- I've had this silly sniffely bug hanging around for 2 full weeks and it has finally broken... I am coughing my lungs out and feel pretty rotten, but at least now I should start getting better
- I am LOVING the cooler weather we're having, can't wait for Autumn to really set in.
- I have so enjoyed cooking this week. I HATE cooking in the heat and will avoid it at all costs. This week we've eaten some good food, thanks to the cooler temps.
- We have a full weekend planned: Dinner out with the Boltons tonight, watching the Sharks game on TV with the Clarks tomorrow and my aunt for dinner on Sunday. Looking forward to it! Provided I don't start feeling any more rotten.... please no!
- I've been teaching Paula to drive this week and have to confess that teaching a perfectionist to drive is no easy feat! She is doing really well, but is so incredibly hard on herself. NOW I see what her teachers mean when they say she needs to lighten up.
- Had a day for missing my little brother yesterday. Funny how it will strike out of the blue for no apparent reason, I think I may have dreamt about him, the night before last, because I woke with him on my mind and there he remained all day. I wonder where he would be now, if he was still alive?
- We went and saw "Midnight in Paris" on Sunday. I LOVED it. I read Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" last year and it made the film so much more meaningful. To see all my favourite places in Paris on the big screen was just lovely. I really LOVE Paris. Would love to live there for a while. Dreams....
- I have this horrible job I have to do at work and I have been putting it off and putting it off and now I can put it off no longer, Monday I will tackle it and hopefully finish it on Tuesday. Fortunately I don't have many jobs that create this degree of angst in me!
- Some swine stole all Impi's money out of his savings account this week. I am furious the poor kid works such long hours for a pathetic wage and then some idiot has the gall to take what little money he has... Really, it's just not on!
- In 2 week's time we are going to Sun City (for our last timeshare holiday there - sob, sob). I can't wait!
Friday, March 09, 2012
Briefly...
Saturday, March 03, 2012
Don't think it's over
I've been thinking about marriage - not about whether TO get married, seen as I'm already living in matrimonial bliss... duh, but rather about how to BE married. If you ask me, GETTING married is the easy part, BEING married, now that's a whole different kettle of fish and STAYING married, well that's where it gets complicated.
If you'd asked me ten years ago about my views on divorce I would probably have given you a very different answer to the one I'd give you now. Having grown-up in and around a whole bunch of divorces I can tell you that, much as we would like to believe otherwise, kids DO suffer no matter how congenial the divorce (is there such a thing really?) It sucks living in a home where a divorce is going on and it sucks even more living in the aftermath. Truth. BUT I think what sucks even more than that is living in a home where there is marital discord in the air, no matter how silently it's happening. You might think you are pulling the wool over young Johnny, or Gilly's eyes, but trust me, you're not. So yes, if the marriage cannot be saved, I'd say, for the sake of your children, end it. This bullsh*t about staying married for the sake of the children is just that: bullsh*t.
Those have been my views since I was a kid, nothing new there. What I have come to realise in more recent years though, and it's been a revelation to me, is that if both parties are willing to put some serious work into it, most marriages that end in divorce could be saved - unless there is abuse happening (sexual, emotional, physical, makes no difference, if abuse is happening I believe you should always get out of there and make it quick!) My view is that way too many people get divorced way too quickly. I speak from personal experience here, Grant and I have been on the very brink of getting divorced twice and look at us now, we're happy! Genuinely happy.
Our poor marriage has had more poop flung at it than most I have to tell you. Apart from the general friction you will encounter when you have two completely opposite people insisting on co-habitating, we have dealt with bereavement, financial crises, family drama on a scale normally reserved for soap operas, infertility, infidelity (bet you didn't see that one coming, frankly neither did we!) retrenchment, living on different continents (for more than two years!), moving house countless times, the dreaded "I love you, but I'm not in-love with you" conversation......and it goes on and on.....
So how have we seen our way through it all? Sheer bullish determination. I think the key factor is that when we have really been in a crisis, before taking that final step and ending it all, we have taken time to think about it and have, thankfully, decided that our marriage, our family, is something worth fighting for. I am not going to pretend it's been easy. Truthfully, this marriage has asked more from us than I ever would have thought we'd be willing to give.
