It's a circle of love!

Remember the interview of BlissChick I posted?

Well, if you click here, you can read the one she did of me: It makes me sound super-special, and now I love the BlissChick even more than I did before - it's a circle of love!

I think there are grammatical errors in this post, bear with me, late-tired-incoherent.

Whirlwind!

Oh wow, one week in Melbourne today! People here are very very friendly, very very helpful. I have lost count of how many maps people have drawn for us, and restaurants recommended, kindnesses offered. AND. We walk around at night. After dark.

This utter lack of xenophobia makes me sad about what is going on in my erstwhile nation. It's such a stark contrast.

Anyway, I always find it hard to write about things while I am living them, so here are some photos instead!



See the originals here! And nothing will be said about all the cupcakes and coffee. Mmmm.

PS yes, I did knit that green hoodie. Love it.
PPS Thank you for all the emails and comments. Your support means so much! xxx

Tag, I'm it!

So I have been tagged by Christine - thanks for finding me, Christine!

Tag rules are:

• Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
• Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself.
• Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
• Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

OK, as usual I am the dead zone girl for tags etc, so I'm gonna ask that if you want to participate, take yourself as tagged - and send me a link!

Now: 7 Random and/or Weird Facts About Me:

1. My thumbs are a truly strange shape, yet I have never had an issue with them. My nose is normal, yet I spent my teens thinking it was unsightly. Go figure.
2. I really, really hate rock music involving screaming guitars. I'll take Johnny Cash any day.
   
3. I love early summer in Johannesburg, because of the flowering Jacarandas and Bougainvilleas.
4. I only discovered what peonies were last week - bought them because they were pretty, and found out their name from a client afterwards.
5. I call SUV's and MPV's and all those big-ass cars stupid-mobiles. Not politically correct, but then neither are those gas guzzling resource chewers.
6. As a teenager, I not only dressed super-sluttily (retrospective shudder) but also had five body piercings. I still think the piercings were cool, but would never repeat the clothes. I think I might re-pierce my nose...
7. If I had been completely honest, I would have studied linguistics at university instead of business.
   

Where'd she go?

It has been very silent on this site for the last two weeks. Sorry. I went on holiday to Crystal Springs, and there was no internet.

I lieu of a proper post, I am instead going to respond to the get-to-know-you's from Kiki and Kris:

First, Eight Great Things about me:
(well, actually they are just random)

1. My inbox is the dead zone for chain mail of any description. These are about the first I have ever responded to.
2. I have read an average of a book a week since I was about nine. I am almost 32. That's a lotta books.
3. I have found a spelling or grammar error in almost everything I have ever read, and have now had to stop reading the local press because I can't bear the illiteracy. I am just some schmo who makes frequent mistakes, so you can imagine what is going on in those papers.
4. In the pre-yoga days, I was sometimes late for work because I would compulsively check whether my front door was locked before leaving. And before going to bed. Living alone in South Africa may have had something to do with that, though.
   
5. When I was 13, one of my parents' friends said I looked Rubenesque. I didn't know what that meant at the time, but now I realize it has always been my fate to be, well, Rubenesque. Pity that's not the fashion any more.
6. By the time I was ten, I had moved house 21 times (I think, didn't fact check this with my mom) and I had lived in three countries.
7. At 15, I defected from Catholicism in favor of the Methodist Church, but abandoned them when a girl was ostracized for appearing on the back page of the Sunday paper in her very sedate bikini.
8. That said, immodesty offends me and I think we would all be happier if we weren't confronted by mass images of women in (basically) their underwear from every billboard and magazine cover.
   

Now,
4 jobs I have held:

1. Call-centre sucker
2. Recruitment agent
3. Researcher
4. Yoga Teacher

4 Movies I can watch over and over:

Not a one. I would rather read than re-watch something I have seen and remember scene for scene.

4 places I have lived:

1. Zimbabwe
2. Namibia
3. South Africa
4. UK

4 Categories of TV I enjoy:

Sorry, don't really watch TV, but if forced to choose, I choose the Discovery Channel.

4 places I have been on holiday:
I have a bad case of the travel bug, so:

1. South America - Argentina
2. Asia - Thailand, Hong Kong, India
3. Africa - within SA, Comores, Mozambique, Kenya, Swaziland, Lesotho
4. Europe - UK, France, Belgium, Holland, Spain

Sigh, so many places, so little time...

4 favorite dishes:

1. Pasta and tomato sauce, made by Husband
2. Oven grilled veg and vegetarian schnitzels
3. Dhal soup
4. Green and Blacks chocolate! Mmmmm

4 websites I visit daily:
Like Kris, I try not to go online daily, but I cycle through all the links on my sidebar just about every time I log on!

4 places I would rather be right now:
Nah, here is fine. Although it wouldn't kill me to be in India...

I am meant to tag other people to do this, but, true to my dead zone style with this type of thing, I leave it in your hands: if you want to, do it, and let me know so I can read it!