Christmas

Just under two months until my favourite time of the year

Plus i get to go on a long awaited holiday, somewhere, anywhere, just far away from my desk which i now hate courtesy of CPUT and my laptop.

This year it won't be a trip to England. Its too cold and dark although the snow is very festive, sunshine doesn't really give you the same Christmas spirit i think we are heading either to the Delta or Mozambique haven't been to either so cant wait.

I love everything about Christmas, Turkey, roast potatoes, presents.... That's defiantly my favourite bit although I'm not very good at looking like a love gifts that I hate my face always gives me away. My family hate buying me gifts cause they know I wont like them, oh my word that make me sounds ungrateful.

Anyway not long then I can dust of my Christmas tree, what date are you actually meant to put your tree up?

 

The statute of limitations has expired on most of our childhood trauma

I survived my childhood without out any major long term damage. In fact in some ways I would say I had a pretty sheltered childhood. There were about 20 kids that lived on my road, we all used to play in the street every evening until it got dark not a care in the world.

I went to out local primary school, then on to the local secondary school all my friends were pretty normal (What ever that may be) and then I got the shock of my life when I moved away to college.

Stories of my new friends that were raped as children or abused, friends who had lost siblings or parents as an early age, eating disorders, suicide notes. I couldn’t get my head around it, either people just hadn’t spoken about these kind of issues or I had had my eyes closed.

I really felt that a lot of these people were the product of their childhood trauma and some of them still to this day are limited by the trauma they experienced, living on the edge of society and others have triumphed over the troubles they faced.

Its not always easy just to put aside trauma that you experience but you also cant spend your life looking back it will drive you insane.

Only bad things happen quickly?

Good things can happen quickly too, haven’t you heard of instant gratification. Ok so it may not mean effectively reaching your long term goals. This way you don’t have to spend you life working towards achieving and never seeing the fruition of your labour.

You have to look for the the good things that happen quickly, that feeling of satisfaction that may not always change your life but can defiantly make you smile.

A kiss or a hug, winning the lottery, eating something scrumptious, listening to your favorite song, driving or walking somewhere really beautiful having fun with friends and family these things can happen any time anywhere you just have to open your eye and see the good that can come in any one day. 

Green Fingers

This weekend I spent some time tending to my new garden, I am now thinking that I should have done some research before I started up-rooting plants and moving them around. I have just gone to check on my newly arranged garden and the lavender bush that I moved has wilted beyond belief, my new found green fingers may not be nearly as green as I had first thought.

I think this gardening business is harder than it look’s. I planted some basil, coriander, strawberries and tomatoes, it will be interesting to see how they grow.

I am feeling very inspired, I want a full blown veggie patch, my mission is to figure out what to plant when and see if my farming skills are up to scratch, judging by the wilting lavender I think I have some work to do.

Be bold & mighty forces will come to your aid

There have been times in my life when I have been scared, scared of being hurt or rejected and scared of failure. In these times I wish I had taken it upon myself to be bold and had the mighty forces intervention. 

I remember being in a job interview for a  job that I wanted so badly, when the people interviewing asked me a simple question and I was left without words I couldn't think of a single thing to say (this doesn't happen very often) and in this instance if I had been bold and brazen perhaps the mighty forces may have intervened.

Ill remember this next time i'm in a spot of bother and and mighty forces please be ready to come to my aid.

Kings of Leon

After the disappointment of not being able to go to Rocking the Daisies, due to the mountain of university work, I have bought myself tickets to see the Kings of Leon.

I am SO excited I haven't been to a concert in ages I can hardly contain myself, its great to have so many international bands performing in South Africa.


The Kings of Leon is made up of four brothers from the USA. They  will Play the Cape Town Stadium Wednesday 26th October, 2011. There are no general admission or Golden circle tickets left so unfortunately it is the stands for me but I'm sure we can still have a bit if a dance......


Tickets start at around R265 but then your pretty much in the clouds, book soon otherwise they may sell out.




Picture courtesy of: http://www.last.fm/music/Kings+of+Leon

Rocking the Daisies

I have been looking forward to Rocking the Daisies the whole year.

Music festivals are one of my favorite past times whether its lazing in the sun at in a field a Bestival or squelching in the mud at Glastonbury, some of my fondest memories are nestled in those fields. I love nothing more that switching off from the crazy fast paced world outside those festival fences and enjoying time with friends, listening to live music.

Nothing lifts the soul like the sound of live music.

I was convinced I would make it to Rocking the Daisies this year, but the mountain of university work with my name written all over it seems to have quite a different idea.

Rocking the Daisies is a three day music festival, on a Darling wine farm in the Western Cape. It will be running from Friday 7^th - Sunday 9^th October, 2011. Tickets are for the whole weekend R450 or R550 at the gate. There will be three stages with live performances from loads of South African artists and few international performers thrown in for good measure.

For those of you that make it to Rocking the Daisies have a drink or two on my behalf and think of me chained to my desk L

The Last Lecture….

I’m reading a book at the moment called Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom

It’s about a college professor, called Morrie and an old student. Who re-connect when the student finds out the Morrie is dying from a rare neurological disease.

The last lecture was conducted from the dying college professor’s bed. Morriw turns his experience of death into life lessons for his old student.

It really makes you think, that sometimes you need to take a step back and assess what’s really going on in your life and what is really important.

It’s a true story and really worth a read.