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Happy happy Mareens.

April 28, 2011

Last night I had some of my very good friends (Gina King we missed you) over for supper and to plough through 3 bottles of champagne. My beautiful friend Marina (the one on the right) got engaged a couple of days ago and i’m so super happy for her. She briefly mentioned maybe having her wedding in Italy, we pushed for that idea ALL night hahaa! That would be so awesome.

Aaaa man I love weddings and engagements and all that stuff, they make me so happy and teary that I can never have my exact wedding day all over again – what a great day xxx

Last night I cooked my very first all vegan meal too. I made sweet potato coconut Thai curry soup with jasmine rice and it came out really nicely. It’s a really thick soup, so I guess it lands up being more like a curry, it has all nice strong ingredients in it, but when I added the coconut milk (there’s a lot of that) it kind of dulled a few of the flavours, so I added 2 freshly squeezed limes and some salt and pepper, the recipe doesn’t call for it, but I think they made it better. If you do try this recipe out – happy cooking and eating, yum.

* I have forgotten how awesome sweet potatoes are. Wow.

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Quick, drop the fillet and fetch the eyeliner!

February 1, 2011

Last night I had a gang of 5 boys to feed. Yikes! Whenever I have to cook for lots of people, especially boys I always get nervous that I won’t make enough food (that’s the Greek coming out in me) so I bought double of everything and the biggest piece of fillet I have ever dragged home. I made my mom’s fillet mushroom pasta recipe – YUM. It seemed to have gone down a treat, which made me very happy.

My friend Dave bought over a bottle of wine that he thought I would love because it was called ‘We call this Dancing’, what he didn’t realise was that it was made by The Parlotones. Hmmm…I don’t really like the Parlotones like AT ALL, so it only seemed right that we pull out my eyeliner and take pictures of ourselves looking like dramatic fools. I will however say one thing good about it, after a glass and a half I slept like well hidden baby bear. Yes.

Here is the recipe if anyone is keen x

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Polaroids, you’ve been dated.

January 24, 2011

The other day before my holidays were over I decided to pull out all my polaroids and date them. I looked them up on my blog and on my computer and I managed to date more or less all of them. It was quite a mission, but now i’m so glad I did it.

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Hello Jerry Seinfeld, do you have any new jokes for us?

January 5, 2011

My cousins from Argentina were here to see my uncle (their dad) for the Christmas holidays. I haven’t seen them in 5 years, so when we met up now in Durban I was so shocked to see how big they have grown and so sad to think how old i’ve grown. Yikes! The youngest one, Philip who was 5 the last time I saw him is the raddest little kid ever! I nicknamed him Jerry Seinfeld cause 1- he looks like a 10 year old version of him and 2- he is the funniest little kid ever. He’s also a bit of genius, for real. I asked him if he knew who Jerry Seinfeld was, he said no and then his brother said that he doesn’t even know who Michael Jackson is – Philip proceeded to say this: “Michael Jackson, he was a singer, he was black, he had lots pf plastic surgery, he lost his nose, his best friend was Diana Ross and now he’s dead, that’s him, right?” Shane and I couldn’t stop laughing. It’s like he accessed his music folder database and came up with that. So funny.

Anyway we had a braai at my aunt’s house and afterwards we had marshmellows, which in my opinion are always nice props for a phoootoshooooooot with my Fuji Instax.

Smile. Click. The end.

*If anyone is thinking about buying this camera, do it! It’s a bit big and bulky, but it’s too much fun and you can get film for it. Hooray! A little tip though, if you can get it form overseas, it’s way way cheaper. Cool.

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Click click memory time. Jaws you are not invited.

January 5, 2011

I went away to Hluhluwe with my folks and Shane over Christmas, as I mentioned in a post below, we stayed in a very nice place called Toad Tree Lodge. Anyway I took my good old Fuji instax with and snapped some wide shots of us at Sodwana Bay. Have any of you ever been there? Wow, what a weird weird beach. There were 4×4’s everywhere and tractors pulling boats and super brown people snorkeling and lazing around. It looked like a giant movie set, but we managed to find a nice quite spot to wade in. It was the deepest I have ever been in the sea, for real! I’m not a huge beach/sea person, the water actually scares me.Yes I am one of those people that can’t even be in a swimming pool alone because i’m convinced there is a high possibility that I will be attacked by a shark. But I put on a brave face and I went into unprotected waters nogaal (not sure how to spell that afrikaans word ha, sorry). It was warm and calm and so super awesome and I’m still alive, so all in all it was an awesome day.

Here are some snaps x  x

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Stan the man.

August 18, 2010

Last night my good friend Stan stayed at out house, he left for Germany this morning, he’s doing a photographic job there for the next 6 weeks. Lucky bum! Anyway I haven’t seen him in ages and it was nice to spend some time with him. You know those friends who will always be friends no matter how much time passes? It’s never awkward just always the same? Well that’s Stan. Love you my friend.

Before we went to bed we watched Friday the 13th PART 12. Hahaha I cannot believe that they have made 12 of these ridonculous movies and I really really can’t believe that we stayed up till 1 watching it. We laughed a lot though, we were fascinated by how quickly Jason gets from one place to another. We decided that he must have little scooters hidden all over the place that his giant face jumps on and rides the bejezzers out of to the exact spot the screaming teenage is heading towards. Now picture him on a pale pink scooter zooting through the forest singing Mariah Carey songs out loud. Not so scary now, are you Jason?