making up for lost time

with one long and very random post...

• where the fck is summer? i'm not one for hot weather, i get sunburn at the drop of a hat, but sheesh, can we at least have 2 sunny days a weeks so i can do the washing and bath the dogs?
• holy shit, i'm a couple of hours away from being the mother of a 2 year old!
• wheeeeeeeee, so excited about running Black Mamba in Cape Town on thursday
• i think i may have overdone the sweet shopping for the party on saturday. oh well, bye bye waistline, hello 2nd spare wheel!!
• hillbillies don't have white floored barns, no matter what musicians may think!
• i'm a lighting geek. i dream about winning the lotto and what lights i'd buy with the money
• last night i got home and my mom was watching one of those mindless call in game shows and i had flashbacks to Requiem for a Dream. hope the fridge doesn't attack mom!
• i love Kevin Smith and can't wait to see Zack and Miri make a Porno
• i feel like i should apologise to my car for swearing at it so much.
• i never feel like i should apologise to taxi's
• i wish Tina would hurry up and phone me
• it really sucks when companies book the theater. they better let us buy drinks on their tab.
• i love the way Shae says worm. and calls me megum
• holy shit, i'm a couple of hours away from being the mother of a 2 year old!
• i kind of miss the life i had before i started full time at the theatre. and the people. having a social life was pretty cool.
• that being said. i love my job. i bitch about it a lot, but i love it
• i'm trying so hard to behave because i'd rather die than hurt you.
• the other you, who was once my everything is no longer that to me. i've kicked that habit, i hope, forever.
• dumbfucks fucking annoy me. especially dumbfucks who don't know how to fucking brush their hair. dumbfucks
• i really really really really NEED a new tattoo.
• like really really.
• i'm so stoked geri lives down here now.
• i should go and get ready for work.
  

Shae... on turning two

yup. tomorrow shae turns two. mindblowing. i'm not entirely sure how she went from this little pink wriggling thing that i was slightly terrified of to this articulate independant little person in two short years, but it happened. against all odds, she's survived the chaos that comes from living in a 5-person, 7-animal household and come out tops, wrapping everyone she meets around her pinky finger as she goes.

damn. seems i got something right.

this morning...

When i woke up this morning, Shae wrapped her arms around my neck and said "good morning mommy, love you" and i knew that no matter what happens in the next 24 hours, today is going to be good.

Shae

I have no idea where the last 20 months have gone, but somehow, against all odds and genetics, this little one has turned out pretty damn good, if i do say so myself!

All the Small Things

I sometimes think that i get too caught up with worrying about the big stuff to take time out and appreciate the small things that make the uphill slog worth it. Sitting outside today, watching Shae and the dogs playing, I realised that the tree in our front yard has been flowering for 6 straight months and instead of just enjoying teh pretty yellowness of it all, i spend a lot of time bitching about the flowers falling all over my car.

well, enough of that, time to sit back and enjoy some of the little perks:

• rediscovering mudpies and sandpits (thanks Shae!!)
• the mutts playing a three-way tug-o-war
  
• Pippin trying to pounce her own shadow
• Disney movies
• cheese (sorry Anne!)
• actually being awake to see a sunrise
• Quinn wearing his frisbee as a hat
• coffee
• friends' killer sayings (tina's gem: if all the world's a stage, i want better lighting!)
• Shae's complete refusal to call me mom (it's ME-GINNNN, thankyouverymuch)
• finding my Empire Records DVD and LOVING that movie all over again.

Song for Today: Sugarhigh - Coyote Shivers

Ladies and Gentlemen...

we have teeth. well, i've had mine for quite a while, but the big news is that shae finally has one!

in other news... everyone in the durban area really has to come to the heritage theatre and see black mamba. too much of funny.

other than that... nothing really. bring on pay day. bring on BME and serpy's dbn trip. bring on summoning. most of all... bring on a full nights sleep.

song for today: my chemical romance - famous last words