Right, so anyone that follows me on twitter will know that I really, really, *really* want to be on the new SA Survivor (Maldives).

Auditions are soon and this weekend I decided that I needed something different if I was going to give this my best shot and so this blog post was created at breakfast with my BF and BFF on a brown paper bag…..

After a few tequila’s, a trip to Victoria Street and a shopping centre for prop’s – we hit the beach for a little photo shoot that turned a few heads.

So after laughing at the pictures below it would be super fantastic if you could show support for my *desperate need* to be on the show by clicking on the support button below…

(Disclaimer: This is my own concept for my audition and does in no way reflect the requirements to enter the show. If you want to enter visit the following site for full details: All You Need to Know to Enter Survivor SA­ )

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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

-Buddha quote

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I love getting awesome presents for people close to me. I think long and hard about gifts for people I love (ask anyone close to me).

So I really really really owe @za5 a gift, the past 8 weeks he has been the MOST supportive person I have ever known in my life!

From driving me to JHB CBD and waiting for me while I am at an appointment, to visiting my parent’s dogs (the dogs had 6 weeks left before they join my parents in Australia) every single Saturday for 6 weeks while I worked on my project. Supporting me through my legal cases, making me special coffee and being an awesome pillar of strength in my life.

While chatting to my Mom and her asking what she can get him as a gift for visiting her dogs, I also mentioned I wanted to get him something nice as well, and we decided on an iPad. My Mom jumped on the internet in Australia and ordered the top of the range 64/3G/Wi-Fi iPad. She even sourced a nice case for it.

It was delivered in two weeks to her and put it in the courier to me. The parcel arrives in JHB and the courier company contact me to try clear it through customs.

On Monday I paid over R1300 in import duties on my credit card to get it out of customs (they more than willing to take your cash). And this morning reception notified me it had been deliver.

When I picked it up from reception it left very light the package and I raced up stairs to open the parcel. As I opened the first brown sealed box my heart started to sink, as I opened the Apple box and found the bubble wrap only I almost burst into tears. It had been stolen.

They were kind enough to repackage the Apple box in the brown box and seal it; they had even been kind enough to put the bubble wrap in the box for me.

I contacted TNT Courier Company, it turns out I must fill in forms and wait for three weeks for an answer on the issue (awesome!).

My issue is you can clearly see something happened at customs SA as the parcel was booked in as 2 kgs in Australia and then booked in as 1.5 kgs in SA by TNT (iPad is about half a kg in weight) you do the maths. Surely they should have said WTF before delivering to me?

So here is @za5 gift..

Awesome hey?

Thanks so much to  TNT courier company (www.tnt.com)  and SA Customs (www.sars.gov.za).

You welcome to comment here or email them to let them know how sad you are for me….

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So last weekend was my 27th Birthday Party!

I have always been big on birthdays but the last three have been pretty tame and I have not really been in the mood for celebrating my birthday since my Grandfather passed away (we shared a birthday).

This year I decided enough miserabelle and its time to have a birthday bash.

What an awesome night, filled with Black Tequila and Moet. There was table dancing, stage dancing, laughing and a bit of puking. I missed all my old friends from Durban, but I realised that night how many amazing awesome people I have in my life in Jozi and how blessed I am that they are my friends.

Thank you all for coming, the gifts, the laughs and the love. x0×0

Full pic’s on Facebook.

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I am almost sure I do my best blog post’s after a glass of wine, or two or three ……

So its been a long week and its only Tuesday or is it Wednesday, who knows and who cares.

So what’s new….

My cousin’s have moved in with me and @za5, and we feel like parents. Not the kind of kids we planned for….. a 20 & 22 year old both in Varsity. One is in my bed now watching Ninja Warrior with @za5 and the other studying….

The laughter in the house makes me happy. It makes me want kids of my own. I feel my clock ticking now… and I really want my own kids. Next year I think I am going to have kids….

So in full overachiever style, I made the girls make vision boards for themselves when they moved in. Why? Because they come from a small town (which I know all about) and I think that girls today need to broaden their horizons and want more for themselves.

I am very proud of them – one has achieved over 80% for all her exams and the other has her second job interview tomorrow!

Oh goodness the one that cant spell just told @za5 she has written a book! God Forbid I have to read this…..not even spell check can save her.

My parents are leaving for Australia soon. Which is sad because we have all been a close family.

I am 27 now, which completely scares the shit out of me. I still feel 17 and don’t like getting old.

I had an awesome birthday party on Saturday night, surrounded by the most awesome friends! Most of them from Twitter.

Twitter has changed my life…. and brought so many awesome ppl into my life.

I woke up on Sunday morning with bunny ears on – and had no clue who’s they were…. (sign of a good party)……

I danced on tables, and the stage on Saturday night. In true SezLeigh fashion… I am glad that I can be 27 years old and still act like I am 17….

I just was told that my skirt on Saturday was Skanky by my cousin, looking at the photo’s from Saturday night.

My cousin handed me a pic of  my grandfather and I on one of our shared birthday celebrations tonight, which made me sad. This is the first year that I celebrate my birthday on the 3rd of March after he passed away. When I got home from dinner on the 3rd, she almost made me cry by bringing up the topic of my grandfather, we lit a candle and put one of our birthday pictures next to it.

