Well, I've done it again! Everywhere I go, there are bargains and sales, just begging me to take advantage of them - what kind of disobedient, rude, arrogant, good-for-nothing loser would I be not listen to those voices? So, of course, I listened.
Listen, I bought a R280 (beautiful I might add) pair of shoes for R99.99 from Kingsmead Shoes in Menlyn Retail Park (they don't seem to have their own website, how sad is that?? Disappointing) over the long weekend - what a serious bargain!! www.retailpark.co.za/categories.htm?category=Footwear and they had so many pairs of sale shoes to pick from, it was like bloody Christmas in there I tell you!!
So then I went all over the place picking up bargains. Tst, tsk, how shocking.
P.S. My husband bought me the new Pitbull CD. He has a foul mouth and his lyrics are mostly disgusting, but all in all, a damn good CD. Example - last few words of track #2 - "I am what I am, I do what I do, if you don't like it, it's cool, f*ck you." Ouch, my ears...
So I'm thinking that we should all be waiting for Jenna Clifford http://www.jennaclifford.com/ to bring out April specials (no, really JC your "specials" this year have been very disappointing), then we can all go shopping there! Unless you want a pewter Candarel holder (oh gosh, how very twee) and a rose ringy pendant thingy at an expensive price for what it is??!! Come now, bring back the good stuff! Let's all wear Jenna Clifford pendants and t-shirts please!!! Bling, serious bling!
Shop til you drop!!!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Facebook Profile
I thought that you may, or may not, find it interesting to read this, as this is what's on my Facebook page, but it feels out of place there as Facebook is pretty superficial and this is "deep" - well, for me anyway. I don't do "touchy-feely" very well. Have a read, see what you think.
So, if you read my blog you will find out what I do in the little spare time that I have.
But what defines me as a person? Is it my upbringing, my education and my family and relationships? Is it the work I do, my interests & hobbies and the people I choose to spend time with? Perhaps it's my past, my present or my future. I'm not sure.
What I do know is that I don't know myself as well as I thought I did. Let me explain.
Three years ago I resigned from TPG, the wonderful company I had worked at for almost 7 years to see what more I could do, what further skills I was capable of acquiring, if I had more to offer than I realised I had and if I could still sell. Having been in sales for many years, then giving up all of my clients slowly but surely gave me withdrawl symptoms; but there was no time for me to manage a full branch of consultants and hold onto my clients as well, never mind bring in new ones.
So I started consulting at Thomas International, also a great company; realised I could do all I'd hoped I could & had not lost my skills while managing, but had fine-tuned them. Nice feeling? Not really as I wanted to be somewhere else; back in the recruitment industry, but more specifically at TPG.
I started back at TPG eight months after I'd left. What a good move! As the Training Manager I had challenge upon challenge and I loved my job. I was so glad not to be managing a team again as I felt the touchy-feely side was so not me. I let five - not one; five opportunities pass by me with a smile. Manage a branch again? No thanks!
As things inevitably do, they changed and an opportunity was presented to me that I didn't expect, wasn't sure I wanted, but couldn't really refuse for a number of reasons. I've taken over management of TPG's Midrand branch, and am I enjoying it? Hell, yes! I didn't want this, I didn't ask for it and I didn't imagine I'd be doing this ever again. Yes, it has its' ups and downs, yes I'm back on medication to control my anxiety attacks, yes I am writing this note at 3:54am as I couldn't sleep and have been awake since 1am, but am I where I want to be? Absolutely.
What's the moral of the story? Sometimes you just have no idea what you really want as you're not being honest with yourself about who you are and what you get off on and the things that make you tick.
Oh, another thing, if you're reading this and smirking? Get the hell off my page and de-friend yourself. Enough mushy stuff for one day. Over & out.
So, if you read my blog you will find out what I do in the little spare time that I have.
But what defines me as a person? Is it my upbringing, my education and my family and relationships? Is it the work I do, my interests & hobbies and the people I choose to spend time with? Perhaps it's my past, my present or my future. I'm not sure.
What I do know is that I don't know myself as well as I thought I did. Let me explain.
Three years ago I resigned from TPG, the wonderful company I had worked at for almost 7 years to see what more I could do, what further skills I was capable of acquiring, if I had more to offer than I realised I had and if I could still sell. Having been in sales for many years, then giving up all of my clients slowly but surely gave me withdrawl symptoms; but there was no time for me to manage a full branch of consultants and hold onto my clients as well, never mind bring in new ones.
