Thursday, February 18, 2010

I should’ve failed my driver’s!

I literally listen to Gareth Cliff…I don’t just listen to him but I actually respond like a robot to a control and I am completely oblivious to my automated ways!

A few weeks ago, I was merrily driving to work in the Cape Town morning traffic and was happily listening away to Gareth Cliff and his phone calls when I decided to literally follow orders barked out at me and caused a teeny tiny car accident…which actually hurt :(

*karma’s a bitch*

This is how it went…

Random woman calling in to 5fm: Hi Gareth…blah blah blah…something about clutch control…har har har!
Gareth ‘God’ Cliff: People out there…if you want to have a bit of fun while you’re sitting in the traffic then I suggest you brake with your left foot…*insert VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION THAT I WAS QUICK TO IGNORE i.e. don’t do this in the actual traffic but at home without any other cars around*…

KaB: *oh, let me try that for fun!*

#&*SCREECH…SCRATCH*#!...BLEEP…(insert many swear words like…FUCK SAKES…Jissie jirre vok)…BOOM #@!*BANG!

Literally!

And that was that…of course I’d not have braked with my left foot had I known I WOULD LITERALLY SLAM ON BRAKES AND COME TO A COMPLETE STOP DEAD CENTER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD! The poor guy behind me slammed right into the back of my car and knocked my poor little Yaris to kingdom come…all R15 000 of it!

Being a complete idiot I responded to the other driver’s concerns with an…“it’s all my fault…oh my gosh…I’m so sorry…I don’t know what else to say other than a spider ran across the windscreen and I got such a fright!”

FAIL! First off, what a lame excuse to cause an accident *woes* and secondly, when do you willing put up your hand and state that it’s all your fault…that’s ‘How not to deal with a car accident 101’!

Needless to say…I shat on Gareth Cliff the very next day and told him where to spend his salary this month and also received the great news that the other driver’s insurance company would be footing the bill and my excess!

Sis but I’ll gladly accept…after all…it was Gareth’s fault and not mine!

KaB

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Ek wil huis toe gaan na mama toe!

And we're off...again!

Due to circumstances and events my colleagues slash friends and I are heading back home to Cape Town tonight! I am just relieved and grateful to be heading home!

I am ready to take those exciting steps off of the plane and onto the glorious soil of Cape Town...home! Some rays of sunshine would do me good too, thanks!

Catch you in SA!!!

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Lover's Lost

Valentine's Day.

Bleh.

May as well have stuck me in a bottle store and locked the doors...I'd have been glad to drown my sorrows and stumble off into the sunset arm in arm with my new partner in crime...dear old uncle Jack Daniels. I'd rather have gotten piddled and sloshed to the extent that my long term memory was but a distant age old tale of dreams and tragic love stories illustrating great lovers like Heathcliff, Mr Darcy or even the Princes who rescued Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. Alas, my love story is but a short novel with a tearful ending.

I am still hopelessly in love with him. Don't roll your eyes...I still have reservations about a few things but not about this!

For Valentine's Day today I have this to say to you:

If I could be with you today I'd tell you how much I'm still in love with you and that I still want the same things that I wanted 1 year ago today...regardless of everything we've been through I've never doubted the way I feel about you, then and now, and if I didn't say this I'd be cheating myself on the one thing that I am truly 100% sure of...I love you and miss you.

Oh the day I wake up and it's all better!

To the rest of y'all...I hope Cupid shot his arrow in your direction and that you were lucky enough to be loved and cherished by your special someone.

Right, back to trashy British celeb TV...goodie-goodie gumdrops!

KaB

Thursday, February 11, 2010

The new old blog...

There is a new me. Hello world!

So, guess the cat's out the bag...I'm a single lady! When a relationship ends, a new you evolves out of what one used to be, hence my new old blog. I'm not going to get all mopey and depressive over the ex and I'm certainly not going to write about him on my new blog but it's been the usual 'trying to get over it process' to put it lightly...tears, sobs, cries of why, going back and wearing my heart on my sleeve, make up sex (mmm...that was great), wishing and hoping for what may be, believing again, a psychologist, lots of wine and far too much thinking!

One thing is for sure...how the hell do people put themselves through this over and over again?!? I cannot begin to think about the pyschological expenses (both immaterial and material)...the emotional investment and loss that one feels should the relationship come to an end, and let's be honest, that's pretty much all the time unless you're the luckiest son of a gun and found the one! I thought I was the one...I thought he was the one......(I think I still believe that *sad face*)...how many unlucky sods must think that! I now know of two! Funny thing is...no matter how angry and sad I am...if I knew that things could be different and if I knew we could make it work I'd do it all over again with him! I miss him and I miss us. But anyway...bleh!

I am done. He has walked away from the best thing in his life and it's not my problem anymore!

So...to kick it off...I find myself in London once again...to say that it's cold is an understatement! My colleagues and I are on a mission to seek out and capture ourselves a real live chav...just the other day one sat on a tube scratching its balls...*lovely*! The concrete jungle doesn't leave much to the imagination when it comes to its resident wildlife! We simply can't wait to head out on citifari each day to come across some new and unexpected species!

Not much else to talk about at the mo...have a few things up my sleeve...get back to sunny SA on my bday...have plans to braai, swim, retan (lack of sunshine...eish) and head on out to jam with the Prime Circle bunch...guess that should be fun if inebriated and enjoying the fact that I'm one year older...ugh!

Catch y'all on the flipside!

KaB