Tabloid Love...

Ok i don't really have a lot to say this week as all has been pretty uneventful really and spent half of my week feeling under the weather and having terrible headaches. Tho i do have a new music play list to upload for you, some more Grey's anatomy updates and a new book review plus my exciting news of my adventures that are happening over the next few weeks.



Tabloid Love...By Bridget Harrison

I seem to be making a habit of posting reviews on the books i am reading so am thinking of making this a current trend as I am pretty much getting through a book a week at least.



This weeks book is Tabloid love by an author called Bridget Harrison. She is a one off author who turned her real life adventure in New York as a Writer for the 'New York Post' into a story for us reader who enjoy a bit of an adventure into seeing peoples journey to find hope, love, and a passion for life and what they do. The book being sold as being based on her own true stories using herself as the main character in the book, often seems a little far fetched in places, and also a little made up but maybe this is just to attract the reader and keep a constant flow in the story. The story flips between her love life and her work at the post, going into detail about how she felt about reporting on New York's major events such as 9/11 to the crime of the city to the local weather reports. Shes a character who you can tell is going to have a pretty failing love life despite the fact that she claims half way through that she has found the one in her boss Jack at the post which obviously ends up in the pits. Altogether it is an interesting yet disappointing read at times and you are always expecting more from it. Her tales of from her real life seem to have just been turned into a story to please the audience rather than the nitty gritty that we all love to read about in someones personal memoirs. She seems to keep the readers at a distance and never reveling to much about what really happened. If your looking for a story which tells you of a girls journey form England to New York from speed dating to Relationship and want to escape from your own life story this is ideal, if you don't want to hear someone moaning about there relationship problems and there impossible search for a boyfriend this is not for you.



Grey's Anatomy



I started watching this just over a week ago on the internet and since that day i have watch seasons 1-3 and am currently up to episode 10 in season 4 so this makes a total of 72 episodes across the series i have watched and i am eagerly anticipating more once i have finished watching seasons 4 i think i will not know what to do with my spare time, that sounds a little sad i know thank god the new season starts in the states soon as i will be able to watch it online to get my fix :o)



New Music for the week



Ok so as i promise every week some new songs that i recommend to listen too this week i have 3 songs for you that you may not have heard of. The first is called Breathe (2am) by Anna Nalick I heard this at the end of an episode of Grey's Anatomy and have since become addicted. The second is by Way out West and the third in honour of my current fascination with Grey's is the theme tune i hope you enjoy them.

Music Playlist at MixPod.com

To the future...

Well i don't know when you will receive the stories of my adventures of the next few weeks as i have a lot going on. but i will try and keep you up to date as and when i can. I have my final orthodontist appointment tomorrow after a year of having my braces of this is the final one and i no longer have to worry about the perfection of my teeth as they are now straighter then straight even after a year of having nothing to support them :o). On Wednesday i am off to Plymouth with a detour to Bournemouth with my boyfriend Nick to attend him little Brothers passing out ceremony from the Navy. Which should be an interesting little trip, but i know Plymouth well as i spent a lot of my childhood holidays down there. And then on the 9th September Nick and I are off to Majorca for a week to lay in the sun and relax i am really looking forward to it has been a few years since i went abroad. And then its back off to uni in the middle of freshers week for some fun and frollocks before the start of my final year.



So this is all from me this week keep reading xxx

its ramble time...

So i guess this is one of my oh so lovely little rambles about the week just gone. Obviously i won't tell you again about Mondays adventures as i happily chatted away about my lovely little sushi adventure on Monday. so lets inform you on the rest of my ever so interesting week.



well to be perfectly honest not so interesting in what I've done as its pretty much been get up and take my dad to work go back to sleep for a few hours then do whatever i feel like in the house. This has been generally sitting and watching the success of the Olympics constantly and then changing the channel every so often. I have to say i am one who enjoys watching her sport so have been pretty much zoned in on that staying up till the early hours of the morning just to see if we can score another medal. Quite sad i know but still entertaining for myself, i am going to be one of those people who can't wait for the games to come to our country, and this may also give us some credibility with other countries in the world and hopefully better our small country in comparison to most of the countries above us in the final medal standings an even better performance in front of a home crowd. Despite our not so great performance on the track, our other sport have excelled and like Steve Cram said on the bbc if we can fill all the spaces that the Olympics offers on the track in throwing, jumping and running then maybe we can prove that we can do just aswell as every other country in athletics instead of being constantly let down. Anyway i think this is enough on that as maybe we are all a little Olympics out.



On another Note i have found a new love in Grey's Anatomy. After being told several time by my boyfriend that i would enjoy this programme i decided with nothing better to do I'd give it go. As much as i love to prove Nick wrong as usual he was right and i quickly became quite addicted with the American medical drama. With its humorous moments along with it multiple sub stories surrounded by a major story line it provides much entertainment and i highly recommend this programme to anyone looking for something to watch. something with a mix of serious life issues and humour and may i add a pretty good looking cast too. I won't give too much away but since friday i have watched all of season 1 and am currently half way through season 2 so i am well on my way to a total addiction where i will get sad when i have no more to watch and can't wait for more lol.