I think the worst day in our marriage, well for me anyway, was weirdly a particular Valentine's Day, Grant and I both had to make sacrifices that day that cost us deeply on a personal level, I mean really deeply. Horrible! I was literally brought, sobbing, to my knees. It took us more than a year to claw our way back to anything remotely resembling what a marriage should be, but we did it and looking back I am so grateful we did. How did we do it? Speaking for myself, the only way I could do it was by pretending. I based this approach on the theory that "if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, eventually it will BE a duck". So I pretended I was happily married, acted like I was happily married, treated my husband as if I was happily married (well most times!) and, so help me, next thing I knew I WAS happily married. Not an approach I would necessarily recommend, but it worked for me!
So having been through all of this, do I think our marriage will last "till death us do part"? I so wish I could say "Yes, absolutely", but, honestly, I don't know. I am enough of a realist to accept that the next blow might be the fatal one. BUT, trust me on this, I will never watch my marriage fall apart without putting up one HELL of a fight!
If you'd asked me ten years ago about my views on divorce I would probably have given you a very different answer to the one I'd give you now. Having grown-up in and around a whole bunch of divorces I can tell you that, much as we would like to believe otherwise, kids DO suffer no matter how congenial the divorce (is there such a thing really?) It sucks living in a home where a divorce is going on and it sucks even more living in the aftermath. Truth. BUT I think what sucks even more than that is living in a home where there is marital discord in the air, no matter how silently it's happening. You might think you are pulling the wool over young Johnny, or Gilly's eyes, but trust me, you're not. So yes, if the marriage cannot be saved, I'd say, for the sake of your children, end it. This bullsh*t about staying married for the sake of the children is just that: bullsh*t.
Those have been my views since I was a kid, nothing new there. What I have come to realise in more recent years though, and it's been a revelation to me, is that if both parties are willing to put some serious work into it, most marriages that end in divorce could be saved - unless there is abuse happening (sexual, emotional, physical, makes no difference, if abuse is happening I believe you should always get out of there and make it quick!) My view is that way too many people get divorced way too quickly. I speak from personal experience here, Grant and I have been on the very brink of getting divorced twice and look at us now, we're happy! Genuinely happy.
Our poor marriage has had more poop flung at it than most I have to tell you. Apart from the general friction you will encounter when you have two completely opposite people insisting on co-habitating, we have dealt with bereavement, financial crises, family drama on a scale normally reserved for soap operas, infertility, infidelity (bet you didn't see that one coming, frankly neither did we!) retrenchment, living on different continents (for more than two years!), moving house countless times, the dreaded "I love you, but I'm not in-love with you" conversation......and it goes on and on.....
So how have we seen our way through it all? Sheer bullish determination. I think the key factor is that when we have really been in a crisis, before taking that final step and ending it all, we have taken time to think about it and have, thankfully, decided that our marriage, our family, is something worth fighting for. I am not going to pretend it's been easy. Truthfully, this marriage has asked more from us than I ever would have thought we'd be willing to give.
I think the worst day in our marriage, well for me anyway, was weirdly a particular Valentine's Day, Grant and I both had to make sacrifices that day that cost us deeply on a personal level, I mean really deeply. Horrible! I was literally brought, sobbing, to my knees. It took us more than a year to claw our way back to anything remotely resembling what a marriage should be, but we did it and looking back I am so grateful we did. How did we do it? Speaking for myself, the only way I could do it was by pretending. I based this approach on the theory that "if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, eventually it will BE a duck". So I pretended I was happily married, acted like I was happily married, treated my husband as if I was happily married (well most times!) and, so help me, next thing I knew I WAS happily married. Not an approach I would necessarily recommend, but it worked for me!
So having been through all of this, do I think our marriage will last "till death us do part"? I so wish I could say "Yes, absolutely", but, honestly, I don't know. I am enough of a realist to accept that the next blow might be the fatal one. BUT, trust me on this, I will never watch my marriage fall apart without putting up one HELL of a fight!
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Mesothelioma Survivor Blog
Those of you who have me on facebook will know that one of my favourite bloggers, Susan (aka Whymommy) from Toddler Planet passed away recently after a long and courageous battle with Inflammatory Breast Cancer. I blogged about it here, shortly after her diagnosis. Susan was, and always will be, an inspiration to me. I was so very, very sad that she lost her battle; but having gotten to know Susan through her blog, I know that she would not have wanted her bloggy followers to be sad or down, she'd have wanted us to get out there, make people more aware and above all, be positive, just like she was, right to the end.
