Dizzy Dee

I’m Listening to “Kelis, I hate you so much right now” - haven’t heard this song in AGES, and its such a catchy tune. I’m gonna listen to it in traffic from now on, and YELL it at the people who drive like pigs.

I’m so sore from exercising in the gym yesterday. I’m tired and grumpy, and should really go to bed. I don’t feel like it though.

I cannot believe that another week has passed by so quickly. Only 44 days left till the wedding, and it feels like forever - I guess I’m gonna wish for more time when it comes to the last week. There’s still a lot that has to be done. So many things to plan :S I can understand why people do this more than once - I’d also like to perfect it. LOL. But only if I can do it with the same person though

On the other side there is work. There is a lot that has to be done at work before I go on leave. I won’t bore you with the technical details, but basically we’re upgrading our environment, and we need to do THOROUGH testing before anything goes onto the live server. Can you imagine what would happen if something went wrong? Imagine thousands of people not being able to play poker, deposit money, etc?!

Maybe I should just take it easy and focus on each day individually, but its not that easy. I feel like I need a holiday, and even though our honeymoon is still coming, it just seems so far away!!

Some departments of our company is located in Costa Rica, and I today I saw Costa Rica vacation packages on offer. I think it would be a brilliant idea for the company to pay for a trip to Costa Rica, part holiday, part work - haha. I can always THINK UP something to do there

Every now and again one person in society shocks people around them so much, that they literally don’t know what to say. There’s a stunned silence, and then suddenly people start getting their opinions together and then lash out at that person.

We’re probably all like that: If we hear of something, or see something that is totally against everything we believe in, we don’t keep quiet. We fight. We will do everything in our power stop this person, or convince them that they’re in the wrong.

For the first time today, I read about Mr.Fayzal Mahamed’s weird philosophy. (Please be warned that link is for adults only in my opinion.) This man from Johannesburg, South Africa has written on various blogs and forums why exactly it is he masturbates his son who suffers from severe cerebral palsy. To me this is just so sick. I feel that this poor child should be moved to place where he can be cared for in a decent legal way, and the time spent with his father should be monitored by someone. I can’t believe that people are actually justifying this act! This is nothing less than rape!!

I heard the story on the radio this morning, and thought that I might have heard wrong, but surely this morning, when I checked the net, there it was on The Press Association: Heath Ledger was found dead in his apartment.

“Brokeback Mountain actor Heath Ledger has been found dead with sleeping pills near his naked body in his New York apartment.

Ledger, 28, was found after a possible drug-related death in his central Manhattan apartment on Tuesday, New York police department spokesman Paul Browne said.

The Australian-born actor’s body was discovered by his housekeeper at around 3.30pm local time after she went to let him know a masseuse had arrived for an appointment, Mr Browne said.”

I never watched brokeback mountain, but I remember him better for his role in A Knight’s Tale. This is such sad news, specially since he was still so young, and he had a young daughter. I suppose there are some hollywooders for whom the burden just gets too heavy… Still they don’t know if this was an accidental overdose, or intended.

May he rest in peace anyhow.

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For those of you who have shared in the joys of Eskom’s power cuts recently, here’s a new album just for you. Only problem, I have no idea how you’re going to listen to it. LOL. I guess you’d have to get a generator for you CD player!

We have a generator at work now, and I must say, I am thankful for it. Though we don’t have the kettle on it ( ) we can at least continue working, and feel like we’ve accomplished something at the end of the day!

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I have my blog listed on Amatomu, a blog directory specifically for South African blogs, today, as I was checking my rank, I saw I was 11th. It wasn’t until a friend pointed it out that I saw I beat Steve Hofmeyr’s blog by 3 places!?!? Can you believe that?! For the internation readers, Steve is a local artist (quite popular too!).

Obviously I’m not a household name as he is - after all he starred in “Agter Elke Man” nearly 3 decades ago, where he stole a lot of hearts as “Bruce”. He’s also been on 7de Laan, a local soap opera (Translated … LOL… 7th Avenue? Haha, that sounds too funny!!) as the crim with whom Paula fell in love.

Well today, my blog is making history - even if its just my opinion!

I never dreamt my blog would beat “Steve se spoeg blok”.

You might be asking “What chick in her right mind can write a post about rodeo?”, but here I am! I never thought I would be able to tolerate the sport - never mind enjoy it! That was before I started reading a book, which revolved around a couple of which the man was a rodeo champ. I loved that book so much, and you might recall my post about it!

This book got me honestly interested in this bizarre sport for which people risk their lives, and I’ve started watching this on TV. Its simply amazing how, after their few seconds of sheer adrenaline, they graciously slide off the bull, and then stand next to the rampaging beast as if its something completely normal.

