Yummy Wakame

Sooo… I just found out that non-facebookers can see the album from this link. Sorry about the mix up!

“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no whenever you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.”
~ Eve Ensler

The first feeling that screamed through my head when I first read this was “YAY!!!”. Thanks Melissa! I’m chuffed this had you thinking of me — it’s crazily encouraging and set off a whirlwind of ideas. Actually, thanks for all the great titbits you send my way. We’ve only hung out a few times yet you seem to know me better than almost everyone without even trying. So I reckon if you’re as talented at giving back rubs as you are at baking and sending me awesome stuff, and dressing up for the pizza guy, in the next life you should probably be my girlfriend. I’m just letting you know now so it saves us both time. Hopefully it will all go according to plan and I won’t come back as a cat… or a pancake… or a Starbucks coffee cup lid… yeah, that would be a let down.

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Imagine if you could get all the sleep you need in 2 hours and have 22 hours to work and play! If you have a flexible schedule, it’s completely possible! I’m intrigued enough to try this for real.

Uberman’s sleep schedule – (Six Incredibly Awesome Mind States You Can Experience)

Thanks Melissa

“The body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.”
~ Buddha

I really love this quote! I stumbled on it while looking for a talented Thai Yoga Massage therapist in Boulder.

I just realised right now, after reading this how much I love my body. Finally. It’s not perfect by any stretch of the media’s imagination, but its mine, it’s taken me all over the world, its allowed me to embrace some truly incredible human beings and it allows me the full range of intense sensations that make me feel like I’m burning with life all the time. It took me a long time to get to this point of loving my outer shell, even liking it. For 10 years, after a disturbance during my teens, I felt completely disconnected from it, most places I lived I didn’t even own a mirror, and when I did see my reflection by accident, like washing my hands at a restaurant, it always surprised me that I had some sort of form… my face particularly was odd to look at… I remember peering at it sometimes shyly like I was embarrassed to stare at someone else, I didn’t expect it to look the way it does… “who’s eyes are those? Who is that? It doesn’t even look like me.” It didn’t feel like me to even have a face. I always felt floaty, like a big ball of spirit not confined to a skin, not wanting to be in a skin at all… more…

Yeah, so anyway…

Raising kids is sometimes hilarious and terrifying at the same time… as this site so wonderfully illustrates…

Thanks Melissa!

Aw… my Dad’s first clothing shop – Frank B Earnest in Gardens Centre, Cape Town. I remember helping to paint that amazing floor when I was a little kiddo. The last time I popped round, over 10 years ago, there was a new store there but they’d kept the beautiful painted floor. Those old leather couches and the Persian rug used to be in our livingroom…

When I was a really teeny weeny he worked for the House of Monatic where he started the Carducci label. I remember spending hours with my brother at the office, scooting wheelie chairs all over the building, up and down the elevators, spinning around and around for hours… sniffing suit fabric swatches, gluing and stapling fabric and paper together into strange things. I remember the office windows were floor to ceiling and the entire building smelled heavily of brand new fabric and carpeting. Now that I think about it I was probably always high on fumes… oh and those permanent markers… and spinning round and round and round… He was always away on business trips. I remember particularly when he went to Italy and Japan and would come back loaded up with crazy toys I’d never seen in South Africa. He was a fun dad and I missed him a lot when he was away. Back then and for years I thought “Overseas” was a country people visited on business trips and rich kids went skiing with their parents, and “South Africa” was where everyone really lived. An entire classroom of laughing kids enlightened me to reality. That happened often. more…

So…… my status was updated yesterday on Facebook to “in a relationship” which means, AWESOME! Over the rainbow, taste the rainbow cheesy happiness. My Little Ponies having hair brushing tea parties under waterfalls. We’ve been together a lot longer than since yesterday but I took some time making it official I guess, after developments from my writing in recent weeks upset some really beloved members of the extended family and I was deciding what on earth to do after that. The whole process of families being torn apart from divorce is incredibly painful for everyone involved and nobody knows where they stand afterwards. My usual gusty spirits were just flattened for a while after it all went down. Though the whole time I have known I need to do what I need to do to move on, to heal completely. So I committed to writing about the whole process a long time ago as part of this… granted it was back when my website was getting 1-2 hits a day and it was more of a journal experiment that nobody cared about, but then I started gaining followers, and then after a few months I hit some serious roadblocks along the way of what I can or cant write because so many people are involved in this process.

