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I forgot to mention yesterday that, after being married for just over 2 years, I have finally braved myself to go to home affair to apply for an ID & passport with my married surname! Now I just hold thumbs that I receive both document without any further hassle.

Last night was my first time at the drive in – unbelievable since I’m 27 already, and the drive-in is on the same road I take to work each day. We watched Toy Story -which was adorable and so funny (loved Buzz in Spanish mode ). And the second film was “death at a funeral” – what a load of crap. It was supposed to be a comedy, but I’d say it was a pretty pathetic attempt.

Oh and then lastly, I did start on the house work & finishing up of the washing, when I heard my washing machine making a strange noise. Sounded like it was falling apart. I could already envisage having to do washing by hand in the bath… I tried to investigate, and after nearly half an hour with both my arms emerged in the cold water, I finally found golf ball at the bottom of the machine! LOL. My husband had found it, and stuck it in his pocket, and obviously forgotten about it. I was just relieved that it wasn’t the machine that was broken!

I found it a strange time of year to take holiday, and the first time I have done so (I think?). Unlike our usual summer beach holidays the days were not nearly as hot, but still much nicer up North (close the Botswana border) than here in Gauteng. Seems like so much has changed since I last sat down & wrote, and I don’t really know where to begin.

Let me try to recall all the events in chronological order… I was sick last week – bronchitus, was booked off for two days but ended up spending only one day in bed, sleeping. I got a fantastic prezzie from my husband – a brand new laptop!!! How cool is that?? I went on holiday, close to the Botswana border, where there is no internet access, and also no mobile phone signal! It was actually quite a nice break during which read a book. We celebrated my Father’s 65 birthday while on holiday!

Apart from the above mentioned which pretty much consumed my mind & time not much else happened. We got home safe, and now I need to try my best to catch up with blogging, washing clothes, tidying the house (which I am forever obsessed about). Oh yes, and then ofcourse, I still make time to explore my new toy – at 1:42am! …Bed time for me!

I have been meaning to post for so long, and each time I start with something personal, but end up with something completely the opposite.
These days I find it so hard to share my real thoughts and feelings, since I know there are so many people reading this. People who know me! :O I probably don’t know about half the familiar faces which scan through h
here every now and again, and I have to admit its quite a daunting thought: writing things which are read in a spying type of way. I don’t like it at all
Sometimes I consider jotting down a proper rant about someone who sooo irritates me, but what if you will read it? What if you are reading this, and you know that I am talking about you?
I guess its a bit late for stage fright here, but I can’t seem to shake of the eerie feeling. The same feeling I get when I walk down the street by myself and feel like someone is watching me, following me. Creepy.
I’ve been encouraging people to blog the last while, but if I can give you any advice, do it anonymously – find some clever alias. Until you’re very very sure, don’t give away your identity, and don’t share your blog with too many people you have to face.
You may just one day want to write about them.

Hello

I have to apologize if you are visiting my site today. In the attempt to give my site some more “pizazz” by adding social media buttons in the header I have broken a few things every now and again As you will now know I am not yet a CSS / PHP pro, but at least I am giving it a go!

If you were one of the visitors who experienced errors, strange looking pages, or different themes, I apologize and will try to get things back to normal as soon as possible, hopefully with a bit of a face lift

In the meantime, your patience is very much appreciated!!

Thank you, Dizzy Dee

Today, 11 years ago – yes, 13 February 1999 – I met my husband. If someone had told me that he was my husband back then I’d have been a bit flabbergasted! I thought he was cute, and I though I may have day dreamed a little about him, I never though we’d got married – in any case, that was not part of my thoughts on13 February 1999!! He on the other hand says he knew from the start.  We’ve been married for nearly 2 years already – wow – time flies!

Tomorrow is Valentines day, and though I like the idea of a special romantic day, I also believe that Valentine’s day is way overrated! Instead, we’ll be celebrating one of our anniversaries tonight!!

For the rest of you who celebrate Valentine’s day tomorrow – enjoy, and hope you get a nice surprise!

Since I was little I wished that I could have a pool party for my birthday. Since its in the middle of winter, it’s a bit unpractical, and over the years I’ve learned to accept that I’d never have a summer party unless I moved to the Northern hemisphere (Which I did for a year and LOVED). This year the weather in the Southern hemisphere was no exception when my birthday dawned, and Mother Nature dished up the coldest day of this winter so far. The max temperature was about 15 degrees Celsius, accompanied by wind and rain. Good for me I didn’t even go outside on my birthday, and just stuck around the warmth of my heated home. There are still a lot of fun things that you can do in winter, I keep telling myself. Like staying indoors, snuggling up with a blanket, some hot chocolate and a good book. However, on my birthday, I decided to cook & bake since I had some guests over in the evening.
I bought a cake mix because I didn’t want to spend my whole day in the kitchen. My big mistake however, was when I decided on baking cupcakes instead of the usual cake. Cupcakes are really fantastic! Most reason people tend to like them more? I’ve witnessed this weird phenomenon a couple of times. With my husband’s birthday I used the same cake mix, and baked cupcakes until I ran out of time, and then used the left over batter to bake a cake. At the birthday party the cupcakes were finished before anyone had even touched the cake, and people were rather reluctant to try the cake.
The problem with cupcakes is that they take you about ten times longer to bake. I only have ONE muffin tray, and ONE oven rack… And since the batter made SEVENTY cupcakes I had to go through the baking process six times, where a cake would’ve been done in one round. Now I’m not sure I’ll be baking cupcakes anytime soon – regardless of whether my guests prefer them. I suddenly have much more respect for people who buy cupcakes instead.
Anyway, what I was actually getting at. The reason why I stayed indoors on my birthday wasn’t merely the weather. I picked up a bad case of flu somewhere between Pick ‘n Pay and home, and I’ve been battling to get rid of it. At first I thought I could manage to scare it away with some Vitamin C and pain killers, but when my voice started sounding like that of a goose, I decided to give up and visit the doctor.
I got a whole paper bag full of medicine, which – wonder above wonder – seems to be working. I got antibiotics, which I usually HATE, because even though they relieve the problem at hand, they seem to break another hundred things. My voice is still not 100%… I try to sing along to songs on the radio, and I sound like a bad mix between Bonnie Tyler and Jimmy Hendrix. Good news is that my throat is not as sore anymore, and I don’t cough too much anymore. Also, I’ve been shunned to a life indoors, and I’m not even allowed to stick my head out the door after four in the afternoon (which is probably not a bad thing, since that’s when the icy cold settles over Pretoria).
For now, I am resting since the doc booked me off till tomorrow, plus my meds make me extremely drowsy. I’m sipping my hot chocolate while sitting in bed, and enjoying the warmth of my bean bag by my feet… Reading when I’m not sleeping, and sometimes finding myself drooling on my magazines from pure exhaustion

