Crikey. So its been months since I've written my blog and after realising that people still look at this, I had better keep it updated! Here goes...
PS... I wrote that title in December and its now 2011 so bare with me... I keep thinking of more important things to do than write this (like eat Philadelphia and Marmite bagels... try it before you say 'eew' seriously.) I went to Les Gets in the French Alps again the summer just gone with a lovely family, the Tanners. They have four beautiful children and are such wonderful and generous people. I'm lucky to know them and have the pleasure of staying in their beautiful farmhouse. This morning (December sometime) I awoke to sirens and flashing lights outside my house... a man had been run over and rushed to hospital... its all a bit too familiar and reminds me a lot of Stevie and what he went through. I just hope the man is OK... In short, I went out and asked the policemen standing in the freezing cold taking evidence if I could make them a hot drink... (cue Casualty music in the background) this was gratefully received and I waddled out with my tray of teas and coffees and chocolate coins to smiling faces. It made me think of all the people who will work for hours on Christmas day saving lives, or those who will sit by hospital beds with their loved ones praying for them to get well. Sadly most of you will know that I've been there and sat by the bed of the person I love more than anything in the world... so even if its was 'only a cup of tea' it made them smile and forget for just one second that they were cleaning blood from the road. To more happier things... This Crimbo I played the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella at The Young Actors Theatre. It was SO MUCH FUN and I loved every minute of singing, dancing and throwing sweets to children in the audience. Now I know why I love the stage so much... I think its just something I can't live my life without. You know, for some people its fags, sex, scented candles, shampoo or drugs... for me, its performing. CRINGE! This is really cheesy I know and feels like I'm reciting a page from Justin Beiber's new 'autobiography...' ahem. Most of which he probably didn't even write himself, it was probably his Mum. A few of the cool new friends I've made at Cinderella and I went to the cinema last week... Cagla pronounced CHARLA and Tess pronounced... well... Tess... Joey etc... (January... if you care!) We saw Narnia... PAH! DON'T go and see this unless you're five... or stupid. Its shizen and I can understand how once I would have LOVED it but I hope my children hate films like that and that I don't have to sit through them! I DID get in for a teenage ticket though for the first time in YEARS which I'm still pleased about.. Pa ha, dumb popcorn lady. I have decided If I'm ever rich, no, WHEN I'm rich... (positive thoughts) I'll have 6 children... I love listening to music when I'm working... but right now, if I'm trying to think about what I'm writing I have to turn it off as it confuses me... You know... when you were at school and you look at someone else's work then write their name instead of your own... or write what you've just said aloud instead of what you should be writing?! NO!? Maybe its just me... Today I paid £2.40 for a can of real 'DUFF BEER' from the Simpsons... it wasn't beer at all but a sugary, orangery, yellow can full of crap. It tasted ming and was a total gimmick... Worked though cos' I still purchased it! Its full of caffeine, colours and has made me hyper!! I'd better not drink anymore though... I think I have an addictive personality. I'm in the office at the mo and to be honest, I'm freezing my eyes off. I've got the heating on full blast but my fingers are like a corpses. Sometimes I think it would be a cool job to be a forensic pathologist and solve mysteries or find out how people died. Then I wonder if it makes you constantly think about death being surrounded by it all day. I don't want to die and at this moment in time and want to live forever please. I realise I'm not Peter Pan but if anyone knows how to... let me know... thanks. I wish I could have lots of different jobs... I'd be: an actress, singer, artist, doctor, surgeon, midwife, paramedic, pathologist, highland emergency winch-man, stunt woman, vet, NSPCC officer, social worker, teacher, poet, potter, photographer, fashion designer, architect, scientist, mathematician, policeman, fireman, interior decorator, dancer, writer, animator... OK, a couple of those are my actual REAL jobs so I'm doing OK!! Yes?!! The others I can do in another life. So today a friend and I were talking about lots of stuffs in Wagamamas whilst eating curry and drinking Lattes... like... how Actors, famous ones in particular who will remain anon, are 'one trick pony' actors and only ever play one kind of role... one person in particular is a famous female with a fish face... I think she probably just plays herself all the time which makes me wonder if she can actually act at all??!! Give me Judy Dench ANYDAY. WOW. And I've met