It’s almost the end of the year and everyone is feeling a little frazzled and worn. You can read it on Facebook, sense it in the shopping centre and hear about it from everyone you know. So while I am not alone in being absolutely exhausted I think I have a particularly severe form of exhaustion because I cannot sleep.

I have always been a problem sleeper, I can only imagine that I must have been a nightmare as a baby, and it’s not getting any better with age. Of course, like all insomniacs, I go through periods that are worse than others so I decided to make a list of what it is that is keeping me wide awake from the 2am-6am time slot
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What do you wear when you are invited to the launch of a website of a celebrity stylist?

This is a real life conundrum I was faced with just last week when I was invited to the launch of Jules Sebastian’s website Styled by Jules. Now I know about the real life problems that many people face, and the fact that I was getting an amazing morning tea at The Establishment kind of negates any reality to the horror of my plight but believe me, I spent FAR TOO LONG wondering about what to wear.
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Dear person that broke into my car outside my house last night

I have a few things to say to you so I’ll take the liberty of assuming that you have come off what I can only assume was some drug addled rampage that would cause you to break into my car outside my home and well, make a huge mess.

Here’s the thing you don’t know about me. As clean as my house is my car is the opposite. It’s a source of constant amusement to my husband that I am so meticulous in the house but the car is such a mess. So the only real reason I know that you were in there was because I had it cleaned last week. When I got into it this morning it didn’t look that different from normal so you weren’t THAT scary.
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There is a reason for my VERY SHORT TEMPER right now, my lack of patience, my urge to scream and possibly smack stuff.

It’s withdrawal – You know that hideously nasty feeling when you have to give up something that you love, something that makes your life seem sweeter, better, easier to handle?

It’s not cigarettes because I am a pro at giving up ciggies, I’ve done it so many times (and for those of you who are worried about my health, don’t worry the last time was very successful), it’s not even drugs (and for those of you who weren’t worrying about me before, I’ve done that one before) and *swigs on a carafe of chilled white wine* it isn’t alcohol. [Read more…]

I’ve decided not to bore you with my holiday too much because I fully intend to dine out on it for the rest of my life so there will be plenty of time for that in the future…

Instead I will tell you about my outstanding luck and a real random act of kindness.

I was sitting in a café outside the Barcelona Football Club stadium, bear with me – I am travelling with my 12-year old soccer addicted son, I had taken about a billion photos and was going through them with said son while waiting for my husband to return with some Spanish delicacies (hot chips).

We moved tables to escape the heat and carried on waiting for my husband who was taking, what seemed like all the time in the world, to return.

He did eventually return and as we started to eat his phone rang. My heart sank when I saw my father’s number. He hasn’t been well and I’ve only spoken to him once since his quadruple bypass (although I speak to my step-mother every day), he’s been very weak and not ready to talk to his daughters yet, it’s emotional stuff talking to your daughters after you’ve had major surgery and live in a different country to all your daughters, but he has called to say he’s doing okay and getting stronger.

A call in the middle of the day was unexpected and totally out of the blue. I felt sick. And petrified.

My husband passed me the phone and there was my dad. Sounding just like my dad – not sick at all.

“Have you lost your phone?” he asked me
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“Are you in an outside café in Barcelona?” he continued
“Um, yes” I replied with mounting fear. How did he know?
“A couple at the café found your phone and called me, they’ve got it and they are going to hand it in at the bar”.

Every single day of this holiday I have said to my husband “I can’t find my phone.” It’s become a running joke. I say it even when I am holding it.

I went to the bar quite trembly and embarrassed and asked if they had my phone. Nothing. Not just no idea where the phone was but no idea what I was talking about.

Eventually a man came up to us and asked if we had lost a phone and pointed us to a table where an angel sat with her husband. She had found my phone and assumed I was a child when she saw the cover – that was confirmed when she looked through my contacts and saw “daddy” as the most recently (and often) called number. I am not embarrassed, I do call him daddy and I have a very child-like phone cover (I prefer however to call it young and hip) She very kindly phoned my dad and put me back in contact with my phone – even though I was in Spain and my dad was in South Africa.

What an amazing act of kindness – not just to take the effort to call my dad and get my phone back to me – but to give me the opportunity to speak to my dad and hear that he really is getting better.

How’s that for an act of kindness? And as a bonus I haven’t lost my phone.