Had two weeks in a row ram-packed with overtime and now I'm finally back to normal hours!
YAAAAAY!
The weather is beautiful! I'm planning on lieing in the garden all day tomorrow, reading 'The End of Mr Y' and getting a sunburnt face.
:D
Also...
Check out the new Gok Wan's from work and red lippy. I don't know about the lippy all that much but I love the good ol' Gok's. He's getting one thing right at least.
Absolutely gutted. I know that I hadn't written anything in my blog for a while but for TWO WHOLE MONTHS?!
I'm a little bit disappointed with myself. In my defence, I am out of the house for twelve hours a day five days a week - travelling to and from work on trains and buses, blah blah blah... And one of the last things I wanna do is set up my laptop downstairs so that I can get the internet on it (our home computer is overrun with viruses and we don't have wireless, unfortunately...)
:(
Of course, that doesn't excuse anything.
SPECSAVERS
Life at Specsavers is going well. I think I know enough now to feel comfortable in doing any task that anyone's asking for me to do for them. People are starting to trust me with doing different jobs around the store. But I still haven't finished my three month probation though. Everyone tells me that I've got nothing to worry about but I can't help it. It'll be the biggest weight off my shoulders ever.
I've read one of the shittest books in the whole world. 'No Time for Goodbye' by Linwood Barclay. I bought it because it was a murder mystery and I never read them. And this book made me realise that I never read them for a bloody good reason!
I've put down a deposit for a house to rent in Didsbury in Greater Manchester and will be moving in on Tuesday. Ecstatic. I feel like I've been waiting for this day all my life. Can't wait to have my own little personal space again where I can start writing properly, hopefully.
And I've also walked in on my younger brother snogging his chavvy girlfriend on the settee on Valentine's Day Evening over a bottle of wine, some beers and a toffee cheesecake.
The bleeding romantic.
Not a lot has happened really. I've just been working my arse off at work and not been very social at all. But as soon as I get my arse to Manchester, that's going to change.
List of things to do on arrival in Didsbury:-
--- Get fit and healthy (I'm actually craving healthy food and reeeeeally wanna join dance classes and the gym),
--- Pass my probation period at work,
--- Start writing properly again,
--- Start planning a holiday (preferrably to New York or Las Vegas or any other phenomenal city in the US)
--- Generally be a happier human being and a general breeze of fresh air for everyone around me.
I haven't been the happiest bunny of late but that's all soon to change.
To be continued...
P.S. I need another hair cut.
XD
I miss having writing bursts that actually inspire to 'carry on' the story after 100 or so words.
I miss having the time on my hands to call myself a writer, where I can just sit and write for hours on end.
I miss Matthew Meadows. And owe him a sincere apology that I don't have a fuckin' clue how to start his story.
I miss writing for the hell of it, instead of having to worry about craft/layout/publishing needs/target audiences.
I miss having people who actually want to read and critique my work.
I miss being around other people who wanna be writers too.
I miss reading other people's stories.
:(
There's some pretty damn good shit on the box at the moment.
It all kicked off with 'Downton Abbey', which I am still ever so slightly mind-boggled at. Then I sat through 'Pillars of The Earth', Channel 4's slightly raunchy adaptation of Ken Follett's medieval tale of regicide and conflicts over power. Now, I'm watching 'Garrow's Law' on BBC 1 and there's something distinctly Sherlock-like about the smart lawyer who takes centre stage, albeit with a bit of a dodgy voice... Though he still doesn't top Benedict Cumberbatch.
;)
Now, I've just watched the first episode of 'Any Human Heart' on Channel 4OD. And I don't think at any one time in my life have I watched so many single one-off drama pieces that I've actually enjoyed too. 'Any Human Heart' is based on the novel by William Boyd and is shaping up to be another brilliant novel-adaptation from Channel 4.
Furthermore, I've finished writing the first episode of my own little TV mini-series for ITV, hopefully. Maybe mine will be on TV sometime soon too.
:)
I've been pretty impressed with myself actually. I can't remember when I started re-reading 'The Deathly Hallows', but I was up in bed last night till the early hours finishing it. And at the end of it, it was like the ending of an era all over again.
