!!!!! HOMEWARD BOUND !!!!!!!!

In 4 days from today (Oct, 29th) i will make my journey to South Africa...

Get ready!!!

When my eyes give up their last moments of slumber, and slowly open to the morning.. this is the first thing i see when i gaze through my bedroom window...

A Mountain's peak, the oceans' wave..
These are things that amaze
A river's song, a thunder sound
these are things that astound
from morning dew
to setting sun...

but when i awoke this morning - THIS view surpasses them all...

I'm in awe of the beauty of the morning moon giving her last smile to the rising sun who paints the skies and the mountain tops with its brilliant crimson pallets....

And i can just smile... have you ever seen beauty? Seems hard to find words when this is the start of your every day...

... Lord, have PERCY!!!!
VIVA Amabokoboko!!!!

Congrats to the South African Rugby Team who won the Rugby world Cup on Saturday..
We sat at Fado's Irish pub, in Denver Colorado - i proudly wore my (fake) South African Tshirt together with all the other South Africans who live here, the Brits and a few lost Aussies. it was a load of fun and excitement and to have SA win was the cherry on the cake for the day!!!!

And ofcourse to top off the weekend.. Kimi Raikonnen won the Drivers' Championship in Brazil, F1 - Go Team Ferrari!!!! Kimi is the first other Driver to win the Drivers championship for Ferrari since South African driver Jodi Shecter (Michael Schumacher has been the only other driver since to win the Drivers world championship for Ferrari in between those two!)
So go RED!!

Dead crickets in a tuna can – in my fridge!

I have been feeding my turtles anything and everything that they are allowed to eat, trying to steer clear of the ‘live” stuff. So then I tried giving them greens and fruit and they looked at me really funny – pulled up their noses (or beaks? What do you call them mouths? Who knows).. and they hated me for like a day. So, I walked into Petsmart and on a shelf I saw a little tuna can labeled “healthy alternative to live prey” so I read further and it sounded like it was some pellets or make believe food that tastes like crickets – I figured perfect! They will have that crickety taste that they love without me having to bring home a bag of live crickets that may escape into the house and start a nest fest! Yes I know – eeeeu!

So happily, I open the can, very easy, very simple and whoohoaaa arrgghh there are a bunch of REAL dead crickets in the can all nicely smooshed together side by side.. ek het myself dood ge-grill! So I quickly threw 4 into the tank and those bloody greedy turtles went wild! They loved it – and now what?

The can says “store excess in the fridge”…. Like hello…..

So yes…… Dead crickets in a tuna can – in my fridge!

FORGOTTEN!!!!

I actually just remembered the other two books that i read in late September that i managed to somehow accidentally omit from my October list!:

1) On a Pale Horse - Piers Anthony
This was a very Weird Sci-Fi book. Very well written

2) A Space Odysey - Arthur Clark

Not my usual genre, but i appreciated the work of the book

SO there you have it - i am NOT behind!! :-)

Chicago pictures have been added to the Chicago post....

October Book recommendation

I have only managed to read 3 this month, and i suspect from my pending flight back home (yay) - i wont be able to squeeze in any more.... so here they are:

- The picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- A lady of quality - Francis H Burnett
- Slaughter House 5 – Kurt Vonnegut

Enjoy!

Just pass the dam coffee already please!

This past week has been a busy one at work, which is always a good thing. Prodding along gleefully. But, just when you think you are normal and mentally stable.. Boom!!!! Out of the blue - hormones, gremlins or things from another nasty alternate supernatural universe takes over your emotions! I was in a bad mood for two days – with no plausible explanation!

I think it started when I was watching a re-run of Smallville. I have waited patiently for a whole season for the new Series (which is apparently the last season – FOREVER!) to begin and now to my utter disappointment, everything looks fake! The passion seems to have been left on krypton and earth seems phony bloody baloney! Yes, in case you were wondering everyone in the show is still as hot as "warme patate" (of is dit artappels?), which is the only thing the show has going for it right now!

Arrgghh – in other news… I tend to stay away from the caffeinated drinks, because once I consume anything caffeinated, the energizer speed bunny poltergeist comes out of me before the migraines set in! But when my turtle took a huge bite out of the latex glove that I use when I transfer him to a feeding tank, as if that was not enough.. i saw how much weight i had piled on and that was IT! (I should have named the post "just pass me the dam diuretics please" - after all, it DOES contain caffeine, and may flush out some fatty toxins! :-) who knows.

Forget Smallville and all other annoyances that were trying to truckle me to either tears or bludgeonings from a horror movie… these turtles were in for a spanking! Since I didn’t have the heart to de-shell him, I decided I needed a cup of coffee to counteract the negative karma vibrating through my veins.. alas! Just as expected.. the twitches began… the foaming at the mouth was soon to ensue.. but before that could happen i was seeing a supersonic episode of Star Wars.. in my living room! and now I feel like I have a hangover!

Nevermind, its Friday, and I thought If I rant on my blog - it will help release the emotions that have my physiognomy in a twisted bunch.. Leaving behind my maladroit feelings and behaviour .. to (hopefully) be myself again..


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MOURNFUL SOLITUDE

The soul of the dead creeps over me
I am weak
I am wanting
Walking in a dead sleep
Silence, deafening over my being

I come in haste
No softly plucked chords to
Sooth my troubled mind
I lose myself in silence

I grow bare
A small dark hole
Mournful solitude
I embrace the night
The dead, the silence
My soul has no words
To speak
Hollow, empty

Inside turns to outside
From fields of green to
Weathered, lifeless
The season of winter takes over
The heart once warm.
Torn.

Copyright: Jade Moore