I have been a bad girl. Leanne should give me a good, hard smack on the head for this! Last Wednesday marked a week since I had quit smoking and also the day that I started smoking again… I have to make the last cigarette I light up from what I have, the last and final one…
Saturday afternoon my mother, sisters, my older sister’s boyfriend and my niece along with my aunt and her children and I went all the way to Brakpan for my one of my cousin’s second birthday party. I could not believe my eyes when I saw my young cousin; she has grown so much since I had last seen her on Easter. Time has really passed by fast this year…
My brother came over for a visit when we got back home. We went out to a Christmas market at a school up the road where stringed lights covered the buildings and other decorations had been put up to create a little Christmas town. It looked wonderful and reminded me of how people overseas decorate the outside of their house and yard with lights and figurines for the festive season. It is not as common here as it is overseas but I know of a few places in my town that are decorated for Christmas…
I had taken some photos, I only kept several of the many photos that I had taken as most of them turned out to be blurry because I had my camera’s flash disabled and had also taken a video as we were leaving the event and on our way back home. I like to capture our good times on video, especially when those times are filled with comedy…
Our palisade fencing was completed on Saturday too. We now have a remote controlled gate with an intercom, lights and a side gate-like door. And not to forget the lights that the workmen setup along the sides of our driveway, it all looks good. Now we just have to take care of the wall dividing our property from the veld next door.
Since Friday the weather has been miserable. Grey skies showering the earth below while taking the sunshine’s role for days and not to mention the humidity! I have been in a really foul mood since I have been feeling ill, restless, depressed and just plain irritable and the weather is just making me feel even worse. The sun only came out to set last night around six o’clock, making its first appearance in days…
My uncle that is still in the Intensive Care Unit, he has been there for nine days now. He had been taken off the ventilator last Wednesday and was put back onto the ventilator again yesterday and had been taken off of the damn thing again this morning. There is so much crap going on with the whole situation that I can not even stand hearing about it anymore unless there is good news…
When my older sister asked me if I would baby sit my niece from when she went back to work in October after her maternity leave till my niece starts going to a day care facility in January, she said that she would pay me R400 per month to baby sit and will only be able to pay me near the end of December or January. I said yes and honestly would have said no if I was not going to be paid: my niece would be looked after by her father’s side of the family if I declined. Anyway my sister offered to pay me for babysitting, I took her up on that offer and I started babysitting my niece the day after my birthday…
Yesterday morning we went to collect my older sister and my niece from their home because we had to drop off my sister at work. When my older sister got in the car I asked her when she can pay me because I want to put some of it towards buying some products from America and she said (more like bit my head off) that if she could, she would pay me sooner than she said she would. I told her that there is no rush and that she can pay me when she said she would…
She called here last night from work to speak to my mother who had just arrived home, as she was parking her car in the garage I told my sister what I will be doing with the money from babysitting and when I mentioned that half of the R800 / R1 200 that I would get from the months I had babysat would be put into my savings account, she began shouting at me… “You must be confused because I never said that I would pay you R400 per month, I said that I would pay you R200 per month and that I would pay you R400 per month from January onwards…” I told her that she was wrong and that she had told my mother and me that she would pay me R400 per month until my niece started day care in January… “I do not want to fight, you are the one that is confused, I never said that…”
She always fucking does this; she never keeps to her word and is always twisting words that had been said… I could go on and on this but I rather not…
My brother had Wednesday off work and invited me over for the day. He straightened my hair for me; we listened to loud music, chatted, watched television and stuffed our faces with yummy microwave popcorn while acting silly like we always do. I had taken my digital camera along and we had taken some photos and digital video clips that I still need to stitch together as one video. I had a lot of fun that day, I love spending time with my brother and it is always fun…
I had also quit smoking on Wednesday, I had my last two cigarettes and just did not feel the need to buy more and since Friday I have been feeling nauseas and just plain ill. I do not know if it is either my quitting smoking (that I highly doubt) or just having somewhat of a stomach bug… I have never been a heavy smoker, the most that I had smoked in a day was ten cigarettes and usually I would smoke about five to seven cigarettes a day… I am in need of sleep, lots of cold water and lots of fresh air too…
I had babysat two of my young cousins on Friday night along with their cousin which was a mission in itself. Their cousin nagged to come over with them and whenever she or their other cousins are around, my cousins act like hooligans, running around the house screaming while hurting and pushing each other about (amongst many other acts) and thinking that everything they do wrong is hilarious… Just because their cousins are around but when it is just the two of them, they act decent and do not cause chaos. It seems that young children have more energy than what they can handle …
I am so tired…
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