I’m Back! Maybe…

Hello to you if you are still one of the people checking up on me – if you are, that’s just weird but hello anyway

So, I think I have decided to start blogging again.  I’m still unsure and not promising anything or putting any pressure on myself, but let’s see how it goes okay?  As you can see I have changed the theme… Can you believe there are no themes with purple colouring?  So, yes, I’m still Purple Ronnie, but you’ll just have to picture the page as purple.  Just try.  Hard.  Please. 

What have I been doing since February?  Tweeting.  A lot!  I’m an addict!  I think for someone like me who is not so good at keeping up with things (like my blog), it is just perfect and I so enjoy the interaction with all my followers.  As a mom, you tend to get stuck in a rut and not really feel a part of what is happening in the outside world. With twitter, I feel so much more in touch with what is happening out there.  I think it is so much better than facebook, although that too serves its purpose for me.  Luckily, I have managed to stay in touch with my blogger friends in this way as well.  I have really lost touch with all the blogs I follow.  I am hoping to rectify that, but once again no promises.  When I finally get both kids to bed in the evening, I am usually so knackered I can just about manage to watch a half-hour tv programme, let alone catch up on all the blogs.  But I want to.  I really do.  And all I can do is just try and make time.

So, I’m here, for now.  Lots of love xxx

Sven the Strange Sweetheart..

Welcome Sven to the Blogoshpere….(Link to the right – Suburban Ape – you will have to ask him why he has called it that). Sven is a fabulous human being – one I am determined to know better if it takes my whole life (When are we going for that drink, Sven?). His mind works like no other person I have ever met, which makes him fascinating, intelligent, hilarious and – as I like all the people in my life to be – more than a little wierd! Please add him to your links and check in on his sure-to-be hilariously entertaining and at times confusing ponderings….

Writer’s Block

Mmmm…. what do you write when you really wanna write something but you don’t know what to write and no writing of any shape or form comes easily and then you think well if I just start writing, something will come out so I will just write and write and yet, as I am writing I still don’t know what to write…..!
Phew…….. Ok, so I guess I will tell you about my week as uneventful and uninteresting as it was. Well, not really that uneventful but just uneventful enough to make this one of those posts you wish you had never started reading coz by the time you get to the end of it you are going to realise it’s full of nothing!
So, Tuesday night we had our monthly girls’ dinner club. Tuesday was Chantelle’s turn and she chose Mama Roma in Blauwberg. It was quite nice – the food and the wine great (yes, I did have too much as usual). It is so nice to have a regular date with your friends and to be able to get away from the men and the work and all the usual crap of the day! We are a group of people who are so comfortable to just be ourselves, say what we want, do what we want, wear what we want and let it all out! And boy, do we! At times it’s silly, at other times it’s serious, most of the time it’s a scream with all the weirdos I call my friends….! Some of the topics that get discussed are bizarre, scary or just plain rude…;0) (Who said that – not me! Yes girls, I hear you – what happens at dinner club stays in dinner club……) So, that was Tuesday and it was great!
On Wednesday I went to the PERSONAL TRAINER! That was really fun…..NOT! The great thing is (well, not great for her), her leg is in plaster as she has broken her leg (or was it ankle… can’t remember now…) so, half the training session is me walking next to Nadia with crutches and hopping to the next area…..!!!! She once again had some fantastic torture planned for me …. clearly having her feet up gives her imagination that much more time to think up new and interesting ways for me to make a fool of myself in front of the general public! (Did I mention that the likes of Corne Krige and half the Stormers train at my gym – good thing they are married, else boy would they be making passes at me with my sexy purple tracky bottoms with holes in them, bright red face and lunging, squatting and gasping for breath all over the place)! Wednesday evening I had a wonderful reiki session with Louise – thanks Louise – I feel almost normal once again….! Then off to the folks for dinner. Unfortunately, that was not a fun time as we had some bad news in the family so it was tears and stressing on behalf of my sister who I can’t even hug as she is in Scotland….!
Then today was a normal work day – we went for a lovely run on the beach with the dogs – I love this time of year as the sun makes everything orange and all the kitesurfers were out – next time I will take a pic – it really is a lovely sight with Table Mountain in the distance….! (sorry Wends, but yes, I am trying to make you jealous….. Read: Come Home)!
So, that is my week thus far! Tomorrow Steven and I are off to Onrus for the weekend so wish good weather on us please. My doggies are staying with their cousin Leo (sis-in-law’s dog) – so they will be having fun too! Will take lots of pics and tell you all about it on Monday!
Hmmm…. For a post entitled ‘Writer’s Block’ this is quite a long one…….. ;0)
Love you all!
xxxx

Love this quote..

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
- Henry David Thoreau1817-1862
I was looking at different blogs tonight and came acros a lovely one called Pink Granite (I have added it to my links list if you are interested). It is amazing to me how someone you have never met can live so far away and you can feel such a resonance with them – a truly inspirational individual. The quote is respectfully borrowed from one of her posts but I just found it really wonderful.

Ok Ok! They are gone!

I have no idea how I managaed to get ads on my blog, but I can only imagine it was during one of my late night early morning sessions that I was customising and added them to the blog – they generate ads that relate to the content on your site. It is very weird how I actually managed to do something so sophisticated as really I wouldn’t know where to start! But anyway, the ads are now gone OK! Well, at least for now – I have deleted them but hope it’s not like an automatic thing … let’s wait and see….!

No intro necessary…

Right let’s give this a proper go shall we…. This is now my 3rd attempt at a blog and hopefully this time I will be dedicated enough to keep it up and running…. Well with all my friends having blogs I am of course extremely jealous!!! So, yes, I will go out on a limb and say – add me to your favs and pleeeez comment or I will feel you don’t love me…..!!
There is so much going on in mine and all my beloved friends and family’s lives that I will try to keep this blog as interesting (and yes, hilarious when it comes to their antics) as possible…!
I will keep you updated on my road to fitness and weight loss which is the bane of my existence and something I need much encouragement and sometimes a stern word from you all…
YIPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! ;0)