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Bad space.................
2008-01-24 15:23:00
  Hi all you fabulous bloggers,   I am in a very bad space at the moment.   I don't know if you read my previous post where I wrote about the retrenchments that were happening here at work. Well if you didn't, I was on the list and a colleague saved my ass by finding another job and taking the package.   They have just put letters down on our desks and once again they are retrenching. I think that the odds of me going are extremely high considering that I was on the list last time. Our retrenchment meeting is at 3.20 this afternoon.   The last time I got retrenched it took me 10 years of fighting to get my life back on track as well as my credit record.   I realize that this is possibly the Universe's way of getting me out of a very unpleasant, unhealthy working environment but I sure hope that they have a back up plan.   If not I am seriously SCREWED!   Please will you say a prayer for me..?   P.S. To those of you who have called, mai...
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Neighbour...... the end
2008-01-24 09:44:00
  I am getting really tired of the neighbour story now so this will be the last in this little series. And she clearly has not read this because she hasn't gone away yet!   Sunday continued: Right so where were we? Ok Sunday night at 10.05 PM the cell phone rings. It's of course the neighbour. Do I need anything from the shop? Ok now I am getting a little concerned. Who in their right mind goes to the shop on a Sunday night after 10PM? None of my business any anyway I don't WANT to know.   Monday:  I had a day's leave and it was BLISS... The neighbour was at work. I left the car in the garage all day, didn't go anywhere. The moment she got home I switched my cell phone off.  I am busy cooking a lovely beef Rogan josh curry for dinner, Son A had stopped at the shop with a list of what I needed and he and a friend where busy in the lounge doing their whole sales pitch thing (practice makes perfect).   Ok now I was a bit blind sided here as she NEVER ...

Goodnight Blogland.....
2008-01-24 00:53:00
I am off to bed...... I thought I would leave you with a few neighbourly jokes.... considering my current situation....Episode 4 of the Neighbour Saga tomorrow... 

Governmentium..........
2008-01-23 16:16:00
My "luffly" friend Stray Cat sent this to me via email so I thought I would share it with you whilst we are having a sudden burst of speed on the internet here.....Research in South Africa has led to the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second to take from four days to four years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 5 years; It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of th...

Neighbour ...... Part 3
2008-01-23 14:06:00
  Just when I thought we were safe, Women24 went and put my story on the front page! Noooooo guys! What if she reads it?   Ok but never mind that now, it's done.   Saturday continued.. Finally I had to go home, for crying out loud I live there, my 6 furry face children are there and they can tell time, it was getting close to dinner.   Sure enough when I walked in the door there they were, tapping their paws on the floor, looking up at the clock (kind of like Lornagh taps her fingers).   Fed the cats, made a quick snack and yep you guessed it, plonked my ass in front of the pc.  The proverbial knock on the door syndrome struck again a while later.   I am not going to discuss here what she came here for; it was to discuss a problem. I don't think she liked my advice much... But hey that's who I am, I tell you what I think you should hear, NOT what you would like to hear... No point in bullshitting and prolonging the problem.   Digressing ag...
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Pmbman and captions.......
2008-01-22 19:33:00
Pmbman reckons that it's time for another caption contest.So here it is.Come up with a caption for this picture....... I am pretty sure that I could very well regret this one......Episode 3 of the neighbour tomorrow morning (early I promise!) I am afraid that Eskom is shedding their load in my direction from 8PM to 10.30PM  and I have SO much to do before that.See ya tomorrow....

It's gone too far now......
2008-01-22 14:57:00
  By Murray Williams and Leila SamodienPanic-stricken Table Mountain Cableway passengers jumped from a moving cable car, fearing for their lives, in a night of high drama as 900 were left stranded for hours by a power failure.The drama unfolded high above the city after the blackout caused the cable cars to stall in mid-air, then jam into guiding bars at the top cableway station.Rescuers worked until about midnight to evacuate passengers stranded in the two cable cars.And then all hell broke loose: Both cabins jammed about 2m from their loading docks one at the top of the mountain and the other at the bottom near the off-loading ramp leaving them suspended in midair as rescue operations got under way.Among the 900 people on the mountain was a 65-strong group of tourists from a multinational medical care company, Fresenius. Fresenius chief executive Brian Prinsloo said on Tuesday: "We've been in town since last Thursday for a Middle East-Africa convention. "The guys were despe...

