My big fat BIG dream

I woke up one day and I was super huge FAT!! I felt heavy and was not able to lift myself to use the loo. I managed to roll over onto my side only to find myself on the floor (I didn’t realise I fell off). That’s when my sister, Caroline, walked in and started yelling at me.

“What the hell, I told you to wait for me to help your fat ass!” she said. I was confused and ashamed because she was my younger sister and I remember that I was not skinny yet I was not obese.

I looked at my thighs and my arms and they were enormous, none of my clothes fit like they use to. All my clothes that did fit me looked like tents, this disgusted with myself. Caroline then helped me up, helped me to the toilet, dressed me and by then I was exhausted.

I was driven to the doctor, and she said “Dhonaye you are definitely morbidly obese and you are going to die”. I cried, I was about to throw up I woke up . . . turns out, I was dreaming.

I panicked, this was my big fat BIG dream and I promised myself to try everything in my power to not ever be that fat ever. That is why I have signed up to a fitness boot-camp in October. J

Thoughts about: Fingers

I think fingers are weird and random. There a lot of different looking types of fingers, ugly ones, pretty ones, short ones and crippled looking ones. We don’t realise how much we need our fingers until we break them, fracture them or even lose them.

I think that fingers are weird because of the movements they make. Try stare at your hand, move your fingers in different ways . . . up and down, left to right, wiggle them, try form shapes or letters with them. Pretty weird hey?

I think fingers are random because nowadays people use them as a form of art. I have recently come across really funny pictures of fingers that have faces drawn on them. The faces range from happy to sad, to faces drawn on fingers of a hand, that represent a group of people as different characters.

This is just my thoughts on fingers, random and weird, but this is just another little story.

Conventional is a good fall-back position isn’t it?

I would have to agree with this blog title. Conventional means conforming or adhering to accepted standards, which for each of us may be different.

We all like trying out new restaurants, but because we are afraid the food might be a let-down or the food you ate was just not what you felt like having in your mouth. So we go back to the restaurant where we already know the food is good. We’d also go back to that same restaurant every other month and we eat the same dish every time.

This is where ‘conventional is a good fall-back position’ fits in to the story. A really big portion of us tend to just stick to what we are used to. Others are more daring, they try out new things and live out of the ordinary, this is how we all should try and live for the moment.

Puppy No. 2

So. . .on Sunday the 14^th, I woke up with an idea for Dawn’s birthday the 13^th of September, and immediately I BBM’d Ozy (my housemate). I was thinking of getting Dawn a puppy, as she has been hinting in a jokingly manner that she wanted one. At around 12 that day, Ozy came to us and showered me a picture of a brown and white pitbull (it was like he was reading my mind). Just for interest sake I asked him how much the puppy cost and he said R1000, I was in shock. Because Dawn was in the company of Ozy and I the entire day, it was difficult planning getting her a puppy J.

Ozy then made a few phone a few phone calls and found another puppy (black and white) for R700. We were a bit afraid that Dawn might not like her but I said “lets just do it’. Ozy made another phone call and then we planned on how to get the puppy over BBM. The two of us decided that we’d ask Dawn to take us to Canal Walk, and then he’d ask her to ‘please collect insurance papers up’ (code for getting the puppy). The plan work like a bomb, she had no idea what we had planned.

When we got to the puppies we let her choose a puppy, and this made her super excited. Dawn didn’t even drive her car home that night because she wanted to hold the puppy. The puppy is 8 weeks old and we named her Juno. It’s been 4 days with her and she’s a naughty little shit. I’m on my 3^rd cellphone charger already. Because this is a little story, written by me for you to read, I just hope that Juno will grow old with us. I don’t want the same thing that happened to Asia to happen to Juno.

You cannot chase 2 rabbits at the same time.

Let us put all the deep intellectual quote stuff aside and look at the figurative side of things. I would imagine that you cannot chase 2 rabbits at the same time. Rabbits are cute and small and as far as I no, they run really fast. Having to chase two rabbits and eventually catch them is not a walk in the park (not easy) and not exactly possible.

This scenario make me wonder, why would one want to chase two rabbits at the same time and catch it (what would the purpose then be)? Do people that hunt rabbits maybe know a way of chasing 2 rabbits at the same time? I, however, think that having two people chase two rabbits at the same time would be possible.

