I’ve had so many “behind the scenes” emails asking about my pregnancy so I thought I’d do a quick update.

By the way, the reason I didn’t update sooner is because I thought, “well who on earth would be interested in reading about my life?”

So for those of you who are interested, have a read here.

If you’ve anymore questions, let me know and I’ll answer them. I do need to do a Baby Organising post again soon – will take pictures during the next week and get that up.

People, I’m feeling the pressure.

I don’t like things on my to-do list and yet both Eva and Suzanne tagged me to share 7 things you may not know about me

As we say in South Africa, eish!

Okay, let’s get to it!

1. I hate, hate, hate doing laundry! Drives me absolutely batty. I think it’s because it’s never DONE!
2. I have never had a traffic fine. Well, I have had one, but it was a mistake as it was not my car in the picture they sent me. You’ll know what a miracle this is if you’ve ever driven with me LOL
3. My husband and I first met when he asked me to dance for him (ballet). Yes, I also thought he was a weirdo and of course said no! Which made me irresistible to him
4. For the first time in my entire working life, I’m at an absolute low, work-wise. All prayers very welcome!
5. I’m a BIG Michael Connelly fan and I’ve met him at an author reading/ signing. Very embarrassing moment for me.
6. I do NOT have it all together. In fact, the reason I’m a time management coach today is because I was so shockingly bad at managing my time, learnt the lessons through trial and error and now I’m out on the other side!
7. I am very lazy and love sleeping. If I could, I’d probably sleep in until 11 every day. Most weekends I do!

There you have it!

Now I’m tagging Debbie (we co-presented a call on blogging for business last night), Paula, Beth Dargis and Jenn Givler

Anyway, that’s another item to cross off my life list! Now I still need to see Elton John and Billy Joel in concert.

Who do you want to see in concert?

I’ve been tagged by (if memory serves me correctly) 3 people – My Precious Pennies, Diane and I know there’s someone else???

Are you SURE you want to know my weirdnesses, people???

Here we go:

1. I love singing along in my car (LOUD) and I really don’t care WHAT people think of me.
2. Another love of mine besides handbags is Rod Stewart and guess what? He’ll be in Johannesburg in December so we are DEFINITELY going. I’ll also be able to cross another thing off my life list.
3. I’m highly productive yet have no problems kicking back and TOTALLY relaxing. You’ll find me in bed until 11am most weekend mornings. I feel no shame whatsoever – in fact, I think I’m really blessed to be able to sleep, literally, like a baby!
4. I’ve never had a pedicure.
5. My favourite drink is water. Yes, really! And you can usually find me with an apple in my handbag.
6. I seriously love talking about goals. I was talking about goals to anything that would stand still and listen YEARS before it became popular
7. I am still utterly amazed by the internet. Every time I’m on a coaching call or teleseminar, I think “wow”. Here I am in Jhb talking to people ALL over the world. I really get a kick out of that.

Okay, now it’s my turn.

I tag Beth, Suzanne, Ariane, Megan, Janet, my wonder twin in computer organising, Laura and Laura Williams.

I had such a lot of lovely emails last week about posting links to older posts so I thought I’d do the same today.

Here are some posts to help you organise your blogging:

1. Declutter your feed reader
2. Saving time while blogging
3. Blogging smarter

Download the PDFs with tips from Organising Queen blog readers on decluttering and saving time.

So…my menu for the week

Monday
Stirfried veggies and rice with chicken

Tuesday
Wholewheat rolls with meatballs and salad

Wednesday
Pasta salad with kidney beans and chicken

Thursday
Pizza potatoes

Friday
Supper at our friends’ house

Don’t forget to visit on Friday to show off what you declutter this week. The Mr Linky will be up at 12am EST so get ready

Hi everyone

I arrived back from holiday to an absolutely freezing Johannesburg this morning. When the pilot announced the ground temperature of 6 degrees Celsius (at 6am), I said to the lady next to me, “did he just say 6????”

Of course I do love the cold but I had forgotten that South African houses are not made for cold weather. So after catching up on sleep, Dion and I both had hot showers and I am now in my pajamas Dion is watching TV and I am about to do some internet banking (quite honestly, I’m a little bit surprised every time a transaction goes through because I haven’t transferred money into that card for weeks!

I’ve already done 3 loads of laundry (one while unpacking, one while sleeping, and another one is going right now), my work bag and more importantly, my lunch bag is packed! I have to get back to gym this week because I’ve definitely put on weight…

In a nutshell, we had a really good time connecting with old and new friends, I finally met Suzanne in Stirling, Scotland and Red Wine Gums in Cork, Ireland. We went to church with RWG – isn’t the power of the internet amazing?!

Of course, the UK and Ireland are SOOOOOOOOO expensive – I could hardly believe it. If any of you are thinking of visiting SA, do it! You will have such a wonderful holiday at really, really good prices!!!

And on this week’s menu…

Monday
Curry and rice with pumpkin (all in the freezer)

Tuesday
Baked potatoes with kidney bean and tomato sauce (also in freezer), topped with cheese

Wednesday
Stirfried chicken and veg in a satay sauce

Thursday
Pizzas (also in freezer )

Friday
Eating out

More importantly, how have you guys been doing?

And now, I’m going to phone my UK/ Ireland friends to tell them we’ve arrived safely. We had a really horrible eventful day travelling yesterday but I’ll tell you all about that on our travel blog… and of course, the organised Suzanne has already put her photos on Facebook…

this view always makes me think of a patchwork quilt

And now, I’m off to make a mug of green tea, which I’ll drink while making my to-do list for tomorrow. Then I’m jumping into bed.

And yes, the draws for the 3 giveaways are already on my list!

I’m so excited – I’ve started selling my beaded bookmarks over here. At the moment, they are all R40 each ($5.70) which includes shipping and handling. (South Africans pay R35 each)

They make great gifts that you can use in books, journals, planners, etc.

Here are a couple of examples but go here for the list as it now stands. I have to finish taking photos and uploading!

Woohoo!

Last week Monday I was tagged by Suzanne to tell you my favourite sites. I’ve waited nearly a whole week because I can’t think of 5! 5 blogs are easy but not 5 sites. So you’re going to get a mixture, Suzanne!

1. Google – my favourite search engine and of course, within the Google arena, Google Reader is my favourite.

2. Wikipedia – for looking up words

3. Blogger – to blog!!!

4. Flylady – where I learnt about control journals

5. The productivity pro – once I go in here, I can spend hours browsing and reading all her great articles

I’m going to tag
Laura – org junkie
Beth – encouraging coach
Corrie – web genius