And the personal review

Hi guys, welcome to my personal review of my blog, excluding all the numbers and apparent successes and failures.  I wish to thank my readers, all of you have contributed to these small successes, and sadly, the failures are all thanks to inconsistent posting :-/ Oh well, we are what we are, right?

So, instead of promising the world this time around and again failing to post what I need to, I will post what I can, when I can, and most importantly, whatever I want to… I actually just need a good kick in the pants… right, review:

I started this blog off with a bang, posting many, and varied, posts.  Most of them appeared rather poorly written, but as things progressed to the end of February and March, I seemed to get slightly better at expressing my thoughts as eloquently as I am able to, intermittently off course. Sadly there was this crazy moment in March where I believed that posting as my cat should be funny and interesting.  What a schmuck I am *shakes head* Well, thankfully the idea died rather quickly, and I decided to just move on from there.

April appeared to be a better writing month for me, one filled with consistently good posts, well written mostly, if not always brilliantly inspired, whereas May turned out to be rather uninteresting with just the one post.  It was a huge step for me nonetheless, confronting part of my past head on. June turned out to be a good one.  I liked most of my posts, and the content was much more interesting to read.  Turns out, the rest of the world thought so too!

July was my holiday, so off course, it was drier than the Sahara, and it all went downhill from there.  Reading some of my posts, and just remembering what they were about, has me realizing the importance of a journal.  I find it shocking how I didn’t realize my downward slope into depression was taking place so radically and noticeably.  This blog is by far the best resource for me; it helps me deal with me, it helps me deal with history, it allows so much to be said, and puts it all back into perspective for me.  Well, I’m going to go out and get some help, because clearly I was taken off the antidepressants WAY too soon.  My poor poor husband… He really must have the fortitude of a rock.

 

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,500 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 25 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

 

Gravy Train

Proudly South African; yes I am. We have so much to offer the world. Despite this fact I promised myself that every blog will not be based on SA pride, and yet, here we are! I have just received another email with goods for sale. Truly South African entrepreneurship!
You can barely open an email these days without a picture of some new item for sale, all based on the Soccer World Cup. From arm warmers to car mirror socks, from corporate sponsored Soccer support jerseys to pens, teddy bears, key chains, limited edition pendants and so much more. I have to admit, as cute as Zakumi is, my favourite has to be the arm warmers. They are practical, reusable, and utterly adorable (err, in a really practical, manly sense – sorry boys!)
You have to hand it to my countrymen, they know how to make a quick buck! I am utterly astonished at their ingenuity, creativity and sometimes, pure desperation. Unfortunately some unwise investors have already lost large amounts of money, hoping for a ride on the latest gravy train. There hasn’t been such scrambling since the 1885 Gold Rush!
I have spoken to so many people that are planning something or another, renting out a room in their house, renting out a granny flat, making bracelets out of South African shells, gemstones, beads etc. I must say, I never realized my countrymen could be so enterprising! Or should I say, exploitative. To quote a phrase from Star Trek, Exploitation begins at home. Well readers, our people are far cleverer than anyone gives them credit for!
I for one can’t wait to buy a decent pair of SA arm warmers (for those cold days you know!) Just imagine; now, that skimpy top is a go! The best part is that we get to keep these arm warmers for every sport! They’ll go really nicely with a Springbok t-shirt, don’t you think?

 

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