And so the cookie crumbles.....

Right ... so we moved our office from Milnerton to Stellenbosch on Monday 25th (pay day - YAY!). Stunning farm we moved to - the big boss owns it of course. So Tuesday we get called in to a staff meeting .... now the Cape Town branch has been closed officially and all the staff retrenched.

Yip ... I'm no longer an employee ... I'm now self-employed (*cough cough*) ...

So now what? Well, I'm not going to sit around feeling sorry for myself ... I'm going to take this raging bull by its crooked horns and whip it into some tasty steaks! Anyone up for a braai?

Plan of action for now is to get my tax number so they can pay me out my pension fund (which would definitely aid the "pay off the debts" fund), get my UIF sorted out and find another job. I'm seriously thinking of finding a half day job and then starting up the photography again. I love doing photography - it's a passion of mine. What I'm in the process of organising is my very own website for my photography business. I'm totally amped to get that going. There is a slight chance of acquiring some funds to get it off the ground too ... slight ... but there ... its a "wait and see" game right now. If the funds do happen, I'm going to be putting some of it towards equipment and some towards further education to aid the business. Make sure I'm all I can be and all that jazz.

So all in all the cookie may have crumbled, but from what I've heard, "they" say that the calories fall out of the cookies when they crumble and the crumbs are therefore calorie free which means they are perfect to munch up guilt free!!!! How awesome is that!!!!

Will keep you posted .....

The latest in cell phone technology

If you, like some people out there in today's fabulous society of affirmative shoppers, feel that answering your phone while you are sitting in your car leaves you at risk of being hijacked or killed, then this is what you need to get yourself ......


Good luck explaining it to the cops before they shoot your ass down for drawing a weapon.

Did you know ....

• If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
  (Hardly seems worth it.)
  
  
• If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
  (Now that's more like it!)
  
  
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
  (O.M.G.!)
  
  
• A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
  (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
  
  
• A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
  (Creepy.)
  (I'm still not over the pig.)
  
  
• Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
  (Don't try this at home, maybe at work)
  
  
• The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
  (Honey, I'm home. What the...?!)
  
  
• The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
  (30 minutes... Lucky pig! Can you imagine?)
  
  
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
  (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
  
  
• Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
  (I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)
  
  
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
  (Something I always wanted to know.)
  
  
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
  (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
  
  
• Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
  (Okay, so that would be a good thing)
  
  
• A cat's urine glows under a black light.
  (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
  
  
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  (I know some people like that.)
  
  
• Starfish have no brains
  (I know some people like that too.)
  
  
• Polar bears are left-handed.
  (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)
  
  
• Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
  (What about that pig??)
  

Thanks for the email Mom! (yes that's right, this is the stuff my mother sends me!)

FML

Right, so we all get those days where we're thinking "oh my word, could anything else go wrong in this lifetime!?" or "I'm going to crawl into a hole and just DIE!"

Well there's this website called "F* My Life" ... I know I know ... what a title! But you should go read some of the stuff on there! No no no, its nothing overly dodge I promise.

Here's an example:

Today, I got a call saying that my son was chasing all the girls in the class with his "Sword of Death" (my dildo). FML

...

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

So yes, there are things in there that will make you think twice about your problems and you're bound to get a good giggle or two out of it too. (Just click on the title of this post and it will take you to the website)

Enjoy!

Cruella De Vil: Part 1

It was a dark, cold and quiet morning. I had to wake up early, so I had set my alarm to go off at 5am. The first annoying buzzing sound from my cell phone alarm went off at 5am - I promptly snoozed it ... twice ... and snuggled deeper within my warm feather duvet.

I must have switched it off instead of snoozing it because when I finally surfaced from under my duvet, clutching my cell phone in my right hand, I noticed that it was just after 6am! Great! I was running late ... again! I woke up my ever present klingon (aka Raechel) and put a warm top on her so that we could go fetch Anthea (our cleaning goddess) in Macassar. I'm not at my finest at that hour of the morning and have the tendency to look a bit like Medusa having a bad hair day. Yet I do not scare my klingons who are now used to it. Anthea also does not scare easily as she has known me since I was about 14 years old ... nothing can scare her anymore thanks to me.

Anyway, Raechel and I fetched Anthea and we started our short, and generally uneventful, drive back home.