So I started consulting at Thomas International, also a great company; realised I could do all I'd hoped I could & had not lost my skills while managing, but had fine-tuned them. Nice feeling? Not really as I wanted to be somewhere else; back in the recruitment industry, but more specifically at TPG.
I started back at TPG eight months after I'd left. What a good move! As the Training Manager I had challenge upon challenge and I loved my job. I was so glad not to be managing a team again as I felt the touchy-feely side was so not me. I let five - not one; five opportunities pass by me with a smile. Manage a branch again? No thanks!
As things inevitably do, they changed and an opportunity was presented to me that I didn't expect, wasn't sure I wanted, but couldn't really refuse for a number of reasons. I've taken over management of TPG's Midrand branch, and am I enjoying it? Hell, yes! I didn't want this, I didn't ask for it and I didn't imagine I'd be doing this ever again. Yes, it has its' ups and downs, yes I'm back on medication to control my anxiety attacks, yes I am writing this note at 3:54am as I couldn't sleep and have been awake since 1am, but am I where I want to be? Absolutely.
What's the moral of the story? Sometimes you just have no idea what you really want as you're not being honest with yourself about who you are and what you get off on and the things that make you tick.
Oh, another thing, if you're reading this and smirking? Get the hell off my page and de-friend yourself. Enough mushy stuff for one day. Over & out.
Helen The Bargain Hunter
So here I am again - blog, I almost told you to go to hell, but sometimes blogging is a good release. Like I've said before, dear reader/follower, if you don't want to read my blog and you think that you have the right to be critical and pass comments, pick a finger and tell someone who cares. With that out of the way, let me tell you my latest story!
About 2 weeks ago my hairdryer started giving me shit. It started getting really really hot and making a weird vibrating, metallic noise. As usual, I thought I'll get there eventually (if it's not clothes or make-up, it really doesn't take priority!!) and buy a new one whenever. Anyway, this morning it made a noise like an explosion and didn't want to switch off, ha ha ha!!!
I am quite sure that I've mentioned before that I wash my hair every single day without fail. I will not leave the house if I haven't washed my hair. It's really long and there's plenty of it and it's a real pain to wash and dry every day, but I am a smoker and there is no way in hell that I'll go out in the morning having scrubbed every other square inch of myself...but not my head/hair, feeling like an olie-bollie with hair smelling of smoke...or last night's dinner! DISGUSTING!!! Sis!!!!!
So anyway, off I go to The Grove shopping mall http://www.thegrovemall.co.za/ - very nice newish centre down the road from where I live, open til late!!!
Usually, I am not the type that hunts for bargains, but today I just got hit from all sides with the bargains!! I had R120 worth of cash-back vouchers from Clicks http://www.clicks.co.za/clicks/Index.aspx. I saw the dye was on special - R15 off per box, so I bought 2 (save R30), the shampoo and conditioner I use (Gliss - divine!!) was on special so I bought one of each (save R20) and the hairdryer was on special (save R50), so I saved R100 and got R120 off with my vouchers!! What a great deal! So, I saved myself R220 today - good for me!!
Again it bacame clear to me that the only way that you can go shopping for bargains and find them consistently is to be in the shops constantly so that you know which bargains are coming up and keep your eye on that ridiculously high-priced item and wait until the price comes down and you can afford it without feeling guilty!!!!
Thought for the day: "It is really easy to stop smoking - I've done it a thousand times." Mark Twain. Mark, yes, you speak the truth...
Enjoy your shopping, see you at the mall!
About 2 weeks ago my hairdryer started giving me shit. It started getting really really hot and making a weird vibrating, metallic noise. As usual, I thought I'll get there eventually (if it's not clothes or make-up, it really doesn't take priority!!) and buy a new one whenever. Anyway, this morning it made a noise like an explosion and didn't want to switch off, ha ha ha!!!
I am quite sure that I've mentioned before that I wash my hair every single day without fail. I will not leave the house if I haven't washed my hair. It's really long and there's plenty of it and it's a real pain to wash and dry every day, but I am a smoker and there is no way in hell that I'll go out in the morning having scrubbed every other square inch of myself...but not my head/hair, feeling like an olie-bollie with hair smelling of smoke...or last night's dinner! DISGUSTING!!! Sis!!!!!
