Ok, it has taken me an entire week to reply to the magnitude of email responses my romance post generated LOL.

I have a follow up to post on that subject, but not today! :-)

Ramble... ramble...

The Massage
Well, last weekend, i went for a massage.. which is nothing unusual for me, but i constantly get disappointed. This is how it all started...

In about 1999 while i was sitting in my college classroom in my final year, i starting feeling very dissatisfied with my size 12 body (South African size 12 - not American!!).. So i looked for a gym to join, but could not stand the idea of Virgin Active or Planet Fitness with all their blonde botox bimbos, superficial meat factory stereotypical persona that was created around that scene, so even though i only paid like R50 per month because i was on Discovery, i decided to pay my R300 a month and joined Lady of America.. (Side note.. now i AM lady of America LOLOLOL)

I had my own personal trainer and i went 3 times a week - it was great - very exclusive, had a great coffee bar, great classes and my trainer was a torture master...as i was kicking my own butt on the treadmill one day, my eyes were distracted by the salon hidden in the little corner.. after my routine i went by to see what they offer.. and that was the end of me and my personal trainer, the 4 years that followed i spent 5 days a week in the salon, getting lymph drainage, mud wraps, massages even to the end of me making a bid to buy the salon.. The rest is history - from day one Sabrina and i - it was destiny!!!! And so needless to say i didnt get any fitter, but my hair, skin and body looked great thanks to thousands of Rands, thousands of great conversations and the best Beauty / Body therapist known to man...

And then i had to leave it all behind and when i came here, this is America after all..it all comes from here, right?? Wrong.. firstly, it costs a fortune and then the therapists here seem like they are only willing to do the bare minimum of anything, it is as if manual labor just costs a fortune. And oh, shock and horror, you have to tip people here in Salons (i kid you not!) Ag. I go for a massage almost once a week now, but there is always a new therapist and i always get a back rub.. i mean really - how does it suck to have your back rubbed by someone who isnt buying you dinner and drinks and great conversation and then YOU have to still pay for it - argh! Who needs it!

So please feel sorry for me.. it's a hard life that i have chosen....


The Training
So, my boss asked me to conduct training on some technical systems that we have implemented. Now bear in mind, i have been in IT for 3 seconds.. so i stress myself to death for weeks, trying to make the material as simple, yet comprehensive as possible, WHILE teaching myself what is going on, so that i can be knowledgeable enough to train others and not look like a plonker in the process.. So then while having some stomach bug, feeling weak.. today was the training and my boss virtually did all the training himself! Which, i guess on one hand was good cause i learnt alot too.. but on the other hand.. i stressed for nothing, and didnt even get to do what i wanted LOL (Ok well to be fair, i did a little.. but not nearly enough to have stressed over!)

The week
Apart from the above which has almost entirely consumed me, it has been a very busy week - and also frustrating because my computer conked in for which i was blamed the entire week for not backing up my documents.. i took it with a pinch of salt and just made do- today i got my data back finally, though still sans computer.. i just came home and had to laugh.. i think i am so used to ACTUALLY meeting deadlines and actually stressing for a REASON, that it feels kinda ridiculous that i am forever the only one who stresses!!! What a raw deal - i need to learn to relax!! But i did get to go to a Rockies baseball game on Thursday and sat in the Club section which was awesome, and we had a female streaker across the field that was wild man!

The weekend past
Ok this post is a little outta control! I am working my way backwards.. but who cares...

I went to Washington Park this weekend, oh how nice it was to lay on a park bench like a homeless person, not a care in the world, listening to the water softly crashing against the fake river bank, hearing the faint laughter of children, the bark of a dog in the distance.. oh the peace... and there is nothing that ruins that swiftly like the startling sound of: "Excuse me, do you know what time it is"! Or something equally irritating! But all in all, it was so liberating to have some quiet time and Vitamin D... I also hung out on Sunday with my good friend, Shirley and her kids, who thoroughly enjoyed seeing the turtles again... and i enjoyed them as well.

Finally..
It seems as if winter is finally bidding us a farewell.. and tennis season, grand prix season and all of that.. so yes.. despite physical agony and mental drain.. life is awesome!


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