Tuesday 19 March 2013

Things we do when we're unemployed ....

We drink a lot of Rooibush
We make vast amounts of soup
We begin fifteen different craft projects
We maybe complete two craft projects
We fall in love
We clean
We swim
We walk
We sometimes just cwtch
We take long bubble baths
We search for employment
We chill with Grandma
We go for interviews
We drink coffee
We paint our fingers & toes
We go to Solva on the buses
We dream
We breath
We love
We procrastinate

I have relished in all of these activities & more over the last two months but thank god I am now EMPLOYED!





Sunday 17 March 2013

My Buddy

"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same" Buddy, Ek is baie lief vir jou.












Friday 8 March 2013

Mum

It's a little early for Mother's Day, but I just want to share with you a very special & the most important woman in my life. Over the last few years I haven't been the best daughter to be honest i have been incredibly confusing, awkward, angry, petulant to be around (there's more I expect) ...... but her love has never wavered. I want her to know that forever & always she is the lady I look up to as a mother, as a woman, as a wife, as a daughter, as a friend, as a human. Thank you Mum, I hope god willing I'm as awesome a mum as you are one day. I love you Mum very very much.







Friday 15 February 2013

Liefde via Skype

Somedays are bad, some days are good..... Today was one of those from the awesome variety.
Job Admin continued, a morning swimming with my two favourite mermaids, coffee with grand-folks... Then the most heart wrenchingly velvety roses arrived.
In a starred eyed haze I pulled on my trainers and walked! I took a different route, a couple fell out of the registry office, confetti swirled around us, we run, run smiling, swallows sweep down low and up higher, we walk, the low winter sun shone, burning my face, I count my blessings, a figure walked towards us, a face I once knew years have passed. We sat until the fisherman pulled up the moon, those angels sure are working in mysterious ways. On departing the Stars begin to sparkle through the peach pink sky. Orla & I run again.
Tonight we have our first date ( I'm of course late) candles flicker, rosy cheeked, red dress, gin & tonic, salad, those velvety roses still there, I'm not dreaming. In front of me sits a man, same candles flicker, he smiles nervously, I blush more, his shirt his tie, we clink glasses, eat our valentines dinners together but so apart.
"An arrow can only by shot by pulling it backwards, so when life is dragging you back with difficulties it means you are going to launch into something great, so just keep your focus and keep aiming"







Wednesday 6 February 2013

Productive Days

We have been washing, budget food shopping, cv updating, sneezing, application filling, jogging in hailstones, coughing, cleaning, receiving beautiful surprises from the postman &...... finally bathing & sleeping.
I am feeling calm & positive lots of opportunities out there for the taking ..... Come on Amie x







Monday 4 February 2013

Ruby Tuesday

We are in February finally, January was magically overwhelming!
February I have decided to change jobs, a volunteer whom I had become close with threatened to take his own life. I can't work under this type of responsibility I feel. I am certainly not trained nor have the mental strength to deal with this situation again. I have been allocated time off to consider my future but in my heart I can not go back. Today i am updating my CV with Katie, applying for a variety of different positions. Also a day full of laundry, Lidls shopping, time with Jasmine & lots of smiling. I am confident I will find work quickly I will let you all know within the week.







Tuesday 29 January 2013

Dreaming...







Sylvia Plath ~ Love Letter

Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, then I was dead,
Though, like a stone, unbothered by it,
Staying put according to habit.
You didn't just tow me an inch, no--
Nor leave me to set my small bald eye
Skyward again, without hope, of course,
Of apprehending blueness, or stars.

That wasn't it. I slept, say: a snake
Masked among black rocks as a black rock
In the white hiatus of winter--
Like my neighbors, taking no pleasure
In the million perfectly-chisled
Cheeks alighting each moment to melt
My cheeks of basalt. They turned to tears,
Angels weeping over dull natures,
But didn't convince me. Those tears froze.
Each dead head had a visor of ice.

And I slept on like a bent finger.
The first thing I was was sheer air
And the locked drops rising in dew
Limpid as spirits. Many stones lay
Dense and expressionless round about.
I didn't know what to make of it.
I shone, mice-scaled, and unfolded
To pour myself out like a fluid
Among bird feet and the stems of plants.
I wasn't fooled. I knew you at once.

Tree and stone glittered, without shadows.
My finger-length grew lucent as glass.
I started to bud like a March twig:
An arm and a leg, and arm, a leg.
From stone to cloud, so I ascended.
Now I resemble a sort of god
Floating through the air in my soul-shift
Pure as a pane of ice. It's a gift.

Monday 28 January 2013

Cupid's Arrow



If you read this I urge you to watch this video, because no lie, no exaggeration ....This Has Just Happened  To Me, everybody out there lost, in love or not sure they are with the one.... I believe more than ever before that we all have a destiny & angels are living among us.
A series  of unusual events over the last two months have led me to meet the man of my dreams
                                   .....& he feels exactly the same!

Wednesday 16 January 2013

Resolutions 2013


It is already the 17th of January and until now I haven't really felt ready to make resolutions maybe because I was thrust into a decision which would affect the rest of my life so quickly into the new year, I've had this overwhelming feeling just to go with it... Destiny maybe!?

Do any of you out there believe somebody is with you?  .... As crazy as it might sound there is somebody else here with me, even when I'm all alone and they are helping me to believe in hope, so in saying that I will not be making a list of goals, rules & aims  for the year ahead instead 
I'm going to live my life to the fullest with the guidance of my little friend. 

Friday 11 January 2013

Pressing Reset

This chapter of my life is called Pressing the Reset button.
















Orla and I moved into our new apartment, which feels good, this is a happy place, beginning to fill our bubble with feminine girly things ..... Lovely flowers from my Mum & Pops, The coffee cave our next door neighbours (Orla is allowed in too!) friendly housemates in flat #1, iPad arrives, Cambridge satchel arrives, fridge arrived!! Champagne Saturday ..... week one over and you know single girls out there I got through and I'm still here and actually it's not half bad!

Wednesday 2 January 2013

The Best is Yet to Come

I am beginning this year with an ending
Room to room ghosts of happier and sadder times
Whispers that tide and time wait for no man
Twenty one boxes make a leaning tower 
But as I pack the twenty second I remember that....



Tuesday 1 January 2013

Twenty Thirteen

Its a new dawn its a new day....