So we're in a recession, and there's not a whole lot of opportunities for young people, and lots of people are being made redundant at the moment, but let's spare a thought for poor old Antony Worrall Thompson who is so hard up that he's having to steal wine and cheese from his local Tesco.
In other news, go and listen to Gabrielle Aplin's EP Home, on iTunes. Not you Dad, I don't think you'd like it.
30 books
With considerable help from my mum, I've finished my 30 books list.
30 Books to read in 2012:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Starter for Ten by David Nicholls
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
It by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
1984 by George Orwell
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallman
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Shipping News by E. Anne Proulx
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
30 Books to read in 2012:
Starter for Ten by David Nicholls
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
It by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
1984 by George Orwell
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallman
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Shipping News by E. Anne Proulx
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
I'm not going to read them in the order I've written them in; I'm starting on The Hunger Games and then I'll just go from there, and pick and choose what I want to read. Fingers crossed I'll be able to finish them all by the end of the year!
Happy New Year!
2012 already, I can hardly believe it. So I've been M.I.A again for a while, but I've been busy either working, or enjoying all the festivities that December brings.
Want to see what I got for Christmas? Of course you do.
Not pictured: a Cookie Monster t-shirt, and some cute little measuring cups.
I am writing this blog post on my brand new laptop, and so I am a very happy bunny.
Yesterday I spent a little while writing a list of New Year's Resolutions, which I'm not going to bore you with, but one of them is to read at least 30 books this year, including 10 classics. I originally wanted to do 50 books, but then I realised that was almost a book every week and I decided I didn't want to set out to fail. 30 it is. I've started making a list of the 30 I want to read but I'm only on about 15 so far, so when I've finished the list I'll post it here. Once it's on the internet it'll mean I HAVE to do it because I will have witnesses.
To update my blog more is not on my list of resolutions, because I don't want it to become a chore, and hopefully I'll have more blog-worthy things to say this year than I have lately.
So anyway, my brand new Shaun the Sheep calendar is up, I have a Winnie-the-Pooh pocket diary to organise my life, and I have had a relatively decent January the 1st. Bring on 2012!
Want to see what I got for Christmas? Of course you do.
Not pictured: a Cookie Monster t-shirt, and some cute little measuring cups.
I am writing this blog post on my brand new laptop, and so I am a very happy bunny.
Yesterday I spent a little while writing a list of New Year's Resolutions, which I'm not going to bore you with, but one of them is to read at least 30 books this year, including 10 classics. I originally wanted to do 50 books, but then I realised that was almost a book every week and I decided I didn't want to set out to fail. 30 it is. I've started making a list of the 30 I want to read but I'm only on about 15 so far, so when I've finished the list I'll post it here. Once it's on the internet it'll mean I HAVE to do it because I will have witnesses.
To update my blog more is not on my list of resolutions, because I don't want it to become a chore, and hopefully I'll have more blog-worthy things to say this year than I have lately.
So anyway, my brand new Shaun the Sheep calendar is up, I have a Winnie-the-Pooh pocket diary to organise my life, and I have had a relatively decent January the 1st. Bring on 2012!
Christmaschristmaschristmaschristmas
So, my decorations are up, my Christmas jumper is here (although a tad too big), my shopping is almost finished, and I have just found a bunch of photos from last Christmas.
I am so excited!
Don't worry, I'm still here
November was going to be the month where I got out of my blogging drought and started posting things more regularly again. As you can see, that didn't really happen. I did start writing something just over a week ago, but then I didn't know how to finish it, hopefully I'll get round to doing that at some point.
Anyway, I've been busy planning Christmas things, shopping, baking, and having girly times with Soph. We went to see Breaking Dawn Part 1 which was hilariously awful, but we knew it would be.
I'm now getting super pumped for Christmas. I have an advent calendar waiting patiently to be opened, and I think I'm probably going to put up the decorations soon, maybe on Thursday or Friday. I'm sure my mum would say that's too early, but she isn't in the country and is powerless to stop me. Sorry mum! Also, I may have purchased my very own Christmas jumper. I saw Karen Gillan wearing an amazing one on the BBC Christmas advert and I tracked it down on play.com. It was initially too expensive but I looked again the next day and it had been considerably reduced, so I bought it. I have absolutely no regrets.
