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I was meant to have breakfast with a very dear client/friend this morning and I have been angsting about buying her JUST the right birthday gift for ages.

As usual, I ended up in front of a gift shop in Durbanville first thing this morning where I always find something.  To my horror they were closed, so I wandered into the coffe shop next door to ask if they knew when the shop would open.

This lady was at the entrance and she called me by my name.  It took me a minute to figure out who she was, but it turns out she was at school with me!  (her hair is a totally different colour and she was wearing make up) We then ended up talking and I couldn’t help but notice that is definately looking and dressing “younger” than me.  She never married and has had a very different life to me.  Of course she looked at my ring finger and wanted to know.

And then I started thinking about how we judge people and what they look like and then I thought OMG, here I am making judgements about other people when I am carrying at least 20kgs more and my fingers are too fat to wear my wedding ring.. 

(at least my hair is looking fabulous and I still have lipstick on)

Last thought for the day:

I don’t know if you caught Natasha Sutherland on Gareth’s show last week on Five fm and how they were saying that she is the poster girl for the “woman scorned”, but I had a good giggle this morning when Steve Hofmeyer was on the show as well.  I couldn’t listen to much of it, but am dying to know what was said!

Anyone??

I am amazed at how all of a sudden Daniel seems to be playing so nicely with the girls. The school is also saying how gentle he is with the smaller kids.  (it might have something to do with the 40 000 times we shrieked “SAGGIES!” at the poor child!)

This morning Mignon came into the kitchen an he actually said “hallo Mignon” and gave her a hug and a kiss.  I almost died of sheer joy.

Then, this evening, he was steering Isabel towards the lounge, but really softly with his hand on her back as he knew that their show (Baby Einstein) was on.

They are so in love with and in awe of him. They were in the bath tonight and he came into the bathroom and was pushing toys into the bath off the edge and they all 3 collapsed with giggles.  SO, SO precious 🙂

Last thought: I am really happy sometimes I married someone from the same background as we are naturally more “on the same page” with stuff, for example, I was saying tonight how I felt like making some “melkkos” (don’t know what the English word for this would be) and then we figured out that our Moms used exactly the same recipe.  We also figured out that we have known each other for about 24 years – scary!

Yesterday morning I looked at myself, the grey hair and the boring bob that was dragging me down and thought, that’s it, I need a change.

So I called the salon and went for a colour and a cut.  I must add that this is the first time in more than a year I have allowed myself the luxury of having my hair coloured professionally.

Even though the guy didn’t listen to my pleas of being able to tuck my hair behind my ears, it still looks nice.  Thank goodness for the Spiderman hair gel that came with bubble bath for Daniel’s birthday! I was able to stick that in my fringe thingy this morning!

I also ended up meeting a lovely couple that were working yesterday.  He is Greek and she is Afrikaans and they have just come back from Greece with their 2 daughters after living there for only a month, the Mom couldn’t make the adjustment.  You can see that they are taking strain and he really wants to be there and she really needs to be here.  I so hope they make it through as they are both lovely people!

(Yes Deblet and Shazdart, I went to Tandem, but Johan wasn’t there.) 

1.  Discovery:

I have to have a colonoscopy and umbilical hernia repair done.  Discovery wants me to pay in R2 000 for the pleasure of having the colonoscopy done in hospital, otherwise the doctor has to do it in his rooms.  I then called the doctor, he doesn’t even do the procedure in his rooms.  It’s not like I WANT to go for a colonoscopy.

We are very good customers of Discovery, the only time we have asked them for money is when I was in hospital last year having twins.  We don’t even have MSA, so we pay for everything cash. 

What do I do now???

2.  Sister-in-law

My niece is turning 6 tomorrow and we weren’t invited to a party.  Hubby took Daniel to the inlaws yesterday afternoon so I could spend some time with the girls and ran into his brother and his family there.  My SIL then said that she was having a game drive for the niece’s birthday tomorrow afternoon and would D like come, please could I SMS to let her know whether we’ll be there.

This pissed me off big time as she clearly only invited Daniel as an afterthought and doesn’t have the decency to call me.  Whilst I was on the phone to Discovery now she left a snotty message on my cell saying I have to call her.

Arrgghh, can’t be asked to deal with her craziness today as well! I feel like acting like a brat, but know it will just bite me in the ass if I do.

The school had an open day on Saturday, so I chatted to the Directress and apparently they did speak to the farm and the health department and they never let the kids outside when they are spraying.

(I just want to add that there is a fence between the vineyards and the classrooms and play area)

The long and the short of it is that they need to do more testing and that the general feeling is that there isn’t any immediate danger, but that they cannot comment on any future carcinogenic properties of the spray as yet.

I would be happy if they don’t spray at all when they children are at school, rather do it over weekends or in school holidays.

I do respect the fact that it is a working farm, but it should be a healthier option …

As of next term we are moving Daniel to the bigger class of his school which is on a wine farm in Durbanville and I have always loved this idea of him being so close to nature.

BUT a friend was telling me this week that they were spraying pesticides on the farm this week DURING school hours.  I have a big problem with that!

Thoughts?

Quite an interesting week!

Downs:
1.  The stupid be-atch in the red Megane that tried to run me off the road this morning.  LOOK you idiot, please don’t take your issues out on me, I don’t drive like a moron – you do.
2.  Had to take Mignon back to the doc again yesterday and now we are on antibiotics.  Let’s see how it goes.

Ups:
1.  Oprah moment: new job, new life, new me!
2.  It’s the weekend baby!

Have a good one!

I have finally managed to negotiate a contract with my employer!
 
I officially resigned today and signed an independent contractor contract so I can do permanent recruitment for them, but on my terms and in my time.

It took me 6 months to get my head around the thought of not having a permanent job (yes, I’m a Capricorn) and then another 3 months of fighting to get what I wanted and then another month to get the actual contract sorted, but today I resigned and signed my contract.  It did take a colleague to force me actually type out the letter and sign it and then call our manager to tell her that I will be giving her the letter TODAY, but it’s DONE!

Now I need to sort out a home office, a laptop, connectivity, my own insurance, start a company of sorts and find a tax consultant and figure out a lot of other stuff, but this is a whole new chapter in my life!

Bring it on!!

The surgeon’s rooms have now called to move the op to 8 June as I have said it is going to be very difficult to consume the 4 litres of clean prep at my house with 3 kids wanting to sit my lap, so I am going to do it in hospital.