I'm an African

And so proud of it. Today I was wearing my fave Tee that says 'I love Africa'. I don't just love being a South African. I love being an African and I don't for one minute think that I am 'separate' from the rest of Africa. I don't know how many times I've heard some of my fellow South AFRICANS say things like: "this is _____, he is from Africa" or "I'd love to go to Africa"... Uhmmm okay I'm sure '___' comes from a country with a name, like Central African Republic or Tanzania. Where in Africa would you like to go my friend? Seeing as how you are already in Africa, maybe you don't have to go anywhere.

So, my friends... Why not learn more about Africa? You know, become part of the African continent. While on my vegetarian 'experiment', I'm going to buy a book by an African author and expand my mind :) I'm not saying go out there and learn the names of all the countries on this lovely continent (which might not be a bad idea), but learn something about our brothers that we share this lovely (sometimes heart breaking) continent of ours.

This is a short post because, it's late, I've got waaaaayyy too much work to do and I NEED some beauty sleep.

Beef or Chickpeas?

Hmm... So the wife (Marcee) and I have decided to try out 'vegetarianism' (is that a real word?). We both grew up in homes where eating meat was a way life. I mean my dad is traumatised if we make a meal with no meat in it. When I say no meat I mean no 'visible' meat (preferably red). I once mad Chicken stir-fry with Cashew nuts and he looked like he was going to die. Too many vegetables, the meat was in 'strips' and I had the audacity to put 'peanuts' in his food. LMAO. The look on his face was priceless. He tried very hard to enjoy it... That was the last time we had Stir-fry at home :)

So Ms Pretty and I are gonna try the whole Vegetarian thing out. We both have been toying with the idea for a while, so we thought 'why not try it out?'. In preparation for out 'big experiment' I downloaded the 'Vegetarian Starter kit' and oh my goodness... I had NO IDEA what animals go through, just so we can eat them. That being said I'm not sure Marcee and I are going to go 'cold turkey'. Too scary. I mean I've eaten meat all my life. That is part of my identity. I know it sounds like rubbish, but I've been a meat eater for the longest time.

So this is how it's going to work:
We are going to cut the meat out of our diet slowly.
We will have one week with no meat and one week with some meat.
The dairy products will stay for a LONG time.

This will be very hard... I mean, what are we going to cook? Eeek!! We are going to collect vegetarian recipes and try new things out :) The 'experiment' starts next week on Monday. Depending on the outcome we could either remain meat eaters, be lacto-vegetarians (I like that option better) or be Vegans. I'm sweating thinking about all this.

Wish us luck. I'm so lucky that I'm doing this with my best friend.

Where the eff did Tuesday go?

I just woke up from my 'sick person' sleep and realised that Tuesday is GONE!! It is now Wednesday. sob sob sob! The plan was to take a nap and wake up later but...

It's after midnight, SABC 1 is playing RUBBISH music, my throat and chest hurt, I have day job stuff to do and I didn't get to work on my music because Tuesday decided to leave without informing me. I'm helluva grumpy now. I really really need to find a way to make time for my music. If I'm going to become a full time muso at some stage it needs to happen in this lifetime. It's not like the day job pays loads of money. Why couldn't my destiny be something like being a doctor? Why did it have to be something that requires so much out of me. I'm thankful for my gift, I really am... But I'm not feeling so wonderful today.

Cheerful me is still sleeping, thinking that she will wake up at about 21:00 (on Tuesday) and get some work done. Grumpy me is awake, has access to my blog and needs to 'off load' a bit. I wonder how cheerful the other girl will be when she wakes up at 06:00 on Tuesday? I pity anyone that has to work with her later.

My apologies for complaining so much. It's been coming for a while, but I'm one of those 'automatic smile' people. 'Automatic smile' is sort of like 'Auto pilot': when things get a little too much, I shut down and smile until I feel like I can deal with it. A part of me wants to scream 'Help, I'm not dealing' but I never do. Note to self: please learn how to say when crash land, instead of going into 'automatic smile' all the time. Nobody likes a winy Ms Porcelain anyway.

I guess it's time to start seriously thinking of another alternative. I'm a journ graduate with some 'marketing' experience, surely I can find something that does not need my attention ALL the time. I'm a freelancer dammit! I'm not supposed to be working 7 days a week on ONE job. I need my music, I don't know how to cope otherwise. How the hell am I gonna start playing 'gigs' if I have no effing time to scratch my effing arse? I think I better leave before 'grumpy me' turns into 'monster me'.

Better make the best of Wednesday before this B*%$h disappears as well. Sigh...

Another again?

One more hot man. Oh the HOTNESS!!

OH MY DAMN!!!!!

Okay, back to work for me.

I need a Hero

And that man might be offering his services :)

Feeling really awful and still working. Thought I'd leave some hotness here for fun. He is the reason why 'Heroes' is so much fun.

Sunday blues

"Yesterday I was on top of the world, but today I sing the blues..." That is my Sunday Blues song. I just realised that I have to go to work tomorrow.

I'm not hating the day job as much anymore, but it's still sad that the weekend is over so quickly. I hope tomorrow is a good day. Monday is always a little slow :( AND I think I'm getting sick again :(

Oh well, might as well enjoy what is left of the weekend. Here is something to make you (me especially) smile. Another pic from my first live performance with LP Show :) Aaahh the good times!

2 AMAZING days!!

On Friday I attended Africa day celebrations at the Artscape. The show was great, except there were a couple of people sitting behind me who insisted on talking through the whole thing. OH!! And... Marcee broke her zip while we were in the ladies. LMAO! She didn't want to come out of the bathroom until she had fixed it. Poor girl! I finally convinced her to come out of the stall and cover her 'open fly' with her bag. She was super embarrassed.

That was not what made Friday amazing. After the show I interviewed Neo Muyanga. I couldn't believe it, but you know I had to keep my cool because I was on the job. What a nice guy that Neo. So intelligent, so talented, so gentle, so humble, so... so... Uhmmm, where was I? Oh yes, the interview! The interview went very well. I'm becoming quite the 'journo' ha ha ha. Pity I'll have to give all that up when I become a full time Muso.

Today was also an amazing day. Met up with my wonderful Piano teacher and played her my new song. She said it was great and taught me more 'techniques' that can help me write better songs. I actually feel like I've been writing baby songs and my latest song is my first 'adolescent' song. I'll be writing 'grown up songs' in no time.

I can't believe how far I've come. I feel like I've grown so much in the past couple of months. The past two days have been AMAZING!!! I'm drinking Champagne as I type this, so please forgive any typos :)

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.