So anyway, off I go to The Grove shopping mall http://www.thegrovemall.co.za/ - very nice newish centre down the road from where I live, open til late!!!
Usually, I am not the type that hunts for bargains, but today I just got hit from all sides with the bargains!! I had R120 worth of cash-back vouchers from Clicks http://www.clicks.co.za/clicks/Index.aspx. I saw the dye was on special - R15 off per box, so I bought 2 (save R30), the shampoo and conditioner I use (Gliss - divine!!) was on special so I bought one of each (save R20) and the hairdryer was on special (save R50), so I saved R100 and got R120 off with my vouchers!! What a great deal! So, I saved myself R220 today - good for me!!
Again it bacame clear to me that the only way that you can go shopping for bargains and find them consistently is to be in the shops constantly so that you know which bargains are coming up and keep your eye on that ridiculously high-priced item and wait until the price comes down and you can afford it without feeling guilty!!!!
Thought for the day: "It is really easy to stop smoking - I've done it a thousand times." Mark Twain. Mark, yes, you speak the truth...
Enjoy your shopping, see you at the mall!
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Cosmetics
Well, I haven't been shopping (well, not on a PROPER shopping spree anyway) for far too long. Oh, what a liar I am, I went last weekend!! Just feels like so long ago, it may as well have been last year!!
ALL of my closest friends but one are pregnant (you probaby know this, I'm sure it's not the first time that I've mentioned it with glee that it's not me!!), so I must just say that all of my cupboards are filling up with baby presents. It's such fun buying for baby boys - I don't enjoy shopping for pink things at all!!
Elizabeth and Estee are having their gift offers again, buy 2 items of which one must be a treatment product and receive a free gift (usually a goodie bagfull of freebies). I LOVE this time of year - yes, I love shopping, but I also love the freebies!! I don't go out and actively hunt for the bargains, so when they come to me without me asking, it feels as though it's because I deserve it. Ridiculous I know...
So I've been buying loads of cosmetics again - make up, cream, moisturiser, foundation, liquid liners, hair dye, shampoos, conditioners, soaps...
People, I'm SO excited!!! This is something I really have to share - Kariza. http://www.kariza.co.za/
I bought a "Magic Wrap" and in 3 days, wore it 3 times. Wash and wear, drip-dry, it looks amazing and you can REALLY wear it 100 different ways! I am a consultant, so let me know if you want to place orders - it's the most versatile item of clothing ever!
Until next time, shop 'til you drop - payday is around the corner...thank goodness! Not a moment too soon!!
ALL of my closest friends but one are pregnant (you probaby know this, I'm sure it's not the first time that I've mentioned it with glee that it's not me!!), so I must just say that all of my cupboards are filling up with baby presents. It's such fun buying for baby boys - I don't enjoy shopping for pink things at all!!
Elizabeth and Estee are having their gift offers again, buy 2 items of which one must be a treatment product and receive a free gift (usually a goodie bagfull of freebies). I LOVE this time of year - yes, I love shopping, but I also love the freebies!! I don't go out and actively hunt for the bargains, so when they come to me without me asking, it feels as though it's because I deserve it. Ridiculous I know...
So I've been buying loads of cosmetics again - make up, cream, moisturiser, foundation, liquid liners, hair dye, shampoos, conditioners, soaps...
People, I'm SO excited!!! This is something I really have to share - Kariza. http://www.kariza.co.za/
I bought a "Magic Wrap" and in 3 days, wore it 3 times. Wash and wear, drip-dry, it looks amazing and you can REALLY wear it 100 different ways! I am a consultant, so let me know if you want to place orders - it's the most versatile item of clothing ever!
Until next time, shop 'til you drop - payday is around the corner...thank goodness! Not a moment too soon!!
Monday, February 15, 2010
BAD SERVICE
So I've been getting such shitty service lately, it's horrific!!!! Really! Everywhere I go I end up fighting with the shop assistants and giving them a piece of my mind and telling them how rude and unhelpful I think they are, never mind not worthy of their job in a day and age where so many people are unemployed. I really think it's so awful, honestly.
