Dear Jessica

I saw this little gem on your blog not so long ago and I thought I’d give it a bash too:) It’s called 102 random facts, and it’ll probably take me forever to do…but i might as well start somewhere:)

1. I have weirdly coloured eyes, consisting of 2 different shades of green and brown
2. I have more scars than most of the boy people i know
3. I’m surrounded by a ‘force field of weird’ …weird things happen to and around me
4. Last year my feet got burnt by acid due to the fact that new shoes i bought were laced with
acidic powder…i suffered…a lot….
5. The first time i flew was when i went to my brother’s wedding in the states
6. Dancing, music, singing and acting puts me in my happy place
7. I love salsa
8. Even though i hate pictures being taken of me, I love pictures and i have a small fortune
of them
9. My taste in music is widespread and weird, and i mostly like non-commercial music
10. My head is filled with general knowledge and random facts
11. I’m a really really really bad liar
12. As it turns out the meaning of my name fits my personality perfectly…my dad chose well
13. I have a nickname for both my boy best friend and my girl best friend and i rarely
call them by their real names
14. I use terms of endearment when addressing people, this often gets me into trouble
15. I don’t trust easily
16. Very few people have experienced the deep inner parts of my heart and personality
17. I’m good with teenagers….especially the difficult ones
18. Apart from black, which isn’t really a colour,my favourite colours are olive green, orange and
dark red wine red
19. My birthstone is a Ruby
20. I was named dux learner in both primary and high school…
21. I obtained both my degrees cum laude
22. I’m remarkably resilient
23. I’m very much a ‘touch’ person
24. I gesture a lot with my hands when I’m talking
25. I get frustrated when typing a story on the laptop cause i can’t use my hands to explain
to the person reading the e-mail or skype message exactly how serious it is
26. A very close friend gave me a diamond and 18ct white gold bracelet for my birthday. and no,
he didn’t want anything from me…he’s gay:)
27. I love camping
28. That being said, i also love luxury
29. I love love love love love love reading
30. I don’t fall in love easily
31. I’m very much a mind over matter person
32. I’m mostly extremely practical
33. I’m afraid of heights
34. I’m petrified of spiders…but i think most of you know this already:)
35. I love shoes…. 🙂
36. I love shopping for baby clothes and shoes..just ask my friends who have babies
37. I’m easily bored by people
38. I broke my arm when i was 5 because my mom drove over it…it was an accident, i fell
in front of the car…my mom was hysterical, i thought the little blood patterns on my arm
made by the wheel was awesome
39. My right big toe is slightly smaller than the left because they had to cut a piece of it out
when i was in high school
40. I love picnics
41. I love Dr. Pepper soft drink
42. I totally adore M&M’s
43. I have a thing about stationary
44. I believe that post-its is the greatest invention ever
45. I’m slightly allergic to yeast, so i eat very little bread
46. I touch type
47. I’m the eternal optimist
48. Generally I’m way too hard on myself and i find it hard to give myself a break
49. I write short stories and poetry
50. I was a USN and SAB promo girl when i was a student
51. I organised two proper rock concerts while I was at uni and considered become an events
manager or band manager or concert manager because of it
52. I was once told that I’d probably be the 1st female president of our country*snort*
53. I talk….a LOT!
54. I have naturally long and very black eyelashes
55. I’m super calm in times of crises and only freak out after every thing’s been taken care of
56. Lemon sorbet is my favourite
57. I generally get a ‘feeling’ about people when i meet them…99% of the time that feeling
is spot on
58. I have a severe and incurable case of foot in mouth disease…I’ve learned to live with this
59. In May my parents will celebrate their 34th wedding anniversary…they are still very much
in love and totally adorable
60. I believe that if i can be half as happy in my marriage as my parents, my husband and I’ll
be superly happily married
61. I see the good in people around me and find it hard to believe that not all people are good
62. People take advantage of me because of 61
63. I once broke into a barn, with a boy, on a farm where we were having a party and almost
crashed the tractor….we didn’t get caught
64. I’m won over by small gestures and gifts rather than extravagance
65. I love my iPhone 🙂
66. I haven’t met my prince charming yet
67. I’m extremely flexible
68. I love earrings 😉
69. I have a t-shirt that says ’68’ on the front and ‘you owe me 1’ on the back
70. I’m currently doing my masters degree in forensic accounting…..because i love solving
puzzles and i can’t wait to outsmart all those really clever white-collar criminals
71. I’m blessed enough to have an amazing relationship with both my parents
72. I’m slightly ADD
73. When i was younger i was extremely OCD…these days I’m much better and i only have
slight OCD tendencies
74. A guy once hit me in the face with his fist….it was an accident…2 boys were fighting and i
stupidly tried to stop them…i was 16
75. My dad nearly killed both of the above mentioned boys
76. I’ve broken my nose more than once
77. I’m a complete insomniac
78. I was born on the 7th of the 7th 🙂
79. I was offered a contract as a photographic model when i went to pick up my portfolio pics
i had taken for fun
80. I’ve been withing 5m of a fully grown crocodile out in the wild…nothing between us
81. I have very tiny hands with longish fingers
82. I love doing pilates
83. I have this thing for fire
84. I’m scared to death of the dentist
85. I’m not really all that fond of doctors either
86. I love swords and knives, and i hope to one day own a proper samurai sword
87. I really love teaching people things if they are willing to learn
88. My uni lecturers told me i didn’t have the lack of personality for the course I’m studying
89. I love wine
90. My favourite shooter is Patrone!
91. I make memory books
92. I have a little memory box in my head for each of the people who are very important to me.
In there i store all my favourite memories of them
93. I can’t stand liars and lies
94. I’m not a jealous person
95. A friend of mine hanged himself earlier this year, sort of at my house…for a while there i
didn’t think i was gonna cope
96. I suspect i may be addicted to Philadelphia cheese
97. I suffer from extreme tension headaches on a daily basis due to the damage caused to my
spine when i had my car accident
98. I HATE peas…..like honestly i hate them!
99. I have weak lungs and have a tendency to develop bronchitis within minutes
100. I’m considering going skydiving
101. After my friend died in a bungee jumping accident last year I’ll never even consider it
102. I can’t believe i got to 102 without frying my brain:)

