This time of year...

I've been chatting with a lot of friends lately and December is always this time for big reflections.


But also it's as if extra pressure will always arrive to make you face things more!
Ex girlfriends or boyfriends will suddenly be at the same places you are - the ones they definitely rejected throughout the rest of the year. Families will ask questions you're not used to them asking.
New years will loom up in front of you with a whole suitcase full of both great memories, and definitely in my case, some atrocious ones!


I've worked out I have what I'm from now on calling "baggage anniversaries"...

I'll find at certain times of the year I'm just completely stressed out without warning.
Perhaps I should have immediately "let go" and brushed off hurt from that relationship that crashed around me?
Maybe I should have gone for grief counselling when I lost a friend?
:)

but these aren't soooooo bad? I'm only briefly unbearable at points and try very hard to pull myself back together asap.

Baggage anniversaries are working out ok. It's like having put my luggage I've accumulated over the years on a sort of budget payment plan I guess!
We don't have to force ourselves to deal with everything we go through immediately I think. Just remember to take peeks at it everynow and then before you're buried underneath it all!

Funny enough to post

I first got sent this via e-mail and since then "My heart is a crap taco" has definitely become one of my favourite quotes

Thanks to Dave and a little bit of Internet investigation meet Matthew Inman who, as it turns out, I may have been the last person to have discovered. Ah well it doesn't dim my great impression of his stuff any less so go read!

and aaalso please check the rest of the strip here!

funny blissness... if you don't giggle I don't mean to alarm you but your sense of humour might be dead.

a stitch in time...

...completely wakes up this design!

Being the embroidery obsessed lass that I am these days I'm in what you could call awe of this solution to the Royal Variety Performance's program cover.

Elliot Young was commissioned to create a one-off cover which will be handed to dear Charles and Cammie while the rest of the audience "will have to make do with a printed facsimile if they want to know what time the Pussycat Dolls are coming on" the post says.


I'm really going to try become more active in my love of craftiness *sigh*
So I certainly missed the opportunity this year...but NEXT year people are getting embroidered plushies for Xmas.
that. is. it.

A flock of phones!

Telephone Sheep Exhibit by Artist Jean Luc Cornec in theMuseum für Kommunikation Frankfurt

Found these odd little cuties while stumbling!

"Ever wondered where old phones go once they've been "retired from service"?
Every one of these sheep was made from old telephones and cords."

soooooo cute!

and later...

Mark: i think i might have to make a call...baaaaaaaaaa
me: hehehehehor like hello, baaa-baaa?
hello, good-baaa?
oooh... am gonna add that!
Mark: oh baaa have

Ahem... YES please!

Just so you all know...

THESE babies (or similar) are apparently available and on the loose in @homes.

I've possibly already hinted hard enough to get the yellow and green in my christmas stocking *joy*

Hopefully the quality will be good! hope hope!

thats right... it's english!

London - "Meh", a word which indicates a lack of interest or enthusiasm, became the latest addition to the Collins English Dictionary on Monday.


Soon Mleh will also be accepted? Does this mean I'm slowly upping in qualifications to be a writer?
lol.
I thiiiiiiiink not.


but here are bits from the article which you may find interesting:

• The word was popularised by the US comedy animation series The Simpsons, where characters Bart and Lisa use it to express indifference when their father Homer suggests a day trip.

• a panel of Collins language experts singled it out from the hundreds of other submissions because of its frequency of use in modern English.

• Other words submitted to Collins's campaign were jargonaut (a fan of jargon); frenemy (an enemy disguised as a friend) and huggles (a hybrid of hugs and snuggles).

Blog popularity!

While visiting lotushaus I spotted a familiar name!
and then elsewhere again, and again and again!

His photography truly is beautiful!

It's just that little weird to think that SO much has changed since I met him briefly through his sister. It's odd to look back on the stories, and the drama, and have been reminded of it by stories and posts very unrelated to any of that other personal stuff.
Time can move very quickly.
:)

Here are the images posted that i first noticed doing the rounds.
By Dirk Rees

Movember!