When I go to Baby City, wander around like a lost fart in a bubble bath for 10 minutes, then finally yell at a gaggle of 3 assistants standing blabbering loudly to one another across the room to enquire whether or not any of them actually work there and would perhaps like to assist me and they jump a foot into the air and all scurry over to assist...for goodness sake!! Who trains these people?? And who's managing them???
When the cashier in the PnP Liquor store is relaxing in her chair as though it's a gomma-gomma and doesn't even sit up straight when I walk in, never mind glance in my direction, so when I walk over to ask her a question my blood starts boiling and I can't help myself from blurting out that if she is a representative if PnP, they should be completely ashamed of themselves for employing her as she doesn't deserve her job. One day I am expecting to either get slapped very hard by an irate salesperson or be given a mouthful by a very self-important cashier.
Oh well, whatever. If I can't keep my mouth shut I suppose i deserve whatever I'll get! I'm tired of complaining on http://www.hellopeter.com/ even though it does come to something it's a pain in the butt.
The moral of the story is this: if you must shop (and you must), go in knowing what you want and not needing to ask for assistance - it ain't gonna happen.
When I go to Baby City, wander around like a lost fart in a bubble bath for 10 minutes, then finally yell at a gaggle of 3 assistants standing blabbering loudly to one another across the room to enquire whether or not any of them actually work there and would perhaps like to assist me and they jump a foot into the air and all scurry over to assist...for goodness sake!! Who trains these people?? And who's managing them???
When the cashier in the PnP Liquor store is relaxing in her chair as though it's a gomma-gomma and doesn't even sit up straight when I walk in, never mind glance in my direction, so when I walk over to ask her a question my blood starts boiling and I can't help myself from blurting out that if she is a representative if PnP, they should be completely ashamed of themselves for employing her as she doesn't deserve her job. One day I am expecting to either get slapped very hard by an irate salesperson or be given a mouthful by a very self-important cashier.
Oh well, whatever. If I can't keep my mouth shut I suppose i deserve whatever I'll get! I'm tired of complaining on http://www.hellopeter.com/ even though it does come to something it's a pain in the butt.
The moral of the story is this: if you must shop (and you must), go in knowing what you want and not needing to ask for assistance - it ain't gonna happen.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Do this! Quick!
Quick people! With speed! Get to the shops! The sales that I mentioned were everywhere? They're all over still...but have all had such ridiculous mark-downs that it actually makes a person sick to realise how much money they were making in the first place if they can afford to mark items down that far...
Don't waste your time going to Menlyn, it's just horrible (unless you park at the undercover-uncovered entrance and proceed straight to Jenna Clifford and then directly back to your car, paying R10 for your parking for a ridiculously short 10 minute "shopping spree"), go to the Grove, Woodlands or Brooklyn. I must say: Woodlands are stepping it up - well done!! Nice new stores like Guess, etc,, but either I missed something or...WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU HIDDEN THE CNA???!!!??!?!?!? Come now, life surely can't all be about clothes...or can it? Hmmm.
Whatever. Have money, will shop. The location matters a lot less than the purchases.
So anyway, enough about you, about me now. The sale of my house fell through, taking my new house with it. Whatever. Banks are full of shit and full of shit and full of shit and I hate them. I had lost all the excitement I had when they started with their shit, and, guess what? They keep on raining shit. Why would anyone work for a bank by choice? Oh, I understand now! You had no other choice and nobody else wanted to take the job and you were completely unemployable by any other man or beast!! It's all making sense now!
So, I love my job and I am taking nice, strong tweet-tweet inducing medication to deal with my anxiety attacks. Oh well, what would life be without a little anxiety attack every now and again. Or perhaps up to 20 a day. I'll just keep popping the pills so that the nice young men in their clean white coats stay outside the door...
Enjoy your shopping. If your wardrobe is bare you certainly can't blame me now can you?
Don't waste your time going to Menlyn, it's just horrible (unless you park at the undercover-uncovered entrance and proceed straight to Jenna Clifford and then directly back to your car, paying R10 for your parking for a ridiculously short 10 minute "shopping spree"), go to the Grove, Woodlands or Brooklyn. I must say: Woodlands are stepping it up - well done!! Nice new stores like Guess, etc,, but either I missed something or...WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU HIDDEN THE CNA???!!!??!?!?!? Come now, life surely can't all be about clothes...or can it? Hmmm.
