Just NB

When it's nice out, we like to spend some time by the pool. The gated village we live in (until December 13th :( ) has a new pool that seems to have brought back some of the liveliness that used to be around these parts. Since visiting Hawaii, Louis and I have been in love with Mai Tais. But they don't exactly serve them here. So after a couple of months of hunting down the ingredients, we got everything we needed, according to many websites, anyway. Guava Juice Pineapple Juice Lime Juice Simple Syrup Orange/Almond Flavoring Light Rum Dark Rum Grand Marnier. We were set for the booze component.  I played Martha Stewart and made some simple syrup.  And somehow we I turned our kitchen into this: Oh well. We made some adjustments to the disgusting recipe and were off to the pool. It doesn't look that sunny out but it was SUPER hot. This time of year, the pool water feels like warm bath water. And then the horseplay starts. It seems that every Sunday is "...

Our company has scaled back some of our luxuries and we are no longer provided with 1.5L of bottled water. While I agree that it's a waste of money and makes a huge impact to the environment, I have become become picky with my water. WATER of all freaking things!!! Like I don't already have enough crap to be picky about. Anyway, this is the same water that they provide us with now in the big office-type water coolers. And we're supposed to be all enviro-friendly and use our reusable bottles provided (that I'm sure are made with BPCs or whatever that bad plastic is called). It tastes like worms. No, I wasn't like Ralphy and ate worms and paste when I was little. But if you ever wonder what worms taste like, drink this water, and then you'll be like, What is that weird taste? It's something....I can't put my finger on...I think it tastes like worms!!! Unfortunately I bought a dozen bottles pre-worm taste, so I'm not sure what we are going to do wi...

Although I wasn't exactly feeling 100% yet, I HAD to go for a run to get some endorphins or whatever they are called. I also needed something to forget all of the a**holes I had in my life today. (I wish I could exclude myself from the a**hole list...but today...not so much.) I guess that's what a good night's sleep is for. It has definitely been one of "those" days. Yay for tomorrow.

I guess it’s no secret that I can, at times, have a toilet sense of humor. And I think it got worse here since...well..just cause. So when I was on holidays, I found a toy that I wanted to bring back for my Moose-Be co-worker. It’s a dog, dressed up as a reindeer, that poops chocolate peanuts. Like, who comes up with these things? And, how many million dollars have they made on stupid ideas like this? I was going to save it as a Christmas gift, but I found out that he just came back from a close family member’s funeral…so I thought this would be a good first day back to work. Here it is. I unwrapped the toy, filled his “belly” with the candy, and then made a “walking noise” while the dog walked along and the made the.. um…other kind of noise, and the dog-reindeer hybrid pooped on the desk. Yes, he was very excited. I sent this picture out to three colleagues. And we laughed liked ten year olds do when they hear a fart joke (minus the smiley face since I'm not sure if ...

...at least in this case. Since taking the FIVE different medicines, I'm almost feeling like a human again. I'm sure it's not the healthiest thing in the world to ingest that many medications (plus one given by needle!!) but I can't believe how much better I feel 24 hours later.

This time I waited just half a day before heading to the doc's. Let's hope this concoction takes care of things quickly.

Louis & I got on the flight today leaving Johannesburg thinking we'd be home by supper. Nope! We got to Tana, but our flights were cancelled due to storms. All of the company charter flights are full for tomorrow. Options: - Another charter will run at 06h00 (NOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo!!!!)\ - Another charter will run around 9h00 (YEssssss!!!!) - Someone finds ten of us seats on an Air Scare Madagascar flight. Seriously hoping for a 09h00 flight. UPDATE: It's a 06h00 flight. This sucks.