How exactly did i almost miss this?

I blame the absurd workload of late.

I found it via anything goes. One of my new favourite visiting places from today!

Also love the image she used for her post :) via ffffound

Follow up: How's this? I see Darryl last night and he asks me what i think about his facial hair for Movember. I truly was one of the last people to hear about this. heheh

follow-up

follow up? throw up?

hmmmm... ah well I guess as i said before. It could have been much MUCH worse :)

lets also try and ignore the mess as we've only just moved in...

swim for your life!

"whats that water sound?"
that is what i should have said.

But instead it was Michelle on the other side of the room who alerted us to the problem unfolding next to my desk!

Yes! I am very observant! ...of everything that isn't going to save a life one day that is.
As Iturned down the music to hear what on earth everyone was talking about, I rolled my chair back and found myself sitting in a waterfall!

Never fear! Carine, Carla, Natasha, Maresa and Michelle to the rescue!

thank you so much everyone for helping me save Keverne and Laura! I really do appreciate it!

Barack Obama

I can't believe it's over.

It's been a beautiful campaign!

It was a beautiful Baracktober

Peace, love, inspiration and most importantly HOPE!

what a great and astounding story :)

Strange things...

I remember thinking to myself as I sat in traffic and had to take off my sunglasses
How strange is this rain?
SO sudden.
Like a sunny day had just burst into tears.

And I know that line sounds corny, but my imagination is weird sometimes and I hadn't heard the news yet.

Keith was right when later he said it felt right that it had suddenly started raining.
Chantelle was a very strong person and very special to a lot of people. She will really be missed.

I think personally I will always remember your fire and you amazing energy as my most favourite things about you.
And girl... you could DANCE!

Obama has an art posse?

It started with Shepard Fairey’s limited run of that iconic red and blue stencil; Ron English, Alex Pardee, and Sam Flores soon followed.

right. say what you will. thats quite cool.

I love politics and art. :P
well mostly... yikes! at least these are more positive messages... can't spot any hate in these thank goodness!

Try not to let yourself become too caught up in any "coolness" in politics tho... remember popularity in school and how it's not aaaalways the good-guys who are more popular. Focus on who will do what positive things for your country and if it ends up being the popular guy, and he's a nice guy with funky art campaigns? um...well then bonus i guess.
And good luck!!

I'll be wearing my campaign badge in these last few days leading up to the election!

How many does it take to screw in a lightbulb

(via Narike)
Goodness it had me laughing! We had to add the graphic design one in tho... as per usual it seems they forgot we were part of the process...

• Q: How many sub-editors does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
• A: We can't tell whether you mean "insert a new lightbulb" or "have sexual relations inside a lightbulb". Can we reword it to remove ambiguity?


• Q: How many art directors does it take to change a lightbulb?
• A: Does it have to be a lightbulb?


• Q: How many proofreaders does it take to change a lightbulb?
• A: The last time this was asked it involved Art Directors. Is the difference intentional? It seems inconsistent.


• Q: How many writers does it take to change a lightbulb?
• A: Why do we have to change it?


• Q: How many editors does it take to change a lightbulb?
• A: It was supposed to be in place last week!


• Q: How many publishers does it take to change a lightbulb?
• A: Three. One to screw it in and two more to hold down the editor.


• Q: How many graphic designers does it take to change a lightbulb?
• There's not enough time to change it a 3rd time - we'll just have to make it look better'

• Q: How many marketing directors does it take to change a lightbulb?
• A: It isn't too late to make it neon, is it?


• Q: How many advertising directors does it take to change a lightbulb?
• A: We're not sure because the client might change it tomorrow. Cut some editorial anyway.


• Q: How many sales directors does it take to change a lightbulb?
• A: (pause) I get it! It's one of those lightbulb jokes, right?