What better way to be positive than to blog about a woman who has fought a deadly form of cancer and emerged victorious?! Heather Von St James emailed me a couple of weeks ago and asked if I would do a post on my blog about her fight against Mesothelioma.
This is Heather's story in a nutshell:
I myself am a mother to a quirky little 6 year old, Lily. She is my only child, and my whole world. The very beginning of Lily’s life was a little more turbulent than I would have hoped for. When Lily was just 3 ½ months old, I was diagnosed with Mesothelioma; a type of cancer that kills 90-95% of those who have it. As I’m sure you can imagine, the first thing that came to mind when I was diagnosed was my baby girl and how I wasn’t going to be able to watch her grow up.
After all that, I’m still here 6 years later and cancer free! I'd like to turn my pain into purpose and become someone that other parents can look to for guidance, inspiration, and hope in situations like my own.
There is SO much more to Heather's story. Do yourself a favour and read this post! What an incredibly inspiring woman!
To follow her journey from diagnosis, click on these links:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
If you know of anyone newly diagnosed, or someone who would benefit from reading Heather's story, please direct them to her blog (click on the button above). The more of us who are educated about this disease, the better equipped we are to fight it!
What better way to be positive than to blog about a woman who has fought a deadly form of cancer and emerged victorious?! Heather Von St James emailed me a couple of weeks ago and asked if I would do a post on my blog about her fight against Mesothelioma.
Heather Von St James
This is Heather's story in a nutshell:
I myself am a mother to a quirky little 6 year old, Lily. She is my only child, and my whole world. The very beginning of Lily’s life was a little more turbulent than I would have hoped for. When Lily was just 3 ½ months old, I was diagnosed with Mesothelioma; a type of cancer that kills 90-95% of those who have it. As I’m sure you can imagine, the first thing that came to mind when I was diagnosed was my baby girl and how I wasn’t going to be able to watch her grow up.
After all that, I’m still here 6 years later and cancer free! I'd like to turn my pain into purpose and become someone that other parents can look to for guidance, inspiration, and hope in situations like my own.
There is SO much more to Heather's story. Do yourself a favour and read this post! What an incredibly inspiring woman!
To follow her journey from diagnosis, click on these links:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
If you know of anyone newly diagnosed, or someone who would benefit from reading Heather's story, please direct them to her blog (click on the button above). The more of us who are educated about this disease, the better equipped we are to fight it!
Monday, February 20, 2012
I've fallen in love with a future guide-dog!
As you are probably aware, I am crazy about all things dog, and I have to confess that I have fallen deeply in love with yet another dog. I have always had a soft spot for guide-dogs, since reading "Emma and I" donkey's years ago. Now one of my favourite bloggers, Angel of Angel's Mind is raising a puppy for the SA Guide-dog Association, and boy-oh-boy has Volt captured my heart! I have been following his story since his arrival in Angel's and Glugster's home and I have to say it's been fascinating. I think what they are doing is remarkable.
There is SO much more to raising a puppy to be trained as a guide-dog than I ever imagined! For instance, guide-dog puppies are not trained with food rewards, but instead with positive reinforcement; Volt can't play with tennis balls or frisbees; he has to be trained not to sniff and can only do so when he's going "to the toilet", and while on that subject, he has to be taught to wee and poop on demand, he must sleep in a special crate ... the list goes on and on.
I strongly recommend a visit to Angel's Furbabies where you can follow Volt's journey to becoming a fully-grown guide-dog. If you want to read all about it from the very beginning scroll down to the bottom of the page and keep clicking on "older posts" until you get to Volt's arrival on 21 December 2011.
And here's a picture of the little guy that I swiped off the website, hope Angel won't mind!
There is SO much more to raising a puppy to be trained as a guide-dog than I ever imagined! For instance, guide-dog puppies are not trained with food rewards, but instead with positive reinforcement; Volt can't play with tennis balls or frisbees; he has to be trained not to sniff and can only do so when he's going "to the toilet", and while on that subject, he has to be taught to wee and poop on demand, he must sleep in a special crate ... the list goes on and on.
I strongly recommend a visit to Angel's Furbabies where you can follow Volt's journey to becoming a fully-grown guide-dog. If you want to read all about it from the very beginning scroll down to the bottom of the page and keep clicking on "older posts" until you get to Volt's arrival on 21 December 2011.
