Singing in the Shower

Shower shenanigans

"No, It wasn't me singing...
It was the shower!"

Don't worry, this will be family friendly! I love my daily showers. Just soaking in the 'rain' from the geyser, it's great! And I've noticed a pattern in how I shower. I stick to showering in roughly the same temperature until I'm cleaned up nicely. Then if I have time, I turn the temperature up and soak in the extreme heat! If it gets too hot, I turn it down until it's freezing and refreshing! Feels soooo good :D Showers are just so great and relaxing, you can literally feel your worries melt away along with the layers of grime that's been building up since last week's cleansing. The BEST!

Enough about showers!

Human interaction:
I wasn't always such a social bunny! In the past I would hide in front of the T.V. watching anime and playing PlayStation games. Now I like people! There are lots of interesting ones, some irritating poepels, and many nice people! (No, that wasn't a spelling mistake. Just say "Poeple" out loud and you'll know what I mean).

Human interaction makes us who we are. I don't change by myself, the people around me shape who I am. That's why it's so vitally important to be selective of which people you allow to mould you. Even if you don't think they're having an affect on you, trust me, they are changing the way you think and view life. Therefore, I am selective of the people I let into my life! I'm not desperate for friends because I know that if I'm patient and I use caution around new people with how I act and what I say, before I know it the right people will worm their way into my life. Friends are people you can have a symbiotic relationship with. Then you get the parasites! Human parasites, as described by the wiki page you can reach on that last link, are as such: "Examples of parasites in humans include tapeworms and leeches.". Tapeworm and leech people are not conducive to a happy life. I have had some tapeworm and leech people in my life and it never turned out well. So be careful with whom you open your heart to!

Yours in writing

Benjamin

I LIVE!

Three months later...

Hello again my loyal readers, it's been far too long! (3 months and 20 days to be exact...)

Here's what I've been doing in that time. My girlfriend broke up with me soon after my last post and I didn't want to do anything, hence my silence, and we got back together a week later. I then got a new job a little over a month ago at the Matrix Warehouse in Melville so I could leave the restaurant scene behind me and move to the marginally better world of sales! And I broke up with my girlfriend again for reasons. For a time, I was single ;)

My soul, and how I expected
it to leave my body...

As you can tell, my friends didn't destroy me for that awful prank on April Fools. They were generous enough to let me live! Soul in tact! I've also made a new friend, Jess, whom I bonded with strongly and in a very short amount of time, thanks to the miracle of IM's, Whatsapp :) It's so incredibly important to have someone whom understands you and you can share virtually anything with! And thus we are now a couple :P She lives pretty far away but I have a drivers license and a car and a job so I have no excuse not to see her, I get to see her on the weekends!

Recently Steam had their annual Summer Sale and of course I was dirt broke, the R50 I had in my bank account at the time was wisely spent on... LITTLE INFERNO! Such a fun game by the creators of World of Goo, in Little Inferno you just have to burn things. Letters, bricks, planetary bodies, people-like dolls, everything!!! It's a game that just might turn you into a pyromaniac but that's a risk I'm willing to take :P The only real goals are to get combos (like burning a cat with an old lady to get "Cat Lady"), and to burn EVERYTHING! I couldn't stop putting things in the fire until I finished the game close to midnight the same day it finished downloading... It's a very comforting flame.

Chuunibyou

Chuunibyou in the natural habitat, a world of darkness B)

This is a Japanese word, it refers, in part, to someone that pretends to have dark super-natural powers. I have seen a couple anime involving these character types and I recently clicked that I have at least 2 friends that do the same (No name-dropping). Trouble is, they don't know it makes people shy away, I know they're good at heart and are just looking to make friends so how do I tell them they need to change? And I can only say so much before they get fed-up with me for trying to be a know-it-all smart ass :l Which is what I feel like when I think I know what other people are thinking!

RAAAAAAAGH!

Fear me!

I went with an arbitrary roar to cleanse the mind and change the subject, HELLO! Now let's talk about the deep stuff, I got to spend time with my younger sister that was on holiday recently! Kathryn visited for over a week and it was just positively AWESOME! I've missed her so much :D We watched movies in my room the other night and we went to supper (parents included) which was so epic! We went to the new restaurant in Melville, Pulp Fiction and I give it 2 thumbs up! The food was amazing and the entire experience was just wonderful. And my older sister got engaged, planning a wedding for January the 8th! I'm getting a brother (in law)! But we're already brothers at heart, right Francois? ;)

Such great news and stuff happening :)

Benjamin signing out!

A few days in the life...

