how to: not get your work done

Its thursday, my favourite day of the week, and I'm making toasted sandwiches which will go very nicely with the episode of the mentalist that I'm going to watch [to try and distract myself from my workload] So the other day G, who is always full of good ideas, suggested that I start a new blog- while keeping this one- on food. What do you think?

[I am working through Micah at the moment and so far these verses are still the ones that stand out the most]

"Look! The LORD is coming from his dwelling place;
he comes down and treads on the heights of the earth

The mountains melt beneath him
and the valleys split apart,
like wax before the fire,
like water rushing down a slope." [Micah 1:3-4]

what amazing imagery. I hope your thursday is lovely x

a whole bunch of catch-up

Hi. its monday. and I'm back. Back from Durban. Exciting times. the 3weeks there were filled with; Indian cuisine [too much curry], tears,new cultures, boredom, walking barefoot through the streets, incense, cheap clothes, sadness, being ridiculously sick, brickbreaker [to pass the time], long phone calls, hindu temples, saris, hospitality, corenza c & grippon, wishing the hours away, beautiful sunsets & nervousness.

[a wishlist]

Then came the next 10-meet-the-family-and-friends-days which can only be described as nerve-wracking. It was also surprisingly lovely, filled with new faces, millions of names, wooden passages & fat cats, tea in the mornings, amazing weather, new places, old faces, strange accents, antibiotics, arguments, the beach, laughter, annoyance, happiness[...]

[happy cupcake monday]

[...] warm welcomes, introductions, kisses, sleeping,good movies & average movies, finding important things, shopping, icecream with marshmallows in it (ah! yes! i know)puppies & kittens, peanutbutter and syrup toast, bee juice, The Durban July, winning, late night suppers, the best sunday, sunshine & my alice dress, music, markets on the beach, a pink dress, meeting terrifying people, toasted sandwiches, caramel coated icecream, important night time talks, whose line is it anyway?, the future, sushi (heckyes i had sushi),

new books, subway for lunch, you made me breakfast, ccu, important people, steers burgers& green juice, goodbyes, tears, back rubs, notes, avo on tost, surprise notes, iloveyous,and jelly babies.

it was an amazing 3weeks. and I cant wait to go back [come quickly october]

"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind." Henry James

the unicorn of your dreams

[father christmas: please may i have one of these]

[happy monday]
the man made a cutting remark about not having blogged in a week so here i am. ah i have truly truly missed you*

monday shoes* i am wearing the most amazing nailpolish colour i have ever seen. it makes me pretty happy everytime i look at my nails. [i promise a better catch-up post tomorrow]
but. cupcake monday* yesplease.

Purify my heart,
cleanse me from within
and make me holy.
Purify my heart,
cleanse me from my sin, deep within.
[beautiful beautiful]
have a lovely day children

serendipity

serendipity [ˌsɛrənˈdɪpɪtɪ]
noun.
the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident
[justsayit. what a beautiful word]

a pretty average weekend, as weekends go, and im not entirely sure why that is. highlight? peppermint tea drinking yesterday with the man. lowlight,a tie between the movie we saw afterwards and how im feeling at the moment.

[full moon lastnight]

for the past hour i have been obsessively stalking the wedding link that the man gave me and i have decided that i will be wearing these shoes to my wedding. the end.

[happy sundaytime]

cinderella

“ For with each dawn, she found new hope that someday, her dreams of happiness would come true." -Cinderella

happy tuesday. ordinarily i love tuesdays and today was good. yes, it was. However this insane capetown wind (which blows even though its sunny outside) becomes a bit much after four days.

[my dad is home from north africa]so im sorry ive failed at blogging these past few days. its been a little hectic here. too hectic for my liking. i just want to crawl into bed and sleep for a few days - or until the bags under my eyes have disappeared.
[agh. wishwishwish]
sleeptight.

[will not write the cliched new-years-post title]

2011 has arrived. its another year. im quite excited really. its only day 1 of this year and there are endless possibilities as to where we will be at the end of this year.
dear 2011,

I hope you will be a year of friends. New friends and old ones.

Of shoes. [or if shoes arent your thing; tea,cake,books,happiness]

Of good food. and the making of good food.
[especially cupcakes]

and lastly. a year of adventure. and new things

i wish you many mugs of hot chocolate, dancing and kisses.
x

summersummersummer

this summer i will:
1. beach it [because i live right next to muzinberg]

2. actually get in the water

3. read my ever-growing pile of books
4. wear [the breakfast at tiffanys] lipstick constantly

5. eat food. all the time

6. wear my high-heels [i never wear heels in summer]

7. buy more high-heels

8. write [i havent written in almost a year]
9. stay up till sun rise

10. bake cakes [using my beautiful new cake book]

dear summer '10, i wish you marshmallows and sunshine and happiness

don't you ask me if its love my dear

[a new obsession]

Talk all the talk with a poet's style
Tongue like electric, eyes like a child
Buy all your wives and the classic cars
Live like a savior, live like the stars

Talk all the talk with a model's smile
Tongue like electric, eyes like a child
Buy all your highs and the classic cars
Die on the front page, just like the stars

The big screens, the plastic-made dreams
Say you don't want it, say you don't want it
It's our world, the picture-book girls
Say you don't want it, say you don't want it
Don't you ask me if it's love my dear
Love don't really mean a thing round here
The fake scenes the plastic-made dreams
Say you don't want it, say you don't want it

Pace all the rooms with a jealous style
Tongue like electric, eyes like a child
Paint all your soul with the grand designs
Reach like a savior, your heart on the line

The big screens, the plastic-made dreams
Say you don't want it, say you don't want it
It's our world, the picture-book girls
Say you don't want it, say you don't want it

Don't you ask me if it's love my dear
Love don't really mean a thing round here
The fake scenes the plastic-made dreams
Say you don't want it, say you don't want it

[goodnight all]

death

thursday! Today I had a ministry training conference all day and our speakers were amazing because well, they just were and they were all from england* yay england.so i thought that amongst my favourite pictures from this past week id put some "death" quotes up, its just important to think about it :)

Oh, may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again.
~George Eliot, The Choir Invisible

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ~William Penn

And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds. ~Homer, Iliad

There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it. ~Aeschylus, Agamemnon

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. ~Seneca

shes a problem to solve

maryjane* I wish i had enough words to say how happy you make me feel and just how special you are but i dont [so im giving you pictures instead]
[a blog cupcake- for your birthday*]

[the most beautiful, romantic thing you can think of, with fireworks]

[the truth]

[how,much of your life can be explained by gosssip girl]

[a clothing fairytale]

[stars]

[the lips and the nails- im lying, actually everything in this photo reminds me of you]

[highheels, yes please]

[the mysteriousness of the moon]

[over-the-top nails, or just painted nails]

[oneday we shall go to tiffanys]

[fairylights]

ihope you had a wonderful birthday. I love you very much
[your light is ultraviolet]