Weekend catch-up

Hello fabulous people.

It's day 14 of the headache. This is getting ridiculous. I think I may have to actually visit some sort of medical professional now. I can't keep pretending it will go away.

Other than the aching head, things are good. TSC and I had fun at the chocolate-making course this weekend. Pics below. I'm so glad I have a man that's secure enough in his masculinity to come along to women-dominated events like this. But he's as much of a chocoholic as I am, so that may also have had something to do with it.


TSC having (messy) fun painting the moulds with melted chocolate to make filled choccies

Adding the finishing touches to chocolate-dipped Pistachio Turkish Delight. Yum!

The results...

We also had two dinners with two different sets of friends, which was great fun, saw my mom and gran for Saturday lunch before my gran headed back to Mpumalanga, shopped for my grand-dad's 84th birthday present and saw my mom again for lunch on Sun to hand over the presents so she can take them down to Natal next weekend. I even got some work done somewhere in between and TSC watched some rugby.

It was a good and busy weekend although it felt too short. The public holidays in April leave us a bit spoilt and the two-day weekend seemed inadequate, especially for TSC who headed back to varsity today with a barrage of tests and exams lying ahead.

But after that he gets six weeks of holiday, so I must admit that my sympathy levels are not the highest ;-)

Have a good one.

Random Thursday thoughts

Joburg is having an identity crisis. It seems to think (or the weather does at least) that it's Cape Town at the moment with four seasons in a day.

Watched 2012 last night. What a waste of time. Blegh. Take every action scene you'd ever expect in an end-of-the-world movie, string them together, make sure you shoot four of each scene, interchanged with touching parent/child close-ups, and you have 2012. I love John Cusack, but what was he thinking?!

It's already Thursday. That's a good thing because tomorrow's Friday, but a bad thing because there was so much more I was supposed to get done this week! Life is so crazy busy at the moment. I'm struggling to keep up with my morning job, freelance load, Makro nonsense and my writing course, which is nearly at its end. *sad face* I've really enjoyed it, but I wish I'd had more time to spend on it. At least I've made some good contacts. We're planning to start a writers group after the course so that we can keep motivation up.

This Saturday, TSC and I are going to do a chocolate-making workshop. I did some years ago and it was good fun, so I'm looking forward to it. Makes for an interesting date ;-)

I have not much else to say. Here's a baffling link for you. If anyone can tell me how this works, I will be forever grateful!

(Semi) sanity returns

I feel human again today (not like a hamster, Po). It's amazing what some decent sleep can do. Yesterday afternoon, when I got to my home office I worked until TSC got back from varsity and our once-a-week domestic worker, Margaret, was finished doing the ironing. Once we'd dropped her off, we had a 30min nap. Late afternoon naps are the best thing ever.

I immediately felt more clear-headed and able to put in a few more hours work. I made sure I stopped by 8pm and then TSC and I had fun making our own filled Easter eggs. I find any type of crafting or cooking very therapeutic and it's always fun when someone else is involved. We chatted and tasted the melted chocolate and discussed what other fillings we should use. It was exactly what we needed. I'll try to take some photos of the choccies this week and put them up here.

I feel like Easter has kind of snuck up on me this year. Usually I'm quite organised about it and my craft cupboard would already be stacked with neatly wrapped Easter bundles by this stage. But I actually keep forgetting that Easter is this weekend because it seems too soon. The year has been so insanely busy and a tad stressful and my brain is having difficulty accepting the fact that we're already a quarter of the way through 2010.

Still, this time last year (I LOVE having a blog to go back and reference what happened a year ago) TSC and I were both miserably sick with flu, so I am in a better place than I was then. And although last year I was bleak that we couldn't afford to go away for the Easter long weekend, this year I am looking forward to being able to chill at home.

But to do that I will need to wade through the daunting pile of work on my work and home desks right now. Better get started!