Cats and load shedding......
2008-01-22 12:19:00
  Good Morning fabulous bloggers, I have been having a good laugh at your comments about the neighbour (part 3 to come later). I am trying to pop in at all the blogs, if I don't get to yours, forgive me; I will make it there at some point. I have a favourite's folder for the long blogs that I want to go back and read later so you are in there somewhere.. I am due to be load shedded at 12 today so am going to be pretty scarce on here today.. I also think I might be coming down with a cold.. Stress. A quick update on the work front. I took leave on Monday and Friday and then called the sod sorry I mean boss yesterday to ask if I could take the rest of the week off.. The short story is that he in a very round about way threatened me with my job, so I have today off and then I must go back on Wednesday *big sigh*. It's amazing how one of the lazy arsed boys got to take leave last week... But anyway. Yesterday I was load shedded for 3 hours and the only thing I had to play w...
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Neighbour...... Part 2
2008-01-21 22:14:00
Ok we are still safe; the neighbour clearly has not read my post because she was over here almost as soon as she got home. She left about 10 minutes ago, its 20h16 as I type this up in Word just so you know.   Right then, where were we? So much time has passed I don't know if I am going to remember Saturday's saga (thanks Eskom).   Friday continued: Ok so she brings me a plate of food... lekker tjopies, a bit of wors, salad and potato bake. Said she's coming back later once her other guests leave...Buggery bollocks, I wait half an hour, switch off my phone and ALL the lights. Went through to the kitchen to get a drink and bumped my head on the corner of the shelf in the dark. I said some VERY bad words, some I had no idea I even knew... But, I digress.   At about 11.30 PM, I decide it's safe to switch the phone back on. Sure enough there's a missed call and a sms. Sent at 10.22: "I guess it's too late to come over and visit".. Hell YES! Stayed up and read blogs ...
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Neighbours.... wrote it, might as well post it....
2008-01-20 19:50:00
Right then.. In between reading blogs, commenting on blogs, reading comments on blogs and responding to comments on my blog (phew! Blogging really is a full-time job) AND chatting on MSN to no less than 3 bloggers simultaneously (multi tasking at it's finest) I have been toying with whether or not to do this post.   I am afraid that if my neighbour ever reads it, she will be very hurt and that is not my intention at all. I, in fact find it very difficult of late to be rude to people and therefore I tend to suffer because of it. Sometimes I just think that there really is no nice way to tell people that they are invading your space. And speaking of space, my space is huge and I need a LOT of it! I enjoy my solitude and there are just some days when I really don't feel like listening to someone else's "stuff".   But I digress as is a few bloggers way... Not mentioning any names.   Back to the neighbour. Ok just to give you any idea. this is how it went this week star...
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Cape Coffee Consortium
2008-01-20 15:54:00
I am very proud to announce (drum roll please!) TA DA that I have been presented with a Cape Coffee Consortium Badge! I see my dear friend Lornagh is STILL keeping everyone in suspense..... getting a good run for her money I reckon!Thank you also to Glitz for my MOB badge!! Mwah! You rock girl...I am busy working on a post right now about my neighbour and am in 2 minds as to whether or not I should post it, for fear that she might read it. I think that the odds are pretty slim, but you never know! She more or less knows where my blog is and what it's called so one can never be too sure.... What do you think?