Love

Ruby
xxxxx

Dear Vo-duh-com

*sigh* I don’t even know where to begin with this letter. I’m so frustrated, and irritated and actually just completely ticked off with you guys.

At the end of January, you guys deducted more than double what my bill would have been from my account. When i queried it i was placated with some obscure story, which I accepted for the pure and simple reason that i wanted to keep my sanity. After speaking to a multitude of people at customer care who all insisted that this was MY problem and that I should sort it out despite it being YOUR mistake.

Then, at the end of last month you guys had the cheek to deduct an even BIGGER amount off my account. I had a teeny tiny little heart attack! I spoke to 3 different people working in your customer care department, each one being more stupid than the last. I finally snapped. I told the 4th girl that answered that i do not want to speak to her, i want to speak to a manager. She wouldn’t budge, and had the audacity to call me rude, blegh, but she finally put me through to a manager after i asked her if she really wanted to take responsibility for this problem.

Now, i have 2 different accounts with you guys. The one is a 3G data card contract. I pay a fixed amount every month for a certain amount of data and then i pay a special rate for any extra data i use. The second is my iPhone contract. These two contracts are completely separate…2 different invoices, 2 different sim cards, 2 different pin numbers. The only place they become integrated is with my debit order, as I’ve arranged to have only one debit order for both accounts. My accounts with vodacom have been running this way for the past 2 years without any problems.

According to what your manager told me…..my 3G sim card has been inactive the last 3 months. Complete rubbish as i use it every day. So what happens is, not only do i pay my standard contract amount for my 3G, which i according to you don’t use, you then take the full amount of data used on that sim card and charge it as out of bundle rate data on my iPhone!!!! So i pay the contract amount for nothing and you charge me ridiculous rates for data i used on a different sim card???? The really ridiculous part is that you’ve been sending sms‘ to my data card sim card to tell me how much of my data bundle I’ve used, and you’ve been sending sms‘ to my iPhone to tell me how much of my iPhone data bundle I’ve used, neither of which have been exceeded.

