I emailed my cousin in the USA (She’s studying there) recently asking for her help. I had some Amazon.com gift certificates that I had loaded into my Amazon.com account and wanted to buy some things from Amazon.com. So I asked her if I could have the items purchased delivered to her and if she could bring them with when she comes home for Christmas. Her reply was, “Yes”.
When I am able to buy stuff off of Amazon.com by means of gift certificates, I can buy things that are cheaper than what they are here and things that I am not able to find in South Africa. My online friend Mark from Australia sent me a gift certificate and he told me that it is to go towards buying stuff for when I move out… So I purchased a cutlery set, it’s nothing fancy but for the price it’s way cheaper than here. Thank you Mark!
I got a gift from my aunt and cousins that went to Madeira recently… One of them is my cousin that is studying in the USA. Anyway, my gift was Rebuçados de Funcho and a little cellphone sock with the Portuguese flag on it. Rebuçados de Funcho are yummy! My grandparents used to bring some for us when they used to come from Madeira to visit us… I wish they were still alive; they were really good people and I miss them so much…
My niece had her first birthday party on Saturday. One year old already! She’s starting to walk, she can only take several steps and in no time she’ll be running around all on her own… Time flew by too fast! During the party, my niece wanted me to hold her and as she got into my arms, she pushed herself to lie in my arms, closed her eyes, started humming and in a few minutes fell asleep. She’s usually fussy when it comes to sleeping so this was totally out of character… It was so adorable though!
Victor and I have an appointment with the bank this Saturday in regards to a home loan as we are looking for a place to move in together. I’m really anxious about this because if the bank says no; we’ll have to rent instead of buying a place of our own which is what we want. Preferably a townhouse with a private garden in a secured complex… I guess after we’ll know what we can do after our appointment with the bank. I wish that day was here already!
I got some yummy Jelly Belly Beans in the mail on Wednesday… All the way from Los Angeles, USA!
Thank you, Mark for sending this out to me… This stuff is awesome!
I love receiving gifts from people in other places of the world. Especially when the gift is something that I can’t find, isn’t available in South Africa or is something of that country, a souvenir.
I first tried these jelly beans last Christmas. My cousin that is studying in the USA came home for Christmas and brought some American candy for the family to try… They were a hit!
Someday I shall have a jar full of these beans in my home… Someday!
I wish we had this stuff here in South Africa…
My brother had done a great job with my hair for his assignment. There was a lot of hair pulling and tugging. Combing, twisting and a lot of hairspray… The style was something I have never had but it turned out very great. It was very different for me but I liked it. I hated that it was such a mission in itself to get my hair undone the next day. There were a lot of hair clips all over the back of my head that kept all of my hair up and it just felt icky because of all the hairspray. I had to wash my hair like three times to get all the hairspray out, my hair felt icky after I rinsed the shampoo off the first time. I have been asked to sit in again so it should be fun. I love spending time with my brother anyway…
I had received my speakers on Friday. This is the third set of speakers that I had ordered and this is the only set that I had been able to receive since the previous two sets were “out of stock”. I still would have liked the first set that I had ordered but they just had to be out of stock. I like this set of speakers though, they are really small and are going to fit well on my desk, especially because of the available space left on it. Oh and of course they are black… I love the color black…
Victor spent the day with me on Thursday. He and I met up with my brother at Jazz Time Café for drinks that night. My brother was depressed and had been crying, I guess he and his boyfriend are having some problems… I am not sure because my brother did not really want to talk about it. Anyway we sipped on our drinks, chatted and chewed on some green and blue strips of liquorice too… After Victor and I had taken my brother home, we went back to my place and just chatted until late and Victor had to leave to go back home…
He is really a great guy. Often I think that he is too good for me. I am not used to being treated so well by a man but I am loving it. He is nothing compared to those that have been in my life… And I hope that from now on things will only get better…
I have lots to write but I will do so tomorrow or sometime. This is just a random boring post, pretty much like all my others… I have been so preoccupied with life that the Internet has been taking up less of my time than it used to. It is a good thing I guess…
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