Whatever. Have money, will shop. The location matters a lot less than the purchases.
So anyway, enough about you, about me now. The sale of my house fell through, taking my new house with it. Whatever. Banks are full of shit and full of shit and full of shit and I hate them. I had lost all the excitement I had when they started with their shit, and, guess what? They keep on raining shit. Why would anyone work for a bank by choice? Oh, I understand now! You had no other choice and nobody else wanted to take the job and you were completely unemployable by any other man or beast!! It's all making sense now!
So, I love my job and I am taking nice, strong tweet-tweet inducing medication to deal with my anxiety attacks. Oh well, what would life be without a little anxiety attack every now and again. Or perhaps up to 20 a day. I'll just keep popping the pills so that the nice young men in their clean white coats stay outside the door...
Enjoy your shopping. If your wardrobe is bare you certainly can't blame me now can you?
Monday, January 18, 2010
Oh, get stuffed you self-important wench
So this is what this bitch tells me (please take note that I did not ask for unwanted advice, I merely invited other shoppers to view my page on the off-chance that they may like it, bearing in mind that it is my"online diary").
"I have to say that your blog has no real unity (fonts, colours, etc.) to it, nor does it offer any fellow shopaholic any shopping tips, links, etc. that I saw...it all just seems to be about YOU, with no thought of your READERS and what you can offer them for the time they spend on your blog???
Possibly re-consider your goals for this blog and what you hope to achieve/offer the public IF you intend for it to be a publicly known site...sorry for the critique but I call'em as I see'em...you can ignore my thoughts if you wish, of course."
So I have a message for you - SCREW YOU. Oh wait, I have a "shopping tip" for her - select item, proceed to cash desk, remove wallet from handbag and extract either cash or card. Stupid woman. Point of interest: the woman responding to this is into mayhem and murder according to her sad and sorry-looking blog. Poor thing. No wonder she can't relate. Interesting that she would've visited my blog at all. Probably just to offer unappreciated and unwelcome "advice" to compensate for something that's missing in her life. Oh well, we can't all be like me. More's the pity.
I quite enjoy criticism...when I ask for it and by someone who's qualified to give it. Then, and only then.
P.S. Yesterday was a wonderful shopping day - go to the Trenery and Country Roads sale at Woolies, you'll LOVE it!! Oh, except you, whoever you are. Perhaps you'd enjoy a halloween store - sorry, I can't help you there :(
"I have to say that your blog has no real unity (fonts, colours, etc.) to it, nor does it offer any fellow shopaholic any shopping tips, links, etc. that I saw...it all just seems to be about YOU, with no thought of your READERS and what you can offer them for the time they spend on your blog???
Possibly re-consider your goals for this blog and what you hope to achieve/offer the public IF you intend for it to be a publicly known site...sorry for the critique but I call'em as I see'em...you can ignore my thoughts if you wish, of course."
So I have a message for you - SCREW YOU. Oh wait, I have a "shopping tip" for her - select item, proceed to cash desk, remove wallet from handbag and extract either cash or card. Stupid woman. Point of interest: the woman responding to this is into mayhem and murder according to her sad and sorry-looking blog. Poor thing. No wonder she can't relate. Interesting that she would've visited my blog at all. Probably just to offer unappreciated and unwelcome "advice" to compensate for something that's missing in her life. Oh well, we can't all be like me. More's the pity.
I quite enjoy criticism...when I ask for it and by someone who's qualified to give it. Then, and only then.
P.S. Yesterday was a wonderful shopping day - go to the Trenery and Country Roads sale at Woolies, you'll LOVE it!! Oh, except you, whoever you are. Perhaps you'd enjoy a halloween store - sorry, I can't help you there :(
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Cosmetics
Anyone would think that I have a ridiculously huge salary from the way I spend. I don't. Well, to some I might, to me I DO NOT and to many others, I most certainly don't. If you want bargains, you have to shop ALL THE TIME. How will you know where the bargains are or what the usual prices are if you didn't see the items at the original prices? Come now, that just makes sense.
So I went to the Clicks cosmetics sale and took full advantage. No, I will NOT tell you what I bought. So the next time you see me and you think I look nice, just know that it's thanks to this very shopping spree.
