Thursday, November 01, 2007

Don't beg me daahling!

I recently re-watched The Incredibles and it was possibly even better than the first time. To be honest I didn't remember all the best things from the first time I saw it for a number of reasons. This time, I discovered a new favorite character.

Edna.

She is WONDERFUL! In the same line as Ezma from Emperor's New Groove, but not evil in the least :) She calls everyone "Daaahling", is the size of a midget (yes, I know that's not pc) and has the best lines in the movie.


I like her particularly because she reminds me of a crazy French waiter that I met when I went on a school trip to France a couple of years ago. He called everyone "Daaahling" because it was one of the few English words he knew, and he had us in hysterics every night we ate at the Auberge where he worked. Also, one of my aunts' name's is Edna and she is a rather unusual character herself.



I was also thinking about the Glass Man from Amelie this evening. I like him. He teaches me about perseverance, not giving up until you have done something to its very best point. I'm not very good at perseverance, but I'm persevering in learning and in trusting God to make me into someone who is dedicated and who will finish strong. I also want to have vision though, I don't want to do one painting my whole life, I want to create murals! Big ones, all over the walls of my life, but most times it's the small paintings that pave the way to the mural :)

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Microwaves and Florists

It was recently my birthday. Three sleeps ago. My very own 21st birthday. And look, I'm all growed up now... ha! But I really was blessed out of my socks on that special day. My room looks as though I gave up on the student life and became a florist (specialising in gloriously beautiful and sweet smelling roses). I am also the proud owner of a MICROWAVE!! How cool is that... a bunch of my guy friends bought me a beautiful shiny white microwave. I'm still in the process of trying to find a name for it (all special appliances need names!). I'm looking preferably for a good Biblical name but am grateful that becasue we don't have to discriminate about food anymore, I will even be able to cook pork in my beautiful machine :)
(I have found a name for my dear friends who gave me the microwave and they will from now on be exclusively referred to as the Merry Band of Microwave Men :D)

Things I like today:
- flowers
- creative writing
- grace

Thursday, June 07, 2007

I heard a rumour on this day, that you be having your birthday!


I have a dear friend called Leraine
Whose life another year did gain
I wish her great joy
And bid her 'ahoy!'
To say happy birthday (again)

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

The Remains of the Day

I feel as though I'm in a bit of a twilight zone at the moment. In terms of work, I haven't yet handed in and sorted out all my course work, so I don't have that strangely free feeling that usually accompanies exams. And my exams still feel like distant blips on the horizon (although I'm quite sure there's some self-deception in this feeling.. eep). Also, I have to be in Grahamstown till all the res-lets have left, so i will be chilling a fair amount after the 19th of June.

So all in all things are a little surreal at the moment, but I am taking GREAT joy in the fact that I have finally located a worthy source of novels in the Rhodes library... i've been searching for years now! Reading has always been my favorite thing to do in exam season, and I've begun with what looks as though it's going to be an amazing book: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro... there is an Anthony Hopkins movie that was made about it a while ago... I'm loving it so far. Talking about Anthony Hopkins... I'm keen to go and watch his new movie with Ryan Gosling (The guy from The Notebook - *wistful sigh*)... the movie's called Fracture, and my sis says it's brilliant. Despite my complete dislike for horror movies, after looking into it, I feel this is a thriller that will be good :D

In keeping with the randomness of this post...

Things I like today:
- God's trustworthiness
- Novels
- British people
- Today's indoor weather
- Waking up with purpose
- My new shower cleaner

Things I don't like today:
- Women's magazines
- My lack of living arrangements for next year

Off now to max the remainder of the day, and hopefully make it a productive one :D

Monday, May 14, 2007

The Lightning Rod

Lots of my life with God and people at the moment seems about me having to pour out my heart and be honest about my feelings, which can be quite tiring... so... i reckon that on my blog I yet reserve the right to indulge in a little frivolity and random babblings. It is for this reason that I have decided to dedicate this post to the enigma of weirdness, fashion questionability and lyrical dodginess that is...


