Hey all, I just finished watching Julie and Julia and I realised how badly I've been treating my blog and I was shocked how much I related to Julie in the film.
I'm 34 and I too, haven't yet finished a project, my friends are all pretty successful and I'm the odd one out, I don't share her shit job but I do work my arse off looking after four kids till I literally drop unconscious on the floor.
Anyway here I am on my blog again. I keep promising to keep it up to date but the truth is I'm shit at it. I could never keep a diary as a child and not much has changed now. I'm always too busy to stop and reflect and that's really what a blog is about. In fact I'm off to bed now but I just wanted to reconnect. There's probably nobody to connect with seeing as I'm never here but at least I got on here and wrote something. Catch you soon xxx
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Birthday Shenanigans
Howdy all, It was my birthday yesterday and it was a really lovely day. Usually I'm a miserable sod on my birthday but I was genuinely excited this year because all my presents were surprises. I wasn't disappointed at all, well a little because I really wanted some wolf slippers but I had some money to buy some so it wasn't that bad.
It was funnny because my husband wrapped my presents in christmas paper because like me, he's not very organised. He's lucky I couldn't care less about things like that. He bought me a beautiful card though.
I had a writing book I've wanted for a while Becoming A Writer by Dorothea Brande, a new gym top, weight lifting gloves, 20kg dumbbells, Pink Sands Yankee Candle and Sanctuary Salt Scrub off my husband and kids. I spent my money on a new set of make up because I lost my make up bag a few weeks ago. I wasn't happy when I saw the price of make up,£10 for mascara! I hardly wear make up so I wasn't best pleased when the bill came to £36 for five items! Oh well that will teach me to leave my make up somewhere. I have just enough left to buy the wolf slippers I wanted, I really need them with the temperature dropping lately.
The best bit for me yesterday was getting my hair done. I haven't had it cut and colored for 4 months and it really needed it. I love my hairdressers because the atmosphere is great and we always have a giggle. It's also great because they know exactly what I want and I don't have to worry about the result because they always do a superb job. I had more highlights this time which is great because it brightens up my hair in this cold winter.
My Brother and Sister in law came round with my niece and nephew to bring a card. It was lovely to see them. I can't believe how big they have got. My little nephew is so funny, very cute.
We did have a party crasher though, the next door neighbours cat! He is always sneaking through the cat flap to visit but this time he was after Oliver's party food. Little sod!
Bill and Ben are not amused at the food stealing cat.
Altogether it was a fab day and I'm not at all bothered about getting older because I don't feel it. I shall be eternally 21 :)
It was funnny because my husband wrapped my presents in christmas paper because like me, he's not very organised. He's lucky I couldn't care less about things like that. He bought me a beautiful card though.
I had a writing book I've wanted for a while Becoming A Writer by Dorothea Brande, a new gym top, weight lifting gloves, 20kg dumbbells, Pink Sands Yankee Candle and Sanctuary Salt Scrub off my husband and kids. I spent my money on a new set of make up because I lost my make up bag a few weeks ago. I wasn't happy when I saw the price of make up,£10 for mascara! I hardly wear make up so I wasn't best pleased when the bill came to £36 for five items! Oh well that will teach me to leave my make up somewhere. I have just enough left to buy the wolf slippers I wanted, I really need them with the temperature dropping lately.
The best bit for me yesterday was getting my hair done. I haven't had it cut and colored for 4 months and it really needed it. I love my hairdressers because the atmosphere is great and we always have a giggle. It's also great because they know exactly what I want and I don't have to worry about the result because they always do a superb job. I had more highlights this time which is great because it brightens up my hair in this cold winter.
My Brother and Sister in law came round with my niece and nephew to bring a card. It was lovely to see them. I can't believe how big they have got. My little nephew is so funny, very cute.
We did have a party crasher though, the next door neighbours cat! He is always sneaking through the cat flap to visit but this time he was after Oliver's party food. Little sod!
Bill and Ben are not amused at the food stealing cat.
Altogether it was a fab day and I'm not at all bothered about getting older because I don't feel it. I shall be eternally 21 :)
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Haywire or Hayweird?
Ok so I'm an action movie fan. I like big explosions and kick ass stars, so when I saw the trailer for Haywire I was sold. Off to the movie theatre to I go expecting a big boom action film but instead I was slightly confused. It was like I was watching a action film shot by an arthouse director. Very Bizarre.
I didn't hate the film but I was just unsure what I was watching. The fight scenes were great, especially the hotel room one. You can really see that the lead Gina Carrano is a fighter and not just an actor playing a fighter.