And just so by the way, my amazing hubby bought me the most divine Polo handbag for Christmas (a little late, yes I know, but what do you buy a girl who shops non-stop and has already bought everything she wants...). LUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRVE it!!!!!!! Lucky me :) :) :) :) :)
Enjoy your shopping. Once again, the sales are everywhere - take advantage NOW!!
P.S. I'll let you know when Elizabeth Arden and Estee Lauder have their special offers, I'm anxiously waiting for them. www.elizabetharden.co.za and www.esteelauder.co.za - have a look! 2 best friends that a girl cannot possibly go without. Ladies please, listen to good advice. It's free. My advice, that is. The products are not, but they are well worth the money.
By the way, don't go to Jenna Clifford - disappointing right now. I feel a little let down. Her stores were recently my favourite places to shop, now I feel...oh, I don't know, just like my needs and expectations were misunderstood. She can't possibly have run out of ideas. Hopefully she comes back soon.
So I went to the Clicks cosmetics sale and took full advantage. No, I will NOT tell you what I bought. So the next time you see me and you think I look nice, just know that it's thanks to this very shopping spree.
And just so by the way, my amazing hubby bought me the most divine Polo handbag for Christmas (a little late, yes I know, but what do you buy a girl who shops non-stop and has already bought everything she wants...). LUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRVE it!!!!!!! Lucky me :) :) :) :) :)
Enjoy your shopping. Once again, the sales are everywhere - take advantage NOW!!
P.S. I'll let you know when Elizabeth Arden and Estee Lauder have their special offers, I'm anxiously waiting for them. www.elizabetharden.co.za and www.esteelauder.co.za - have a look! 2 best friends that a girl cannot possibly go without. Ladies please, listen to good advice. It's free. My advice, that is. The products are not, but they are well worth the money.
By the way, don't go to Jenna Clifford - disappointing right now. I feel a little let down. Her stores were recently my favourite places to shop, now I feel...oh, I don't know, just like my needs and expectations were misunderstood. She can't possibly have run out of ideas. Hopefully she comes back soon.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
House hunt almost officially over
This year's (actually forever's) most expensive buy - our new house - is almost in the bag!
Our house is sold (thank you God for looking down and acting with speed) and our offer has been accepted on the beautiful house with pool and jacuzzi and split levels in Faerie Glen. Now all that needs to happen is: the buyer's bond needs to be approved (no foreseeable - spelling? - issues there) and then my bond has to be approved - no issues foreseen there either. YAY!! IDFL - In Debt For Life!!!
Shop til you drop!!
Our house is sold (thank you God for looking down and acting with speed) and our offer has been accepted on the beautiful house with pool and jacuzzi and split levels in Faerie Glen. Now all that needs to happen is: the buyer's bond needs to be approved (no foreseeable - spelling? - issues there) and then my bond has to be approved - no issues foreseen there either. YAY!! IDFL - In Debt For Life!!!
Shop til you drop!!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
2 epilate or not?
After much thought and careful consideration i bought myself an epilator. I recommend it highy! Very impressed indeed! I can now save on razors & waxing! Woo hoo! And the pain is at least self-inflicted, so how can i complain?!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Christmas
So after a mad, last minute dash to buy a small mountain of Christmas presents for my (dearly loved, horribly spoilt - in a nice way - 1st born, last born) little boy, it was off to the coast at last for The Long Awaited Holiday.
I don't mind telling you that I am hugely unimpressed with the shitty, rainy, miserable, overcast, hair-frizzing weather. I believe I actually put my order in 6 months ago & now instead of celebrating Christmas day in the sun on the beach it will be in a townhouse listening to & looking at grey skies & rain pelting down.
Sigh. Seriously p'd off. Cant even go shopping on Christmas day.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Jingle jingle
So I had a great day today - it's my 9th wedding anniversary so I was spoilt (my husband seems to have realised that I loooooove Jenna Clifford, yay!!) and got to go shopping, out for lunch to my absolute favourite restaurant, Pascalis, then home to sleep off the after-effects of last night's late night, then some more shopping!
Anyway, among my few purchases...okay fine I'll list them shortly, was something rather interesting and disgusting and honky and a real novelty which is not to be repeated.
I bought new mascara (I seem to buy mascara weekly, what a waste), silver liquid eyeshadow, green liquid eyeshadow, Justine lip balm, hair dye - blue-black, lipstick, 4 DVD's, a CD for Gerhard, and Carribean Tan.