And here's a picture of the little guy that I swiped off the website, hope Angel won't mind!
Saturday, February 18, 2012
60 things
I saw this on Angel's blog and as I am always up for a bout of navel-gazing, I decided to do it too
1. How old will you be in five years? 49 and I'm surprisingly cool with that!
2. Who did you spend at least two hours with today? My darling husband. My goodness I love that man!
3. How tall short are you? 158 centimetres.
4. What is the last movie you saw? We went and saw Jack and Jill..... it was undoubtedly the worst movie I have ever seen.
5. Who called you last? My Roxy-girl
6. Who did you call last? I tried to phone my aunt but she didn't answer - no surprises there, she never has her phone with her.
7. What was the last text message you received? A message from my Rox. We communicate A LOT!
8. Do you prefer calling or texting? I HATE talking on the phone and avoid it at all costs, unless it's one of my girls or Grant.
9. Are your parents married or divorced? Totally divorced. Totally.
10. When did you last see your mother? On the day she died.
11. What color eyes do you have? Green.
12. When did you wake up today? 06:09 aaargh! It's Saturday for goodness sake, what became of Saturday sleep-ins?
13. What is your favorite Christmas song? Last Christmas - Wham
But I had a very Michael Buble Christmas this year and I love, love, love his Christmas CD
14. What is your favorite place? My bed. I spend an embarrassing amount of time there, considering I'm not bed-ridden.
15. What place do you like the least? The gynaecologist's consulting room
16. Where do you think you will find yourself in ten years? I have this dream and I would like to think it may oneday come true, but if I'm being honest, I'll probably be living in Durban in 10 years time!
17. What scared you about the night as a child? The bit where it got dark.
18. What made you really laugh last? I have a guilty little secret and it's where I go if I need some hysterical laughter to get me through the day. It's this website (only go there if you are not easily offended! Don't say I didn't warn you...)
19. How big is your bed? In about a week's time our new king-size bed will arrive. I.Cannot.Wait.
20. Do you have a desktop or laptop computer? Laptop. Love it.
21. Do you sleep with or without clothes on? I really cannot sleep without PJs on. I've tried and I just can't do it. That whole being naked feeling. Uh-Huh.
22. How many pillows do you have in bed? 2 flattish pillows.
23. How many provinces have you lived in? Born in Gauteng and emigrated to KZN.
24. Which cities have you lived in? I'm not a city kind of girl. I'm a small town chick.
25. Do you prefer shoes, socks or bare feet? My house slops
26. Are you social? Not at all.
27. What is your favorite ice cream? Vanilla, with Horlicks sprinkled on top, yummy.
28. What is your favorite dessert? Creme Brulee.
29. Do you like Chinese food? Yes, please.
30. Do you like coffee? Only if it's made to my specific instructions - it has to be de-caf and the milk has to be boiled.
31. What do you have for breakfast? Fruits of the Cape yoghurt with Woolies vanilla muesli.
32. Do you sleep on a particular side? On the right.
33. Can you play poker? Nope.
34. Do you like to cuddle / snuggle? Only for a little bit and then I get fidgety and irritated.
35. Are you a dependent person? Oh yes. Hang around me for any length of time and I will begin to lean on you.
36. Do you know anyone with the same birthday as you? Mc Dreamy and Orlando Bloom, yay!
37. Do you have children? My two girls are the best thing that ever happened to me. And I have an Impi too. What can I say? I lucked out!