One pet peeve was that they cut the soundtrack in the action sequences and for me it kind of dragged me out of the movie. Very arty but not my cup of tea. The soundtrack was pretty awful 70's elevator music throughout, so maybe when the music stopped it was the relief, not the silence that shook me into reality.
I don't know where to classify this film, it has a twisty plot line of a good thriller, brilliant action scenes but then you have the weird arty filming. I'm at a loss.
Lots of stars in this one but mainy bit parts and very underused. Main character was good but she went from being really great in action scenes and over acting in others and oh my god someone please show her how to hold a gun, it was like barbie running around with her hairdryer.
Reading it back it sounds like I didn't enjoy the film but that's not true. It was a good film and worth a watch but not what an action movie fan like me wants to see.
Overall rating 3 stars.
Monday, 9 January 2012
Just some crap I wrote while trying out Write or Die Software
hello my name is jack, i'm 15 and I just blew up the world. I didn't mean to but it just went a bit pear shaped. Well you see I'm not really human, I'm from a far galaxy called butass. No not Butt Ass, although alot of people I tell seem to find it hilarious to ask if I live on Planet Uranus, which is stupid cause it's on an entirely different Planet.
Anyway enough of that crap, I suppose you want to know about me blowing up the world huh? Well it's simple really, I kind of borrowed the Earth magnetic field to power my spaceship so I could get back to the Butass galaxy (stop laughing) I calulated the equation worong and ended up sending the world into a full tilt thus confusing Earth's core and setiing off an enormous explosion. Oh Dear. 7 Billion people dead and I'm about to face the wrath of my Dad Captain Nowall.
I know somehow this can be fixed, although Santax's idea of glueing it back together might be a slight bit iffy. He is a dog though, so what would he know. He spends a majority of his time investigating his arse.
So to sum up, I'm buggered. I wonder what if Galath's prison does nice food cause looks like I'm going to be eating it for the rest of my life once my dad gets hold of me.
I have to come up with time shift technology and sort this mess out and before my dad arrives, only problem is, all the time wizards have been exiled and nobody knows where they live. Shit! Oh well I best start looking and hope this heap of junk can get me there.
Anyway enough of that crap, I suppose you want to know about me blowing up the world huh? Well it's simple really, I kind of borrowed the Earth magnetic field to power my spaceship so I could get back to the Butass galaxy (stop laughing) I calulated the equation worong and ended up sending the world into a full tilt thus confusing Earth's core and setiing off an enormous explosion. Oh Dear. 7 Billion people dead and I'm about to face the wrath of my Dad Captain Nowall.
I know somehow this can be fixed, although Santax's idea of glueing it back together might be a slight bit iffy. He is a dog though, so what would he know. He spends a majority of his time investigating his arse.
So to sum up, I'm buggered. I wonder what if Galath's prison does nice food cause looks like I'm going to be eating it for the rest of my life once my dad gets hold of me.
I have to come up with time shift technology and sort this mess out and before my dad arrives, only problem is, all the time wizards have been exiled and nobody knows where they live. Shit! Oh well I best start looking and hope this heap of junk can get me there.
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Well hello there, I've been very busy doing nothing over the last few months. I've kinda been living in no man's land.
I'm a bit lost really. My husband has started uni and is doing really well, my kids are happy at school and I'm not really doing a lot of anything.
I had all these plans of finishing my UF novel but I got so stuck with it I decided to move away from it and start writing the story that has been in my head for months. It's a great story but I'm still not writing it. I'm about three thousand words in and I'm panicking again. Thoughts are zooming through my head and I can't concentrate "What if it's shit?" "Oh no, this books seems very similar to my idea" "I can't wirte like so and so, so I should give up". Yeah those thoughts are really helpful and they have been helping me to not open my word document and write. Tomorrow I plan to get some words down, even if it is two bloody words! It's frustrating and I'm angry at myself. I just need to write. It the end result is shit, then so be it but this vegging round the house if turning me into a miserable nutjob.
There are distractions I've been happily enjoying while not writing though. I go to the gym six times a week, although lately I've cut back going because I'm exhausted because of my other distraction: Skyrim. Yes Skyrim, the god of computer games. I'm not really a gamer but The Elder Scrolls series has completely enchanted me. I get so absorbed that hours fly by in minutes, this is not good. First week it was released my husband and I were so into the game that the house looked like a tip. We finally weaned off (well when I say we, I mean he thinks I weaned off when he did but really I was playing all day and doing a quick 45 min clean round when he got home *snigger*) and started getting back to normal but that meant we were playing late at night which led to early morning bedtimes, which led to zombie like wake ups, which led to lying on sofa wondering why we had huge headaches and could hardly move. I am now a recovering game addict to add to all the other bloody things I'm addicted too. I'm joking of course, I'm not recovering lol.