I couldn't wait to get home and try the Carribean Tan out as I am going to the coast next week and haven't seen the sun in too long - well my jiggly bits haven't anyway.
What a mess!!! Thank goodness I sprayed it on in the shower as it got absolutely everywhere! On top of that, it does not spray evenly, it makes blobs and blotches, thick parts, streaky parts, thin patches. It stinks to high heaven and says it takes 5 to 10 minutes to dry, will come off on the bedsheets, don't worry, it's water-soluble, and it was 2 hours ago - it's still sticky and rubbing off on everything. It says you shouldn't shower for 8 hours and neither should you exercise and perspire (there goes my gym session, ha ha - duh, wedding anniversary, whoops) or wear tight clothing (hello, it's my wedding anniversary, that was actually in the plan) until you have showered. The best thing I can say for it is that the colour is nice. If it were even I'd like it a whole lot more though.
Enjoy your Christmas shopping!!!
Anyway, among my few purchases...okay fine I'll list them shortly, was something rather interesting and disgusting and honky and a real novelty which is not to be repeated.
I bought new mascara (I seem to buy mascara weekly, what a waste), silver liquid eyeshadow, green liquid eyeshadow, Justine lip balm, hair dye - blue-black, lipstick, 4 DVD's, a CD for Gerhard, and Carribean Tan.
I couldn't wait to get home and try the Carribean Tan out as I am going to the coast next week and haven't seen the sun in too long - well my jiggly bits haven't anyway.
What a mess!!! Thank goodness I sprayed it on in the shower as it got absolutely everywhere! On top of that, it does not spray evenly, it makes blobs and blotches, thick parts, streaky parts, thin patches. It stinks to high heaven and says it takes 5 to 10 minutes to dry, will come off on the bedsheets, don't worry, it's water-soluble, and it was 2 hours ago - it's still sticky and rubbing off on everything. It says you shouldn't shower for 8 hours and neither should you exercise and perspire (there goes my gym session, ha ha - duh, wedding anniversary, whoops) or wear tight clothing (hello, it's my wedding anniversary, that was actually in the plan) until you have showered. The best thing I can say for it is that the colour is nice. If it were even I'd like it a whole lot more though.
Enjoy your Christmas shopping!!!
Thursday, December 10, 2009
?! Huge buy!
How scary! Going to make an offer on a really amazing house tomorrow! And our house isn't even in the market yet! We seem to be doing things a bit arse-about-face! Excited, scared, nervous...!
Wish me luck!
Go BIG or go home, ha ha ha!
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Too 80's??
Over the weekend it was my company's Christmas function & I didn't know what on Earth I was going to wear - empty closets & all that - & the black top I'd bought for the function a few weeks prior just wasn't doing it for me; too many itchy-scratchy-looking sequins & the pants didn't seem to match the top didn't seem to match the shoes I'd bought either. Off I went to the mall - as I do - & settled on black pants, white pants (I know, I know), black sandals (yes, I know) & a black & silver sequinned boob-tube. Not very cleverly exchanging one problem for another. Confirming all rumours about sequins, it scratched me so that by the end of the evening I felt as though I'd had a fight with a rose bush. And guess what? I still havent worn the white pants, thinking they're possibly too 80's. Aren't sequins slap-bang right out of the middle of the shoulder-pads, teased-hair, white-high-heels, stretch-jeans-with-number-plate-on-butt 80's? Oh yes, I think they are...
Shop 'til you can't shop no more coz your ever-so-stylish shoes have given you blisters.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Fatty boemstix
Fat. Flobbly. Dimpled. Bloated. What do you think a terribly fussy vegetarian with a spastic colon who hates exercise and wants 2 lose weight should eat? Cardboard perhaps? It seems 2 me that everything edible contains meat, at least 5g of fat per serving or is gas-forming. I bought what should've been an exceptionally flattering bright blue one-piece costume from Foschi that looks like a long boob-tube top made of costume fabric with a broekie underneath. You know what? I tried it on & felt like Tannie Sannie, still fat, still flobbly & dimpled. How disappointing. I have 2 .5 wks in which 2 lose weight & Simply Slim does not work 4 me. Sigh. Any ideas? Anyone?
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
And so the cycle begins again...And. I. Am. Loving. It!!!!!!
