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Never before have so many people with so little to say
said so much to so few.
Which reminds me, I have so much important stuff to say .......... is anyone reading??
Friday 20 February 2009
Blogging
I was talking with a colleague the other day about "motivational" quotes that some business people display in their work area. I told him about these wonderful calendars my friend Dee gets me which are by http://www.demotivators.com/. One of my favourites is:
Which reminds me, I have so much important stuff to say .......... is anyone reading??
Which reminds me, I have so much important stuff to say .......... is anyone reading??
Sunday 4 January 2009
Changing Ways
I believe at my age I should be able to keep an orderly house. I think over the past months/years I have been guilty of what my mummy would have described as "treating this place like an hotel". I am getting to the stage where I am fed up of clutter and dumping things to deal with later. So this has to change but it seems oh so unsurmountable. So in a lightbulb moment yesterday I decided that the way forward is to break this all down into do-able chunks. So the task for today is to sort out the storage in the eaves where the Christmas decs live. Surely that is do-able. Saying that I have a friend coming round for coffee at 10.30am and then a friend for supper at 6.30pm and a mount of ironing to do and feet to descale. Sigh. No good moaning about it - that ain't going to get it sorted. Then when that is done I will work out which bit I will sort out the following week.
In a strange way I am quite excited about getting rid of crap - I know for instance that in one cupboard I have a "stones" set from M&S that I was given a few years ago that I really haven't looked at or had much interest in. If I recall correctly it is a big box with a small velvety bag and some coloured stones and a book on how to read them or something. I also have a plate painting set that has been there for so long I would be surprised if the paints hadn't dried up completely. I get given them as gifts (am I really that hard to buy for?) and they get put away for that magical moment when I will have time to study these and make my life brilliant from rubbing a stone and my culinary skills made even greater by displaying bacon and eggs on a hand painted small glass plate. I wonder what other delights I will come across.
I found a rather fab bargain in Boots-is yesterday. I have been fannying around trying to find some new "me" perfumes. I came across one of those wipe on sample strips for Secret Obsession by Calvin Klein in a mag and actually liked the smell on me. Whilst in Boots-is I found that a small bottle was about £28. Whilst browsing the display of half price gift packs I came across the one for Secret Obsession reduced down to £20. The pack contained a 50ml EDP bottle and some body lotion. I checked back at the perfume counter and the same bottle was £36. So I bought the gift set. Then in a moment on madness I opened the packaging last night and had a squirt and still loved it. You may wonder why it was a moment of madness so I shall explain. I have a "keep for best" mentality that I always want to break. OK somethings maybe should be kept for best but how do you decide when that moment arrives? I have a lot of lovely things "for show" because they are "for best" but I have to make a conscious effort to start using them. All that lovely Jo Malone stuff I have still in it's beautiful packaging is going to waste and I need to open it up and start using. The soaps, the candles, the creams, the bath oil. What am I saving it for? So that someone can inherit and enjoy what I stored and occasionally looked at? So it has to change ..... and I am going to work hard to make sure that it does.
In a strange way I am quite excited about getting rid of crap - I know for instance that in one cupboard I have a "stones" set from M&S that I was given a few years ago that I really haven't looked at or had much interest in. If I recall correctly it is a big box with a small velvety bag and some coloured stones and a book on how to read them or something. I also have a plate painting set that has been there for so long I would be surprised if the paints hadn't dried up completely. I get given them as gifts (am I really that hard to buy for?) and they get put away for that magical moment when I will have time to study these and make my life brilliant from rubbing a stone and my culinary skills made even greater by displaying bacon and eggs on a hand painted small glass plate. I wonder what other delights I will come across.
I found a rather fab bargain in Boots-is yesterday. I have been fannying around trying to find some new "me" perfumes. I came across one of those wipe on sample strips for Secret Obsession by Calvin Klein in a mag and actually liked the smell on me. Whilst in Boots-is I found that a small bottle was about £28. Whilst browsing the display of half price gift packs I came across the one for Secret Obsession reduced down to £20. The pack contained a 50ml EDP bottle and some body lotion. I checked back at the perfume counter and the same bottle was £36. So I bought the gift set. Then in a moment on madness I opened the packaging last night and had a squirt and still loved it. You may wonder why it was a moment of madness so I shall explain. I have a "keep for best" mentality that I always want to break. OK somethings maybe should be kept for best but how do you decide when that moment arrives? I have a lot of lovely things "for show" because they are "for best" but I have to make a conscious effort to start using them. All that lovely Jo Malone stuff I have still in it's beautiful packaging is going to waste and I need to open it up and start using. The soaps, the candles, the creams, the bath oil. What am I saving it for? So that someone can inherit and enjoy what I stored and occasionally looked at? So it has to change ..... and I am going to work hard to make sure that it does.
