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My Little Black Book 2008-03-07 01:34:23 ...is a history book now.I was thinking about how lucky I am to have found The Boyfriend. I have dated some assholes and jerks in the past. I had a tendency to wish for pretty boys or bad boys, and then wonder why they never stuck around. Wonder why I was never that girl to tame them. But, I have realised I have tamed my bad boy. My pretty boy. I was thinking back over some of the men that have crossed my path. I have dated:*an alcoholic, abusive helicopter pilot,*a druggie waiter,*a theatre performer, (he stole my heart and tickled my fancy as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet)*an artist/DJ/poet,*a drummer,*a guitarist,*a bass guitarist,* a singer (yes, my ex-boyfriends could start their own band)*a player who spends daddy's money,*a toyboy (three years younger than me),*a pro-surfer,*a graff Read more:Black
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"I'll Have A Wedding Bells, Ice and Soda, Please" 2008-03-06 00:00:07 So, apparently it's wedding season. Not too hot, not too cold, everything is still green enough to be pretty, and...let's face it, a lot of people got knocked up last winter and are now tying the knot. There is a lot of pressure on The Boyfriend and I to get hitched, as we are living in sin, and have an illegitimate child.Now, we have discussed this, and I have stressed repeatedly that I am in no sort of rush. In fact, neither of us are. But I know that The Boyfriend would like to propose sometime soon. The only thing that scares me is the kind of wedding we would have. If it were up to me, we'd elope somewhere by ourselves, get married, come home and not make any sort of fuss about it. But apparently my future-mother-in-law would kill us if we did that. Apparently she wants the entire fa Read more:Please
Imaginary Blogger Party 2008-03-03 23:34:23 Okay, so after debating whether or not to go to The BloggerParty
on Saturday night, then going and discovering no one I knew, I decided to create an imaginary blogger party of my own. This is what my guest list would look like. (In no particular order) *KaB - I picture her sitting at the table, tiara nestled in her flowing locks, tall drink in hand. She will be talking a-mile-a-minute. After a few drinks she will leap on the table and sing raucously. She will claim to be the driver of this-here funbus, too.*Peas on Toast: chugging on a good ol glass of vino. If she brought her wagon-wheels along and is abstaining, she will bring her knitting too. She will knit willy warmers for all the men at the party.*Miss M: I picture her sitting neatly with her legs crossed, wearing a black pencil ski Read more:Imaginary
Hey, Hey I Wanna Be A Rockstar 2008-03-03 01:58:55 (original image credit: Mr_Moogy)A whole new meme. That I found here. Say hello and welcome to 'Certified Funds' with their smash-hit album 'There is No Cat'.Want to be a rockstar, too? Follow these steps:1. Click this link. The first title on this page is the name of your band.2. Now click this link. The last four words of the very last quote is the name of your album. If it doesn't work at all, click the "New Random Quotations" button for more.3. And finally, click this link. The third picture on this page will be your album cover. Add your band name and album title, and you're done! (Please remember to give credit for the original picture.)
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Our Disguises Were So Successful 2008-03-02 23:29:03 That no-one even knew we were at the party on Saturday night. We landed up getting to the blogger party a tad late, having had to go to a birthday partyjie at Cool Runnings beforehand. By the time we got to the party, every one was standing around in little cliques, drinking and having the most boring-sounding conversations. Ever. Honestly, I heard someone talking about Discovery Health, for more than 15 minutes. How do you have enough conversation fodder for more than 15 minutes of Discovery Health. This is all I have (and all any normal person should have) Arb Person From Party: hey, like, so what medical aid are you on, dude?Mistakes and Thrills: dude, I'm on Discovery.Arb Person From Party: is it? what's that like, man?Mistakes and Thrills: oh, it's allright. You know, you get discou
Bloggerati Joburg 2008-02-28 23:42:09 I'm sure all of us who live in Joburg
got the invite to the Bloggerati Party on Saturday night. I would love to come, but I am too scared to. Why? You might ask.I am shitscared that someone is going to tell The Boyfriend what I have blogged about him.It's not like I've said anything mean about him, in fact my mother says he comes off as the victim in most scenarios. He knows I have a blog, but he doesn't know what I write on it. In fact, he'd never read it, because, well.... sadly, he's dyslexic and hates to readI'm also worried about meeting the people whose blogs I read and love. What if they're not like I pictured them, and I am totally disappointed?Maybe I should just stay at homeThereby keeping my idealist beautiful mental pictures of all bloggers out there intact.And thereby prevent
Temper, Temper 2008-02-28 08:41:41 Big barneys went down last night in the Mistakes & Thrills residence.It started with a spider.Let me explain.I was going to walk to the shopping centre down the road, with The Kid in the pram, and get some take-aways and DVDs and do some shopping. But as I was placing The Kid in the pram, a huge motherfucker of a spider (with a huge red ass) crawled out.I hauled The Kid out there lightning-quick and called The Boyfriend to come find the spider. He couldn’t find the spider, so he says to me I must walk to the shops with The Kid in the sling. I refused. It’s a fucking mission with The Kid in the sling and having packets along as well. He called me a lazy bitch.Things went pear-shaped from there.I locked him in the garage. He had a cadenza about that.Screaming and shouting ensued.I di Read more:Temper