Also i really should have read THIS!
How to be a graphic designer, without losing your soul by Adrian Shaughnessy

Lekota love...? a bit of a back and forth note

I was listening to 5fm this morning (Gareth always has something to say that i find interesting) and they were interviewing Lekota.

What a well-spoken, calm yet passionate, sincere-sounding, dedicated man.
He seems clear in his thoughts and pretty reasonable.

In response to a question regarding opinions that what he is doing is fighting for a job and his current lifestyle, he spoke of his fight for equality for all South Africans, all of our people, and how it ended up landing him in prison not once but twice...
Why then, he said, would he now be fighting for something of less importance like a job.
Hasn't he really proven twice that his passion and hunger lies in seeing South Africa reach the vision that he, and many people who died, believed in?
Wouldn't that be a betrayal of something they together swore their whole lives to?

I completely agree with what he said about that vacant clown Julius Malema as well. Man, that boy needed some kind of hiding when he was younger...*sigh* What an embarrassment.

Maybe I'm gullible. Maybe I'm being caught up in drama?
Maybe i just really love a good story and always hope for the happy ending.

Oh i don't know... politics are always messy and it's tough to find someone i completely agree with in day-to-day "real" life, let alone a whole party or a political leader.

Anyways. It's a good feeling to find more than one politician who inspires me even for a few minutes in my day... and in the last while I've found 3.

Perhaps this break-away party will be more of the same ol' "closed patronage party seeking the spoils of office". Perhaps Barack Obama will be a let down and topple off the pedestal that he's managed to climb so quickly onto in the eye's of millions across the world...

OR maybe not.

Hey, there may yet be more Mandela's... maybe we're becoming depressed and disillusioned and not looking hard enough to give some people credit they deserve.
All we can really do is give honest thought to our votes and watch the direction we're lead towards by our instincts and from observing the chess-moves happening all around us.
Try to at least be excited by these interesting times!

on the note of stories:
(via swiss miss)
You might not be a supporter of Obama, but you might appreciate a typographic waterfall by Jonathan Hoefler.

That was close...*shudder*

Maybe I'm truly boring. Or maybe I'm just not adventurous when it comes to colour?

I have no idea what happened this morning!
After 2 years of working here and being promised "this year we're renovating" for both of those, we became very excited when some men-folk were spotted walking around carrying ladders and the like. Turns out we're still not really renovating in the "fix-it-up" sense of the word but we ARE going to be painting on a nice coat of new paint to make us all feel better apparently.

Let the madness ensue.
First we weren't given a real choice - we were just told that we were having our walls painted boring white and we could choose 1 feature wall to go a different colour.
Then after stomping our feet a little we were told we didn't have to go white we could keep our current neutral light taupe colour and choose a nice accent colour for it to go on one wall.

THIS i was actually very happy with.
*sigh*

But then someone made the "mistake" of mentioning, "No, you can choose any main colour and then one highlight shade..."
Have you ever been stuck in a room with 4 other graphic designers who then have to choose 2 colours out of about 30?
Note: Should you ever find yourself in that unlucky position. Just excuse yourself and don't come back. It's not as fun as people think.

The chances of everyone agreeing in the first 20min on one colour is very slim indeed.
There was even a horrifying moment where it looked like they wanted to paint the room lime-green and red? I think if that had passed through i would have had to resign myself to a daily migraine, or just plain resign.
*shudder*
Other options mentioned were:
• blue walls with a red feature wall (anchors away! eek!)
• green walls with a blue feature wall (bad aquarium decor...)
• green walls with a white feature wall

the last option being my desperate attempt at keeping some kind of light and fresh feeling in my head... i dunno...
I think you have to understand the rest of what is going to be in the space to feel me here...
They are already putting in scary grey office carpets (the ones that come in "tiles" and get plonked down), we have blue wheely chairs, your typical light wood desks and then our windows roof and shutters are all going to be white.

This is turning into a rather long post. About colour and paint.
yes. boring to everyone else. ok. :)

End result:
• blue chairs
• grey carpets
• light wood desks
• lime green walls
• white window frames, skirting and shutters
• black feature wall

wish me luck.
bleh. at least it's not red and green! *pheeew*

Holy Hat... my first tag?