This is for you A (my IT buddy)
2008-01-20 01:14:00
I was thinking of mailing this to my boss together with my resignation letter after I win the Lotto tonight: And then of course when he "phaffs" around and his mind wanders I thought this would be appropriate: Because this is really what I think of him:And then of course when he finally decides to have his 5th meeting of the day after postponing it 3 times: And last but not least, this is what I will be thinking when I go back to work on Tuesday: Good night Blogland, it's been fun as always!!
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Milkshake and laughter.....
2008-01-19 21:13:00
I met 3 bloggers today!Lornagh She had a milkshake which prompted me to have one too.... a nice big chocolate one! She really made me laugh and in no time there was raucous laughter coming from our corner of the coffee shop!GlinkA kind gentle soul just like on his blog.... Shame I don't think us ladies even gave him a word in edgeways.... Sorry Glink...SpontaneousShe is loads of fun and also had me in absolute stitches! I hope you enjoy your party tonight!In no time we had exchanged phone numbers, emails etc and had already come up with ideas of a breakfast, braai's etc which I look forward to...Lornagh commented how amazing it was that we had met for the first time and just handed our numbers over.... but here in Blogland you feel like you already know that person from reading their blogs and none of us thought about it twice.I look forward to our next meeting whenever and wherever that may be!So... tonight I will raise my glass to the 3 of you..... thank you for making me l...
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Awards and Thank you's.......
2008-01-19 12:29:00
Good morning all you fabulous bloggers! I haven't read Alistairs blog for a while and so last night just before I logged off I thought I would check up on him. Was I surprised when I saw my name under the nominees for The Animal Lover award! So a HUGE thank you to whoever nominated me for that... I feel very honoured. Ok, well now I am off to go and have a look at some of the nominated blogs. I see there are some I had never seen.. See ya all later!!
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Exercise......
2008-01-19 00:25:00
I have missed out on 2 days worth of blogging.As you know I have been having a bit of er stress at work so took 2 days off.On Thursday I couldn't blog because of lazy arsed boys downloading 3 GIG files and then on Thursday night I sat down at my pc glass of wine and ciggy in hand and wouldn't you know? There was a knock at the door.... and it was the neighbour. Bugger, bollocks.... so once again my blogging was interrupted.Today I decided to be good and do all the housework and washing first.... well thought I would check a few blogs and then start. Ha ha I started cleaning the house at about 12.45....I didn't get back onto the blogs again until about 4.30 and wouldn't you just believe it - my internet was down!Finally once again with glass of wine and ciggy in hand I thought I would try my luck.... YES! Internet back up and off I went.... Knock on the door - same neighbour. Come for a braai, it's my dad's birthday... NO thank you......Shame she b...
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Eishkom Jokes
2008-01-18 19:53:00
Hi AllI thought in "light" of the recent Eishkom load shedding we all have to endure, I would post a few Eishkom jokes. On a serious note, I have detailed Eskom Load Shedding schedules, if you would like me to mail it to you, leave your email address.... A man dies and goes to hell. There he finds that there is a different hell for each country. He decides he'll pick the least painful to spend his eternity. He goes to German Hell and asks, 'What do they do here?' He is told first they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour.Then the German devil comes in and whips you for the rest of the day'. The man does not like the sound of that at all so he moves on. He checks out the USA Hell as well as the Russian Hell and many more. He discovers that they are all similar to the German hell.Then he comes to the South African Hell and finds that there is a long line of people waiting to get in. Amazed, he asks, 'What do they do here?...
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Your Friday Story
2008-01-18 13:51:00
Here is your Friday story, Self-fulfilling Prophecy Proverbs 23: 7 - "As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is." The batter hits the ball high in the air towards right field. It arcs majestically against the sky. It is going right towards Sammy. Everybody in the park knows that he's going to drop it. Sammy knows that he's going to drop it. He drops it. This scene has been replayed time and time again on fields around the world. It doesn't have to be a fielder; it sometime is a batter you know is going to strike out. It doesn't even have to be baseball. It can be anything. It's called a self-fulfilling prophecy. I wasn't familiar with this term until I took a psychology class in university. Basically it means that what you believe will usually happen. If you believe you are going to flunk a test, you probably will. If you think the meal you are making for your new in-laws will be a disaster, it probably will. If you think you will be in a car accident, better call your insu...
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Friday Humour
2008-01-18 12:18:00
Morning all,Once again thank you all for your comments, support and emails during the last frustrating couple of days.... it really does make a huge difference in my life to find an email or a funny comment on my blog. I have loads of housework to do so I am off to tackle it all shortly and then I will be back later to read all the blogs that I missed yesterday (phew... that could take a while).In the meantime here is some Friday humour and I will post my usual Friday story a bit later on.Oh and on my gratitude list this morning is the following line:I am so grateful that I did not have to sit in the traffic this morning when Eishkom shedded their load between 6.00 and 8.30 in my area and all along my route to work.See ya later..... During an hour's swimming at a  municipal pool you will ingest 1/12 litres of urine.   In an average day your hands will have come into  indirect contact with 15 penises (touching door handles etc.)   An av...
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The Hyperlink Thingy....... again
2008-01-18 00:54:00
If my memory serves me correctly I think that the very first post I ever did here in Blogland was a post on how to do a Hyperlink. I can probably go and check to make sure but nah.... it's getting late now and my head is already nodding off to the side...Anyway I thought that I would post it again....Ok here goes.... First you go to the person's blog that you are going to write about. . In the address bar of your internet explorer copy everything that is in there. It should look like this:    http://womenblogs.24.com/ViewBlog.aspx?bl ogid=452850d7-5256-4769-9069-d1b1e86deaa4     Create a new post   Type your blog as you normally would with the name of the blogger that you want to link to. Then when you are done posting, highlight the bloggers name e.g. Cat_Woman.   At the top of your screen you will see an icon that looks like this     Click on it.   The following screen will appear....   Ok so far, so good.... &n...

