And It's Been a While, Since I Last Saw You

So, was looking at the date of my last post, and according to blogger, twas somewhere around early May.......I feel ashamed. Well, actually not really, but I figured some sort of self-flagellation akin The Da Vinci Code monks was in order!

Considering that we are now in the budding month of August, I guess it's been a full 3 MONTHS since my lasy post - heehehehe, the laziness of it all. Cries have been made for me to do the decent thing and shut down "Life Love and Everything Else", but no such doing, snails's pace though it is, we shall persevere!

So, not much happeneing with me these days....okay I lie, a tad too much has been happening with me these days, hence the lack of time to populate my arid blog! The City o' Gold, aka Egoli has been spreading me thin! The drinking, it is too much, the eating, it is too much, and the general partying, it is waaaay too much! I honestly need a break from my current life. I mean really, one can only consume a certain quantity of wine before snide comments start to be passed about the state of one's liver.......

But just incase you start to believe that I have been holed up in a dingy pub for the past 3 months, alas, I was also actually busy pursuing other more admirable activities! I have started to canoe. Yes, you read right, no need to go back and try and decipher a typo, I, a young black woman am now an avid canoeist. As in skinny little boat, rivers, lifejackets, suspect-looking rapids, the whole shpeel that is canoeing! For the record, to my knowledge, I have not been possessed by some sadistic Caucasion ghost, and have not become the proverbial "coconut/oreo/salala" overnight, I actually am THOROUGHLY enjoying my newfound passion. After all, what's not to like?? The great outdooors, the ever-present danger, the water, the adrenalin rush - keep your blunt, pass me my paddle!!

I must say though, there is a downside to all my newfound passion - the cost of all that gear! Damn! From the boat, to the roof-racks, to the paddle, the life jacket the splash-deck - what the h*ll????? Skint does not begin to even describe my current state of being:(
But no buyer's remorse here, it was money well spent:)

So next time you drive past some random river river in the middle of Vereeniging or some other similar backwater, look down for you may see me all teeth and propelling arms, trying desperately to keep my black ass out of the water!