For those of you who are passionate about rodeo, you can find National Rodeo Finals tickets online for quite a reasonable price. I would love to go see a real live rodeo show, but even if I get the tickets for a bargain, I’d still have to pay for my plane tickets, accomodation etc. Which makes it really ridiculously expensive. But. If I have the change, while touring the US, I would definitely want to see it with my own two eyes.

You know, organizing a wedding is stressful. You have to think of 101 things, and remember each of those at the right time. Of course you can make notes and all that, but what if you forget about your notes. Or forget where you put them?

Besides all of that, I worry a bit that I won’t fit into my dress properly. I fit into it at the moment, but what if something weird happens and I put on 5kgs? I suppose that doesn’t happen without eating WAY too much, but hey, I’m thinking of everything that could possibly go wrong.

We’ve been making so many decisions, talking to other couples for advice, and weighing up our options.

To top this all off, there are people who make life extremely difficult.

I suppose its not on purpose, but please people, if you haven’t had a wedding of your own yet, note this! If you’re one of the priviledged people to get a wedding invite, be sure to rsvp on time. We put the date there for a reason. There are certain things that we need to plan, and book with the number of guests in mind. This also means, that when you get an invite, the people who its addressed to are the people invited - and ONLY THOSE PEOPLE. If I wanted to invite your kids, I would’ve said so. If the card says “We regret, no children”, your kiddies are to be included, and you will have to get a baby sitter - we’re not organizing that FOR you. (We have more than enough other things to do) If you get a card with ONLY your name in, it means that ONLY you are invited. If we wanted to invite a partner for you, we would’ve stated that explicitly. You see, weddings take a lot of planning and thinking. We THOUGHT about all the words on the invite to make it as clear as possible. You see, we don’t want to confuse you, causing you to ask awkward questions.

When there is a person who you should rsvp to, don’t phone the bride or groom - we have enough other things on our mind. Even if it means you have to phone the ‘other family’, do that - they’ve been specifically asked to mark your names on a list, and if you don’t let the RIGHT person know about this, you might end up being forgotten.

Lastly, if you want to give something, make sure you know about something that the couple needs specifically. A crap ornament could be such an embarrasment. The couple will feel obliged to display this somewhere in their home when you come to visit, and hide it deep in a cupboard for the rest of the time. Most newly weds don’t need things like egg timers and all that. Rather give them a sincere card, and if you really want MONEY. We can always buy something which we really like then, and avoid feeling obliged to use something which is hideous to us. You don’t NEED to give money though. A card and sincere warm wishes are often more appreciated than those things which we will never use in any case.

Personally we need ALOT of kitchen stuff, but now, what happens when I get doubles? I don’t know - someone has to have some sort of record of what I do have, and what people are buying, thus eliminating that possibility of doubles - right? But that just seems too rigid. I guess I’m too relaxed to organize everything so perfectly.

Lastly, just keep in mind. If you’re invited, it means that the bride and groom really thought about you, and WANTED you to be there on their special day. Help make their day the best!

Its close to impossible to work these days. For me, because we create software, and that is usually done on computers, which usually need power to function.

The power was off everyday last week for about 4hrs each day. This week it might be off again, but now we have a generator. I doubt if it will work flawlessly though - we also thought we had a UPS that would work for 70hr straight, powering all the PC’s in the office. It ended up dying about 1.5 seconds are the power cut, giving us enough time to realize that it had kicked in, but was not worth much.

Today though I’m glad for the power cut. Its cold here, and still the aircon is on!? I suppose I get cold too easily, but I’m wearing warm clothes! Still the aircon is set on 18. As soon as the power goes out, we’ll only have the ‘red plugs’ on the generator, meaning the aircon won’t work - yay!

I’m a selfish person when it gets to things like this, but you have no idea how miserable I become if I’m uncomforatble.

Right now, I just wish I could’ve slept more. You might feel like I’m totally random today, but that’s just the way my brain is functioning. I didn’t have much sleep, and the little that I had was interrupted by the neighbours’ cat sneaking around in my room. I didn’t mind the cat so much, as the though of ’someone’ being in my room. I heard a bit of a noise at first, but saw nothing. Then another noise, and there I saw something move. I was terrified and probably a bit flustered from the sleep as well. Eventually when I couldn’t find the cat inside the house, I assumed it had gone out through the door which I had opened for it. Then finally I went back to sleep.

5am today my alarm started going off - I have no idea why though. I usually get up at 5.20am (and those precious 20 minutes help alot!)

This morning when I got to work the front door was unable to open - due to the power failures our magnetic lock hadn’t had a chance to charge properly, and the batteries ran out. That meant that I spent an hour waiting outside till someone was able to open the door.

Now, I’m just tired and grumpy. I might come back later when I’m a bit more cheerful.