charissa and ilsa.

this is terrible of me.

i began this post last thursday in my moment of despair

 when ilsarother and chaz (friend, your name and surname are WAY too long for my liking) decided to go to sleep after a night in mont.

leaving me wide awake, with my tea. and burnt popcorn. and i threatened to blog bad things about them.

i got as far as the title. 

funnily enough though, i have nothing bad to say about them.

 so instead, this post is going to be pretty mediocre. like them. average :)

firstly, charissa.

• thank you for having a dog that wees where he is everytime it sees me.

• thank you for making me clothes (or potentially).
• thank you for allowing me to take over your house and for your mom making me vetkoek.
• thank you for driving me everywhere before i had my drivers.

• thank you for getting in my car that is not as cool as yours -you know power-steering, central locking, aircon, 5 gears,electric windows (need i say more?)

• thank you for teaching me to stop at STOP streets.

• thank you for inspiring me to buy dresses.

• and for fueling my addiction towards it.
• thank you for attending a xhosa college next year.
• for having great toes.

• thank you for burning popcorn in my house.

• thank you for letting me teach you about the "english" peoples way of life.

• thank you for drinking lots of coffee.

• thank you for catching on to "oh heck no".

 secondly, ilsa.

• thank you for having amazingly straight hair. it's annoying.
• thank you for having cappucino sachets readily available at your house.
• thank you for choosing to move to a house where the first time i had to find it, ended up in a place i never want to visit again.
• thank you for fueling my love for paramedics and firemen (you have your doctors, i don't care).
• thank you for coming on many of my spontaneous roadtrips.

• thank you for borrowing clothes from my wardrobe. and allowing it to make you look SO great.

 

• thank you for studying nursing. as much as i dislike hopsitals and every factor around it, you truly are inspiring helping people and all. (so are u chaz, but in a different, more creative form).
• thank you for not attending my 19th birthday ;)
• thank you for teaching me about kurt darren and die campbells.

 

• thank you for also burning popcorn in my house. and letting me laugh at your make-up running from it.

• thank you for, after falling head first at sebs farm, coming out of your alchohol state to check that i'm still alive.

• thank you for wanting my mom to inherent all her jewellery to you.
• thank you for "the claw". 
• thank you for having the coolest collection of earrings.
• thank you for owning a cat without a tail. it scares me.

 

thank you for pointing out when my profile   pictures are not of me.

thank you for being "fat kid".

as much as a despise your groote schuur vibes and i guess afrikaans, somewhere deep down (very deep) i have love for you both. lots of it.

                                                         so thank you. for both being twits :)



when day turns into night

after this, i'm done ranting for the day.

3 days ago i met a man who had just lost his wife two weeks ago.

he's got a son currently writing matric and another son trying to help him whilst studying IT.

he lost his wife to breast cancer.

if you could all see the pain this man is in, it would hurt you. he hasn't eaten in two weeks let alone sleep. he has no other family except a sister who ignores him. 

because his job is at home, he doesn't get out there and meet a whole bunch of new people.

so we're doing what we can to keep him pre-occupied and try get his mind off things but it'll never be the same for him or his family.

after meeting him and hearing this all, i went to bed feeling rather sickly.

i don't know how his sons manage.

if i was to lose any of my family members (especially my mother or father) or one of my friends, i would be devastated. i really don't know what i'd do.

 death is one of my biggest fears. there's the whole "what happens once you've passed away?" is that the end of your life? and you're never back again? i won't see anyone ever again..

the unknown really does scare me. i hate not knowing or being unsure.

and sometimes these thoughts come back to me in random and i get some sort of "panic" attack. but people have their ways of "getting away"...

all i can say is, truly appreciate everyone you have around you and make each minute worthwhile. don't let your life go to waste. time really does fly.

to all those reading, thank you for everything you've done for me, big  or small. and just being a part of my life.

swallowed in the sea

i know people always say it. change. change is good. change is bad.

recently something happened where change is upon us-upon my family. and i know it.

i lay in bed knowing that things will be different and yet it's something i've always been wanting.

is it possible i don't want this change even though it's for the best for others?

and that ulitmately if the others are happy then i'd be happier and there'd be less pressure on me?

now that i look at it, this is for the best. and so i will let it happen.

i need something spontaneous and exciting in my life now. i've got all the time right now to do "different" things. things i haven't done before. i think i may do more of my "list" today..

i need to get away to another country just to live a little. i want to help others. and listen to good music all day.

i'm going to be away for the whole of december and as much as it's a lot of driving and packing and un-packing, i think it's what i might just need. and it's our first christmas without my grandfather.  but we've gone through so much as a family, i think we'll manage.

(i do LOVE christmas though)

i'm scared of change. i try to adapt to it and the change in others and it's all about growing up but quite frankly,i don't want to grow up. i'm scared of the pressures outside.

can people change? i don't know. people are who they are. give or take, you know 15%, that's how much people can change if they really want to. whether it's for themselves. or the people they love. yeah, 15%. but you know what, sometimes that's just enough.

