Roxilla

While the tourists seem to think it’s high summer, and are walking around the city with tiny shorts and tee-shirts (and those are just the guys!), the rest of us are freezing our asses off in Cape Town lately. The sun is shining, but there is snow on the mountain and as temperatures drop below 10 degrees, the layers come on and the comfort seeking begins in earnest.

Right now, my favourite things involve self-indulgence and small comforts – with stress trying its best to take me down, and tonsils not co-operating either, it’s been a challenging week but I am determined to come out it positive and sorted. I worked on my horror tonight for the first time in months, and I am hauling ass back to gym tomorrow and trying to avoid Long Street for a bit and behave myself this weekend. Emphasis on trying, but that is the plan anyway!

So in the interest of self-indulgent habits and all that, my favourite things right now are these…

1. bubble baths

Every day when I get home from work, the first thing I do is run myself a hotter than hell bubble bath, pour a glass of wine and settle back for a good soak. I’m loving the Palmolive Aromatherapy Bath Foam (the stress one and the vitality one especially) and I also add some of my stress relief oil for good measure. I put on one of my masks, and I watch the kitten try not to fall in as he buggers around on the edge trying to figure out how he can get in without getting wet. Good times!

2. wine

Red, white, sparkling – Shiraz, Merlot, Chenin, Brut… it doesn’t really matter. I’m an equal opportunist wine drinker, I love all wine. From the cheap and cheerful Woolies Lite Shiraz to the delightful Krone Borealis, wine is a crucial ingredient to a good pamper session. And after a bad day, it is darn near vital!

3. biker jacket

I got this jacket last month, and am loving it more all the time. It goes with everything – especially jeans and peep-toes, and it’s surprisingly warm too. I like the old skool vibe, and had been wanting one for years so really stoked to have found this one. I plan to wear it to Holly’s eighties themed 30th this weekend, although what else I’ll wear is still a tough one!

Gosh, I had so many other things but the France vs Mexico game is starting soon and the neighbours are trying to drown out my Sisters of Mercy with their TV. I still have quite a bit of work to get through tonight, so will have to watch the soccer as I work – not ideal since it’s friggin France who are playing (ladies, remember this hottie?!) but such is life. Maybe I’ll just watch the first half.

soon my pretty, soon...

Mondays suck at the best of times, but after a hectic weekend in winter, they take on a new mehness. Friday was one of the most bizare and hectique days, from the drama at lunchtime at the Spar on Kloof Street when cops chased a thief through the shop, to witnessing a car break in on my road in the evening, and then having my electricity run out halfway through The Mask, all I could do was stay on my couch and ride it out.

Saturday was a whole other ball game – with beautiful weather, and shopping at China Town with my aunt (man I love that place!) and then some work, I joined up with Holly at the Mexican Shabeen. This mad place is a temporary bar that’s been set up for the duration of the World Cup, in the Strand Towers Hotel parking lot. Half price drinks all day, a totally South African and mental vibe, cool tunage, a dancefloor that was pumping at 6PM, and a few too many double vodka Redbulls, and you get the idea of how this place is. We then went through to Neighbourhood to meet Blade. It was a strange night, but not altogether such a bad one… after heading through to Dubliner and a few detours, things *may* have gotten a little hazy. Luckily help was on hand, and I woke up on Sunday morning somewhere on Kloof Nek, relieved and a little hungover, minus my cardigan and minus my Blackberry cover.

Yesterday I somehow managed to get some work done, and fit in a nap. DT tried to lure me out, and if I hadn’t been working, I would have been there in a second, but with no brainz and no concentration, I had to try and get stuff done, and luckily I succeeded.

The less said about today, the better – I hate this weather, and I could really do with more weekend! Able to have a relatively calm one this evening at least, then tomorrow there’s the final comedy night at the Purple Turtle to look forward to. And then… the fun begins on Friday with the Bafana vs. Mexico game!

It’s all so exciting to think that it’s finally here, and while obviously the Brazil team are the ones I’m most interested to see, I’ll also be rooting on Bafana like it’s nobody’s business – am SO proud that we have gotten this far, and even though I haven’t gotten my supporter t-shirt yet, I plan to be screaming my lungs out for our boys on Friday afternoon along with the rest of the country.

Feel it, it is HERE!

water is fine, wish I was there...

These two days of leave have come and gone so quickly, and have been so busy, that I can’t quite believe they’re almost over already. At least tomorrow is Thursday, and should be another awesome weekend ahead… but still. I am feeling a little zombified, more so than usual I mean. May has just been the most insane month, been pushing the limit in more ways than one, but one thing I haven’t done is to get out of the city to see my sister.

Going to see what I can do, even though they have moved down from the mountain (so tragic, was the most beautiful place ever!), still really miss seeing her and the animals. The idea of sitting at the P-berg Hotel with an ice cold quartz of Hunters Dry, talking kak and just zoning out is unbelievably tempting right now. Come to think of it, so is the thought of a balcony on a warm winter’s day… hmm.

Whatever the case, tired and spaced out as I am, I’m going to go ahead and call this week pretty awesome. Even if work tomorrow will mostly be anything but. *sigh*