New Coffee shop in Cape Town where you can buy brand new records as well............. So happy about this revival.... Seems they're popping up everywhere......Will have to go check it out for myself. 

Smile......

I was really bleak with the weather on Friday coz I thought for sure that come 5:45 am on Saturday morning it was either going to be blowing gales or raining buckets (neither of which would have been conducive to a good time for the race or health afterwards) But I woke up opened the door and........... it was perfect! If you consider perfect to be 8 degrees hahahhah. But temp means nothing, resistance - everything.

We got down there, registered and whatnot, and as he was counting down to the bang, I looked at my watch and the battery was dead!! It was fine when I arrived, so who knows what was up...In a nutshell I ran blind..... the whole way. Also, I don't remember there being so many effing hills! But flip, I thought I have to just push so that whatever I finish with I know I "couldn't" have done any better. That being the theory on paper I guess. Anyway finished and asked the guy in front of me what we did and he said 56:20 and I still counted the seconds it took me to get to start banner so I knew (mild OCD haha) But to be fair when you're trying to beat a time, the seconds do count :) Anyway it was 10 secs. So although I'm not breaking world records.... I did break mine... by half a minute, so I was quite happy with that. It's not a lot, but more than that it's just cool I guess... coz first time you do well you always think distance was maybe wrong, or it was a fluke, haha. Anyway... enough about that. 

Mother's day and mom's bday was tied in one on Sunday (even though her birthday is only tomorrow) - she just figured with all the fam together - it made sense. She got a lot of chocolate and messages................................. chilled Sunday vibes.........
Charlie Chaplin said it best....

I go cold every time...

The Voice UK - the only show that has me laugh out loud and almost cry in any given episode.

Just can't get enough....................Second video is prob the coolest thing I've heard this year, but hoping something beats it even...

 

 

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So Voting done by 8am this morning... I Was standing in the rain along with other like-minded people who wanted to get it over with ASAP.... Got to the mance karate club at 7am and there was already a pretty intimidating queue. Wasn't too bad though... Now it's couch time with a ridiculously huge blanket and series..... Nice day to be lying around at home......

Long drives

It's always scary when you're no longer behind the wheel.......... because you've let someone else take it to get you to your destination. It's easier to just keep your head down at the watch than face forward and experience the drive coz it's..well... scary... But if you trust the driver, then there's an element of tranquility I guess.... Driving when you're tired isn't ideal.... but when you can't even see anymore.... well that's just dangerous....... So it's safer to switch seats.

Spar Run Vibes

This chick won..... and with no calves! That's pretty radical... Well that time is........... Not sure what she eats for breakfast, flipsakes.

1. Diana-Lebo Phalula 00:32:27                          (That's like 3.15 mins/km - and completely ridiculous)

Everyone (well except this chick) seemed to be a little off the pace from what I was overhearing in the queue and after the race). It was flippen hot though... everyone looked finished at the end (except this chick) hahaah. I was a bit slower by a couple minutes from last 10km, but still under an hour. Not ideal, but not stressed either. Route was tougher and it was a packed race, but not blaming anything, coz I could feel the week's gym training was playing a role.. legs felt a bit tired? So ya :) Anyway will take it a bit easier this week coz it's Sunridge next Saturday and that's a good one..............

Coz it made me laugh..

Madness

"...Everybody's got a struggle" c.t.

No one is an exception to the rule where karma in concerned. No one, ie everyone, Including me.

Some people get dealt with shit and react badly or nastily, some people get dealt with shit and walk away from it.... How we react defines us.... Yet we seem to get caught up defending people's reasons for being ugly, as though they're allowed to be because of x,y,z.... No one needs to be that way... those people just are that way... Do you think that nice people are only nice because they're without struggle and hardship? We've all had our bad hands dealt, everyone... Yet there are still nice people in the world alongside the not so nice people... The difference between the two types, is choice.......

Anyway, it still doesn't matter who people choose to be... nice or not.. it only matters how I choose to be..

What happens was always going to happen, life is life.... we do our best and hope for the best....... we can't reap something we didn't sew. Sometimes we need (I need) to just realise that my life is no more important than the person's next to me. And maybe they are more deserving of something than I am................. I know not all of it makes sense... But that's the beauty part of having a blog... I can write jumbled thoughts based on life and it's absurdities that only my mind I assume will interpret.

Do what you want... You'll be judged anyway

If I don't work out... I'm lazy
If I work out too often... I'm trying to prove something
If I'm thin... I'm too thin
If I drink... Im a party animal
If I don't drink... I'm boring
If I take take selfies...I love myself
If I shy away from pics... I'm being silly
If I'm confident... I'm arrogant
If I don't like bad service... I'm full of shit
If I'm friendly to guy friends... I'm leading them on
If I'm cold to guy friends... I'm being a bitch
If I'm nice... I'm too nice
If I'm outspoken... Im opinionated

People want to and will judge others for any possible reason they can because they hate to see outspoken, hard working, active, healthy, friendly people actually enjoying their lives.... They believe something must be wrong or it's all a cover up or some form of compensation for loneliness or dissatisfaction in their lives.... These statements pertain to everyone.. It's how everyone judges everyone.. So screw everyone.. Being unique is all we have..

Dammed if you do and dammed if you don't,
so we should do what we want.....
The ones who dig you...... Will dig you anyway....

Night rides

Thought this was really cool.... :) I should be at the ride..... Pity... I'm just too cold... And too miserable......... :(

Winter soup :)

I had the unfortunate pleasure of a Grahamstown roadtrip on Tuesday (oxymoron intended). Unfortunate because the roads have never been that wet and rainy at the same time.....ever..... Pleasure because after holding off on seeing clients I decided to pull finger and I have some promising business coming from there now...."holding thumbs". The next little thing that lightened the mood of the day was coming across this amazing little store in Peppergrove Mall, called "The Peppertree" (Go figure) Anyway it was a mash up of Big Blue and Typo... I mean????? And the woman behind the counter, I'm pretty sure, thought I was going to steal something because I was looking at everything so meticulously and at the slowest pace known to mankind.... Haha. I can't help it though, I wasn't walking out without having bought something and didn't want to miss a thing.

I eventually came across a section of kitchen stuff (I know........ I almost cancelled my appointments) Ritzenhoff, le creuset.. to name a few and then saw these Soup bowls, which are in fact just ginormous (a word necessary today) mugs with handles. I was pretty sure I wouldn't ever eat soup again unless they were served out of these guys... So I bought two.....  

It's going to be possibly, literally and figuratively the coldest winter, so soups and blankets on the couch will be on order for the most part. 

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Just doing what I can for now... there's an end result I have in mind.. and while a lot of it requires money to be spent, there are little things that I can do in the meantime to keep me busy and keep the vibe up.... More to come though...... When it comes to fitment, wellll let's just say I'll start with the buying. 

.....Putting the pieces back together........... I guess that's for later...

Long weekend...

There's still beauty during plight

When life's intensity starts to consume you, literally stop and appreciate the things you don't realise you have without even having to ask for it or wait for it......... It's always there.... every morning without fail. #onmymorningrun

Time is underrated.

I realised this morning that some of the biggest time-wasters in my life are the people I encounter at 4 way stops................


Our time here has an expiry date... surely we should be living each day as flatout as we can? And just sleeping when we're tired.......... Gotta make time count more... 

Found this in the post

Hmm......

Winter's coming................