If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it

surfin' safari

i am listening to one of the greatest songs right now. it's apparently pretty old but i love it. it's called "bon bon" by pitbull. i don't know what else to say about it except it's SO great.

yesterday we went surfing and it was quite a jam. yes, we fought the waves.

so we arrive and get our wetsuit and game faces on. the red flag is up as in A SHARK HAS BEEN SPOTTED-HIGH PRIORITY. so chilled.

suddenly, the siren goes off and the white flag comes up as in EVERYONE GET OUT OF THE WATER.

gee, we do pick our days.

alas, we waited till that flag went down and we entered the deadly seas.

after my leg, ilsarother's foot and katelyn's ankle enduring much warfare, it was still much fun, whether we stood or not.

vickismith...thank you :) round two SOON.

in other very disturbing news, my phone had to go in for repairs today.

all you blackberry haters can smile. whatever but still. i feel so lost.

i know that's rather lame but i like being connected. even if the phone isn't with me, it's comforting knowing it's somewhere in my perimeter.

the assistant said "7 to 10 working days". does that include weekend? "no, 7 to 10 WORKING days" a.k.a friday latest. sigh.

but at least it's getting fixed. hopefully.

for now, i'll just blog :)

uSisi wam

dear followers, these are my sisters.

exhibit A

she is a feminist. don't mess.

her sayings:

"oh heck no"

"party at my house"

"soundtrack of my life"

"no, i do not live in newlands"

"are those index cards? what? no, they're napkins...with writing on them"



how great is she? haha

shame.

 

exhibit B

we've grown up together.

and we're all weird.

and it's awesome :)

i love you uSisi wams

xx

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."

-dr. seuss

baby monkey :)

so there's this video on YouTube my sister decided to show me. and it's thee lamest thing ever yet it gets me everytime. it's entitled "Baby monkey (riding backwards on a pig)". and it's just so great. not the video as much but the song. i'm getting it into everyone's head.

a revolution will begin. watch this space :)

here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_sfnQDr1-o

tomorrow i'm going to learn how to surf. myself, katelyn and ilsa are all going.

victoriasmith is going to teach us. what a vibe this is going to be.

and all of us in our wetsuits,i laugh. no cameras allowed. just saying.

yes, i did just fix that

today is windy. oh my word. typical cape town.

i am telling you this city is bipolar. at least it was a beautiful day yesterday. it truly was amazing.

and i got to wear my hat! because it reminds everyone as a Bruno Mars hat, they've dubbed my hat "Bruno"-you know, because i name my items of clothing and all. really.

in other news, i fixed my car.

i'm sure you're thinking, "but leigh, since when was your car broken?"

but that's how quick i was to fix it. you didn't even notice. i'm that good.

the bumper on the right side decided to come apart slightly

(oh dad, if you're reading this, my bumper started to come apart, but i fixed it. don't worry).

so i get my toolkit out, lie on my back and undo and redo all the necessary screws and voila!

dirty hands and all.

i've decided if i never make it anywhere else, a mechanic job is for me. what a jam :)

oh and my flicker on the right had blown a fuse so R10 later, it was fixed

(by someone else though).

i spent the whole of yesterday in camps bay doing my hand signals. You know, the ones you learn during your driving lessons and you're thinking, "when am i ever going to need to use them. never".

people, you will use them sometime in your life. and you'll look like a noob but oh well.

this is what you wanted

  andrea jane. this blog is for you because it's what

you wanted.

           and hopefully it'll keep me pre-occupied for my holiday :)

                                                    

                      along with this blog is some other things i've been told to complete through my holiday.

so far i have 54 things.

they are:

1. cycle to andreajane

2. start a blog

3. create a tracing book from art

4. take photos in early morning

5. design outfit and watch chaz make it/learn

6. visit ilsarother at hospital

7. go shopping in longstreet

8. have a picnic in a park

9. have a bonfire

10. wash and vacuum my car

11. get highlights in my hair

12. go to edward street

13. go to karma and dizzy's

14. eat waffles in kalk bay

15. send in own "my tunes" to 5fm

16. phone 5fm and vote for old school/new school

17. learn how to play the guitar

18. write own lyrics

19. make a dress

20. find a sailor boy

21. plant a tree

22. roadtrip to transkei

23. rob a bank

24. train for the 2oceans

25. hike up table mountain

26. try fly using helium balloons

27. make chaz a cd

28. learn how to speak spanish via YouTube

29. paint my room a different colour

30. buy a high-waisted skirt

31. tell a stranger you know where he or she lives

32. try new toothpaste

33. learn how to make oatwheels

34. practice pageant expression and queens wave in the mirror

35. drag race for pink slips

36. learn how to play golf

37. phone a random no. and ask for john

38. work at vertigo/YDE for discounts

39. become bestfriends with 911 jenny

40. have a star named after me

41. take chaz to killarney

42. go fishing

43. buy a yacht

44. only speak in song lyrics for a day

45. stop at a STOP street

46. answer the phone in a different accent every day

47. plant strawberries in the garden

48. find a guy with the surname Darcy

49. go scuba diving

50. read a book

51. have a movie marathon with glennKisela

52. spend the whole day at the beach (7am-8pm)

53. watch all the star wars movies
54. visit my brother, brittanyhoffman

-any more ideas are most welcome.

ANYWAY, today is a PERFECT day for

 the beach, kauai smoothies

 and friends so that's where i'm heading.

enjoy it

loveLY

x