Sunday :(

Not my usual style but there is just something about it that sums up how I've been feeling today :(

Need You Now

Picture perfect memories scattered all around the floor
Reachin' for the phone 'cause I can't fight it anymore
And I wonder if I ever cross your mind
For me it happens all the time

It's a quarter after one, I'm all alone and I need you now
Said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now
And I don't know how I can do without
I just need you now

Another shot of whiskey can't stop looking at the door
Wishing you'd come sweeping in the way you did before
And I wonder if I ever cross your mind
For me it happens all the time

It's a quarter after one, I'm a little drunk and I need you now
Said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now
And I don't know how I can do without
I just need you now

woah woaaah.

Guess I'd rather hurt than feel nothin' at all

It's a quarter after one I'm all alone and I need you now

And I said I wouldn't call but I'm a little drunk and I need you now

And I don't know how I can do without

I just need you now

I just need you now (wait)

Ooo, baby, I need you now

Next stop SUCCESS

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

Helen Keller

Never to soon

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mistakes

"A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own."

Latin Proverb

Guess I'm a fool since i prefer making my own mistakes to learn from :o

:)

"Knowing is not enough;

we must apply.

Willing is not enough;

we must do."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Time to take what I know about me and do what I want :P

Randomly random

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."
Kahlil Gibran

Yes I do actually have something to say about this and why I do what I do for those I do it for but the words just won't from this morning :o

Guess I'll keep on trying ;)

:)

"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open."

Rose Wilder Lane

Giggle

"You're never too old to become younger."

Mae West

Fun in the sun :P

It's funny, but as we grow up we seem to let go of so many of the simple things that bring us joy as children without even realising it.

I was paging through one of these free mall magazine handouts that we're all accosted with these days to pass the time between two appointments the other day when I came across an article by the editor of said handout about an outing she and her family took to a place not far out of Joburg for a picnic, yes a PICNIC. When last did you hear of anyone in this day and age actually going on a picnic? There are after all SO many things to think about least of which is the safety of yourself and your family, crime is after all rampant in our city :( But I digress.

This article got me thinking about how while I was growing up picnics where a regular feature on our social agenda, and no I don't mean formal, planned, family outings, I mean spur of the moment "mom, I'm going on a picnic" picnics and it didn't matter if I had an apple and a peanut butter sarmie and went and sat somewhere alone or if we went as a larger group and played at potluck, picnic's where fun. I used to spend hours relaxing that way in nature, cloud watching, bird watching, people watching, basically just watching the world go by lost in my own world if I went alone and the group outings well, they where perfect playing games and good old fashioned fun and as we got older the games changed but the constant remained that fun in the sun attitude. They even took on a romantic tone occasionally with moonlit picnics for 2.

But then suddenly things changed, we got to busy, to old, to a million other excuses why we couldn't go on picnics anymore.

Funny thing though is I developed my own sort of ritual a "bednic"which even today I still use as a pick me up when I'm down and sometimes just because I can and it's basically just a picnic on my bed. Cant remember how it started I guess I just missed the innocence and freedom of that part of growing up and that's why I still do it today even if it did evolve to suit my life a little more.

Me thinks it's time to take this back outside back into nature though and I will be taking myself and some friends off to Nkwe asap for a proper outdoor picnic, ants and all. :)

If you're looking for somewhere close by have a look at www.nkwepark.co.za and we may just see you there :)

So they say. . . . . . .

"Happiness lives for those who cry,for those who hurt,those who have searched and those who have tried.... for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives"~author unknown

I'm wondering. . . . . .

when did I lose my ability to believe six impossible things before breakfast :P

I spent what was destined to be a very long boring evening with some old friends in a very new way and must say to quote one of said friends "curiouser and curioser".
I've been putting off watching the new Alice in wonderland for a number of reasons, one of which was wanting to watch it with someone in particular and another the fear of being disappointed as I have been recently by a number of movies made of books I've read.
Tonight I gave in simply because I was missing said particular someone and as I said had what was destined to be a long boring evening ahead of me, which in it self is sad really but just how I felt.
I was not disapointed though, yes it's not a perfect depiction of one of my favourite books but Tim Burton definetly found the darkness I've always suspected was there from the begining and Disney hid behind a sugar coated cartoon. I've even been inspired to put down Eclipse and go back to reading Alice, very grown up thing to do I know:P

Oh and yes to quote Absalom, the blue caterpillar

"I can't help you if you don't even know who you are, stupid girl"

Amazing the wisdom you find in the smallest things :)

Just something very random

Eyjafjallajökull is one of the smaller ice caps of Iceland. It is situated to the north of Skógar and to the west of the larger ice cap Mýrdalsjökull. The volcanic event starting in March 2010 is considered to not be a massive eruption although it is causing enormous disruption across Europe. Previous eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull have been followed by eruptions at its larger neighbour, Katla; on 20 April 2010 this prompted Icelandic President Ólafur Grímsson to warn that "the time for Katla to erupt is coming close ... we [Iceland] have prepared ... it is high time for European governments and airline authorities all over the world to start planning for the eventual Katla eruption."