Where Is The Love? 2008-02-28 08:39:15 Big brawls again last night. Not even worth sharing the details. Today I made a decision to try stop the fighting. Stop the bitchiness. Stop with my perpetual misery. Today being the day of love and all. I even decided to get him a decent gift this year. (last year being the Year of the Putty Ear - which, I must say, did not go down well at all).Got woken up at 4am this morning. The Kid was hungry, and then wanted to play. The Boyfriend had slept on the sleeper couch upstairs last night. I was so grumpy and so tired I was considering walking upstairs, kicking him and throwing his gift at him with a snotty 'happy fucking valentines day'. But I restrained myself. Instead, I put his gift in it's gift bag, walked calmly over to him while he was putting on his shoes before leaving for work, and
Oh How Shamefully Embarrassing 2008-02-28 08:37:33 I love teeny-bopper magazines. It's sinful, I know. The best thing about them is their 'Reader's Most Cringeworthy Moments' or some such similar k-rap, where the readers write in and talk about how, during their first kiss, they locked braces with their boyfriends and then their mates or doctors had to untangle them.Well....here's a few of mine:1. Going on a date, in second year, with this really cute guy I'd liked for a while. Getting so drunk on tequilas and having to phone him to come collect me from the girl's bathroom and take me home. He had to carry me to the car. Then I puked on the pavement and all the car guards were laughing at me. Then I puked out the window of his car, all down the side. He took me home, tucked me into his bed, with a bucket close on hand and went and slept o Read more:Embarrassing
I Just Never Learn My Lesson 2008-02-28 08:36:09 I have broken a toe again.*How did I manage to do this, you might ask. Same as last time. I kicked The Boyfriend in the heat of an argument.We had gone to Eastgate Mall to do some shopping. And a fight ensued while in Game, buying The Kid a new toy to hang on his pram and some teething rings. Now The Kid already has like a thousand and two teething rings, but Luke still wanted to buy more. I let him get one that would fit comfortably in The Kid's grubby little paws and veto'd another one that was shaped like an apple, and that I could see wouldn't come in use for another few months. The Boyfriend refused to put it back, so I told him I refused to pay for it. A little of this back-and-forth ensued, and then he stormed out the store.I paid for the rest of the stuff, and walked out the shop,
That Was Then, This Is Now 2008-02-27 02:04:32 What my life used to be about:andandWhat my life is about now:andandandMadness, huh?
Your Mother Dresses You Funny [But Hey, At Least You're Not Ugly] 2008-02-26 00:38:54 Okay, so after multiple accusations that I dress The Kid like a dork, I decided to hold some kind of poll, post pictures so that you can tell me whether or not, The Kid is doomed (at least until he can dress himself) to be fashion-impaired. So.... what do you think?
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Disappearing Acts 2008-02-21 23:42:16 Surprise, surprise. We had another fight last night. This time, because I tried to give him toasted sandwiches and salad for dinner. He was like 'I work fucking hard all day, come home starving and you want to give me fucking sandwiches and rabbit food?'Apparently that shit's not on. Anyway. The argument escalated all out of proportion, there were many accusations flung about and much feeling sorry for ourselves. He stormed upstairs to go sleep on the sleeper couch, and I went outside. He thought for a smoke, so thought nothing of it. A couple minutes later when the garage door didn't open (we smoke in the garage, not the house) he must have panicked.Unbeknownst* to him, I had strolled down the road within our complex and was sitting by the fountains looking at the moon. I saw a car drivi Read more:Disappearing
The Haves And Have-Nots... 2008-02-19 01:22:15 of arguments. My arguments get more and more spectacular every time. It's hard to think of tantrum-type behaviour that tops my previous performance. Haves: * thrown shoes - both at his head and through the door into the bedroom.* slammed every door in the house. repeatedly.*broken glasses (believe it or not, accidentally so - I thought they would bounce off the carpet. Apparently not)* made a lake out of the kitchen floor, added the washing and stomped on it.* Bounced a box of frozen chicken nuggets off my boyfriend's head.* Thrown green peppers around the house.* Thrown wooden spoons around the kitchen.* Finished making dinner, plonked it on the counter and spat 'there's your fucking dinner!'* Switched the tv off while he was watching so I could shout at him with no distractions.* Thrown
Other Cheap Thrillers' 50 Thangs 2008-02-18 05:59:25 You'll recall I did a post entitled 'Bet You Didn't Know These Things' wherein I listed 50 random, little-known things about myself. And tagged those who had commented on my post, and tasked them with creating their own List. And those people tagged other people, who have made their Lists too. Here are some of them:1. Phillygirl - "Half Is Better Than Nought"2. Goblin - "50 Things - I Got Tagbombed!!"3. Youmeher - "50 Things You Didn't Want To Know About Me"4. Caz - "50 Things You Didn't Know About Me"5. Sweetass - "50 Things About Me"6. MsMozi - "I'm It!"7. Akika - "Tagged"8. Nosjunkie "50 Things About Me"9. Peasontoast "Because It's Friday..."Loved reading these - some people are just so... quirky...hehe.Anyone wanna give me some other lists to make, I have time on my hands!If you've do Read more:Cheap
The Kid Update 2008-02-18 01:27:44 Now...let's see who can say the nicest things....
