Tag Archives: The Fiance

I’ve Found Someone I’m Happy To Share Everything With. Including Cooties.

Posted on February 14, 2013 by ExMi

As I sit in the heaving doctor’s waiting rooms, coughing my lungs out and wondering whether I’ve got a touch of the plague, I have to take the time to consider how I got here. As cheeseballs as it sounds, … Continue reading →

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On Things We’ve Done This Year, Already

Posted on January 11, 2013 by ExMi

It might only be 11 days into the Twenty-Thirteen, but we’ve made them busy days and they’ve been full of doing stuff and seeing things. So far we have: Taken The Kid to the Montecasino Bird Gardens. Which he adored. … Continue reading →

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Pregnancy. Version 2.0

Posted on January 8, 2013 by ExMi

It’s been at least 5 years since my last pregnancy – enough time to forget just about everything, except the heinous morning sickness. It has its ups and downs. I’m about half-way now and it’s bound to get even more … Continue reading →

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On Pink or Blue. Hopefully Today Is The Day.

Posted on January 4, 2013 by ExMi

I have a beautiful, massively healthy boy. He’s a real boy’s boy. All about the cars and Lego and superheroes and bashing and smashing. The colour blue and being noisy and dirty. Motorbikes and soccerballs. Hulksmash and Spiderman. Much to … Continue reading →

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On Being New Home-Owners

Posted on December 18, 2012 by ExMi

As of last week Thursday, we’re practically homeowners. We did it. We found a house. We successfully applied for a home loan and it’s finally happening. After three years of house-hunting, countless disappointments, innumerable hours spent traipsing around the most … Continue reading →

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On The Long Weekend – It Was Blissful

Posted on September 25, 2012 by ExMi

Three day weekends. Not as long as they could be, but longer than they should be. This weekend was long enough to look at another squillion houses. None of which tickled our fancy even a little bit. There’s a house … Continue reading →

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Spring In Jozi. And Something Else, I Say.

Posted on September 19, 2012 by ExMi

It’s finally warm enough to do comfortable day outings around water. We went fishing a few weeks back – The Fiance, The Kid and Rebecca, Dave and Jackson. We went to Brookwood Trout Farm. No one caught anything, as far … Continue reading →

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On Monday: The Weekend Is Over

Posted on August 6, 2012 by ExMi

Every Monday morning’s lament: The weekend was too short. Over too quickly. But weekends are good times, which is why they fly. Spending time with my fiance and our son? Always awesome. The weekend in pictures: 1. Every time we … Continue reading →

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Thanks @AyobaMTN for an awesome #DKR blogger pack

Posted on July 23, 2012 by ExMi

Despite having been a shocking blogger of late, MTN still saw fit to send me an awesome The Dark Knight Rises movie promo pack and an invite to an exclusive bloggers’ screening. In all honesty, the invite is more for … Continue reading →

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On Crowd-Sourcing, Twitter And Car-Shopping

Posted on March 13, 2012 by ExMi

We’ve been umming and aaahing over cars lately. The time has come to trade in the Honda Jazz, apparently, as it’s currently sitting on just under 100,000km on the clock. Now, if it were up to me, I’d hang onto … Continue reading →

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