Been gone still gone just a hello

I have neglected my little space on the web badly, I should be punished!

This is again just a quick pop in.  I am so busy, work has been horrible and busy and stressful.
Home has been great and awesome and busy!

This is more of a complain post though! I am so annoyed, why is it so hard to find stuff in this country.  I am looking for a moustache cookie cutter! And i can not find one ANYWHERE! for real?

Its Elricka's baby shower.  I am co-planner! It is a black and white moustache theme.  If I never see a moustache for as long as i life it will be too soon.

Having lots of fun though!  :)

I love being a SAFFA despite all our issues

I love that I am a South African, Despite out issues.

Found this GREAT blog the other day, and her post today hit home with me.
She is brutally honest about our crazy country with our complicated past, and our unsure future.

She posted this video about who we are as SAFFAS in her post  and honestly it is what makes me proud, its what makes me stay, not that I don't think of leaving, but there is that pull, the draw, the little silver string attached to my HOME that always keep me grounded where I am!

I wonder if I will ever leave....?

Its MOvember

Hellllooooo (hellllloo) Hell I think there is an echo in here... Corny much?

Sorry I have not posted in ages. I have been really wanting too, but honestly, life has been messy, snotty, full of work and generally crazy busy. I don't make money from here, so this really is just a crazy hoby which I adore, but sadly salary work comes first.... so this here ol blog suffers.

I have a ton of things to do again today, so no fun DIY pictures to share, even though I actually have loads to share. I will do so soon!

For now though I am super excited about the fact that is Movember, which means it is almost December which means almost time for my birthday, time for me to decorate the house in the best of Christmas décor then hubsters birthday then new year ....

December is busy for us, but it is by far my favourite time of year. Sun, Pool, Holiday, Christmas, Family! Yes, Yes and Yes!

Will be making a huge effort to post soonest.

Happy 1st of Movember guys, I hope you all had a great Halloween (we don't celebrate remember?).

xxxxx

Dont give up on me...

Hello Everyone,

I am still totally here.  Don't give up one me.

Been having a ruff patch.  I had middle ear infection, broke my toe on Sunday and work has been a wrecking ball.

Did do some awesome DIY goodies this weekend.

Will post during the week.

Hang in there if you interested .....

Traffic and a cool new blog find

Yesterday as I was about to leave the office, KS, my colleague got a phone call form her husband to say there had been a massive accident on the freeway and it was closed off for all wanting to leave town!

This is a BIG problem people.  The freeway is the in and out for almost EVERYONE in town. Seriously there are bazillions of cars going in and out on there everyday. So I left the office at 4 pm and got home at 6:40 yep it took me almost 3 hours to get home (20 km)  The worst part?

It took me two hours to drive from here to here

Yes, people I got to the first little triangle entering the circle at 5. That was one hour.  At that point they said they had opened the port road and people could use that.  I could at this point turn left and chance that the bottom gate at the port was open, but after craning my neck I noticed it was not, the top road was open.  Soooo it would mean I had to double back and it would have taken me longer.  So I stayed.  By the time I reached point B it was 2 hours of sitting in traffic.

I was fed up and tired and thirsty!  Thank heavens I went to the loo before I left work.

They were diverting traffic to go via Woodstock and then got people on the N1 or the N2, which would have meant I would have had to go here:

(Following the blue line above from point B to the orange highlighted highway).

Thankfully by the time I got to the corner of Heerengracht and Hertzog and (Point B above), they just announced the highway had been re-opened.

I was so fortunate to be where I was as I could quickly zip into DF Malan and I was on the highway 15 minutes later, and home 35 minutes later.  I was pretty much in the front part of the que, which meant I did not get much traffic on the way home.

The people who did not chance the traffic only left town at about 7, which was when the traffic started to move a bit more freely!

It was crazy. South Africa, and especially Cape Town is notorious for bad bad bad driving, this one though takes the cake.

Here is what happened.  The gent in the bakkie (I have no idea what you would call this little bakkie else where in the world.... maybe a mini little pick up truck??) is alive but critical.  I feel for him and his family and my prayers are with them.

I got home with a massive head ache, hungry, thirsty and cranky as hell.  My amazing sister was there, to keep Klaus and Kai company and she immediately made me a cup of coffee and had me relax for 15 minutes before she left.  I am so blessed to have THE MOST AWESOME SISTER ON THE PLANET!

Needless to say I did not make lunches, I did nothing.  I played with Kai for a small bitty, then got him off to bed, and was treated to a snuggle on the couch with Hubby! :)

Blegh for the traffic yesterday.  Today Rihanna is in CPT, and so I am hoping and praying the traffic wont suck to bad!