For a good amount of time I wondered how I would start this next blog. There are many cliche openings to articles, stories, etc., of which I can remember none right now. You will get no examples from me! Besides, I might want to use them later! As you can see, for today's post I chose to open with "WORDS"! All sorts of them. How unique is that!? I bet I won't find one book starting with words. (insert confident gesture of cool confidence here). ...Dammit! The first one I checked had words. It's dumb luck I tell you!

No matter! So I am now working as a waiter in a lovely little restaurant called Picobella, right here in Melville. Lovely Italian food, I've yet to receive a complaint! And I'm already on day 2 after my week of training ;) Seriously though, everyone loves the food.

My single gripe with the management of the place is that we don't get payed an hourly rate or commission, we work for tips. It doesn't bother me untill someone asks me to do something over and above serving my paying customers, since it feels like they are only allowing me to earn money there using their facilities, products and services... Okay, but they don't directly put money in my pocket (I don't mean literally, that'd be a bit too intimate). Now I just feel awkward, what was my point? Anyway, I don't really know how I feel about my job there, but I enjoy it. Also, the people that work with me are usually very nice and thought-full. So I just feel I have a strange relationship with my bosses, more like I work 'with' them than 'for' them.

They have put me on a very strenuous number of shifts, with a total of - wait for it... TWENTY. FOUR. GRUELING. HOURS. PER. WEEK! Yeah... 3 day shifts, Monday through to Wednesday. It's gonna be tough.

So! More time for some of this (hobbies and studies), some of that (games and T.V. shows [all sorts of 'em]), and a little bit of those (moments to spend with my woman). If schedules permit, then I'll most likely change the order to: Lots of those, some of that, and a little bit of this! Woohoo!

Most of all I enjoy spending time with my girlfriend, doing very little or nothing at all. I am content to simply be in her company. Perhaps talking a bit, but she's the chatty one in the relationship. I will post a picture of her here, and perhaps one day, she will read this blog and become very embarrassed. *Insert innocent smiling face here*

Some background info on our relationship - we met and started dating 5 years ago in high school when she asked me out to go see a movie. We had our first kiss after 2 years (I know what you're gonna say. Perhaps we should have waited longer, it's not good to rush a relationship, but we were young and the romance took us in the moment). She has strawberry blonde hair, green and blue eyes, and a face with cheeks, ears, a mouth- such beautiful features.

That's all you need to know about my love life.

My woman, Priscilla, riding a swing at Gold Reef City

Oh! Yesterday I made improvised crumpets for myself and my banting family, using eggs and bananas! They were strangely shaped and some looked burnt but they tasted great. Here's the recipe:

Ingredients: 2 eggs, 1 banana, some butter.

Step 1: Mash your bananas up as finely as you can and mix well with the eggs.

Step 2: Fry 'em up in the butter.

Step 3: Eat.

Step 4: You know, the way you normally eat crumpets.

Step 5: I put on peanut butter and tomato sauce.

Step 6: No, not on the same crumpets!

Step 7: We didn't have any syrup, honey or stuff other than peanut butter and tomato sauce in the cupboards, so I used what was at hand.

Step 8: Say: "Yummy! Gotta thank Ben for this recipe!".

Step 9: Type up a comment under this post saying: "Yummy! Thanks for this recipe!".

Step 10: Press the 'Enter' key and whatever else you have to press to send the comment, whilst giving a g+1 so more people are blessed with this recipe.

Step 11: Continue with your life.

Step 12: Live long and prosper. Marry a beautiful woman/man, have a few kids named Thomas, Jeremiah, and Susan (I just like the name Susan, okay?), get a nice house on a hill and a Ferrari, and retire before the age of 45. (Ferrari is optional)

To shorten the recipe to only five or so minutes, ignore steps 3 through 12. I know it's a long recipe but it tastes really good. Trust me! And when you think: "Hey, this doesn't taste like crumpets! It tastes like banana! and the texture's all wrong!", just remember that half the ingredients are banana (unlike normal crumpets) and exactly all of the ingredients were not flour, so it won't have quite the same texture as you may expect. If it makes you feel better you can pick a flower from the garden, tear it up, and add it to your pre-cooked mixture to fuel your delusion of eating real crumpets. It won't help unless you truly believe! Just to be clear, I don't recommend using real flowers... They could be poisonous, have bugs in them, or just taste gross.

Our crumpets were so good, a Ninja snuck into the kitchen, reached on top of the counter and ate half of them while we were out. True story. We yelled at Ninja and put her outside. Ninja is the name of our dog:

Ninja trying desperately to tell the cat she loves her

That was a fun post! (Here's a little secret, even though I procrastinate, I enjoy typing. Tell no-one!!!)

THE END