised that the door didn't have a latch and someone very abruptly disrupted my relief of finding a bathroom by charging right in.

You can imagine the situation - me, sitting there, my jeans around my ankles trying desperately to cover up any piece of skin i thought would be inappropriate to share (i realised once she had left that the skin i chose to cover up were my knees - um, huh?).

It didn't stop there, i was just recovering from my embarrassing uncovering when another woman brazenly shoved the door open to find me wide-eyed and very much exposed staring back at her.

Sigh. The rest of the day was lovely. We ambled along, checking out the (expensive) beautiful things for sale, reached the food tent/area and forgot all about "that stunning dress" or "those perfect-for-my-feet-shoes) and eagerly ordered some nourishment. Afterwards my two cousins and I found the beer tent where we sat, drinknig beer and mojitos It was lovely.

At this point I realised that Francois van Coke was sitting behind me (from Fokofpolisiekar) and I made the mistake of telling the Marja (she had previously watched their DVD with the lovely drummer and I). She promptyl tapped him on the shoulder, introduced me to him and carried on telling him how much she doesn't "really like your band name" but the DVD was very well-made and how she also came from an afrikaans background so she "can relate".


Me = stunned. Oh heavens.To be fair he was really chilled and actually chatted to me about Rocking the Daisies and their next gig.

We also met a staffy (spelling?) called 'Pablo'. Anyways here are some pics of the day: