Kay

Also, are we all doing Miracle Week? Coz today's word was straight fire!

Then you find couples under this trend. What a boring thing to do. Just, why? Like valentine's is coming, the couples Olympics are coming, rest my sister! Rest! Let us enjoy other kids in healthy friendships in peace. Yoh! 
          
          "When your best friend happens to be your man too" lol no, please.

Also, the videos under the "mhlobo wami" challenge? Ahw my heart! I love beautiful friendships shame, with all my heart!

I’m proofreading this chapter and the amount of times I’ve said “at this point” is actually embarrassing. Like girl, at this point, side eye! Because how many points before it's enough points?
          
          At this point, I might need to end my beef with AI and call in some reinforcements.

I’m experiencing TWO full-circle moments and I’m losing my mind!
          
          So, my bestie and I met in high school at a Science & Technology camp right. Stayed in touch, became varsity roomies and lived life. She’s originally from the East Rand, and sometime during varsity, her family threw her a birthday party. Her home is like an hour from Joburg CBD, so we had to take a taxi there. When I tell you that taxi driver played Piano Man by Brandy on REPEAT for the entire ride. A whole hour of one song!For years after that, “play a song for us” was an inside joke because haibo!
          
          Fast-forward to this weekend:
          She hosted her 30th in North West, about 2 - 3 hours from us. We drive down with her cousin and another friend. I drove the first hour and a half, cousin drove the rest. And as per universal road trip law: whoever drives controls the music. Cool. I handle my set. Cousin takes over. When I tell you this hun played Spread Thin by Mariah The Scientist for the ENTIRE hour she was driving! The scream we scrome when we realized history was repeating itself!! I can't even tell you how hyped we were! Please, we belong together.
          
          Full-circle moment #2:
          Remember my previous manager? The one we disliked with a deep, passionate hatred that deserved academic research? The same man who put us under PIP because we beefed with his fave, then tried to demote us AND cut our salaries, basically forcing us out?
          Yeah… him.
          It's been a year, he posts on LinkedIn that he’s looking for a job. I ask my friend who still works there what went down. Turns out the project we left never got finished this whole year. Because of that, he got demoted AND took a salary cut since the company lost that client.
          
          I hope he learned something from that chapter of his villain era. Because wow. What a turnaround!

It’s my bestie’s 30th birthday celebration tonight and the theme is “Suited For Each Other.” This girl said in the invite "please try and outdress me." Oooooh, a woman after my own heart! Let me tell you something... In my regime, that woman is President.

The only thing keeping me awake today is the fact that I’ll be going home in 7 hours. Otherwise? I’m enjoying absolutely nothing. I told my manager it feels good when my eyes are closed and she said, “Don’t do it, it’s a scheme that Todd set up.” I regret the day I introduced her to TikTok.

Summer needs to be canceled ASAP... 
          
          XOXO WinterLover

Apparently, my work friend and I are beefing.
          
          So I’ve been in Durban since last week, right? Our offices here are next to the beach, so it’s tradition for everyone to go walk on the promenade during lunch or just to stretch and shake off the negativity. It's a thing. Step counts, weekly challenges, Vitality points! 90% of us are deep in this Vitality cult.
          
          Anyway, yesterday I’m on a walk with this hun. She’s big on astrology, so she’s telling me about this energy portal that was supposed to open last night. Then she says since I’m staying at the hotel by the beach, she’s going to pop in later so we can go do a manifestation ritual. She says we must bring coins. Wear skirts. Headwraps. Go into the ocean and do things. I told her I’m not doing that. That was the whole conversation.
          
          Fast-forward to this morning? My girl is off! We usually snack on samoosas, I brought us some and she hit me with a “nah boo, keep your snacks.” Then she tells me she doesn’t do “one-sided friendships.” because I invited her to parkrun on Saturday and she came but when she invited me to the ocean ritual, I said no.
          
          Imagine my shock! Like ma’am? You’re comparing jogging to a spiritual water ceremony?? Be serious!
          
          So yeah. I think it’s over for us. Tragic.

What does it mean when a restaurant has "Homemade Lasagna" on the menu?