I'm sorry I know I promised I'd be a better blogger ... and every day I have every intention of being that !!! and then my mind gets side tracked and before I know it another week has gone by ...
I mean seriously the week after Paul left I literally did loads of ... NOTHING ... yet just did not find the time to get on the blog ... however Facebook ... now there's something I'm on every day and several times a day !!! It's quite addictive really !!!
Kelsey is back into the swing of school ... although this April is very stuffed up ... he went back to school 11th ... 1st week back -last week was a normal 5 days of school ... this week only at school 4 days ... cos today is GOOD FRIDAY, then they are off Saturday, Sunday and Easter Monday ... but here in SA we have a public holiday on 27th April (Wednesday- Freedom Day) so the school is also closed Tuesday as a school holiday and then Wednesday for the public holiday !!! the kids are back at school Thursday & Friday ... then we have another long weekend cos 1st May is Workers Day ... and as it falls on a Sunday ... we all get Monday as a public holiday !!! Crazy or what ??? I feel sorry for the parents who work and have to find 'sitters' etc for their kids over all these holidays ... although to be honest I wish I was one of those at the moment...
So Kelsey ... school ... 1st Saturday back they played rugby ... in fact every weekend (except Easter Weekend) until 24th June now he has rugby on a Saturday ... they played against Thomas Moore College and I'm very pleased to say the U14's (Kelsey's team, that he also just happens to be Captain of...) won 31 - 7 ... a huge boost for the boys as they were all very nervous ... as Primary School Teams they always seemed to get beaten by TMC ... so either our High School coaches are doing something right, or TMC coaches are doing something wrong ... Our boys dominated the field from the start and as soon as they scored their first try there was no stopping them ...
Saturday 16th was also hectically busy for me too ... Rugby in the morning (tons of photos to take !!!) followed by a photo shoot with Summer for the HHS Matric Dance ... Summer looked beautiful ... a real Princess with a tiara and all ...
Just had to show off the Tiara ... Paul organised this from the UK for us ... he didn't do such a bad job at all did he ???
I spent the whole afternoon with her ... photographing her from the hairdressers, to the make-up, the dress, the shoes and the accessories ... almost as good (or as bad whichever way you want to put it) as a wedding shoot !!! Including a pre-dance photo shoot with friends ... to the arrival in all the fancy cars ... there is definitely money to be made in all this pomp & ceremony ... the amount of money that parents spend on their kids Matric Dances ... I was shocked !!! Well I have a couple of years to start saving for Kelsey's dance ...
Summer & her date Nigel ...
But I thoroughly enjoyed myself ... the only downer on the day ... the DAMNED WEATHER !!! we have had some really beautiful days ... cooler mornings and evenings, but warm sunshine during the day ... Saturday 16th was overcast in the morning and it started raining by noon and it did not let up 1 little drop until Sunday (and at times it lashed down!!!).... I felt so sorry for all those girls who had spent fortunes on long dresses, open topped vehicles to arrive in and all the drooping curls !!!! There was lots of 'muddy hemlines' that night ... but that didn't stop the kids from having a ball ... and apparently after the main party ... which finishes around 11pm, they all get changed and go out to the After Party !!!! (so it's another outfit ... and more money)... and the after parties are well organised affairs ... seems there's a company that does all this and everyone who's anyone has to be seen at these after parties !!! Summer's mum said she got home at 7am ... (and now this week the poor kid is as sick as a dog ... no wonder ... do you think any of these kids thought about jackets & keeping warm ??? ... oh shut up you old fuddy duddy !!! to be young and silly all over again LOL)
So needless to say this whole week has been taking up with editing photos, cutting CD's etc. etc. I suppose I could call it working LOL !!! and there are still some photos I need to sort out for another young lady who's mum asked me to take a few of her too !!!
Hectic stuff ... I didn't realise just how much work goes into this kinda thing ... no wonder photographers charge so much .. it's not just the time to take the photo's your paying for it's all the editing ... cleaning up, cutting the CD ... the labels, the case covers etc. etc. (and I have actually started using an editing programme now ... wow progress hey !!! still need more practise with it but I think I'm doing OK !!!)
(OH Just have to throw this is here) had some drama with our house here ... last week I got a letter from our Municipality informing us that we have to commence completion of our house by 3rd May otherwise they are going to issue a notification to demolish !!! W.T.F seems it has something to do with some obscure act or other and we have to start work on our house again ... I knew it was all going to good for too long there ... it's all because we did not do any building on the property for over 12 months last year !!!
So there's nothing we can do about it really ... options are 1) start working on the house again or 2) let them demolish the building ... now we would love to go with option 1 however there is just 1 small thing preventing us from going with that and that is the question of MONEY !!! I mean if we had the damned money we would not be sitting in this predicament in the first place ... we would have been continuing with the building ... cos I really don't want to be living here on this complex forever !!!!
And you know what !!! there's nothing I can do about it !!! I've tried growing a money tree ... FAIL, I've tried shitting money ... FAIL ... we've even been to bank for a loan ... FAIL ... so other than robbing the bank, winning the lottery or selling that damned house in the UK we're pretty much up the creek without a paddle scenario ...
Just thought I'd mention that before I finish off this installment!!!
And now to this weekend ... HAPPY EASTER to one and all ... what have we got planned for the next 6 days .... mmm not a helluva lot ... (did have a notion to surprise someone ... but that too was a fail... found out they had plans) so ... Kelsey & I are around the house ... but did manage to get tickets for Pitbull on Saturday night so that should keep his Lordship a little happy for a little while, bribed him with a new PS3 game that I had found hidden in my cupboard (I'd only bought the game last July when we were in the UK , kept it for just such an occasion LOL) so he should be kept entertained for a few hours with that ... and June & Irena have invited us to join them & their family for an Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday ...
Such a busy hectic social life that we lead ... Kelsey is already asking how soon before he can go back to school !!!
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