38. Do you know any languages other than English? Afrikaans and a very peculiar form of Zulu.
39. Have you ever driven an ambulance? Huh?
40. Do you prefer the ocean or a pool? To look at - the ocean, to be in - the pool.
41. What do you spend money on? Apart from the usual household stuff, mainly e-books.
42. Do you have precious jewellery? The ring I inherited from my darling aunt, that I now wear as a wedding ring.
43. What are your favorite shows on TV? I only ever watch Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice
44. Can you roll your tongue? Nope.
45. Who is the funniest person you know? Grant. He cracks me up.
46. Do you sleep with stuffed animals? Definitely not, but I sleep with a live little Jack Russell ♥
47. What is your ringtone? I think it's "The Sting"
48. Do you still have clothes from when you were little? Nope.
49. What is closest to you right now that is red? My Body Shop Strawberry Body Butter. Love it!
50. Do you flirt much? Not nearly as much as I used to!
51. Can you change the oil on the car: Bwahahaha. No.
52. Have you received a speeding ticket ever: Nope, I'm not a speedy kind of girl
53. What was the last book you read? The latest Sherryl Woods.
54. Do you read a newspaper? I read the Mercury every weekday.
55. Subscribe to a magazine? For some weird reason, after being a magazine-aholic. I have gone off magazines.
56. Do you dance in the car: No, but I do sing.
57. Which radio station did you listen to last? East Coast Radio. Although it's never been the same since Dave Guselli left. sob, sob
58. What was the last thing you scribbled down on paper? My shopping list.
59. When were you at church last? I no longer go to church.
60. Are you happy? I am. I don't take for granted how very blessed I am.
1. How old will you be in five years? 49 and I'm surprisingly cool with that!
2. Who did you spend at least two hours with today? My darling husband. My goodness I love that man!
3. How
4. What is the last movie you saw? We went and saw Jack and Jill..... it was undoubtedly the worst movie I have ever seen.
5. Who called you last? My Roxy-girl
6. Who did you call last? I tried to phone my aunt but she didn't answer - no surprises there, she never has her phone with her.
7. What was the last text message you received? A message from my Rox. We communicate A LOT!
8. Do you prefer calling or texting? I HATE talking on the phone and avoid it at all costs, unless it's one of my girls or Grant.
9. Are your parents married or divorced? Totally divorced. Totally.
10. When did you last see your mother? On the day she died.
11. What color eyes do you have? Green.
12. When did you wake up today? 06:09 aaargh! It's Saturday for goodness sake, what became of Saturday sleep-ins?
13. What is your favorite Christmas song? Last Christmas - Wham
But I had a very Michael Buble Christmas this year and I love, love, love his Christmas CD
14. What is your favorite place? My bed. I spend an embarrassing amount of time there, considering I'm not bed-ridden.
15. What place do you like the least? The gynaecologist's consulting room
16. Where do you think you will find yourself in ten years? I have this dream and I would like to think it may oneday come true, but if I'm being honest, I'll probably be living in Durban in 10 years time!
17. What scared you about the night as a child? The bit where it got dark.
18. What made you really laugh last? I have a guilty little secret and it's where I go if I need some hysterical laughter to get me through the day. It's this website (only go there if you are not easily offended! Don't say I didn't warn you...)
19. How big is your bed? In about a week's time our new king-size bed will arrive. I.Cannot.Wait.
20. Do you have a desktop or laptop computer? Laptop. Love it.
21. Do you sleep with or without clothes on? I really cannot sleep without PJs on. I've tried and I just can't do it. That whole being naked feeling. Uh-Huh.
22. How many pillows do you have in bed? 2 flattish pillows.
23. How many provinces have you lived in? Born in Gauteng and emigrated to KZN.
24. Which cities have you lived in? I'm not a city kind of girl. I'm a small town chick.
25. Do you prefer shoes, socks or bare feet? My house slops
26. Are you social? Not at all.
27. What is your favorite ice cream? Vanilla, with Horlicks sprinkled on top, yummy.
28. What is your favorite dessert? Creme Brulee.
29. Do you like Chinese food? Yes, please.
30. Do you like coffee? Only if it's made to my specific instructions - it has to be de-caf and the milk has to be boiled.
31. What do you have for breakfast? Fruits of the Cape yoghurt with Woolies vanilla muesli.
32. Do you sleep on a particular side? On the right.
33. Can you play poker? Nope.
34. Do you like to cuddle / snuggle? Only for a little bit and then I get fidgety and irritated.
35. Are you a dependent person? Oh yes. Hang around me for any length of time and I will begin to lean on you.
36. Do you know anyone with the same birthday as you? Mc Dreamy and Orlando Bloom, yay!
37. Do you have children? My two girls are the best thing that ever happened to me. And I have an Impi too. What can I say? I lucked out!