So today I was feeling all sorry for myself – rather pathetic considering the only reason I’m sensitive is that instead of working through until the early hours of yesterday morning, I was instead skypeing my sister in the UK and therefore tiredness is making me fragile – and so I quickly, quickly dashed across the road from the office and bought myself yet another To Me, From Me gift. Let’s call this one a belated birthday present. No. Too long ago. It’s an early anniversary present, yes (so the Queen on non-sentimentilism, if there is such a word, remembers the anniversary only becuase it means an excuse to shop. Terrible.)!! I bought a bloody expensive flat iron/curling iron which I (no, really) had no intention whatsoever of purchasing when I got into my car. But what a feeling!!!! Good for me!! Ha ha!! Now that my pockets are considerably lighter I am happy!
Shop til you drop!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
The difference
Kindly note that there are marked differences between being a Spendaholic & a Shopaholic. If you unpack both words it will be impossible for you to miss the differences unless you do not speak English. Please do keep in mind that, while I do love to spend money, I remain a Shopaholic. Thank you.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Do I deserve my title??
Anyway, I'm sitting and working thinking and working thinking some more and I come to the realisation that if, for whatever reason I'm too busy to shop like a pro, I have no right to call myself a shopaholic - someone else should have this title as it would seem that I'm no longer worthy of it.
I'll have to do something about this as I'm not prepared to go down without a fight! I will not relinquish my title! I will shop again! (oh, so dramatic, I can be a real drama queen when the situation calls for it!) Once I am done studying and work has calmed down - would someone please tell the D's at TPG that Christmas is approaching with speed, he he he - I will make up for lost time and regale you with all the stories of my trips once again!
By the way - do you know that if you don't use your Edgars or Truworths account for 6 months, or pay them off, Edgars sends you a R50.00 voucher (that's all??!!) to try and tempt you to spend money on your account and Truworths sends you a R200.00 if you spend over R800.00. Hmmm. Almost worth using my account again, but not quite.
Have fun shopping til you drop!
Friday, November 6, 2009
All work and no play makes Jane a dull girl...
So it looks like on top of all of the other engagements that I have this weekend, all free moments are going to be spent working and those not spent working are going to be spent shopping which, the way I calculate it, means there's no time to sleep and even less time to breathe, especially in that panicky-I've-got-too-much-to-do-and-sense-a-heartattack-coming-on kind of breathing. I have lots of shopping that I need to do, dammit. All I've bought this week is magazines and blue-black (please note blue-black, not just any-old black) hairdye and some very cool handbag hooks (5 x for Christmas presents) and some other random little thingies. I actually need lots of big stuff!!! Like, this weekend! Who ever thought that I would be studying, working, trying to find time to shop and attempting to behave in the appropriate fashion for a wife and mother and also making nice with friends that I've neglected (yes, I am a crap friend, I believe this is not the first time I've mentioned it). WTF, WTF, WTF. Lmfao, perhaps a holiday can solve the hysteria?? No, highly unlikely.
Gotta dash, if I don't do my work no-one else will.
P.S. Shop like mad! There are really, truly sales absolutely everywhere!!!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
& Retail Therapy does its work again
So I just came back from a worthwhile shopping spree! Bought makeup, pants, shirt, Rapport 4 Gerhard so he can read about Joost's pitiful, pathetic story of lies & adultery. What an f*ing arsehole!
I feel much better than earlier; at 4:15am my neighbour woke us with her bloodcurdling screaming as she heard guys trying to break into her house. Hubby leapt out of bed & saw one of them jump over the wall, so we set off the alarm. I'm having difficulty getting the sound of her screams out of my head. Thank God nothing happened to her or the kids. Retail therapy made me feel much betta. Yes, I know if sounds ridiculous. Whatever.
Til next time, shop, shop, shop - sales are everywhere!
I feel much better than earlier; at 4:15am my neighbour woke us with her bloodcurdling screaming as she heard guys trying to break into her house. Hubby leapt out of bed & saw one of them jump over the wall, so we set off the alarm. I'm having difficulty getting the sound of her screams out of my head. Thank God nothing happened to her or the kids. Retail therapy made me feel much betta. Yes, I know if sounds ridiculous. Whatever.
Til next time, shop, shop, shop - sales are everywhere!
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