If I had to chase two rabbits at the same time, I would need help (whether it be people or equipment). I’d need at least three other people (equals four people) who are fit enough to run after them, and two cages to place the rabbits in it once we successfully caught them. And that’s just a little story, thought through by me, for you to read. J

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one idea (Alain)

He did not have other ideas

This is a quote that is straight forward and to my opinion . . . true. Not all ideas can be dangerous, but having one idea only is more dangerous. I think for some of us an idea may not even be that dangerous, some of us are lucky enough to only need one idea.

By having an idea, usually entails that you are planning to do something, and with that a natural chain of thoughts (more ideas) fall into place. If there are no other ideas that fall into place, things could be dangerous (as we could not really have a plan).

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one idea because no matter how awesome you are you still need a back-up plan (ideas). With at least 3 other ideas our sole idea would no longer be dangerous.

Letter to: My Sister (Caroline)

Dear Pixie,

My sister and I

I’m doing great here in Cape Town, and I really hope you are doing better after the last week. It must have been a tough one when you find that your friends aren’t really your friends. I also would like to let you know that I really miss you and I promise that from now on your getting hugs all the time when I’m home.

Yeah, so my former days were not all bright and fluffy. I did have it tough and now it’s a thing of the past, we’ve grown since then and I’m glad that I have a sister like you. You are smart, funny, silly, talented, crazy and I know you got balls (that I don’t have), all that rolled up into a strong heart that only you have!!

As for the people (your friends) who tell you that you are rude and everything else that they might say to bring you down, never mind them, sometimes our bestest friends could be the cruellest people. I’d like to think that friends are tough on us only so that we can be become better people. You can email, facebook, tweet or call me or even Dawn whenever you want to speak.

By the way, I do read your blogs and I believe that you’ll be a great writer, you might just even be better at blogging than what I would ever become. Oh and that blog about us . . . http://pixie1996.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-sister-and-i.html adorable and heart-warming. Also I think you’ve found what your great at ;).

I miss and love you Pixie

Your sister,

Donna

“Have you figured out the second head fake?”

Said Randy Pausch (a well-known life coach) and continued, “The talk’s not for you. It’s for my kids”. Randy even wrote a book called ‘The last lecture’, that I will certainly still have to read (it’s on my bucket list), which contains many motivational quotes and inspirational life lessons for everyone. Before the ‘second head fake’, Randy wrote about the ‘head fake’, which he explained that ‘It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life,  if you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.’

Life Lesson no. 53

A quote from Randy that caught my attention was ‘Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.’ What I take from this quote is that experience is the knowledge you gain while working hard even if the end result is not what you wanted.’ The quote: “Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them”, is one that we all should take into consideration as it is their life to live and it would up to them to figure out how to apply those lessons.

A letter to: My dad (Andreas)

Dear Dad,

My dad, me and my mom

I am doing well here in Cape Town, although I have to admit that I miss you and the rest of the family back in Swakop. It has been more than a month ago since I last saw you and the little ones. I hope you are all doing well.

I am writing this letter to try and let you know how thankful I am that you have made me apart of your family about 13 years ago. I would not have wanted anyone else to be my dad. As any other dad would, you have taught me a lot of things (mostly what a dad would teach his son, but I enjoyed it). You taught me how to swim, how to set the channels on the tv manually, how to change a bulb, how to clean the pool, how to change a wheel and I have even learnt a few cooking tips.

Although we have not spent a lot of time together like any other family, I appreciated every moment we had spent together. Every time you visit me in Cape Town and then leave again, I get sad. Not only have you been a great dad to me, your also an inspiration to me (I may have never mentioned this but its true).

This letter is not just to say thank you, but I would also like to take this opportunity to apologise for anything that I may have done to disappoint you. Whether I misbehaved, been disrespectful and even if I just did not listened to you. I have grown since then, and learnt right from wrong. I also know that whoever I end up with one day and whatever I end up doing, you will support any of my decisions and still remain proud of me.

Dad, I appreciate everything you have done for me over the past few years and I have to confess that with everyday that goes by, I miss you more and more. You are the greatest man I have ever met!!

Your daughter,

Dhonaye