Right. so. how do i do this again?

you know I've seen a few of these happening around on other people's blogs but till now had scraped by without having to puzzle one out! heehee

Okay so first things first? Link to your tagger and list the rules right?
love Maegan
check!
List 7 random facts about yourself
check!

hmmm now following it's not as easy... boo

1. I still have dreams of taking up tap dancing and discovering it as my true hidden talent... aaah day-dreams. love them

2. I'm a chronic day-dreamer. They're vivid and unstoppable and have happened for as long as i can remember

3. I really do love learning about my family tree! It's not just something i say to scare away boys or embarrass myself believe it or not

4. My family will always come first in my life. But it's pretty much expanding with time. Friends become like family. There's always space for new members and you know who you guys are *hug*

5. I have to chemically straighten and use a hair iron for my hair to resemble that of a normal person. ok... maybe i could live without the hair iron... but trust me the other is a MUST!

6. I think i will always miss Lindsay. She's still my conscience about a lot of things in my life

7. I'm leaving all my journals to Katherine. :) it's a whole lotta nonsense but who knows...

ok! maybe it wasn't toooo tough!

I'm going to post this in the meantime i think as the next bit is to tag 7 other people...and ahem...
not sure i have 7 other blogger-pals! *blush*
As soon as it's up 'n goin tho! prepare yourselves... a tag awaits.
(mwahahahahah)

hope that doesn't scare ya'all away *grin*

and how do you like that??

Looksee looksee!
Our mayor won international recognition? what did yours do this week huh?

"14 October 2008: Helen Zille, Executive Mayor of Cape Town and leader of South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance, has been awarded the 2008 World Mayor Prize. Commentators supporting her nomination said that in a country devoid of present-day role models, this amazing lady was making a difference and giving people there hope: 'Her only equals are Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela in Southern Africa.'"

If you'd like to read a bit more on our super-hero, head on down-town to this here link

Only one...

You know, only one person would wake me up at 1:30 in the morning with the sweet question

"Would you like a scone?"

and THAT's just another reason why they're so very special

Why I LOVE Cape Town

Yes, the country is in a little bit of turmoil again.
Yes, people are panicking and yes, there is faith being lost in the market. blah blah blah

But there are great people around staying positive!
Seeing change as an opportunity and a good thing and expressing themselves left and right!

Whoever made this poster, KUDOS to you! It got me to let out a BIG smile



Also on this note let me "Helen love" again for a while...
Only you could make a comment like you did on Morning Live today, on the dawn of our new president being announced!

For those who missed it...
When asked whether she had lost any faith in SA Politics her reply went something along the lines of this:
(don't quote me as i can't find the clip anywhere and am going on personal memory)

No i haven't. There's a saying that if you like sausage, you should never see how it's made. That's where we are in SA at this time... we're still making sausage...

wow i laughed! Great analogy for the day after Braai Day...

WE NEED MORE HELEN'S!

Why I LOVE Lucy

I think I would do almost anything for Lucy!

I would have helped her for nothing in return this morning but then suddenly *ding*
Who's at the door?
Flowers for me?!

And they're beautiful! And I appreciate her! And that's what makes Lucy one of the greatest people I know...

*hug*

thank you Luce!

See? so preeeeeeety!

Happy Extraordinary Huge Hadron Collider Day!

Yay!

Yes i know I'm a nerd but i've been quite excited about this for a bit of a long time now and this morning is it!

9.30

Possibly the moment we arrive a step closer to unlocking some amazing doors! Possibly a step closer to proving some brilliantly imaginative people right!
er... and only very slightly possibly proving some scarily cinical people right too :P

(nah! it'll only be a tiny rip! black hole?? pfft! honestly! some negative stuff flying around out there... heh ;)

Traffic Spotting

Spotted on our great N1 this mornin!