It suddenly occured to me that when I first started reading the books, I didn't read them in order. It wasn't as bad as you think. I started with 'Chamber of Secrets' and read through to 'Goblet of Fire'. I think the books were free with a newspaper and, being the bookworm that I was, my parents ordered for me to get my noses into.
No way did I expect greatness. I remember looking at them and thinking, They're only a another series of books that are going to do O.K, etc. etc. etc.
How wrong was I and, probably, a lot of other people on the planet.
I haven't read the books for a long time. The last time I did was for the release of 'Deathly Hallows' so, being the nerd that I am, needed to refresh my mind of all the goings on in the previous books. And, having been slightly disappointed about 'Half-Blood Prince', I wanted something bigger and better.
The main thing that reading this last book has done to me, has reminded me how much I've changed. I can't place the year when I first started reading them but now I've finished at the age of 22, reading the minds and goings-on of 17 year olds.
Their life, their world, is so much better than ours. In the heat of the moment, people scream all over the place, "Fuck this, I'm going to Hogwarts." Oh, if only this was true.
Cinemas across the country are prebooked weeks in advance for 'Deathly Hallows: Part 1' and, sadly, I'm not one of them. Everytime I watch the trailer, I go a little bit crazy inside and wish that I was seeing it right now.
Absolutely gutted, I haven't prebooked tickets. Me and my friends normally go together but everyone's all over the world AKA the UK, at the minute and it's very hard to keep in touch.
I think I'd probably go and see it alone if I had to.
:)
Regardless of the fact of whether you're a Harry Potter geek or despise the JK Rowling franchise, it's come around again for its punultimate time.
I am the former. I have read all the Harry Potter books, believe that my trivia surpasses most (despite the details on the last book being a little hazy) and am an avid admirer of the films. I'm re-reading 'Deathly Hallows' as we speak and am working my way through the films (I watched 'Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets' the other morning and cried LIKE A BABY at the end)...
Everytime I watch the trailer for Part 1, I actually get all excited in my gut and emit an annoying little squeal of excitement that only dogs can hear. I am revelling in all of the TV coverage that is broadcasting morning, noon and night. I even asked my Dad to pick up a copy of last week's Sunday Times, that was positively POTTERIFIC. There was a Harry Potter magazine devoted entirely to the final film and free poster... Though, alas, I recieved Daniel Radcliffe all sweaty and moody, instead of Mr Rupert Grint, all moody and sweaty.
:(
But regardless, I still haven't read through that magazine completely and share daily texts with a friend who is equally as obsessed with HP as I am.
Words of the World Premiere that happened last night - everyone looked absolutely fantastic. Helena Bonham-Carter never ceases to amaze me! Her hair was aaaaawesome! Geraldine Sommerville AKA Luna Lovegood is brunette! And the X Factor contestants hogged faaaaar too much of the limelight! Emphasis should have been on the stars!
Nevertheless, I'm a little bit gutted that Emma Watson wore a similar dress to what I have and regrettably, carried it off a lot better than me (seeing as she has obviously been recently tanned and regularly keeps that pot-belly off).
:/
It's out the day before my birthday and I would LOOOOOOVE for a birthday treat for me and my friends to go and see it! But I am faaaar too disorganised for this and know that I will have to wait a couple of weeks to go with my fellow Harry Potter fan and our quacky friends.
Ah well. Guess I'll just have to curl up with 'Prisoner of Azkaban' tonight instead.
P.S. How WEIRD do James and Oliver Phelps look without ginger hair!?!?
I've never got one of these books before and I was in the White Rose on another interview with The Disney Store when I wandered into WHSmiths and bought it.
And now, I'm ashamed to say that without these books, I don't know how the hell I've been able to cope!
I stayed up reading through the magazine section for a good hour last night, jotting down which magazines I should email for future publications, and I didn't even make it to the end of the section!
It's earned it's very fair right to sit on my bedside table for some light reading and inspiration...
I can't wait to read about some of the festivals that are going to be around the UK in the coming months.
I strongly advise all writers, serious or not, should get this book.
:)
YES, I FINALLY HAVE IT!
:)
I'm gonna drop 4 dress sizes by Christmas.
This book is supposed to be the best book of recent years to change your life on the laws of attraction.
I'm jumping on a bus tomorrow and getting myself one of those bad boys from Waterstone's.
;)