Found my island

I've been in a really strange place since Friday. It's really hard to explain but I feel like I've changed, like something in me has shifted and that I've finally found my own little place where I fit. Something is intrinsically different and I've finally accepted this part of the journey I'm on. And things are finally starting to make sense, well to me anyway.

Seems I found my own personal island.................................and yes the lyrics are related but I'm not explaining ;)

On An Island :
(Gilmour/Gilmour - Samson)

Remember that night...
White sails in the moonlight
They walked it too...
Through empty playground, this ghost's town
Children again on rusting swings getting higher
Sharing a dream
On an Island.... it felt right
We lay side by side,
Between the moon and the tide
Mapping the stars for a while
Let the night surround you
We're half way to the stars,
Ebb and flow
Let it grow..... feel the warmth beside you

Remember that night,
The warmth and the laughter
Candles burn...
Though the church was deserted
At dawn we went down through empty streets to the harbour
Dreamers may leave ...but we're here everafter...
Da da da da da....
Let the night surround you
We're half way to the stars,
Ebb and flow
Let it grow..... feel the warmth beside you...

Oh to be

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good."

Bertrand Russell

You Can

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."

John Wesley

Perfect Moments

"You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait."

Ellen Metcalf

Dream it

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

Walt Disney

In search of magic

"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it."

Bill Bernbach

Giggle

5 tips for a woman....

1. It's important that a man helps you around the house & has a job.

2. It's important that a man makes you laugh.

3. It's important to find a man you can count on and that doesn't lie to you.

4. It's important that a man loves you and spoils you.

5. It's important that these four men don't know each other...

Need I say More

Paperweight :
(feat. Schuyler Fisk)

Been up all night staring at you
wondering what's on your mind
i've been this way with so many before
but this feels like the first time
you want the sunrise to go back to bed
i want to make you laugh
mess up my bed with me
kick off the covers i'm waiting
every word you say i think
i should write down
don't want to forget come daylight
happy to lay here
just happy to lbe here
i'm happy to know you
play me a song
your newest one
please leave your taste on my tongue
paperweight on my back
cover me like a blanket
mess up my bed with me
kick off the covers i'm waiting
every word you say i think
i should write down
don't want to forget come daylight
and no need to worry
that's wastin time
and no need to wonder
what's been on my mind
it's you
it's you
it's you
every word you say i think
i should write down
don't want to forget come daylight
and i give up
i let you win
you win cause i'm not counting
you made it back
to sleep again
wonder what you're dreaming

Please

Life doesn't go according to plan
Close our eyes, take each other's hands
In a world filled with shades of grey
We'll color it up and escape
To our perfect place

They have my thoughts :P

Ok so first they said what I was thinking with

"Hold on honey, we've got forever to taste,

speed up sugar, dont forget our friend fate

It could disappear without a trace"

and

"what the hell where we thinking,

were we thinking at all

what the hell did we believe we'd achieve"

Then they followed it up with what I was never brave enough

to say even though I wanted to with

" Push me to the floor don't give up until I'm begging you for more"

Now they've gone and followed it up with the one line that I think but would never say

Baby Be Mine (The Parlortones)

If I asked you to lay with me would you say you’re not in the mood?

If I asked you to prey would you refuse because my intentions aren’t any good

In a world filled with thieves, killers and cheats wanting you shouldn’t be a crime

I’m not asking much, all I’m saying is baby be mine

Baby be mine

If I asked you to dance with me would you lie and say you don’t know how

If I sang you bad poetry would your face crease into a frown

In a world filled with thieves, killers and cheats wanting you shouldn’t be a crime

I’m not asking much, all I’m saying is baby be mine

Baby be mine

I’m not asking for miracles

I’m not asking for promises of your hand

All that I’m saying is give me a chance

If I picked you wild flowers would you say you’re not that type of girl?

If I stared at your photo for hours would I be weird and out of this world

Billions of blue blistering barnacles, fantasies have got to come true

And all that I ask is for a moment with you

Baby be mine

Baby be mine

Baby be mine

Baby be mine

And yes it's the line in red and just in case you had any doubt I'm now officially a fan :P