Mzansi Afrika: Back in business

Mzansi is back in business....I think.

My apologies for the unannounced hiatus. My excuses are - god, I hate excuses, but nevertheless, here they are. Firstly my computer crashed and it's taken a while to sort out, secondly I've been busy with work, thirdly - real life interrupts. Fourthly been busy rediscovering art and doing a lot of art type stuff in my spare time.

But really, excuses are just a load of bullshit, if you really want to do something badly enough, you do it, and no matter how busy I've been in the past I've always managed to keep my blog going. So, I don't know, maybe I'm not as passionate about blogging as I used to be, maybe I'm losing interest, maybe I don't think my opinions on politics and current affairs are that original or scintillating.

Anyway, I've decided to give it another bash, and see how I go, but if I can't commit to regular blogging I'm just going to make the decision to let it go and possibly pick it up again at a later stage. Of course, that would mean admitting defeat, and as a Taurean (don't believe in any of that bullshit), I am a nauseatingly stubborn person as my husband could tell you.

For now, I'm not yet ready to admit defeat, so I'll play it by ear.

Besides, Commentary.co.za is getting ready to wipe me off their blogroll - and that won't do at all! He he he - I guess I should thank them for motivating me to get off my skinny ass and start blogging again.

Speaking of skinny - I happen to be on the lean side, I guess I was born lucky. Sure, I could afford to put on a kilo or three, and the jokes (only tolerated from certain friends) about having to use a weight belt should I decide to go skydiving (never), or a lifebelt in the shower so as not to wash down the drain, don't bother me. I can even live with being asked (constantly) "how do you stay so thin" always asked together with a look that seems to expect an answer containing the words lettuce leaves and torturous physical activity (ummm...no). What really bugs me though, is the way that people, complete strangers feel no compunction at all in coming up to me in queues or shopping centres and telling me that I really should eat more, always prefaced by the statement, "you're so thin" (well, yah, god made me that way), and then procede to lecture me on the delights of healthy eating. Hmmm - now would they go up to a fat person and say Oh my god, you're so fat, you really need to go on a diet. Yes, I find this annoying. It's discrimination against the thin people, damnit. Hmmm, maybe I should form a group, or better still an alliance. Something along the lines of the KMSG-B - Kiss My Skinny Ass Good-BYE!

June 2006