And that is all…

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So much happens in a year. You never know how your life will change a year later…

Last year this time, I was living in London and jetted off to the Maldives for two amazing weeks….

It was a trip filled with delayed flights, staying in a dodgy hotel in Male after missing our flight out to the island but when we arrived it was magical to say the least…

Sea Plane out the the island…

Coconut Ice cream…

Spent my mornings with baby sharks..

Massages with this view…

Days on the beautiful beach….

One of the best holidays ever and some of my best holiday memories…

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*Warning this post contains swearing. **This post has not been proof read and I don’t give a shit about spelling or any other mistakes in it, so please don’t even waste my time with a comment rather fuck off and go proof read someone else’s blog.

Today I had a super shit day!  I had a lot on my to-do list but honestly – FUCK IT all! If I had a bottle of tequila I would probably be doing shot’s right now at my desk as I write this. But instead I have watched an episode of Grey’s Anatomy which has resulted in me fighting tears for 60 minutes and now my poison is a Sarah McLachlan CD and chain smoking.

Am I the only one that has these days’s where I lie in the bath and think – WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING HERE?

Who wants a life filled with deadlines, bills, bonds, potholes, broken robot’s, traffic, crime, people with no integrity, a president with 20 kids, a country with no accountability…blah blah you get the picture.

Its day’s like this that I close my eyes and I can see my hut on the hill top in Thailand. In my hut I have essentials (a battery powered GHD, a bikini and sun block) – and that is all I have to my name! (Okay maybe a little MAC makeup)

Series of events that leads me to these thoughts:

• Meetings where peoples actual goal is to basically deliver on 80% of a project and hope for the best, and when I am like WTF they look at me as if I am an alien from MARS!
• A SMS sent from collection agency to my ex who I own a property with for back dated rates and taxes totally R10k. I expected this bill – I did not expect: 1. It to come from a collection agency, as I provided all details & never received a statement (when I called to follow up I was told to wait for a statement, we are not the only complex they are registering). 2. A demand that we settle it today otherwise they will cut our service off (This I laughed at, what are they going to cut off – garbage collection? Sure, they going to know which dustbin or garbage bags are our units and leave it behind on collection days. Or god forbid they might switch my sewerage off….  3. My statement was emailed to me as a .TXT file (you have to be shitting me – no City Of Johannesburg logo or details, even the Nigerians running the 419 Scam’s are more professional).
• Finding out that Liberty Life is holding my RA payout as SARS marked me for an audit (due to my previous accountant being bloody useless), Gay Husband sorted all my tax out in one afternoon (note: he is still doing his articles), and submitted audit documents already but now I am at the mercy of SARS processing audit doc’s and by the time they do that some sort of other tax will be due! For goodness sakes SARS I think I have paid more tax than most people pay in their life time and always done it on time – cut me some slack or do you maybe have a platinum package or loyalty package I can join?
• I have like another 10 things I can add to this list but I am getting bored bitching.

Anyways so this dinky bottle of champagne I found is finished and now I wish it was Thursday night so I could take my ass off to club –  line up a row of tequila’s and dance on a speaker like I am sixteen all over again! I need to do something with all this pent up energy.

Anyone that knows me knows that I don’t give up, if there is a will there is a way and believe you me I think I have moved mountains before to get stuff done.

But tonight I surrender – dealing with stuff in this country is like trying to keep a bucket full of holes filled with water!

There will be no bitchy emails to the collection agency, or emails to SARS and Liberty Life or reworking project plans….tonight I have learnt that I cannot fight every battle….there are just some not worth wasting my energy on.

But tomorrow is a whole different story….

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So it started with a tweet this afternoon: I am in desperate need of a whole day at the spa….

And then the idea of a Spa Day Tweet-up was born….and then my @replies were filled with ladies super keen to join…..

So it’s decided I am organising a Spa Day Tweet up, and I am probably going to rope @JessicaMcD and her exceptional organising skills into helping organise

I was thinking of having it on a Saturday morning in early March. That way I have time to secure a venue, group booking pricing, possibly some sponsorship for gift bags and it gives everyone time to arrange babysitters, space in your social calendar and money from your bf / husband or SO to spoil yourself

So what I need is some feedback from you guys:

• If you keen to attend.

• Venue suggestions – We would need a day Spa set up so we could chill in between treatments and enough treatment rooms / staff.

• Sponsor’s, so ladies get your little black book of contacts out! Send me details of contacts that you think would be interested in getting involved.

Once we have finalised all details I will post details and open for RSVP’s.

PS. If there is anyone out there interested in sponsoring / contributing products contact me.

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I have harboured a lot of anger and resentment over the past three years, something that I think is extremely unhealthy and holds you back.

I started this year with an act that, freed me from this specific anger and let me move forward.

I will not go into an explanation on this post on the whole story as that would be going back to the past. This is a post is to remind me that I have let go and chosen not to hold on to that anger.

(These amazing photo’s were taken by @za5)

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