Fridayness.
So... after being badgered to write another blog, here I am! Sorry I haven't written for ages... my time just got eaten up by that thing called L.I.F.E. Mine is quite good at the moment, I'm feeling happy and contented and not doing so much worrying about how fast everything goes - just enjoying being young. I won't be young for long... will I? :) My Nan always tells me she can't believe how much she's changed. She can remember lots about her childhood and it makes me get little flutters inside when she tells me 'I can still see myself on my wedding day when I looked in the mirror... how young and beautiful my face looked... and how old I look now...' We are all just like flowers growing from a tiny seed into beautiful roses, then we wilt and die. I want to live forever at the moment and I never want to die. I know that when you get to a certain point in your life though, you know its your time... I'm missing Bob now too, its starting to kick in as this is the longest period he's been away for :( Please help me fill my time up with lots of nice and lovely fun things to do! Mind you, its not like I haven't got five million things to do already!! Can't wait for August when it will be time to see him again :) xxx So... sometimes my brain gets overloaded... I always forget to breathe when I'm concentrating on something. For two nights the hot topic in the press and on LBC (my radio station of choice) has been Facebook... they (Facebook Inc.) just announced astonishing figures about the number of active users the site has and 500 million people have a Facebook account. I really cannot believe that. Procrastination central has hit the jackpot in my eyes and I bet Mark Zuckerberg is VERY pleased with himself. Why didn't I invent Facebook?! Entertainment Weekly sums it up VERY well in my eyes... "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?" On a serious note though. Its deadly. Just a 'quick check' of my profile (usually for nothing at all) can easily waste minutes of precious life... it becomes something in my daily routine to log on and check for messages/comments or likes on my photographs. I find it incredibly useful for the event planner, birthdays and quick messages being free and all and nosey people are in their element. Privacy is a big issue but with a quick tweak here and there, you can block any unwanted visitors and even decide which bits of info you want people to see... Now I feel like I'm writing the promo material for their information pack and its because I'm attempting (unsuccessfully) to convince myself that I don't really spend THAT much time on the FB... do I?!! Today I went to the dentist. I realise that this is entirely boring to read about but its something I feel like I need to share with you all... I haven't been for a while and it was actually a really good experience. For anyone else who's terrified, make yourself go and you'll see its not really that bad :) It makes me laugh how we have so many professions for our bodies... someone dedicates their ENTIRE life to fixing teeth so we can keep eating crap and they don't rot and fall out... others train for years to become someone that cuts with sharp implements and puts different (sometimes weird, depending on the look you're going for) colours in the thing we call hair... and why? To tell the world you're smart and look good? There are obviously lots more professions like this; beauticians, nail technicians but to be honest, I can't be arsed to list them all. Who invented chewing gum? OK. So I really have a big thing about things being officially 'invented...' So often someone has an idea and then someone else nicks it, to be named as the 'creator.' I like chewing gum and I always swallow it. My Mum always told me if I did, it would stick to my heart or lungs and I would die. On a serious note, it can't be good for you... but if you were not allowed to swallow it, surely they wouldn't make it taste so good!? Its not in our nature to have a quick chew on something nice, then spit it out! Over my years of life, I have tried chewing gum in different ways... It goes all hard when you drink cold milk with it in your mouth and tastes pretty squidgy when you have a cup of tea with it too. Its that gross taste when you brush your teeth before having orange juice... euugh. It makes the sides of my mouth do the Tango. I thought the longest real word in the Dictionary was antidisestablishmentarianism. Wow. I taught this to one of my pupils the other week. He's very curious and I'm sure his parents LOVED me after that session :) I have since found there are other words that are listed as sometimes being the longest official word, but most are technical names of substances etc... meaning they're not 'official' words. Here is a game... try to say them out loud... Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparao melitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonopte kephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon. You failed, right?! Don't panic... This is a fictional word... This however, is a REAL word... Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary "a factitious word alleged to mean a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs." Wow. feeling good now, right?! I love language and I love words. So, on Monday I went to see Toy Story III with a new friend I've made at drama school. Joey, if you're reading my blog... I love you lots and I think you are definitely one of my new soul Sisters :) xox The film was SO GOOD and the ending was very sad. I felt my childhood slipping away before my very eyes and I think everyone crying in that audience was crying for the EXACT same reason. Everyone clapped at the end and aside from 'UP' (the film containing my Granddad) its the best film I've seen in ages... Birthdays are funny, aren't they? Every year, we buy things and blow up balloons for someone we like/love to remind them its been another year since they were born. Some Birthday's are better than others though. Getting to 10 was my first milestone. When you hit double figures your Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles start sending you notes in your cards, rather than pound coins that the postmen can steal... 13. Officially a teenager but a bit of a pointless milestone all the same. Sweet 16, which never is actually so sweet and usually, you've already done all the things you legally can do at 16 anyway! 18. YES. Legal to do lots more things from this age onwards (depending what country you're in of course) and then after that, its downhill... the more milestones you hit, the harder and more depressing it gets. 30... 40... 50... 60... yarrgh! It becomes boring, no longer exciting and the older you get, you don't always get wiser you know... On July 31st, thanks to the BBC, I'll be performing at the Royal Albert Hall for Stephen Sondheim's 80th Birthday Prom. Its an amazing opportunity and I hope you all tune in to see it :) Some wonderful music... SORRY IF I'VE ALREADY MENTIONED THIS!!! My brain = sieve. I love meeting kind people. People who do things for others, just because. I LOVE doing things for other people including making useless cards and buying little presents. I think its important to show the people you care about in life, why you care about them. Rude people, I hate... yesterday I was at the tube station and saw a lady standing with a HUUUUGE suitcase (the size of a car, she'd clearly been to Turkey and bought shit loads of bargains) having just stepped off the train. There was a queue of people going up the stairs and not ONE person offered to help her with the ginormous suitcase. So, being from Derbyshire and all, I adopted the usual 'all for one and one for all' approach and helped her up the stairs with it. She was most grateful about the hand and even though my white dress was now covered in black grot from the case wheels, every time I looked down and saw the black streak throughout the day... It reminded me I'd done a good deed and made her day just that bit left stressfull leaving her believing there IS good in the world. Miss World contest over, I think everyone should do ONE nice thing for someone else today... go on. :) So, that's the flavour for today. A little bit depressing in places I know, but that's life huh? TTFN. Miss you Crim xx
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