her! Yes!!! I love remembering the things you'd forgotten you'd done!!!!!!! I had a really fun New Years Eve (minus setting off fireworks in the garden this year... we now have two cats called Parsley and Rosemary and they would be mortified). Robert's sis and hubby came down with their little boy 'The Tomster.' He brought down his apron and baking stuff and we made a mountain of bright red and blue biscuits and muffins with five packets of icing sugar and sprinkle things on them!!! YAY! I'm SUCH a child and always baked things with my Mum and Nan when I was a little tot. I really like cooking actually so come over sometime and try it. Then you can read this and smile if you're not dead. I've also knitted lots of things for their new baby boy being born in May this year.. :D I feel very sorry for my children as they will only wear knitted garments I think... P.S. Edible glitter comes out the other end still glittery! I read this in one of my baking books as a warning to parents so when you try it... tell me if its true!!! One day, I hope to live here please... www.updowncourt.com and blast Rihanna's 'Only girl in the world' from the speakers of my panic room and 6 swimming pools!!! Which, by the way Cinderella people, has had over 74 million views on You Tube... I think 70 million are ours whilst getting our make up done and costumes on! I might brave ASDA tonight. I'm sorry if I just shattered your illusion of me... because I know you all think I shop at Waitrose and I'm secretly a billionaire... (JOEY!) But I'm not. I love ASDA and Lidl and Netto and Aldi... I love Waitrose food too except its soooo bloody expensive. You need a second mortgage to shop there! Once I went for a little visit to pick up a few things and saw a HUGE chicken with 'naturally organically grown in the garden of eden and fed gold dust without any chemically enhancedness' on the label next to the 'special offerness' sign... I picked it up and it said £4.00!!! I was really happy with my bargain four quid chicken (the size of my car) and took it to the till with my other stuff thinking I'd hit the jackpot... when I got there, being from Derbyshire and suspicious I asked the lady to check how much it was... she scanned the thing and I nearly died... TWENTY ONE ENGLISH POUNDS. FOR AN EFFING CHICKEN!!!!!!!!!!! Needless to say I didn't buy it... even if it was signed by the Queen and Madonna with their passport pics attached to it I wouldn't have paid that. PSEESH. I'll tell you all now that I'm going to run the London marathon again in 2012. I've had a break this year for 2011 but I'm definitely going to do it and would love it if you'd join me?!! I think we should all dress as bananas or socks or something funky and get on TV!! So... be prepared if you know me, because I WILL be asking you... I tried with Robert but he was having none of it unless 'there was a taxi to take him round and drop him at Cafe Rouge on the way!' Aww.. He's in Swissyland at the moment... Love and miss you Bob. I start back teaching this week. I'm so lucky to have such fab pupils... I adore teaching and love smiling faces beaming at me when they've practised really hard and I give them a sticker! Everyone loves stickers. FACT. Robert gives them to his colleagues because... EVERYONE LOVES STICKERS!! I'm going to start carrying them and when you do something great, I'll give you a sticker. You see... you'll feel happier in life. I want to see the new film directed by Danny Boyle '127 hours...' it looks like my kind of film... not because I dream of one day cutting my own arm off because its stuck under a rock... but because I love raw, real films and true stories. Its OK when you watch films like 'SAW' and know its made up, but when people actually have cut off their own limbs in desperation its epic!!!! The human body and mind are wonderful things and it never ceases to amaze me what we can do when we put our minds to it or are desperate... people have held their breath for 10 mins under water of lifted up whole cars in accidents etc... I think I could lift up a car... ahem. Or not. So, I've waffled on about nothing for a while so its tradition to end my blogs in the middle of nowhere... so... The end!!!!! Wait, one more thing... 2011 is hopefully going to be another great year for everyone. 2010 was the year I thought I hadn't but actually did quite a lot in... never look back and wonder why you did or didn't do something. Life is for living and enjoy every day whilst you can. I know this is vomit talk but I feel so lucky and alive at the moment. P.S. I have made it my mission one day to be famous so if its fifty years later and I am... I told you so... if I'm not... then I had a great time dreaming of it anyway. Dreams are great, happy stuff and like sweets for the brain. Don't stop dreaming and never accept the mediocre in life. Think of the best you can ever be... then times it by 100... this little slushy bit was dedicated to Joey Jarossi... because we WILL be famous one day! :) Love to everyone in my life for making it so special xoxox
0 Comments
|