Aaaah the greater Kraaifontein metropolis and the pride that you're filled with when you see things like this!

*grin*

little cutie-pie!!

Aw man! i don't often fall in love with dogs n puppies on first site...
and yes i know this may make me a possibly eeeevil person or some such thing

BUT this kid was just killing me on the spot!
what an adorable, precious little fluffy thing! He has that circle around both of his eyes and looks as tho he'd been the victim of a binocular and shoe-polish trick.

I was literally about 5 seconds away from breaking my bank and bringing home a new family member when the petstore counter-teen came along to pick him up and hand him over to his new owner *sigh*

Ah well
My cat would probably have never forgiven me anyway :)
x love you always little Prank.

The Lagdolls!

Or at least I'm pretty sure that's what the lead singer said their name was? Earlier i could have sworn she said the Ragdolls but corrected herself later towards the end of the set!

But WHAT an awesome performance we saw last night!
Not as BEE as the last band i watched at Mercury but still open minded and working in the new SA spirit!
"Everyone's going down on me" is brilliantly belted out and undiscriminating!
Who was she talking about?! I dunno but it sounded good and she seemed pretty OK with it? kinda?

The majority of the fan-base appear to be women!
I'm just going to say it...
it's obvious!
The bassist and the guitarist... Good looking fellows so it's really now wonder? Am i wrong?

Also confirmation that the bassist does indeed have a medium firmness to his bottom was established. He seemed shocked.

signing off
Nicky Plume

8 People Who Will Ruin Your Party

Via HolyTaco.com.
and passed on by Laura

(only edited this sliiightly *grin*)

I'm pretty sure I've met one or two (or more) of these characters at flat parties hey guys? aaaah memories :P

8. Person Who Insists On Cleaning Up Your Party While It's Still Going On

WHERE YOU CAN FIND THEM: Right in front of you, asking if your drink is finished. Or, methodically moving through the party with a white trash bag and a look on their face as if they've been hunting Osama Bin laden for the last 6 years and have narrowed down his whereabouts to somewhere in this party.

WHY THEY WILL RUIN YOUR PARTY: Drinking a beer, is far less enjoyable when someone is asking you if you're finished every five minutes. It's great that they want to help you clean up, but if you've decided to have a party, you've already resigned yourself to the fact that when it's over, your house is going to probably look like the bathroom that Cary Elwes and Danny Glover woke up in, in the first Saw movie. It's believed these people also decide to wipe their bottoms in the middle of toilet trips, just to "cut down on the work that has to be done when it's all over!"

7. Guy Who Gets Wasted In The First Hour

WHERE YOU WILL FIND HIM: "Right by the fridge, bro, cause that's where all the beer is!"

HOW HE WILL RUIN YOUR PARTY: From the moment this guy shows up, everything he says has an exclamation point at the end of it. "This party rules, dude!" "I am ready to party TO-night!" "Let's shotgun these, bro!" "Tits!" Then, one hour and 13 beers later he's incoherent, weaving on his feet and saying stuff like "Paartyyyygjlskdvm…" So, instead of kicking back and hanging out with your friends, you have to spend the rest of the night making sure he doesn't puke on your couch, pee in your plants or drool on your coffee table.

6. Person Who Only Knows You

WHERE YOU CAN FIND THEM: About two feet to the right of you, standing silently, staring at either you or the person you're talking to.

WHY THEY WILL RUIN YOUR PARTY: You invited them because during the four and a half minutes a day you talk to them at work, they seem pretty cool. Except as soon as they get to your party, they tense up like Alex Rodriguez's ass during a game in October. You have two options at this point, 1) entertain them and include them in every conversation you have the entire night, like they're your wife or husband even though you probably don't know their last name, or 2) leave them on their own which leads to them standing in a corner by themselves, staring at you, causing your friends to ask you "Um... I think that guy in the corner is planning on killing you."

5. Crying Girl

WHERE YOU WILL FIND HER: She's usually holed up in the bathroom (taking up valuable toilet space) with three of her bestest girlfriends—all three of whom are overweight.