Australia
Here goes with my first film review (a new career perhaps? Perhaps not!). I went to see this film against my better judgement after having seen the fairly appalling trailer a couple of times where Nicole Kidman is telling a story in a strange stilted accent to a young boy. I was fairly blown away and on two occasions close to tears. This of course could easily be attributed to being told that it was a "true story" as I am always a glutton for watching those with an empathetic slant. Hugh Jackman was Phwoooooooooar and it was lust at the first sight of his naked torso.
Beautifully shot (was that because we saw the Digital version) and a thought provoking story. I am off to put Rabbit Proof Fence on my LoveFilm wishlist now. Hugh Jackman was excellently cast. I don't think I would have bothered to see it if Russell Crowe had taken the part of Drover. Heath Ledger was also supposed to be in line for the role but I feel that Jackman bought a sense of macho sexiness to the role that unfortunately would have been lacking with the other two prospectives. The boy that played Nullah was amazing - hard to believe that it was his first ever film.
There was a great scene where Sarah tries to teach Drover to foxtrot. She comes out with a line very similar to the bloody awful Chanel advert where she says "I'm a dancer, I love to dance". Of course Australia and the chuff awful Chanel ad were both directed/produced/written by Baz Luhrman.
Anway, great film, good acting (how I loathed that Fletcher guy), gets you thinking (even after Googling to find that it wasn't actually based on a true story) about how people are treated rather shittily and gets me Googling for naked torso photos of the lovely Hugh for my Hello Boys Wall.
Next film review will be of Slumdog Millionaire. Loved the book, I wonder how the film will translate it.
Beautifully shot (was that because we saw the Digital version) and a thought provoking story. I am off to put Rabbit Proof Fence on my LoveFilm wishlist now. Hugh Jackman was excellently cast. I don't think I would have bothered to see it if Russell Crowe had taken the part of Drover. Heath Ledger was also supposed to be in line for the role but I feel that Jackman bought a sense of macho sexiness to the role that unfortunately would have been lacking with the other two prospectives. The boy that played Nullah was amazing - hard to believe that it was his first ever film.
There was a great scene where Sarah tries to teach Drover to foxtrot. She comes out with a line very similar to the bloody awful Chanel advert where she says "I'm a dancer, I love to dance". Of course Australia and the chuff awful Chanel ad were both directed/produced/written by Baz Luhrman.
Anway, great film, good acting (how I loathed that Fletcher guy), gets you thinking (even after Googling to find that it wasn't actually based on a true story) about how people are treated rather shittily and gets me Googling for naked torso photos of the lovely Hugh for my Hello Boys Wall.
Next film review will be of Slumdog Millionaire. Loved the book, I wonder how the film will translate it.
Thursday 1 January 2009
Happy New Years Fat Day
Why oh why oh why do I always do this?? I start 2009 at the heaviest I have EVER been in my whole blinking life. 'Snot fair. However, popping a positive spin on it things can only get better. Yep, positive thinking, low-carb diet, up the exercise (well start again) and enjoy losing weight and inches. Is it possible? Yes it is. This is just a blip - or perhaps that should read I am just a blimp. No excuses - for Christmas I got a cycle helmet and lights (for my bike rather than the helmet) and a Nike+ thingy for my trainer and Ipod which links me to some competitive running site so if that doesn't spur me on I think I should give up before I start. However, my new (not sure I had an old one to be honest) mantra should be winners never quit and quitters never win.
New Years Resolutions are:
Get Fit
Lose Weight
Be Happy
(not putting any pressure on myself with those three then)
Have a streamlined life (guess that means declutter a-go-go)
More holidays
Be a nicer person (that one slips in each year and slips out again before 1 Jan is over)
Entertain more and see more of friends (see 4th one for how that can be achieved)
Continue to not read Heat and I guess I should also give up the Mail Online although it has some of the funniest journalism(?!) I've ever read
Find new clients to add interest and excitement into my working life
Perhaps I should have these as goals rather than resolutions.
Off out for a bike ride shortly. So should I have some lunch to sustain me or do the weigh/measure spreadsheet which will be thoroughly depressing or declutter or go and see if there is anything worth watching on catch up TV????
New Years Resolutions are:
Get Fit
Lose Weight
Be Happy
(not putting any pressure on myself with those three then)
Have a streamlined life (guess that means declutter a-go-go)
More holidays
Be a nicer person (that one slips in each year and slips out again before 1 Jan is over)
Entertain more and see more of friends (see 4th one for how that can be achieved)
Continue to not read Heat and I guess I should also give up the Mail Online although it has some of the funniest journalism(?!) I've ever read
Find new clients to add interest and excitement into my working life
Perhaps I should have these as goals rather than resolutions.
Off out for a bike ride shortly. So should I have some lunch to sustain me or do the weigh/measure spreadsheet which will be thoroughly depressing or declutter or go and see if there is anything worth watching on catch up TV????
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