Finally.......
2008-01-17 20:06:00
Hello there,Finally I am able to write a post. One of the lazy arsed boys was downloading a 3 GIG (!!!!) file via Bit Torrent. It chomps bandwidth and basically ground our entire network to a halt today. I couldn't even send or receive email expect for one brief moment when I was able to let Stray Cat know more or less why I had not been online...I wasn't going to "tell" on him because it really is not my place as far as I am concerned. The Manger (should read Manager) should be checking up on what his staff are up to..... not me!Anyway, the meeting this morning was his usual "phaff", pussyfoot around..... blah blah bullshit blah blah bullshit some more blah blah and even more bullshit. I asked others if they actually knew what the meeting was about afterwards and basically the answer was no. So really the meeting was about blah blah and bullshit. The one thing that we did all understand and hear loud and clear is that NO ONE's job is secure or guaranteed. He went on to say (in b...

Updates.....
2008-01-16 20:31:00
Ok I have a few updates: Firstly the 2 beautiful cats have found a fabulous home on a 50 000 Acre property with trees and streams and all sort of lovely "cat things" so I am ecstatic! Secondly for those who didn't read my previous post on the puppies and kittens being sold at robots, the guy responsible was arrested and they are trying to track where these animals are coming from. YAY!! I love progress.. And now to the third update: THE BOSS. Ok for my regular blogger friends/readers I wrote a post a while back about retrenchments. Luckily as you know I survived. One of my colleagues took the package and saved my ass. Ok so imagine our shock today when they retrenched our IT Manager together with I think 5 or 6 other Senior Managers. That's not even the worst part. They called our Boss over and so we thought the worst.. We were wrong, they have amalgamated our Department with IT and my boss will run the whole show (oh bugger). Ok but wait because I am not done yet... When...
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Good news......
2008-01-16 11:57:00
Good morning Bloggers,The arsehole, sorry I mean The Boss is on the warpath today big time....... One of my colleagues is going to try and slip 2 rescue tablets in his coffee...... the man needs to calm the f**** down....I will be scarce on the blogs today but I thought that this story deserved a mention.A fellow blogger and now a dear friend Stray Cat posted this comment on my blog yesterday in response to the News article about the puppies and kittens being "sold" at robots:   "Right... I got off my blogging butt and phoned Randburg SPCA. Seems this sort of thing has to be reported to the Metro Police as it is a by-law infringement. Then phoned 10111 and received confirmation that this is the best option. And, just for info, Randburg SPCA confirmed that only today the cops brought in the puppy seller and the puppies - SPCA took charge of the puppies and cops took charge of the seller!"   And here is the confirmation in the Newspaper this morning.. YAY!   Animal love...
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International Cat Hugging Day....
2008-01-15 18:33:00
Driving home from work (thankfully no load shedding of robots today!) listening to Fresh on 5FM. He was saying that it's International Hug your Cat Day. I was very ashamed as a cat lover to not have know this.... and then I got to thinking... I don't need a special day to hug my cats, I hug them every day. In other news - it looks like I am going to be fostering 2 Norwegian Forest cats. They are brothers and look almost identical.Here are some pics of them. Take note of how similar they look...
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What next?...........
2008-01-15 12:38:00
I read this article this morning and found it quite shocking.....and very very sad....Thankfully I haven't seen this in Cape Town.....A group of hawkers have hit on a novel way of making money - by threatening to kill puppies and kittens in front of motorists if they don't buy them.Motorists along William Nicol Drive, north of Joburg, have recently found themselves harassed by hawkers trying to sell small puppies and kittens - some costing as much as R400.The animals are normally in a terrible state, covered in fleas, mange and ringworm - and receive no food or water all the hours they are peddled on the side of the road.Ross Malan, from Hurlingham Manor, found himself with an unwanted puppy this weekend after feeling sorry for a tiny dog that had been out in the sun for hours with a man clearly using him as a begging tool. "I was running promotions with my friend on a William Nicol intersection when I noticed a man walking through the traffic using this puppy to beg....