HOW SHE WILL RUIN YOUR PARTY: The worst part is that this girl isn't crying because her parents just died or she lost a limb. She's sobbing into a fistful of tissues because she always needs to be the center of attention. If everyone's not focused on her and all her problems, she just starts crying louder about her job or some lame guy who won't date her. If possible, pair her up with the super wasted guy. She'll think he's listening and he'll think he's going to score.

4. Person Who Just Got Dumped By Their Girlfriend/Boyfriend

WHERE YOU CAN FIND THEM: In any corner where they were able to trap and force someone to listen to them talk about how they "don't know what happened," and how it "seemed like things were fine and then all of a sudden she just said that she thought that we were different people now. What does that even mean? Do you know, because I sure don't! I just miss her so much. My name's Brian by the way."

WHY THEY WILL RUIN YOUR PARTY: If you wanted people to get depressed at your party, screen a copy of Schlindler's list. The problem with these people is, they don't care who they talk to, and no excuse you give will stop them from talking to you. "Hey, I gotta run to the bathroom," "No worries, I'll just wait for you until your done, unlike my EX girlfriend, who wouldn't wait no matter HOW important it was to go to the bathroom and would just leave you with NOTHING while you were in there."

3. Creepy Dude Who Tries To Score Chicks At The Very End Of The Party

WHERE YOU CAN FIND THEM: Towards the end of the party, he'll be wherever he hears the words "I can't believe my friends left without me, they were my ride!" or "I'm so (hiccup) fucked up (hiccup) I gotta lay down or something."

WHY THEY WILL RUIN YOUR PARTY: There's a reason why this dude waits till the end of the party to try and score; he's way too creepy to do so when someone isn't in some sort of desperate situation. Thus, although he's there because he's either family, a neighbor, or someone else invited him, you now have to hope to God he doesn't take advantage of someone at your party, otherwise your party will not be remembered as "That Fourth of July Party at Bill's house," and instead be remembered as "that party at Bill's house where that creepy guy tried to score Michele while she was puking."

2. Couple Who Brings Their Baby

WHERE YOU CAN FIND THEM: Off to the side, on their knees, pleading with a 6 month old child to stop screaming, or right next to you, asking you where he can dispose of a poo-filled diaper.

WHY THEY WILL RUIN THEIR PARTY: Nothing says party like the sound of a screaming child and the stench of talcum powder and baby oops! If there was a guy throwing up and crying at your party, would you be cool with that? No, you'd either be like "Who the hell brought this guy?" But if you say that about a baby that makes you an asshole. Meanwhile, the party dies because everyone is being super-cautious and attentive to the baby, as if the other 99% of the time that they're not there the baby is barely eluding death due to lack of supervision.

1. Politics Guy

WHERE YOU WILL FIND HIM: At the beginning of the night he usually stands right next to the front door where he overtly shows off his political button or T-shirt that says something like "Once You Go Barack, You Won't Go Back" or "McCain = McStupid." Then, after everyone shows up, he stealthily mingles from group to group while nonchalantly dropping lines like "Did you see what those fatcats tried to pull?" anytime there's a lull in the conversation.

HOW HE WILL RUIN YOUR PARTY: No one in the history of parties has ever changed their political beliefs based on some guy screaming about health care reform in the kitchen of a two bedroom apartment. His endlessly tiresome factoids and statistics about how much oil we consume and how the death penalty doesn't work will make your guests either leave or kill themselves where they stand.

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Fun fun! silly boys!

Extra, extra cute no?

Nobody can call either of these lads unprepared for their rainy-day putt putt adventure! Go team blue!

*sigh*
i wish my dangerous fondness for croissants hadn't ruined my ability to join them. Next time... i shall be ready!!

NEXT TIME i shall also manage to catch them BOTH in their rain-coats! *grin*

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Welcome! New fishy friends!

Well finally!
Please join me in welcoming our new editions to the design studio!