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Tagged Again... 2008-02-15 02:04:32 Seems I started something quite contagious in the circle of blogs I read and who read my blog. Meme Fever has struck, and KaB has tagged me to do a List of Seven Weird/Wonderful Things About Me. So here they are:Seven Wonderful/Weird Cheap Thrills - 1. Drinking juice makes me thirsty. I cannot drink juice to quench a thirst, it just makes it worse. I must drink water. I also drink water with every meal, I dont know why, I just must. 2. I have eight scars on my body. One from a caesarian. One from having a bone removed in my right wrist (it looks like I'm suicidal). One from having my quadriceps muscle repaired and stitched back onto the tendons and bones. One from having staples inserted (and later removed) from the growth plate on my right knee. I have a condition called osteochondroma, w Read more:Tagged
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The Key To Fame, Fortune and Good Health and Wealth 2008-02-13 04:06:01 Got handed this flyer at the traffic lights this morning. DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR AND CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ENLARGE. This is seriously, seriously classic!If you click on the images and they dont enlarge, go here. And here.PS: this is a meme. If you so choose you must complete the following task:Find an advert that made you wet your pants. Post it on your blog with a link back to my post.Let me know when you've done it, by leaving me a link in the comments section.I will link, in this post, to your post. Simple.Go forth and multiply....
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God's Expensive Mistakes & Cheap Thrills Log Book 2008-02-11 23:33:16 I walked outside this morning and there was a dead sparrow lying on my driveway. It still had twigs and leaves and stuff clutched in its stiff little claws. As I picked it up and tossed it over onto my neighbour’s driveway, it reminded me of that happy-clappy saying that goes something like ‘God has a plan for everything. He knows everything. He knows how many hairs on your head, and knows each time a sparrow falls out the sky’.Or some some such similar twaddle. In movies there has always been the impression created that God has a massive log-book type thing, where every little mundane occurrence has been recorded.Ever wondered what was written inside there?Here’s a few of my guesses:06:00: Woke Jimmy Vember up with a hard-on this morning. Little blighter promised me in prayer last Read more:Cheap
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Dear Future Nominators 2008-02-11 00:19:50 I an writing you this letter to shamelessly beg and plead for your nomination. It is the 2008 South African Blog Awards, and nominations have opened today. I see that the Blog Awards administrators included the category of 'Best South African Personal Blog' upon the suggestion of many emailers. So, you might be asking yourself at this point, why should I nominate Mistakes & Thrills? Good question, and fair enough. Let me tell you why. 1. I have never won anything before, let alone been nominated. (Yes, I am playing the sympathy card) The awards that I won throughout my school and university career were inconsequential. Gade 1 Maths prize. (I still can barely add 4 + 2 without a calculator, and dont even get me started on multiplication and division. We could be here all day) Grade Read more:Future
Judging….The People Who Live In My Complex 2008-02-07 01:47:27 Until The "Judging
...Whoever" blog caves and invites me to be a contributor to their judgmental-ness, I am posting my Judgments on the comments section of their blog, and here on my own blog -- let me know what you think of my judgmental-ness and whether it's worthy of an invite into Judgemental Land.]_______________________________________________Judging….The People Who Live In My Complex
.I live in a complex in Edenvale. It’s the Eastrand, where people are tough by reputation, and know how to administer a good headbutting. However, the particular complex I live in is rather expensive. Houses starting at 1.2mil. Seems money doesn’t buy class, however.The people who are our diagonal neighbours had a rip-roaring barney the other night.[Highlights from their altercation]Her: I make more
CheapThrills-ePedia - Chapter ONE 2008-02-06 06:29:25 Wiki, wiki....what?What do men search for on Wikipedia? Here's my version of a few search results:CYCLOPSSeems men are ruled by this entity. Thought it was the Year of The Rat? You were mistaken. It is the Year of the Cyclops. Also known as The One-Eyed-Trouser-Snake. Once all blood has rushed to this entity, there is no possibilty of rational thought. Many occurences can trigger such a blood-rush. The older-women-phenomenon, (also known as the s'nice effect) a pair of perky ta-tas (also known as the torpedo/Baywatch effect) a bootylicious butt, among others. All men like to think that their Cyclops is the biggest and the best. However, they are constantly worried about misplacing their Cyclops, so must constantly touch and/or adjust it. Just to check it's still there. And they will do any Read more:Chapter
The Kid Update 2008-02-03 23:58:39 I dont care if you dont want to see photos of The Kid. Here they are. Say nice things about my baby.