Anyway, I've been busy planning Christmas things, shopping, baking, and having girly times with Soph. We went to see Breaking Dawn Part 1 which was hilariously awful, but we knew it would be.
I'm now getting super pumped for Christmas. I have an advent calendar waiting patiently to be opened, and I think I'm probably going to put up the decorations soon, maybe on Thursday or Friday. I'm sure my mum would say that's too early, but she isn't in the country and is powerless to stop me. Sorry mum! Also, I may have purchased my very own Christmas jumper. I saw Karen Gillan wearing an amazing one on the BBC Christmas advert and I tracked it down on play.com. It was initially too expensive but I looked again the next day and it had been considerably reduced, so I bought it. I have absolutely no regrets.
Fruit with faces
My mum forwarded an email to me with a bunch of pictures of food with faces drawn on or cut on, because she knows how much I appreciate inanimate objects with faces. I don't know where they're from so I don't know who to credit for them, but I would still like to share some of my favourite ones. The storm-trooper eggs are a personal highlight.
If anyone knows where they're from, let me know.
My dad used to carve faces into his kiwis before eating them, and then it was like he was eating the poor kiwi's brain. Fun times.
I've got issues
Sometimes I really think I shouldn't be a waitress because I hate people. Well, not all people, but some at least. I hate the people that don't make eye contact with me when I'm taking their order, it's so rude. I hate the people who tell me their meals are fine when I go and check on them, and then complain about them when they come and pay - you've eaten it now, there is nothing I can do. And I hate, I hate, I HATE the people who sit on a dirty table that I am literally on my way to clean. This has been happening a lot lately and it's especially annoying because every time, the pub has not been overly busy and there has been several clean tables for them to choose from. I don't understand why you would choose a sticky table covered in crumbs, with glasses on it and an empty cutlery pot, over a nicely wiped table with no glasses on it and a brand new cutlery pot. It really takes the piss when someone who has sat on this dirty table comes over to you, looks at you as if they think you are completely incompetent and says, "Er, excuse me but could someone please come and wipe our table? It's really dirty." The urge to punch people is so high when I'm at work.
I love a good rant, I feel better now. Daf thinks I have rage issues because of my 'irrational hatred' of certain people (for example, Bear Grylls). I don't think my hatred of Bear Grylls is irrational at all. He has all his survivor shows and whatever, which is fine, but it's just the way he goes about it. He starts every single show in a helicopter, shouting to make himself heard over the propellers. Why can't he just wait until he's landed to tell us what the show is going to be about? And then he runs around the desert or a forest or the mountains or wherever he is surviving this week, eating disgusting things and drinking his own urine and getting too close to bears and whispering to his camera, "There's a bear right over there". Well I can see that; get away from the bear you idiot. Daf says that his show has probably helped save some lives of people getting stuck in the middle of nowhere, but has it really? If anyone was doing research ahead of going into some kind of dangerous wilderness, like the North Pole or something, I doubt they'd just be watching loads of Bear Grylls.
I guess my point is that Bear Grylls is really irritating and I so do not have irrational anger issues.
Away from things I hate and onto something I love which is the song Lego House by Ed Sheeran. I love the video for it (mostly because Rupert Grint is in it), it's so weird and creepy, but I like it.
I love a good rant, I feel better now. Daf thinks I have rage issues because of my 'irrational hatred' of certain people (for example, Bear Grylls). I don't think my hatred of Bear Grylls is irrational at all. He has all his survivor shows and whatever, which is fine, but it's just the way he goes about it. He starts every single show in a helicopter, shouting to make himself heard over the propellers. Why can't he just wait until he's landed to tell us what the show is going to be about? And then he runs around the desert or a forest or the mountains or wherever he is surviving this week, eating disgusting things and drinking his own urine and getting too close to bears and whispering to his camera, "There's a bear right over there". Well I can see that; get away from the bear you idiot. Daf says that his show has probably helped save some lives of people getting stuck in the middle of nowhere, but has it really? If anyone was doing research ahead of going into some kind of dangerous wilderness, like the North Pole or something, I doubt they'd just be watching loads of Bear Grylls.
I guess my point is that Bear Grylls is really irritating and I so do not have irrational anger issues.
Away from things I hate and onto something I love which is the song Lego House by Ed Sheeran. I love the video for it (mostly because Rupert Grint is in it), it's so weird and creepy, but I like it.