Keverne & L.m.n.o.p!

They're only just settling in but we hope they are feeling welcome and stay with us for quite a while! I even bought a plant and Gary i must say is looking MUCH more cheerful since their arrival.

(round of applause!)
Thank you and goodnight

Gary looks up clearly in awe of his new tank-mates...

Keverne eyed out the castle right away...



one new happy family!

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Follow-up on freaky feathered friends

clearly the Jacobin is NOT bred for flight! lol!

Ahem! mutated rats of the sky!!!

Here are the pigeons i was tellin ya'all about! :)




well, SOME of them anyway

This is just for anyone (probably that covers everyone else i know! hehe) who didn't catch the same riveting documentary on the genetics and abilities of these birds!

Turns out not everyone feels they are swooping, evil vermin of the sky? Some believe them to be the "fighter jets of the bird world"!

i kid you not.
I'll admit to being fascinated.

(but only that one time!! honest!!! :P)

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Anyone for a game of wiff waff?

London mayor Boris Johnson
This guy is great!
his speech reads pretty much on the same entertainment level as an Onion article :)

"Virtually every single one of our international sports were either invented or codified by the British, and I say this respectfully to our Chinese hosts who have excelled so magnificently at ping pong," the Mayor said in a tongue-in-cheek speech.

"Ping pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century and it was called wiff waff.

"There I think you have the essential difference between us and the rest of world.

"Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner, we looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to play wiff waff. That is why London is the sporting capital of the world."

"And I say to the Chinese, and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home."

those were the days...

With my daily e-mail came a rather fantastic quote! I'm adding it to my favourites :)

Word of the Day

hyperbole \hy-PUHR-buh-lee\, noun:

Extravagant exaggeration.

Hyperbole comes from Greek hyperbole, "excess," from hyperballein, "to exceed," from hyper, "beyond" + ballein, "to throw."

Those were the days when I still liked hyperbole, before an excess of real drama killed my taste for the manufactured kind.
-- Katherine Russell Rich, The Red Devil

my sentiments exactly!

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Finally went to the Assembly!

and let me say, considering we managed to go on an electro night of all nights, and we STILL had a great time... THIS place is sincerely worth your time!

Whats weird and kept popping into my head the whole time as i saw him walking around, checking up on things and chatting to people is that the person who seems mainly responsible for this great great venue, is the same guy who seemed to have such gawd-awful friends back in high school and who seemed to be SO on the side of the popular, current, cool and just socially eeevil meanie-meanertons that Tracey, Mel and I encountered on the infamous Bergvliet ovs tour :)

It's weird to see, uncomfortable to remember, but also GOOD to realise how much time can change things!

your very first shortly realised perceptions of people could often be wrong and some people CAN seem to change and so can you!

I think this is my major lesson I'm learning in 2008.
People can change.
Some for good, some bad.
But i personally have to learn to let go. Try let go of the things people did in the far away past to hurt, but also let go of those who become hurtful :)

darn balance!
so hard to achieve :)

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hmmm bad news for Saffa's?

isn't this the main reason for half of the people i know moving to london? :P
surely it was a perk tho...

ah well... i think personally that they should RAAAAATHER ban smelly hungover people from the trains.

The stench of that one single man that overwhelmed our whole compartment on Lucy and my train journey still haunts me... and probably will forever.
I have NEVER felt that ill from smell or wished myself further from any human being.

*shudder*

well... maybe one or two other hehe

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Oooooeeeeoooo! looksee what i did!

Yes ok so it's not the most astounding design in the whole world but i think it's quirky, fun and a little bitty of... me!

I created it this afternoon after stumbling apon a forgotten folder lying gathering mac-dust on my desktop

Ya'all are welcome to make comments!

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Bills in Context

see now this i think would be MUCH harder to do with our notes... hmmm

"yes! wait! hold still mr lion! ok... a little to the left and if you could tilt your head down just a tad?"

but an awesome idea anyway!

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