This weekend Matt proposed to me in Dullstroom on our 4 year anniversary. It was an unforgettable weekend and I still have butterflies in my stomach. I am glad to say that Matt Geri is no longer my boyfriend, but is now my fiancé.
Details and more photo’s of the weekend will be coming soon 
2009 has been a year of many ups and downs for me. Here’s a toast to a successful 2010 with some good and bad memories of 2009 that I will never forget.
We all know that you go through stages in your life when you love various things. Here are a few of the things I am loving at this moment. Some of these things are long-term-loves rather than just at the moment loves but they belong on this list too.
1. My Boyfriend (long-term-love) who constantly comes to check up on me when I am sick.
By the way i have food poisoning from KFC. This is not fun people, especially as I don’t have time for this food poisoning. I have deadlines to reach and now they must be reached from my sick bed.
2. My oh-so-cute hat and fingerless/mitten gloves.
3. Weekends away in Dullstroom.
4. My COMPLETE series of Sex and The City box set (long-term-love, Hat). I have longed for this box set for three years and after waiting and hinting at birthdays and christmas’ and not receiving I decided to treat myself to it. I now can’t treat myself to anything for the next few months but that is besides the point.
5. Buying my friends gifts. I love buying birthday presents and watching people open them. I think I love it even more than receiving gifts.
6. Emily over at Cupcakes and Cashmere. I just love her blog.
7. Incense and Candles while sitting in bed watching Sex and The City.
8. A good cup of coffee.
9. My dog, Grishko.
Ok, so for a while now I have been out of action. There are reasons for this. To summarise what I have been up to would not be fair as I have honestly been having a blast. But (yes I did just start that sentence with but) I will have to summarise it all otherwise I will be sitting here forever.
I spent Valentines day in Dullstroom (horse riding and fishing), went to a wedding, spent some time in the wild with no cellphone signal, got circled by Lions, went to a dance competition, attended a 5 year old birthday party, did a presentation about professional dancing and teaching, attended three 21st (a 50′s party, an 80′s party, and a normal party). Missed the cake cutting at two of those 21st. The cake I did have made up for the other two though.Matt and i also got new piercings.
Here are a few photo’s from all of these various events and happenings.
Claudia and Dave's Wedding, Mara's 5th birthday party, Ingwelala
Ingwelala, Matt making Breakfast, Ryan's 80's party
Debbie's 21st
Valentines day in Dullstroom
WOW! There’s a new year coming already.
Am I the only one that feels this year has simply flown by? There are so many things that I promised myself I would do and so many that I didn’t even get close to. So I have really been thinking about my new years resolutions for 2009. I’m really trying to make them reasonable and possible to keep. But before I get to my resolutions for next year I’d like to look back at the good in this year.
I’m so happy to say that my mom (after having breast cancer) is clean for her 3rd year now.
My cat Sushi is still alive. I love him very much and to be honest, he’s getting very old. I don’t want him to die.
Matt and I have been dating for 2 years now.
I had a great birthday this year (I was very spoilt) and spent it with great people. Normally I hate my birthdays.
I have had some wonderful and some not so wonderful holidays, but holidays none the less.
Matt Fishing in Waterval Boven
Matt and I at Old Joe's Statue
Matt and my cousin Syndi putting up the tent in the Kruger Park
Our lovely neighbour
Our neighbours caravan, ha ha ha
Matt Feeding the Buck
Some water fun at The Vaal Dam
Matt at The Vaal Dam
Matt and I
Lovely Ngwenya
Breakfast at Steers
Expensive dinner with lovely company
Had a great End Year Show.
Passed my second year of University.
After uploading all of those holiday pictures I want to go on holiday now and can’t remember what else was good this year, but honestly it was a good year, with great people and lots of fun. Lets hope next year will be even better?!
So something that has been very needed, in my opinion, has just been launched today. A new WordPress Plugin called MobilePress that changes your WordPress blog into a mobile blog, when viewed on a cell phone.
This awesome plugin has been developed by the hard working boys at Younique, and will surely be put into good use. Thanks to Matt, Tyler and Denham our lives will now be made a lot easier by allowing us to stay up to date on everyone’s happenings through our phones. Now aren’t all you Blogger users jealous?
Just goes to show how much better WordPress is.
I ♥ WordPress
Ok, I know this post is rather late as my birthday was last week. But it’s still my birthday month, Rocktober.
I had a great birthday! The Saturday night before my birthday I had a dinner with a few friends and some random that just pitched up (definatley uninvited, maybe if he was a nicer being I would have said I didn’t mind). On my birthday itself I had a picnic in the Botanical Gardens with my family. This included good food and a BIG cake! All things in my opinion that make a birthday so great!
Here are some pictures of the dinner and the picnic.
My birthday dinner…
Matt and I
Mara in Search of Fairies…she found one!
If you guys want to see more go check out my flickr.
Ok today was quite a day. There are a few things I won’t mention as I don’t think the people involved would be very happy if they come across it on my blog. These are the things I will mention.
Firstly I get to my 9.30am lecture and the lecturer claims she can’t find her laptop “So no class for today”. Yeah like people often misplace their laptops…it’s quite common. I always misplace mine!
Then, on my way into Hatfield to buy a book for my English module, this guy on a bike flies through the red robot leaving me thinking “yeah, that’s an easy way to get killed”. After coming out of the bookshop and on my way back to campus (actually on the next corner) I see the guy crashed his bike. That’s not cool. As much as I want to say he was looking for it, I still feel for the poor guy and I really hope he is ok. Couldn’t really tell – only saw the bike and ambulance.
Back to the bookstore subject. I ran (and drove) around Hatfield searching for this book, as I have an assignment on the book due for Friday. When I finally got to the last one (the 4th bookstore) they had it. Yey. Urm…not! I already have the book. Now how stupid am I to search high and low for a book I already have.
When I get back to varsity I’m a bit early but no worries I have a lot of reading to catch up on for English so decide to go sit in the lecture hall (if it’s open) and read while waiting for my class. I peeked into the little window in the door and saw very few people in the class and they all have English with me. Guess I’m not the only early one. So I swing open the door and stroll in. What did I find? A lecturer staring at me! She was actually very nice considering I walked into her class 30 minutes late, and didn’t have the book they were reading. She told me it’s ok and that I can download it off the Internet and it’s all in the study guide (btw it’s not even the beginning of the semester when new people would be joining,it’s actually close to the end). OK so those students are in my English class but they are also taking History of Ancient Cultures. Sounds fun doesn’t it?
I then had dancing from 3.40-8.40, which left me exhausted. So I plonk onto my bed with a plate of food and watch “Lipstick Jungle”. Great new series on SABC 3. After that I decide to go to bed (as I have had such a busy day).
So I start getting comfy when I find a dead fish in my bed, yes you read correctly. A DEAD FISH!!! The fish turned out to be Matt’s fish. He found it extremely funny. Gross. We then found out it was Grishko (our dog) that carried the fish to bed. Yum!
When tweeting all this drama a gogga also flew up my nose! This just isn’t my day! Actually I find it all rather hilarious. I know if it all happened to someone else I would laugh so I can’t help but laugh at myself too.