hello world*

so i've been slacking again in the blogging scene...

i know.

[i want to go crazy with paint]

BUT really, i don't have time to sit and do a blog post.

i feel like they need as much time when i do get a chance to blog,

so i'd rather wait for the right time.

so what's been happening since? ah

still have a crazy workload. hopefully i'm working for Operation Smile

 in my chosen NGO.

meeting sometime in the next 2 weeks.

have 2 promotions this weekend to do for the Absa Cape Epic-crazy cycling event.

valentines day was on monday.

didn't think much of it cause it didn't concern me.

actually forgot about it during the day.

but then i came home to 2 bunches of roses and a card. did it put a smile on my face? yes.

am i annoyed that i don't know who it is? yes.

i guess we'll have to see if he reveals himself.

tuesday, we had a spontaneous trip at 8pm to stellies

with ilsa and katelyn. thee best sushi ever-i can't even remember the name.

but it was great.

[love misty walks]

friday we spent the night at ilsa.

and went to claremont.

and had one hunters... and even that was deadly.

BUT it was wonderful.

and i met a british boy (and yes chaz, he really was british, he didn't just put on an accent).

and the rest of the weekend?

one of thinking, wishing and working.

today i tackled sociology.

wow but that was far from fun!

 i've never experienced such confusion in my life.

damn wikipedia did not help me AT all.

tonight i'm smiling. i don't know why :)

have a wonderful week filled with jellytots my friends.

[i'm ready to go away with you. i'm opening a savings account soon]

i'll be in the sky

so saturday i go along to watch 3 of my friends skydive.

and risk losing all 3 friends at once.

but i didn't :)

what an amazing expereince though.

the adrenaline rush throught that 30 second fall.

even the suiting up beforehand gets bloods pumping and once you're

 in that dinky little plane, 10 000 feet in the air, there's no going back.

the instructor just jumps.

(chilled vibes as chazzie's man reads before
the jump and on the plane)

but you all did it.

and am so proud.

 and glad you're all still in my life :)

i was wary about such a fete but after watching the process

 of how it all goes, it is something i would do next-

i must just find another willing person.

funny how that..

"a tragic event brings people closer"

i always heard this quote but never really thought much of it until recently.

after a friend of mine was in hospital and nearly on her death bed it bought me closer to her and her mom all over again. and i tend to forget to let people know things so here i am,

letting you know.

i've known her since we were 8 and we've been through some crazy shit together yet after 4 years of drifting, there i was sitting and having supper with her this evening. and watching disney channel. and it was the only place i wanted to be. and i had to be there not because "you're her friend so you should be there" or "your mom is friends with her mom" but because she's my friend. and i love her and i wanted to be there.

"you'll be with me, wherever i go"

thank God for your recovery Kirst.

xxx    

late much?

to all my followers, i apologise profusely for my delay in blogging.

my excuse? i guess i don't really have one. i got back on the 28th of december and from there i could've blogged but i didn't. now that i work it out, i've only been back for 8 days-it's not THAT bad.

i went away up the coast for about 4 weeks and bad weather followed us everywhere. i managed to get 2 full beach days in. sad but now that i'm back in the cape, this heat wave isn't helping and i'd somewhat be happy to go back to the rainy, misty days in december 2010. i really do miss it all.

(time for a fresh start)

but christmas was good. different with my grandfather not there but i guess the puppy my mom decided to get filled that gap a little. it's the cutest little munchkin on this earth.

say hi :)

and new years, well that too was a jam. i was just glad to come back to cape town for one new years and so seeing everyone was lovely. it was much quieter than expected but nonetheless, entertaining. paddy and dan kept the party alive and then by the time we got to muzinberg beach, i think everyone sobered up from the cold and to top it all off, we went to sleep with the thunderstorms belting down. it was beautiful.

nice one matt

(yes, i used your real name)

so that's my short little re-cap of december for you. i could tell you much more but it's very long-winded so rather go see the pictures i put up on facebook. much easier :)

(my internet is being gay and won't let me upload any of my photos so you'll just have to see facebook)

away.

i cannot wait.

to get away. tomorrow morning at 9am i'm off.

yes, it's the usual trip but i'm ready for a break. i can't sit around here any longer.

i want to get in the car, sit back and listen to good music whilst taking photos of the unknown.

i am going to sit on the beach everyday and enjoy the quietness that is of klein brak.

time for me. and i am very grateful for that.

i'm ready for an adventure.

in other news . . .

happiness.

love.

friendship.

family.

a beautiful camera.

ankle boots.

i do love christmas.

...more than anything.

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 :)



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