Trippin'

Its so few hours now before take off and I've got butterflies mashing up my stomach!

As prepared as we have tried to be, we still haven't quite got our bags packed...but HEY! Hooray! Its a holi-holiday...Hi-di-hi-di-ho! We've still got a half hour or so before it starts getting crucial!

I finally figured out how to use Turish Airways' online check-in...what a mission! (more a lack of instructions than anything else) ...we're booked in leg-roomy seats...I hope! So praying for clear skys and happy flying.

I don't think we're going to be computering while we're away...if we do: my next post will be from Espania!!

Farewell!

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Nuisance

We went to the place where geoff did basics when he went to the navy...freezing cold but oh what a lovely view!



We weren't allowed to walk around much...but we were allowed to go and see the 'Nuisance Grave'.....turns out 'Nuisance' was a dog!!! :

Pre-Spain freakouts

Ever had the feeling that you're going to tear your hair out...cry at any minute: neck...back...eyes aching from staring at the computer screen ALL day trying to find a solution to a problem that you keep finding bits and pieces of solutions to but not one solution that solves the whole problem.....you just KNOW you don't want to have to pay money for it as it will probably not do exactly what you wanted it to and then you'll have to throw money away on the next thing....? Oh why didn't I study coding?? Because its waaaay too technical and boring and I'm an ARTIST. Dammit.

This is the position, to-do list as long as my passage - almost counting days and hours till we leave for Spain & freaking out about the lack of packing, pre-trip shopping (essentials like a sleeping bag) and a bunch of other stuff... and the fact that the lady at the post office knows I'm going away which has set off paranoia that she'll tell a thieving friend who will somehow convince her to give him our home address so that they can share the fruits of their crime - endangering our house-sitter...then realising that its stupid because our place is really really hard to get into plus its up all those blasted stairs & there's nothing here anyhow that anybody could really want that would be more than just an inconvenience if it were stolen...except some of my Nine West shoes and my favorite tea cups perhaps...I mentally put angels around the flat & try not to imagine intruders drinking all my champagne on the balcony and laughing whilst the house-sitter serves them my favorite ice-cream out the deep freeze along with my secret chocolate stash. I have an overactive imagination.

And yes. I am freaking out.

As a design-focused person with mediocre knowledge of HTML...almost zero JavaScript etc etc etc... I have found myself (on more than one occasion) looking for a form solution that really works. So: "THANK YOU" to the people at http://www.emailmeform.com/ for their solution which has just made a really frustrating day of research and more than one freak-out really worthwhile.

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Home is wonderful

Geoff and I went for a walk on Fish Hoek beach the other day... I've been desperate to get out and be active (double doses of vitamins in preparation for Spain must be working!!)...plus I just KNOW how much walking and swimming (and lazing) we are going to be doing just as soon as we get to Aguilas camp site... I just can't wait.

We have to run off all over the Southern Cape this weekend to auctions and back by Monday to compete the last bits of work we have before abandoning the world of technology for more simple pleasures: each other... fire... beach... food and language of another country... & stars of another hemisphere.

Of course all the plans to have packed already... have Miss Molly stuff prepared to continue in my absence already... have all work completed by now so we have the last week here to wind down and do the minimum... all these have been FOILED by the nasty hand of procrastination...

We've had a great week though:
For the last 3 days we've had a seriously strong North Wind blowing the sea sideways & rattling anything vaguely loose all night long...its been such a warm wind - as if it was a hill-billy borne out of the Karoo and traveled on its annual visit to the sea (with all its friends this year!! - they had quite a roaring party!)...it does mean a cold front is most likely about to hit us though...

On Tuesday night we had spinach and butternut lasagne with friends and it was so warm that we sat outside...Geoff brought out his 'magic' box of instruments and we played rhythms into the night.

Last night we walked to the harbour in the warm wind...had dinner & really focussed on spending quality time together. One loses oneself so easily in the daily 'things to do'...

Basically - home is wonderful. Even though we're going far away - we know we will love coming back here.

I never would have guessed that I would be living in a picturesque fishing village with 20+ quirky restaurants, artisan bakeries & coffee shops (and a bar or 2)... a short walk from the harbour and its boats and seals ...balcony view a great surf spot ...clothing for any occasion ...vintage & antique shops ...beaches at a stone's throw ...jewelery ...a new mosaic shop ...books ...a tiny cafe post office ...and today I finally went to "Kassia & Fig" and discovered that I can buy free range eggs from them -- and possibly Free Range milk! -- (previously unavailable in Kalk Bay)!! ...and the man I love and adore.

What more does a girl need?!

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