New Blog

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Please join me for this new roller coaster ride.  Feeling a little fragile at the moment.  I think its going to be  20 days of absolute turmoil. 

Christmas Lights

This post is inspired by two other bloggers today Shayne and Kirsty.

They say you can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle 3 things

• Tangled Christmas lights
• Wet weather
• Lost luggage

So, not too sure about this because I am quite patient with tangled Christmas lights unless they are really bad and then I would just toss them and buy a new box

Wet weather doesn't worry me at all.

I have never been faced with lost luggage but I think I would probably throw my toys. 

And for the second issue, dropping people from your following list.

I am about to change over my blog (again) sorry, I just feel that handwashonlyCAPETOWN is no longer going to be appropriate, obviously.  So this will be a time when I could lose a few followers.  I sincerely hope not.   

Hair!

Okay so that's my scalp, the reality, 1" of grey in 2 weeks.  So what to do? 

This dilemma has dogged me now for a good few years.  I suppose I could call myself prematurely grey?  My first few strands appeared at 21.  Now the whole age thing doesn't worry me, I am 47 no problem but the financial and time commitment to keeping these greys at bay is a problem.  So do I go grey?  that in itself becomes a problem because I would have to grow it out, you cannot duplicate white hair, so I was told at the ladies who lunch, lunch yesterday.  Growing it out will make me look like trailer trash, not so good a look when you are going to be applying for jobs.  Now, what started this may have crossed your mind?  I saw an old friend at the lunch yesterday (the one that didn't invite me to her wedding at the beginning of the year, and I was gutted) and she has always had the same hairline problem, and guess what she is now a blonde.  I thought it look hideous, seriously, she had such gorgeous hair before.  We are also very similar in colouring.  She suggested balls to the wall for me and go grey as she sincerely felt that my grey would be a white grey as opposed to steel grey.  I had been hoping to do a Donna Downey (scrapbookers will know her) plop, like a white bird poo look on the top of my head and then grow it out.  I was told that cannot be done?  Anyone know anything about this? 

I also feel it necessary to mention that dying ones hair does not fool anyone.  We look our age regardless and to me there is nothing worse than an older woman (older than me of course) with quite clearly dyed hair or my problem, constant white line down the middle.

All comments will be taken seriously, and any nastiness will be forgiven instantly, so be honest, okay?

Metro Male?

This is Scotts school photo which I received last night via email.  I like it, but its a bit blown dont you think?

Reddam normally use a different crowd to do their pics, this bunch is new, I am not too impressed they also spelt Scotts name wrong on the class and team pics. 

PS  Scott likes to wear a shirt , tie and blazer everyday to school  which is not required, everyone else wears golf shirts?  What can I say, Metro Male?

This is the urban dictionarys meaning of metro male - sooooo Scott!

A good-looking, fashionable young man who pays special attention to style and taste who displays the levels of care and pride in their appearance which is usually associated with women; but who are not deemed to be homo-sexual and are secure in their masculinity.

Earth

I took myself off to see the movie Earth yesterday.  I went on my own and it was fabulous, oh and I was also the only person in the theatre!   I call it a movie but its really a documentary,  I highly recommend it.  It starts off with polar bears and ends with polar bears and how they can be used as indicators of how we are busy destroying the planet.  Nothing too heavy in that department though.  For the Capetonians that struggle to live in harmony with the baboons, there is a part in the movie that is guaranteed to endear them to you just a little bit, in fact I challenge you not to see yourself getting into a body of water and not doing the same thing.  (Now you have to go and see it).  The footage on the humpback whales is also breathtaking, and believe me I have seen whale footage.  So please go and see it, it is definitely a big screen experience. 

This is Good

I had to share this with you, pretty smart, I have to admit.

One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says, 'I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me.'

I said, 'WHAT??!! What was that?!'

So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear..

'You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man.'

She responded to my puzzled look by saying, 'Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?'

Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.

The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take, so I told her we'd just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said, 'Lets get a pair for each outfit.'

We went on to the jewelry department where sh e picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you... She was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis

I think I threw her for a loop when I said, 'That's fine, honey.' She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. Smiling with excited anticipation, she finally said, 'I think this is all Dear, let's go to the cashier.'

I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, 'No honey, I don't feel like it.'

Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled, 'WHAT?'

I then said, 'Honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman.'

And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, 'Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?'

Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either.......but at least that bitch knows I'm smarter than her.

Good Genes

This is my niece, Jasmine, my brothers 'child', she entered a teen beauty competition but unfortunately didnt get placed!  I think she is absolutely gorgeous.