And The Winner Is...

Sorry if I'm a day late in announcing the winner

(I've had a busy weekend, I'm already dreaming of my goose-down pillow).

And The Winner Is Dr. Monkey Von Monkerstein.

Email me and I'll send you a wee something.

 

There was a reason his nickname was 'Hand Solo.'

A Football Tournament and a Booze Cruise

We have had an incredibly busy weekend.

Megan played her first Football Tournament of the season and it was held a Florida Albion Football Club in Roodepoort from 8:30am until 2:30 in the afternoon.  It was blazing hot in the summer sun and a VERY long day.  There was lots of cheering from the side of the pitch from the parents and supporters and plenty encouragement from their coach.  

It was an awesome tournament and the Alberton Football Club Under 9 Premier Team, played wonderfully.  For their first time playing as a team, they really did well and got thruogh to the semi-finals.  The semi-finals unfortunately proved too tough for them and they were so disappointed.  We tried so hard to lift their wee broken spirits but only them being presenting with their medals put the smiles back on their faces.

Megan and Anthony - Goalie

Megan in play as defendor



Alberton Football Club Under 9 Football Team 



After the Football Tournament, we arranged for the girls to sleep  over at my Sister in Law's house while we went to a colleague's 50th birthday party on a Booze Cruise down the Vaal River. 

What a party.  It was a Phantom of the Opera theme and we all got pretty masks and capes on arrival.  R and I had such a ball.  We completel let our hair down and danced all night.  It was awesome.

The Booze Cruise Boat

Sunet on The Vaal River

Sunset on The Vaal River

Caped and Masked

On the Cruize

Copper Topped Phantom

Irma, Diane (the birthday girl) and Ronel

The Dancing Commenced

And the Silliness Followed



Some of the Masked party-goers



The Decor

Speeches in full swing

Friday Follower Mr Cool and a Shoegasm

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Introducting Mr Cool aka Tom Tomoser.

By day is a Secrity Guard and by night he is serenading all the ladies in Omaha karaoke bars making them swoon with his soopa smooth voice and silvery locks. Tom is so smooth he slides up hill! 

Tom dismissed the idea of being signed by a major label and instead opened his own indie label Lone Eagle Records in 1997. The first release from Lone Eagle was “Cool Smooth & Sassy” spotlighting a tenor sax session player named Joe Genovesi. Tom put 14 of his ballads on “Cool.”

A renaissance man, and a true desire to achieve the highest artistic quality inspired him to begin his musical career by laying a foundation to grow from.  His musical knowledge came the old fashioned way - he  studied.

It was clear to him from the beginning that he would need to be competent in at least 4 areas of the music business to build a rewarding and profitable career or business. The first order of business was to learn how to write music, so he studied music theory with a college professor that was also an accomplished pianist, and woodwind artist playing with two symphony orchestras and a jazz ensemble.

Tom is a true gentleman whose songs and voice reflect the lost art of chivalry.  His blog is full of interesting stuff and always takes part in Monday Music Moves Me bloghop.

Go give him a visit and send Tom some hugs and kisses and check him out on YouTube.

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The Glamourus Day of a Blogger

• You use your precious holidays and savings to go to BlogWorld instead of going on a beach holiday.
• You check your Google Analytics everyday.
• You cry when you lose an RSS subscriber.
• You get pissed off when someone unfollows you on Twitter.
• You go into depression when your article gets rejected from a Carnival.
• You tweet about how much you hate your hosting company.
• You threaten in your tweets how you will cut off your hosting company.
• You change your hosting company and then months later start tweeting how much you hate your new hosting company.
• You have registered more than 5 URL domains and dream that one day someone will pay you big bucks for them.
• You tweet about how many subscribers you have and ask your audience to help get more, more, more!
• You've seen the move Social Network at least five times.
• You throw yourself a party when you hit 100 subscribers.
• You tell your parents and friends to comment regularly because you’re concerned about nobody saying anything.
• You spend more time blogging than kissing your husband.
• You constantly use the term “A-listers” when describing your experiences with other bloggers.
• You blog about blogging so you can comment on Blogger more about blogging with your blogging buddies.
• You are a Social Media Consultant, slash Expert.
• You started a blogging network.
• Your blog is a part of a blogging network.
• You change your Gravitar every quarter and of course you like the movie Avatar.
• You constantly tweak your blog with this and that design while nobody notices any changes.
• You need to buy new underwear because you're too busy blogging.
• You fantasise about meeting up with other bloggers more than anybody else.
• You’d rather have 1000 more subscribers than a six pack abs and a hot boyfriend.
• You’d rather have 10 000 Twitter followers than a big fat salary.
• You’ve paid hundreds and maybe thousands of dollars on on-line products on how to make money on-line and build a better blog.
• You have a man/woman cave with high-speed internet connection.
• You take your laptop to the loo to have a number two.
• You kick arse at finger wrestling competitions because you type so much.
• You print out eBooks from work so you can read them at the pool, on the beach, or on the bus to and from work.
• Your favorite book is “How To Make Money Blogging.”
• You'd give up your job to blog full time.
• You have chronic back pain or headaches because you're forever hunched over your computer.
• You refer to yourself in the third person on your blog and write that you are the VP of Marketing in your bio.
• You print blogging business cards with button logo and call yourself a ridiculously long pathetic title like, “Founder, Editor in Chief and Head Features Writer.”
• You can’t stop thinking about the strategic scheduling of posts.
• You have a backlog of over 50 draft posts with little to nothing written.
• You Tweet while in meetings at work.
• You moderate comments while in meetings at work.
• You ask your wife, husband, girlfriend, or boyfriend to proof read your posts and type up some ideas during long road trips while you are driving.
• You listen to podcasts on blogging and earning money on-line instead of latest chart hits.
• You can crush peanuts with your butt cheeks because they’ve become rock hard and calloused due to sitting too much.
• You can start your own mini-bookstore thanks to all the books that are sent your way by PR folks who want you to highlight their authors.
• You join the minimalist movement because that’s what’s trending at the moment… also because you have too many books.
• You then start the maximalist movement because you realise it’s no longer cool to be a minimalist since everybody is doing it.
• You can’t get a mortgage because of the unpredictability of your blogging income, so you buy an RV instead and meet your followers.
• You tweet your whereabouts on FourSquare and hoping other blogging addicts are around so you can do a tweet-up at Comic Con.
• You go to your optometrist and she pulls out the biggest “E, D, F, G” vision card and all you see are hopefully post comments.
• You have a Tweet Meme button and a Share Everything plug-in just in case people can’t see the Tweet Meme button.
• You sometimes have nightmares of accidentally hitting the publish button instead of the save button.
• Your dreams all full of your blogpost going viral.
• You refer to yourself as your Blog name rather than your real name.

Impractical Jokers

I love this show.

Impractical Jokers is consistently hysterical and the blokes in it are such great sports and all-round funny guys. 

Essentially, it's four pals that dare each other to do practical jokes in public and whoever doesn't do what the others say, they had to do an even worse forfeit!

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