Three names you go by:

1. Mamma
2. Melany
3. Mel

Three screen names you’ve had:

1. Momtoquintus
2. Mel_from_SA
3. Supermom

Three physical things you like about yourself:

1. The colour of my eyes
2. My feet
3. My smile

Three physical things I don’t like about myself:

1. My weight.  I have picked up so much weight, mainly but not exclusively thanks to medication I’m taking.  Starvation for me I think.
2. My ears
3. ……..

Three parts of your heritage:

1. Rugby, biltong and Niknacs (together like that)
2. Elvis & Neil Diamond
3. Tok-Tokkie (knocking on doors and running away)

Three things you are wearing right now:

1. Jeans
2. Tekkies
3. Black sweater

Three favourite bands / musical artists:

1. Juanita du Plessis
2. Theuns Jordaan
3. Steve Hofmyer (Ag hoe Afrikaans is ek nou!)

Three favourite songs:

1. Jessie paints a picture
2. You needed me
3. Islands in the stream

Three things you want in a romantic relationship:

1. Money, no responsibility and lots of love. Emotional care
2. Lots of hugs and cuddles
3. Commitment and financial stability

Three physical things about the male sex that appeal to you:

1. Strength (and not the body building type)
2. Well-built legs
3. A nice butt doesn’t hurt

Three of your favourite hobbies:

1. Blogging
2. Photography
3. Playing Farm Town on FB at the moment

Three things that scare you:

1. Loosing my kids
2. Jail (who knows why)
3. Crime

Three of your everyday essentials:

1. Coffee
2. Clinique
3. Cellphone

Three places you want to go on vacation:

1. Cape Town
2. Mpumalanga
3. Colorado

Three nicknames you like, you’ve heard others use:

1. Angel
2. Sweetpea
3. Babe

Three careers you have considered:

1. Psychology
2. Occupational therapy
3. Photography

Three ways you are stereotypically a man:

1. Accept for the fact that I love sport, I am not and don’t want to be like a man at all.

Three ways you are stereotypically a woman:

1. I love having my hair done
2. Can love a long bath but candles
3. Must have pretty nails

Three things you want to do before you die:

1. Climb Kilimanjaro
2. Go parachute jumping
3. See my grandchildren

Three things you want right now:

1. Nokia N97
2. A good book
3. My new credit without having to go to the bank to collect it!

Today, 1 July 2009, Francine lost her fight. 

and I’m so sorry… for so many reasons. 

I so believed that you would get better.  I never thought for one moment that you would come back to work but I believed that you would go home again.

I’m so sorry. 

I’ll do what I can to help this little girl of yours.

I’m so sorry.

I had an interesting argument discussion with a friend last week.  I mentioned how I’m not willing to help clients if they aren’t willing to declare all their income.

He looked at me with a are-you-serious!!?-face.  According to him, most people won’t.  He feels it is not right that one should declare all your hard earned income, pay your taxes and then have some corrupt government idiot steal the money….

Okay, I get where he is coming from.  Our roads are hazardous.  Our hospitals atrocious.  Crime shocking.  It’s true.  If it weren’t for corrupt government employees / departments, our country could be way better.  Maybe we could actually drive on our roads, instead of constantly trying to search for the tar between the pot holes.  Maybe it would be okay to let your child go to a government hospital.  Maybe the police would respond if you phoned.

True.  Totally true.  There is no reason, no excuse.  Our money should be used to better our country.  The country where we live and work.  Where we pay our taxes.

Does this give you the right NOT to pay?  Does the fact that your money may / may not be ‘stolen’, give you the right to withhold the tax?

No sorry.  I do not think so.

If you don’t pay your taxes, then you don’t have the right to demand better service.  If you don’t pay your taxes, don’t complain.  If you don’t pay your tax, don’t even vote.

For that matter, if you don’t pay your taxes, you are just as bad, if not worse than the government employee who steals it.  You are stealing.  You are stealing money that should be paid over to SARS. 

I’m sorry.  You can try to sugar-coat it as much as you want.  It can never be right not to declare all your income.

Jason made us his very first salad (with the ‘help’ of  Zander)