My preggo cousin messaged me last night asking if she can drive in with me this am.  Since I love having company of course I said yes, so we had a nice catch up and coffee when we got to town, my day started off great!

Then I also found this really cool blog, this Canadian girl blogged a bit about SA when she visited here. Her posts are really well written, and her pics are amazing.

Here
Here
Here  (I totally live here!!!) It is so nice to see people who love CPT when they visit!
Here

Got to work now, I am planning to head out of here at 3:45 today, and try to miss some of the Rihanna concert traffic...

Hope you all have a great day!
xoxo

Thank you for stopping by ...

I really started this blog as a way for me to document "stuff".

Things going on in our lives, diy's we are doing around the "new" house, a way to track our progress if you want, memories captured for Kai to look back on when I am older and more grey and the internet is less cool cause you can basically teleport your way to where ever instead of using Google to move around ....

I have noticed though that there is this little "stats" tab on the left hand side when I log on to write a new blog post, and it is showing me that there are actually people out there who seem to enjoy reading about my mundane little life here in South Africa.

I like it, it is nice to know there are people out there in the world, who find what I do interesting enough to take time out of their busy day to read my rambles

So thank you.  To all of you who log on and read this.  Thank you to all of you who keep coming back for more.

It makes me feel good.
And that is what YOU did for me today! YOU made me smile, and feel good!

Big ups to you.
xxx

Little DIY's for the win

So my file labels were boring and some were peeling off and looking generally pretty icky! It annoyed me and with the study re-vamp, I knew it was a project I needed to give some attention too.

I have said before that I am not good at "design" on the pc.  But I played around a little and came up with this spine binder which I really like.

They are really simple, but for now I like it.  Maybe as I play around more and get better at creating labels etc, I will change them.  I simply printed them on sticker sheets cut and stuck them on.  So they will be super easy to change.

Looking at the over all picture the actually look a bit "white" if you stand a little distance away.  Maybe I should have made the chevron colour a bit darker.  It is a light minty colour .... mmmm I might reprint sooner rather than later.

I also designed some labels to mark all boxes and storage containers in my study.

I printed it on plain white board.

Punched a hole in it with my single hole punch (can you believe I did not have one?  I ran out during lunch time yesterday from work to quickly purchase one).

I realized though that the board it not that "hard" and the hole might tear easily with a simple tug so I also grabbed some clear stickies to put around the hole to re-enforce it a bit.

Look closely below, and you will see there is a little clear sticker around the hole......

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I am also working on making a freezer and pantry inventory list. And thought of making a home inventory list for insurance purposes.  Do people do that?  I think it might be worth while.  Thought I would do one.  Scan one and send it on the insurance people, updating them maybe every six months, then also keeping one on the pc and on in the safe? I will share the outcome of my sheets soon!!

Also will share some pictures of the finished product once the labels are attached to the storage containers in the study....might take a day or two.

xxxxx

A Little less pressure

I have decided to put a little less pressure on myself to churn out a blog post daily.

With Kai having been sick this last week, and me missing a day at work and needing to catch up ..... Life has been a bit hectic, and the blog has suffered.  It also made me realize though, I don't HAVE to put a post out every day.  It's ok.

So I have not gone anywhere, just been super busy and super occupied with being a working mommy.  My little side hobby has thus suffered.

I did get to sort out some file labels, and tags for all the storage in my study as well as draw up a inventory list for the pantry and freezer this weekend.... more to follow soon .

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xxx

Best Coffee Shop in the world.... Its the truth

So the best coffee shop in the world ... yes right here in CAPE TOWN !! How awesome is that for us Capetinians?

I did not make this up, I have evidence:

http://travel.uk.msn.com/photos/the-best-coffee-shop-in-the-world

I think its really awesome, and though I often think that I need to make a new life for us somewhere else in the world, I am still hugely patriotic and I feel a massive love for my city.

(See post about it here)

I am also toying with about 3 serious business ideas, I just wish I was not so scared to take the leap and do it! I am so passionate about these ideas, but I have seen so many people fail, and I just can't do it to my family.  I can not put us in a financial crisis. I just wish we had the financial stability for me to try these things, I am so passionate about, and believe in so much!

One day ...

Back to the Doctor

My mother texted me a couple of minutes ago, that Kai is still coughing badly, and it's not going away....
Made an appointment with the pead, hoping for it to just be a cough, and that we will be sent home with some meds!

He has been on cortisone for 4 days now, syrup and some cortisone added to the nebulilzer! Also the bronchodialots.... Oh I feel so sorry for the human! He really got it bad this time.

Problem is this is not his normal pead, Dr De Villiers, is on leave, and now we have to see Dr Kerner, who is by no means my favourite :(

Hold thumbs that all works out, and that he is ok!