(drum roll please)

Rod Stewart!!! (and the crowd goes wild :D)

Basically, the obsession that Rebecca, Derralyn and I have recently developed with this super-duper-uber coooool rock star of the seventies came about because of a hysterical birthday card that Dez got for her 21st with a picture of Rod on it wearing very very tight leopard skin pants and which said "Do ya think i'm sexy" This, in a moment of complete procrastination obviously led us to seek the song "Do ya think I'm sexy" on the net etc....

we found the song

(hopefully this picture also dissuades all mullet enthusiasts!)
we laughed

we laughed some more

we wept with laughter

then we began googling pictures of this indescribable charcter

then we laughed so hard we couldn't breathe


then we found the music video on YouTube and were amazed at the alarming sight of Rod wiggling his bum for the camera....

then we laughed some more :D

and then we added msn comments that went something like this:
Becs: "Rod Stewart will teach my husband about being sexy"
Me: "Rod Stewart: the sexiest man in leather and spandex since 1978"
etc

Info about Rod includes the fact that he was briefly in a band entitled "Roddy Rod and the Dynamic Duo"... he voluntarily called himself Roddy Rod :s ...i have no words...


These are some of the most interesting lyrics from "Do ya think i'm sexy":

He say's I'm sorry but I'm out of milk and coffee
Never mind, sugar, we can watch the early movie

If you want my body and you think I'm sexy
Come on, sugar, let me know
If you really need me just reach out and touch me
Come on, honey, tell me so

all i can say is... you Rod my world :D

Thursday, May 03, 2007

New Life

So I have to start blogging for two work blogs for journ and i thought that if i was going to be blogging for work-type stuff, then it was high time i started blogging here in this special place again :)


Plus, i'm very excited about all the cool new user-friendly editing options that Blogger has introduced... i think they're great! :)


As i have spent most of the time i wanted to use for blogging messing around with the new template formatting tools, i'll have to leave it at this short post to begin again. But i'll leave it with a Vimrod that I got a short while ago which made me laugh and think of my blog...


Monday, February 12, 2007

Alphabet Survey

So I was tagged to fill this survey in next...

[A is for age:] 20
[B is for beer of choice?] Eeeew... I'm really not a beer person... ciders are cool though :)
[C is for career:] Not a great time to be answering this one... my heart and head are in a bit of turmoil about this at the moment... focusing on the dream right now :)
[D is for your dog’s name:] Sadly both our family dogs passed away last year but mine's name was Mischief
[E is for essential item you use everyday:] My hairbrush
[F is for favorite song at the moment:] 'Jealous Kind' by Jars of Clay
[G is for favorite games:] 30 Seconds, Royal Snap
[H is for hometown:] Joburg... born and bred people, born and bred
[I is for instruments you play:] My piano playing is super rusty and I haven't practised in a while but I play the violin too
[J is for favorite juice?:] Orange juice and Cranberry Cooler (obliviously it's berry!! hehe)
[K is for kids?:] God has completely melted my heart for kids in the last few years, love them and can't wait to have my own :)
[L is for last hug?:] Sam... so lovely
[M is for malls:] Not overly fond of them when i'm in Joburg, but man i miss their convenience when I'm trekking up and down Gtown's High Street
[N is for name of your love:] Jesus... completely the Lover and Love of my Soul
[O is for overnight hospital stays:] When I was little... they had to take a bone marrow sample... praise the Lord for General anesthetic!!
[P is for phobias:] People chewing ice and the icy bits you find in re-frozen ice-cream, snakes, not a big fan of injections, doctors or dentists
[Q is for quotation:] "Hope is to hear the music of the future, faith is to dance to it now" Gavin Swanepoel, a His People pastor from Cape Town
[R is for your race:] I'm not really a big fan of athletics :p
[S is for status:] Single and content :)
[T is for things you like:] My family, books, English, people (esp friends), hugs, laughing, good coffee, visiting people's new digs', U2, Switchfoot, Tree63... really i could go on for ages, this is a decidedly un-specific topic
[U is for Useless thing you tend to waste time on:] Eric, my computer (the Net)
[V is for vegetable you love:] Green peppers, spinach
[W is for worst habit:] Many... getting obsessive about my room being neat... especially when there are other people in it, a sharp tounge, laziness, forgetting to take my vitamins etc..
[X is for x-rays you’ve had:] Many dental X-rays, but otherwise i can't remember any... i'm sure there must be some somewhere??
[Y is for yummy food you like:] Rusks, roast chicken and potatoes, chocolate, custard slices and lots more that i can't think of right now
[Z is for Zzzz ~ your ideal bedtime:] 10:30 pm

Okie dokes... the person I tag to post their version of this survey on their blog next is Brigitte ;)

 
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