38. Do you know any languages other than English? Afrikaans and a very peculiar form of Zulu.
39. Have you ever driven an ambulance? Huh?
40. Do you prefer the ocean or a pool? To look at - the ocean, to be in - the pool.
41. What do you spend money on? Apart from the usual household stuff, mainly e-books.
42. Do you have precious jewellery? The ring I inherited from my darling aunt, that I now wear as a wedding ring.
43. What are your favorite shows on TV? I only ever watch Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice
44. Can you roll your tongue? Nope.
45. Who is the funniest person you know? Grant. He cracks me up.
46. Do you sleep with stuffed animals? Definitely not, but I sleep with a live little Jack Russell ♥
47. What is your ringtone? I think it's "The Sting"
48. Do you still have clothes from when you were little? Nope.
49. What is closest to you right now that is red? My Body Shop Strawberry Body Butter. Love it!
50. Do you flirt much? Not nearly as much as I used to!
51. Can you change the oil on the car: Bwahahaha. No.
52. Have you received a speeding ticket ever: Nope, I'm not a speedy kind of girl
53. What was the last book you read? The latest Sherryl Woods.
54. Do you read a newspaper? I read the Mercury every weekday.
55. Subscribe to a magazine? For some weird reason, after being a magazine-aholic. I have gone off magazines.
56. Do you dance in the car: No, but I do sing.
57. Which radio station did you listen to last? East Coast Radio. Although it's never been the same since Dave Guselli left. sob, sob
58. What was the last thing you scribbled down on paper? My shopping list.
59. When were you at church last? I no longer go to church.
60. Are you happy? I am. I don't take for granted how very blessed I am.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
So I'm White, what does that MEAN?
My faults and personality quirks are many and varied. I am quite happy to admit that I am often obnoxious, frequently bitchy, permanently moody, I swear a lot, I enjoy a tasty tid-bit of scandal..... the list goes on and on. I don't deny any of it. But what I am NOT is racist. That is one label that you can't stick on me. So it really irks me when someone assumes, based solely on the fact that I happen to be South African and I was born with a lily-white skin, that I am racist.
It has happened twice in the last month that people I have just met and have begun chatting to, have suddenly alluded to the fact that they don't particularly like black people and assumed that I feel the same way. You want to see my hackles rise? Do that to me! Weirdly enough, both these people were "people of colour".
Seriously, do people in general assume that ALL white South Africans are racist? Surely not! Surely you can't jump to that kind of assumption before you know a person.
One of my children is a black man. It breaks my heart to think that there are people out there who automatically dislike Impi because he was born with a gorgeous chocolate coloured skin. The nicest person I have ever have the privilege of knowing and who I am proud to call my very best friend, happens to be a black domestic worker. How completely and utterly daft to like or dislike people based on the colour of their skin. I really, truly and honestly don't get it. It's like saying I don't like people with brown eyes. For goodness' sake, how infantile!
Yes, there are black people I despise, there are also white people I loathe and as for the Afrikaans people who live on the corner of our street.... I despise, loathe AND detest them. This has stuff all to do with the colour of their skin and a lot to do with their pond-scum-like personalities.
To my way of thinking, you need to spend a bit of time getting to know someone before you decide to dislike them and you need to spend more than 5 minutes with a person before labelling them a racist!
Rant over. Climbing off my soap-box now!
It has happened twice in the last month that people I have just met and have begun chatting to, have suddenly alluded to the fact that they don't particularly like black people and assumed that I feel the same way. You want to see my hackles rise? Do that to me! Weirdly enough, both these people were "people of colour".
Seriously, do people in general assume that ALL white South Africans are racist? Surely not! Surely you can't jump to that kind of assumption before you know a person.
One of my children is a black man. It breaks my heart to think that there are people out there who automatically dislike Impi because he was born with a gorgeous chocolate coloured skin. The nicest person I have ever have the privilege of knowing and who I am proud to call my very best friend, happens to be a black domestic worker. How completely and utterly daft to like or dislike people based on the colour of their skin. I really, truly and honestly don't get it. It's like saying I don't like people with brown eyes. For goodness' sake, how infantile!
Yes, there are black people I despise, there are also white people I loathe and as for the Afrikaans people who live on the corner of our street.... I despise, loathe AND detest them. This has stuff all to do with the colour of their skin and a lot to do with their pond-scum-like personalities.
To my way of thinking, you need to spend a bit of time getting to know someone before you decide to dislike them and you need to spend more than 5 minutes with a person before labelling them a racist!
Rant over. Climbing off my soap-box now!
Monday, February 13, 2012
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