Fabulous bloggers....
2008-01-15 09:48:00
Good morning all,After the bad day that I had yesterday, I climbed into my car at 4 o'clock and was looking forward to getting home and reading all the blogs. This was not to be for quite some time as Eishkom once again decided to shed their load by killing robots in rush hour traffic! What is normally a half hour trip turned into me getting home at 5.30 so you do the math....Finally I was able to go online and thank you bloggers, I laughed from the moment I logged on and was still chuckling to myself when I got into bed VERY late as I had loads of catching up to do..The only problem now is the wine rack is nearly empty! Sorry Broody and Moody but I did save you some....Right so this morning I meditated and did my visualisation as I always do and then it was time for a quick visit to the blogs.It's great to get here early and actually have a fast internet connection at least until the lazy arsed "others" get in and start downloading.So..... I hope that you all have a great da...
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Bosses and gratitude......
2008-01-14 16:40:00
  Hello Blogland   You would not believe the day I am having today so I am going to vent a bit in order to try and get this off my chest otherwise I fear I might explode.   I am unable to go on line at work as it is just soooooo slow, not to mention I am really busy and my boss is a nosy sod, I really do not need him to find out about my blog especially since this post is going to be about him. Our resident lazy arsed "boys" are downloading DVD's etc and have ground our internet to an absolute standstill.   I have already had 4 meetings with my sod boss, one of which I walked out of! He is the most negative, whiny, weak, pratt, sod, bastard I have ever met in my life. He phaffs around, wastes my time and doesn't listen to a word I say when I try and give him some good advice. The PABX system we have, I worked for the company who sells/installs and maintains them for 10 and a half years installing it, maintaining it and training on it, I know my stuff. He calls...
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For Straycat....
2008-01-14 09:27:00
Good morning all.....Stray Cat mailed this to me on Friday and I promised that I would post in over the weekend but we were all having such fun here in Blogland over the weekend that I thought I would save it for Monday which I am sure NONE of us are enjoying.....So.... this is for all the ladies and especially to Stray CatEnjoy and I hope you all have a fabulous day.... (";")

Shopping for cat "things"......
2008-01-13 17:25:00
Right.... so yesterday when Eishkom were shedding their load I had a blonde moment when I went to the Vet Shop to buy cat food. No power, no payment with credit card! Drat now what? Went to Spar (they have a generator) and bought some of the "cheap" stuff.   Well... the cats were having none of THAT!   I tried to explain that they would have to wait until the next day until I could got back to the Vetshop to get the "decent" stuff.   All I got was THE LOOK! Ok so when I woke up this morning, the cat bowls were still full and in front of me were 6 cats ALL giving me "THE LOOK"   So I was forced to go out and go do some "cat shopping".   Got the GOOD stuff, thought I would give them a break from their usual Hills (besides we have had some fat comments from fellow bloggers. And some Catnip Spray to encourage sleeping in actual allowed "cat places"   Take note of the cat paws in the background advancing on the "product". And also some "Greenies" for tha...
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Last night........
2008-01-13 12:19:00
Ok so after getting my sister addicted to blogging yesterday, what did she do last night? Yep she blogged! 4 posts nogal!And so I stayed online until just after 1.00 this morning just to check what she was up to....... well she's younger than me...... ok ok I know she's in her LATE 30's but still ..... you gotta look out for the siblings.... (and I had to check she wasn't telling any family secrets...)I digress as is normally Vusi's  way....I can't remember when last I had such fun (yeah I know I really need to get out more!) as what I did here in Blogland.I actually managed to come up with a limerick for Sideview's weekend challenge...... must have been the wine I think... Rachel popped in and we discussed Predator Pouches and I think she wanted to see if Crazy Daisy had left some scoop.......Anyway all in all it was a great night, with loads of chirping, visiting and bantering and I discovered so many new blogs that I had never read before like Cranky&nb...
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Broken Tiles and Sisters....
2008-01-12 22:02:00
  Ok so where were we? I have now started writing my posts in Word and then pasting them because this is my second third attempt at writing this post....it keeps disappearing... see really am having a bad day! Ah yes, Jake and the tiles. Ok so while I was in the garage trying to maneuver past my car with a big basket of washing and knocking off all the power tools (ooooh I love power tools but that's a story for another day) Jake was in the kitchen practicing his skiing techniques on the counter.   Ok now I have to explain something here. I have tiles on my kitchen counter so that:   a)    I can put hot pots and things straight onto the counter without having to hunt for one of those pot holder thingies.   b)   So that the white counter will not get stained (I know Supa very anal) by oh say red wine glass rings and other things. (Oh it rhymes)   c)    For occasions when polite young men decide to cut things like ...
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