So when i instructed the manager to make sure that the problem gets fixed, he tells me that in order to sort it out they’ll need to perform a data audit of some kind. But there is a catch….there is a charge involved…which I’ll have to pay…so let me get this straight. You guys messed up royally and I have to pay for you to fix it? You guys already owe me a crapload of money!

So please, just fix the problem. I hate having to always fight with people. You’d think that if you were nice to people they’d at least try to help you, but no, as it turns out you need to be rude in order to get people to do what’s right. It sucks.

Please take note that i will not be letting this go. I expect this problem to be sorted out, and soon. No more nice Ruby…i can play hard ball too you know.

Regards

Angry Ruby

Dear 2010

Let’s face it…my year got off to a pretty rocky start. But looking at it as a whole, it hasn’t been a bad year, or should i say, a bad 2 months. I’ve learned a lot, I’ve grown, I’ve met new people, I’ve done new things….all in all…not bad at all.

So here is a list of what I’ve learned so far:
– Life doesn’t always work out the way we plan it..but when you make the best of what you’ve
got, life can be pretty awesome 😉
– some goodbye’s are more painful than others
– I’m a lot stronger than i give myself credit for…..
– Tears aren’t always a bad thing…sometimes they are crucial to the healing process
– i know a lot of amazing people who supported me more than could humanely be expected
of them in a time where i thought my world was crashing down around me
– Saying goodbye properly is important
– seeing a dead person is not a pleasant experience….ever…I’ll be avoiding that in the future
– tell the people you love that you love them as often as possible…it’s important
– Friends can be found in the most unlikely places
– sometimes it’s better to cut your losses and move on
– don’t be so scared of getting hurt that you don’t let people into your most deepest of heart
places. You miss a lot of life experiences this way
– Best friends are the shit! #thatisall
– our capacity to love never ceases to amaze me
– it’s ok to not be strong sometimes….that’s what friends are for
– I have an incredible boss…and no, he doesn’t read my blog, so I’m NOT trying to score
points here
– Sometimes dressing up pretty and getting a compliment can light up your life
– Learning to accept a heartfelt and honest compliment is a lesson everybody should learn
and apply
– surround yourself with the people that make you happy and excited about life
– Live passionately
– Most importantly i think I’ve learned that i have a pretty amazing life, with really awesome
friends and an even more incredible family….life is good 🙂

I look forward to the rest of the year. The things I’m gonna do and the people I’m gonna meet. *lifts glass* so here’s to you 2010….now go and be fabulous!

Love

Ruby
xxxxx

Dear American boy

So as it turns out your brother was more right than either of us expected. He always said that he wished we could meet cause we’d get along awesomely……and thanks to a series of unfortunate events we were able to prove him right, we got along better than even he could have imagined.

You are one of the most incredible people i’ve ever had the priveledge of meeting. Your zest for life, your passion for the people and the things around you…it was an incredible experience to see the world through your eyes.

But eventually you had to go back, and i’m going to miss you more than i expected. You’ve become a very good friend, and you’ll be missed. Thank goodness for lots of pictures fond memories, e-mail and skype:)

Love

Ruby

Dear Being Brazen

As always, my current addictions posts are addressed to you, as you were the inspiration behind them. So here follows a little bit of who i am and what makes me tick:) At the moment there are a couple of things in life that i feel i can’t live without. They are as follows:

1. My incredibly awesome and super cute new handbag…..I love it!

2. Annique Rescue essence
This is one of the most amazing products ever invented!!!! It can be used for headaches,
insect bites, cuts, sinus, hay fever, rashes, skin irritations and muscle pain

3. My new phone….still:)
I wasn’t kidding when i said if my iPhone was a boy person I’d marry it 🙂

4. Salsa
I don’t think i need to explain this one 🙂 It’s my happy thing…:)