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Bet You Didn't Know These Things... 2008-01-31 04:08:31 50 things about me1. I was suckered into buying the new Samsung u700. I hate it. All the shiny silver stuff has peeled off. Everytime I see it advertised on TV I curse profusely.2. I smoke. But I have to have something to drink while I smoke. Not because I hate the taste of cigarettes, but so I can taste it anew after each sip of my beverage.3. I have a stationery fetish. Pens, highlighters, staples. Especially Post-Its. I am their number one biggest fan. My problem is so bad, my dad even got me an account at Waltons. My happiest day was when Waltons moved into a new shop up the road from my house.4. I love photocopy machines. And binders. And laminating machines. They’re awesome.5. I have two Jack Russell puppies – a girl (Tesca) and a boy named Fez (after the foreign kid with the big
My Friends Are All Grown Up Now 2008-03-12 22:45:59 As I'm in my hometown for the week, I decided to catch up with some old varsity friends that I haven't seen for a while. The only ones available on such short notice were Chris and Aslam. We met up at Yossi's, our old haunt and it was totally bizarre.These friends that I am so used to seeing in shorts, slops and t-shirts were wearing suits. And ties and shiny shoes. Chris had his hair neatly cut and Aslam was even beginning to have facial hair. Something he'd never previously managed before. They talked about their jobs in fancy law firms, they talked about going to court, about how domestic violence cases are a drag, but for every finalised matter they get a couple hundred bucks on top of their salary. They talked about other people at other firms, and magistrates and judges and having m Read more:Friends
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I Keep Having The Most Sexual Dreams 2008-03-11 23:02:27 ...about The Boyfriend's Best Friend. The weird thing is, is that I've never seen him like that before. But now, in my dreams, he's totally something else. And it freaks me right out. That's not to say I've stopped having sexual dreams about The Boyfriend. Because I haven't. The only thing is that now one of them involved his best friend, me and him. And it's creeping me out a bit, I wont lie. Now when I see him, I think about the fact that I've seen him naked in my dream. I think about the fact that...ugh...well, I'll stop there. What would Freud say about all this? Have you had any memorable dreams lately?
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The Kid Update 2008-03-11 01:47:09 Trying to crawl. He's not very good at it, so it looks like he's swimming on land.Playing with new toys.Little sleeping bear.Sleeping on the plane.Weighing in at 7.4kg.Say some nice things about The Kid. Please.
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Smooth Operator 2008-03-10 04:03:16 It's been a long time since I've been single, but pick-up lines still fascinate me. Was thinking back over the lines I've heard, the lines that have worked, and the lines that have just been absolutely-no-hope-you-are-going-home-alone-tonight-buddy pathetic.Pick up line 1: "you look like a sexy secretary. shew."Analysis: I've often been told that I look like a sexy secretary. What with the square, black framed glasses. Each man that makes this observation clearly thinks he is the first. And clearly thinks it must be flattering, or something. Flattering? How? Flattering because, I have two degrees, am most probably way fucking smarter than you, but because I'm a blonde female wearing glasses, the most intellectual occupation that I could possibly be involved in is secretarial? And by secre Read more:Operator
Homesick 2008-03-14 03:25:54 This time last year I was homesick for Durban. Now, this time, this year, I am in Durban and homesick for Joburg. Whenever The Boyfriend and I had a fight, I always thought about running away and going 'home'. Now that I'm here... All I want is to go home. My real home. My home with The Boyfriend and The Kid. My home. Coming here, I thought I'd get to have a break. That My Father and His Girlfriend would help me, and take The Kid so I could get some real sleep. Well, they dont. They hold him for two minutes and then get bored and hand him back. It makes me miss The Boyfriend's Mother. She is wonderful with him. Not only does she buy his (and my) love by spoiling him rotten, she takes him once a week, for an entire night, and most of the following day, so The Boyfriend and I can spend tim Read more:Homesick
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