It's here ...

yup AGAIN our day of departure is here ... finally the suitcases are packed ... all 4 of them when we only arrived with 3 ... I'll let you know if we end up having to pay excess !!!

I think today has been the MOST stressful for a long time ... oops no I mean since I left SA !!! with the suitcase saga and now as we have a 4th case I have to arrange collection for us all at the other side ... Aunty Irena is collecting us but I've had to sweet talk (and I already owe her big time) Juno to waste an hour (LOL) at the airport tomorrow cos Aunty I's car is too small to fit all the cases in ...

I did think 'oooh aunty Irena why don't you just use my car' (ROFPMSL) my car is still ... 1 week later  sitting at the garage and Juno had the bad luck of having to tell me it won't be ready for when we get back ... seems they need a spare part (oh! did I mention they only found out about this yesterday, after having had the car 4 days already )!!! that no-one seems to be able to find in good old SA ... so guess what ... yup you guessed right ... Paul went down to HYUNDAI this morning ... took a whole 25mins ... here in Chesterfield ...(not 1 week later and still no clue)  picked up the part and I will have to take it to the idiots (oops I mean nice men at the garage who had better f..'#$.. fix my car )

I mean I thought ... as it is always a 'major headache' to get my car serviced ... no that's wrong, the servicing part should be easy (ha ha) it's the stress and aggro of not having another driver in the house and not having access to another vehicle and needing transport, as in SA there are no luxuries like public transport ... in fact I don't even think you can pick up a phone and call for a taxi ??? (Never actually ever needed to do that so can't say if you can !!!) SO in my stupidity I thought ask my fwiend Juno... would she mind dropping the car off for me (her husband is at home and he does have access to other vehicles LOL) plus she has her car ... then the idiots oops mechanics can fix it with no time constraints as such ... (well I didn't expect it to take a whole bloody week !!!!) then my car is back home sitting on the drive way all clean and sparkly for me and job's a good'un!!!

Ok that was the problem ... I thought it could all work out ... and I forgot NOTHING in SA ever works out as it would in the rest of the world ...

And people still feel the need to ask me the question ..."do you like living in SA ???" I am seriously asking myself WHY AM I LIVING IN SA ??? cos it can't be for the efficiency or service or uncomplicated lifestyle or anything like that !!!

I know why ...
It's for all the amazing friends I have there ... the ones who constantly come through for me when I'm struggling, the friends who waste a good part of their free time trying to sort out my shit, (well the shit that seems to constantly hover around me !!! ) the friends who support me when I could do with an extra hand or when I'm feeling down, (and girls the way I'm feeling right now ... I'm probably gonna need you a bit more next week)

So we're leaving for the airport in 15mins ... I think I'm gonna take a couple of Valium .. have a G&T and hopefully make it to the other side ...