I’ve been feeling like I’ve been walking on glass since the upsettedness, so I’m relieved now that it’s finally out there and official — it’s done. After everything he’s put on the line, his complete trust, opening his arms, heart and home to me in every way he knows how, I should have written these lines when it really was official. But at least its been pretty well known where my heart has stood ever since I first wrote about him.

Joseph, I am just so elated to be with you! I CAN’T WAIT to adventure the decades away together!! Today as I sit and heat the Colorado snow off my boots in front of the pellet stove I’m thinking seriously… howabout Hawaii…?

Finally! I have gone through all the photos of my 2 week adventure in Big Bend with Frank and Brett and whittled it down to a mere 83… I don’t have time to put this up on Flicker yet so here’s the link to the Facebook album:
(You’ll need to be a member of the Facebook community to access it)

Btw… if I don’t know you in some way, at least a little through this website, or if we’re not related via family or someone we both know, please dont add me as a friend. Im trying to keep Facebook legit and as unMySpacey as I can.

The Dime Kitchen Workstation

“sound of the earth”

design by : pablo ocqueteau from chile

junkie xl – beauty never fades (animatrix edit)

There’s something extraordinarily hot about watching Joseph serving cocktails to extremely beautiful women at the salsa dancing bar he tends, who oftentimes flirt shamelessly with him over their drink orders every chance they get. But it’s not the gorgeous women exactly, what they say, or even how hot he looks pacing up and down the bar on a busy night… when I dig deeper, there’s something undeniably intoxicatingly sexy to me about an unshakably faithful man. A man who appreciates and faithfully adores the woman he has chosen to love and adventure this life with. These men are the rarest of the rare, in this and any day and age, and so wonderful to watch in action, even when they don’t know they are even being watched.

If you are one of these rare men, I hugely admire and applaud you for your integrity and your beautiful spirit. If you are a man or a woman and happen to be with someone who doesn’t appreciate this incredible quality in you, please don’t change! You’re with the wrong person. Be with someone who shares your core values in life. There really is someone out there who would appreciate and adore you for being so incredibly You.

From the Huff. Yeah.

Honourable mention:
“Only dead fish go with the flow,” ex-beauty pageant contestant Sarah Palin, from her resignation speech as Alaska governor, July 3, 2009.

Oh my God it’s like, so ironic.

Here is a collection of thoughts I’ve found all over the internet since October 2009 and stored away in a happiness folder. It seems silly now not to share them…

“People always think that the most painful thing is losing the one you love in your life. The truth is, the most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, forgetting that you are special, too.”

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“…and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

Huffington Post

After The Rapture Pet Care
Here’s a picture of an adorable kitten that would be left to die after the Rapture –>
(click to view it in full sized cuteness for full effect)

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Although I was planning on coming out here to visit Joseph for about a fortnight, I’ve been in Colorado for about 3 weeks already and I’m carefully considering my options from here. more…

And wings!!!

Another FUTURE SHORTS favourite. Watch it on YouTube.

My 4 years old laptop is a blustering old mule that runs hot and heavy all the time when its not groaning under the weight of PhotoShop, Outlook and Dreamweaver. I can’t afford a new laptop yet (I’ve been saying this for years) because I spend more time travelling and farting around in the sun than working. Really, I love what I do, especially if it involves socks, and I would do it all for free if I didn’t have to eat… but I also work just enough hours to afford to eat really well and play. But I can afford a stand to allow airflow, and it would be nice to have the screen raised to eye level, its just that they are so bulky…

My new coffee shop friend Gabrielle was sporting an orange set of laptop legs that had me completely intrigued – a friend of hers makes them. So I just bought myself a purple set in celebration of purple and the end of my eternal quest for the lightest portable laptop stand with adjustable height. I held one and it felt like nothing was in my hand. Yay for this ingenious design! And YAY FOR PURPLE!

I got mine here!

Valentine’s Day is so unbelievably naff, cheesier than unwashed cheese balls for Christmas under a chintzy synthetic tree from China. I have fondly thought of it as Revival of the Undead Love Day since I was a spring chicken at love. At least its fun watching couples in public awkwardly force-expressing more love than they usually can be bothered to show. Unfortunately I didn’t stumble on this quality website early enough in time to wish you all a Truly Naff Valentines Day, so here is a Truly Belated Naffest of All Valentines Day greeting from me to you.

You’re welcome.

I freaking love Dante Shepherd’s daily lessons!!

“Stay away from anything that disturbs your peace of mind, from anything that brings disappointments, anxieties and worries.”
~ Swami Satchidananda

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