The road twisted up the hill between the farmlands, total darkness surrounded us. All of a sudden, Bambi bounded out from the left, bent on denting my bumper! I was so surprised to see Bambi in that neck of the woods as I hit on brakes - and no, I wasn't speeding! Yes, I know it was Bambi because if someone had a dog like that they'd be on TV by now. Now I say again ... it was dark ... you never know who's out there (how's that for paranoia and too many horror movies!) and I was already running a good 30-40 minutes behind schedule, so Ms De Vil here didn't slow down or stop to see if Bambi was still breathing. I got home and inspected my car....

The bumper was cracked and some of Bambi's fur was jutting out of it from an odd angle making my car look like it had been taking Bob Martins instead of Unleaded. There was a smear of mud (... MUD not blood! ...) on the front passenger door and something that looked suspiciously like crap. Poor Bambi must have shat himself on impact. My front vent thingy which usually sits so snuggly in the position it was originally placed in, was now dangling at a very precarious angle. I promptly removed it and tossed it in my boot.

Needless to say, the day was almost a total waste of make-up, but I got through it. Driving up the same road later that evening on my way home from work, I kept a steady eye out for anything furry lying on the side of the road. There was no Bambi to be seen. I'm thinking either it was just a flesh wound and he managed to limp back to his pozzy, or he became someones dinner. It would be a darn expensive dinner to say the least! Not for the family dining on venison, but for me! Ms De Vil! Who's insurance policy is still so new they're upping her damn excess payment by R1000! Karma is such a bitch!

I took the car in to be assessed by the insurance company. They inspected the whole car and told me the bumper will have to be replaced and they'll need to fix the door too ... why? Well it seems that Bambi was not trying to buff the door with his ass ... no he was denting it. So he left a dent and crapped all over my door ... which now has to be fixed and resprayed. Oh the joys! I can just feel how light my wallet is getting as time ticks by. The bank is going to repossess my debit card!

Oh well ... so the saga will continue and I shall keep you posted....

Yours faithfully,
Cruella de Vil

Cape Town Light Show 21 May 2009

Ya, I should really start getting up earlier in the morning so that I could capture pics like these! (Thanks for the pics Joanne!)

Ohhhhh ... so this is what a wolverine looks like without fur....

I went to watch X-Men Origins: Wolverine on Tuesday evening.

Now I'm a big "comic-book-turned-movie" fan ... I loved watching the Spiderman movies, Batman movies and Iron Man to mention a few. But I'll admit ... that alone is not the attraction for me in X-Men. The eye-candy has been such a bonus! I'm a Hugh Jackman fan, what can I say!

"who took my bubble bath!?" (doesn't this remind you of bath time with the kids?)

oh yes ladies ... under all that water he is buck naked ... don't believe me .... then look below...



See ... I told you.... yes that be Mr Jackman's finely sculpted ass...

This movie was lots of fun. Besides getting to see Hugh Jackman naked, there was a fair amount of action and a storyline one could sit back and enjoy without having to think too hard. I like far-fetched movies. Hell, if I want reality I can stay at home! I go to the movies to get lost in a world that is total fiction.


Ok, now you tell me if you found this man kneeling naked in your barn if you wouldn't help him ... oh my sweet giddy aunt! I think I'd build myself a barn on the off chance he may come pop in for a visit! *Growl*

So besides the delicious Mr Jackman there are some new characters that have made their first appearance in the X-Men world. The delightfully buff looking Ryan Reynolds plays someone ... yes I forget the characters name ... well, excuse me! I was a little blinded by his awesome six pack and quirky sense of humor! So I found you a picture of him and his comic book character .....


*sigh* .... oh I think his character's name could be Deadpool? ... Yes that's it ... Wade Wilson aka Deadpool aka Weapon XI. Ok, hang on ... I need to move this screen up ... all I see are his abs as I'm typing this and damn it they're a huge distraction!!!


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Nope ... now all I see is crotch ....



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Ok ... so now as I was saying. This movie introduces one or two other characters too ... and it seems like they're going to be bringing movies out in the not so distant future (2012) about some of these characters. That should be fun!!!

If you haven't seen it, don't worry about what some of the critics are saying - go make up your own mind and stop being led around like a mindless minion! I really enjoyed it and I'm sure you might too!

All in all, I'm giving this movie a thumbs up. So go grab a box of popcorn and go and enjoy some time off from reality ;)