I’m struggling with some sort of allergy or sinus something. Whatever it is, I sneeze way too often, and I have too much mucus in my nostrils that what is healthy. I know, too much detail.

The solution for this? I can either take an allergex tablet in the morning, and feel amazing relief from the mucus problem, but walk around like a zombie cause I’m so sleepy, or I can be brave and battle through the mucus and sneezing.

I read on Health24 that hay fever is often treated with antihistamines, but I haven’t been able to find anything that doesn’t make me drowsy.

For now I’m going to try and live with it, hoping that it will blow over soon.

You may have noticed that I’ve grown very quiet. I’m doing OK. I am busy at work, but not as hectic as I’ve been in the past. The wedding was really amazing, but I’m struggling to get into a work routine at the moment. I guess the early mornings are just a bit hard on me.

And for those of you who want more info, you can mail me

Today’s the last day I’ll be writing a personal post as a Miss… When I get back from leave, I will let you know, but then I am going to be a MRS!

I can’t wait for the wedding anymore. There have been some minor complications. People not wanting to sit where we have already arranged for them to sit, and others who RSVP’d who are not coming anymore. Pff… Twats. Anyway, so we have to make some changes.

Tomorrow I’ll be spending the day getting the last few things ready, and I’m going for a pedicure. Then I’m gonna see my sister and her family – they’re coming from Texas – Yay!! Can’t wait.

On Friday we’re setting up the venue. Someone’s going to have to pitch the marquee tent, and setup the gazebo. We’ll be busy with the décor & flower arrangements. I have to remember to pickup the rose petals which I’m going to mix with white duck feathers for confetti, as well as pick up my bouquet. I hope my bouquet comes out the way I want it. I took them a picture from a magazine which I had copied. I’ll add it to this post so you can see [You can click on the pic, it should open a fancy new viewer called Lightbox – I got the idea from Kristyn – thanx Kristyn )

I’ve been trying to remind myself that I need to focus on handing over my work stuff, but its pretty hard, specially cause I know these are the last few hours.

I got the cutest e-mail from a colleauge wishing me well for the wedding. I will post it here in a password protected word doc. If you know my surname, you can open it – that’s the password.

Hope you all will survive without me till the 18th of March when I’m back in the office

You know, these last few weeks of my life have probably been the most hectic ever. I don’t think I’ve ever stressed so much. I have tons of things to remember. Lists are great, but they you have remember where you put those, and what the hell it means when I wrote “serviette rings” – did I write that because I didn’t have enough, because I have to pick them up, drop them off, or WHAT? And who is suppose to help me with this mess?

I have so many people who offer to help, and I really wish they could, but sorting out the mess in my head is something only I can do. I need to sit down and make a plan … think of things bit by bit, analyze it, and then get a plan to get everything done. Thing is, I don’t have time? I have 8 days left, I know, but I work 8 hours a day, and I spend another hour and a half traveling each day (if I’m lucky). When I get home I have to cook and clean, and organize everything in the new home which I haven’t already organized, and then I’m so exhausted that I need to sleep else I won’t be able to get up the next morning at 5am.

You may have noticed that my sentences are extremely long and don’t have much punctuation marks in them but that is exactly how I feel – like I just can’t get a break – like I just have to keep going without being able to stop and take a breath, and wait till I feel like I can carry on.

I need to plan a handover at work for the time that I’ll be out of the office for the honeymoon, and right now, I don’t have time for that either, I just have too much work to do as it is, and I feel like I can’t keep my head above water.

I just can’t wait until its the big day, and I can relax and enjoy everything. I just can’t wait anymore.

I should’ve taken more leave for next week, instead of just taking Friday off, and I will still see if I can get something like that, but I bet it won’t be easy, since I still have so much to do at work.

I hope you all are not getting bored yet You might ask why I keep blogging if I have so many things to do, and so little time, but this is my little piece of sanity and I can truly vent here. With a cup of tea or some water, my music, and just sharing my thoughts and frustrations… It makes my days bearable.

Some people feel alive when they deal with stressful circumstances like these – its what they live for. Me? I don’t like all this planning and that. I’m a ’stop-and-smell-the-flowers’ kind of girl. I like to do what I FEEL like, and right now, I feel like doing absolutely nothing.