So plan of action is 1) less Skyrim 2) gym later in day, so I can make use of brain function during the day 3) Less leisure reading, no it isn't really research 4) Eat properly, I forget to eat and I'm fat, go figure 5) Write blog post weekly even if it is to tell the world my POA sucks.
That's it it a nutshell, let's see how it goes. Oh goodie Skyrim time. Dovahkiin, Dovahkiin, Naal ok zin, los vahriin......
I'm a bit lost really. My husband has started uni and is doing really well, my kids are happy at school and I'm not really doing a lot of anything.
I had all these plans of finishing my UF novel but I got so stuck with it I decided to move away from it and start writing the story that has been in my head for months. It's a great story but I'm still not writing it. I'm about three thousand words in and I'm panicking again. Thoughts are zooming through my head and I can't concentrate "What if it's shit?" "Oh no, this books seems very similar to my idea" "I can't wirte like so and so, so I should give up". Yeah those thoughts are really helpful and they have been helping me to not open my word document and write. Tomorrow I plan to get some words down, even if it is two bloody words! It's frustrating and I'm angry at myself. I just need to write. It the end result is shit, then so be it but this vegging round the house if turning me into a miserable nutjob.
There are distractions I've been happily enjoying while not writing though. I go to the gym six times a week, although lately I've cut back going because I'm exhausted because of my other distraction: Skyrim. Yes Skyrim, the god of computer games. I'm not really a gamer but The Elder Scrolls series has completely enchanted me. I get so absorbed that hours fly by in minutes, this is not good. First week it was released my husband and I were so into the game that the house looked like a tip. We finally weaned off (well when I say we, I mean he thinks I weaned off when he did but really I was playing all day and doing a quick 45 min clean round when he got home *snigger*) and started getting back to normal but that meant we were playing late at night which led to early morning bedtimes, which led to zombie like wake ups, which led to lying on sofa wondering why we had huge headaches and could hardly move. I am now a recovering game addict to add to all the other bloody things I'm addicted too. I'm joking of course, I'm not recovering lol.
So plan of action is 1) less Skyrim 2) gym later in day, so I can make use of brain function during the day 3) Less leisure reading, no it isn't really research 4) Eat properly, I forget to eat and I'm fat, go figure 5) Write blog post weekly even if it is to tell the world my POA sucks.
That's it it a nutshell, let's see how it goes. Oh goodie Skyrim time. Dovahkiin, Dovahkiin, Naal ok zin, los vahriin......
Friday, 7 October 2011
Fuck It Friday
Here's this weeks short piece of writing to get my writing brain firing again. 331 words but the aim is to write again not pressure myself.
How long had it been since she’d seen him? Was four or five years and did it really matter, her heart stuttered and the breath went from her lungs. He was here, in her section and she was going to have to serve him and his friends., Great.
She watched as Micky seated them all and took their drinks orders.
“Shut your mouth hun, your catching flies”
Ellie turned to look at Karl’s amused eyes. The bastard loved winding her up.
“Get back to serving drinks you and mind your own business” she said
Karl laughed but didn’t move
“All my drinks orders are done, so I can pester you. So who is Mr tall, dark and delicious your ogling?”
“And again I’ll say none of your damn business”
Micky walked up to the bar and handed his order to Karl. She put on her best smile and batted her eyelashes at him.
“Micky darling, you know you love me...”
“No” he said
“No what, you don’t know what I’m going to ask”
“Oh yes I do, you want me to serve your section, I can’t I have to leave in five minutes”
“Why, where are you going and how the hell do you get to leave on a Saturday night and I can’t even get a bloody weeknight off”
“He’s shagging the boss” Karl chirped in while pouring two whiskeys on the rocks.
She shot a look at Micky but he just rolled his eyes.
“Yeah cause Barbara loves me and can’t get enough of my dick” He said sarcastically “Unlike you two losers, I booked my days off way in advance”
Her eyes wandered back to the table and to the man she’d once lost her heart to. He was smiling at the petite blonde sat next to him and her heart dropped into her stomach. He was probably married now. She squinted to see if he wore a ring but from this distance is was hard to see.
Monday, 3 October 2011
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