So thats my TV stakes, also onto my new read. I have been getting through books like they are going out of fashion at the moment on average a new one every three days. though with my recent TV addiction i haven't read this one so fast and am now just over three quarters of the way through. I am an avid reader of Belinda Jones novels and she is a great writer on the chick lit side. Although the stories can be a little predictable they fill you with the light weight easy going escapism that every women desire from a romance novel. Her most recent publication is called Out of the Blue it involves a main character called Selena who is a cruise ship worker who is the typical character who has a man from every port or ship really, though after having her heart broken by a Norwegian captain she is weary of men and keeps them at a distance. So when she starts to feel like she has found someone she likes, she hears of his reputation and decides its better to keep her distance and reject his every advance. She is leaving the ship for her two month sabbatical and finds that after Alexos injures himself he too is on his way home. They end up spending time together on the way home and sharing stories which lead her to helping her injured crew mate back home in Greece. Through the beauty of the island Selena is soon letting her guard down to Alexos until her friend Jules, who was supposed to off getting married unexpectedly turns up and throws a spanner in the works. And this is as far as i have got i hope i haven't given too much away just the basic synopsis of the story so far. But none the less its a book i am much enjoying.



so onto my final bit which is an update on my song for the week. Ok i have a few songs this week firstly the official song of the week which i have picked as i heard it in a film i love this week is sixpence none the richer- Kiss Me, the second is Pussycat dolls- When i grow up for the reason i was talking about future with a friend last night and ultimately make me think i have not a clue what i want to do so that is in honour of that. Thirdly I kissed a Girl by Katy Perry as it has been constantly stuck in my head since i first heard it and finally in honour of the end of the Olympics proud by Heather Small. Enjoy everybody xxx

Hairy Prawns and California rolls...

So the title may seem a little strange but very much relates to my day and you shall see why.

My day started at 7.15am when i took my dad to the station so he could go to work, all very unexciting as you can see but trust me it gets better (i hope) i was pretty tired as my dad forgot to tell my mum to wake me up at 7am so i was still pretty much half asleep when i took him and was looking forward to getting back home for a little more sleep as i didn't go to sleep till gone 3 I'd had around about 4 hours sleep. So i got back at about 7.45pm and got back into bed. I text Nick to say good morning and stuff as the previous night we had talked about morning texts and i had made a joke saying that if he text me nice things in the morning it might make the mornings better sad i know so he said well maybe i should do it to him i was like no no don't be silly so i did any who... this lead me to not getting any sleep as we ended up having a conversation over text and eventually i was too awake to go to sleep so i got up. to which my mum kindly made me boiled eggs and soldiers with a very large cup of coffee.

My sister came downstairs at around 11am asking what everyone was up to today and she asked me if we could go over to bluewater so i said ok... even tho i don't really have much money so we left for bluewater just before 2 and we got there just after 2.45pm and started wondering around, even with my little bit of money i some how managed to spend it all buying a top/dress thing which i thought would be nice to wear out on an evening on holiday, there was a bonus tho my 10% student discount. so i got that and my sister had got a few thing too and she decided it was time to have something to eat her treat. She has this slight obsession with sushi bars so she decided to treat me to my first real sushi experience.

I would say this is something that has become a little bit of a craze in our country sampling the delights of the Japanese cuisine and their strange names. for some of their dishes and their sweet looking miniature desserts. Any way i had had a few pieces before so i was game for trying some more adventurous stuff under my sister advise.

ok so a short run down of the dishes we tried starting off simple and building it up to more adventurous things.

Dish one was avacardo wrapped in sticky rice and seaweed. that was simple yet tasty. This had come around the belt as shown in the picture above.

Dish two we ordered from the menu this was a Salmon and Avacardo roll which was similar to the first only it was in a cone shape rather that a circular piece. which i found i rather enjoyed. And looked similar to the picture on the left.

Dish Three was a noodle dish with Prawns and Vegetable. This was enjoyable tho me not being a massive fan of soy sauce though it was maybe a little drenched in the sauce.

Dish Four i had were California rolls with crab, rice and avacardo and seaweed.

And finally Dish Five was a dish called Hairy Prawns yes i know sounds really unappertising but actually tasty they were simply pawns wrapped in crispy noodles which as you can guess looks much like a hairy prawn. Theres some pics of me eating one which i shall put up at the end. Anyway this turned out to be rather nice and surprisingly filling and was nice to have some time with my sister. So this explains the title of this blog.

more of my drawings

I have decided that i am much better at drawing with a pencil and pen then i am with a computer whats your opinion??

My interpretation on little red riding hood (above)
'Pretty Girl' by sugarcult inspired piccie (below)

Little red riding hood coloured (below)

The drawing bug...

Seems a lot of people have got the drawing bug at the moment and over the past year i haven't really drawn much but last summer i spent a lot of it drawing and putting up my pictures on facebook. I love to doodle stuff but haven't really felt inspired to do so since last summer but seeing peoples pictures pop up on various social networking sites and blogs i felt maybe it was time to get back into the swing of things. I'm a great believer that when i draw it always has a meaning and i sometimes find it easier to convey my feelings in a picture... tho today i wasn't overly feeling it so decided to try drawing on photo shop although i'm not so sure of my attempts really the people i have drawn just look so sad... tell me what you think... i believe until i find something I've drawn that i am really proud of everything i do is just going to be critisized by myself but let me know what you think...

Little things you rediscover...

I've recently not really been feeling myself... I've felt like i have had so many ups and downs and never really knowing where i am going. Though over the last week i just took some time to think about who i was and what i was doing and overly what i really wanted. So basically analysing my life as it is.

I first thought about how i really feel about being at uni at the moment and honestly i love being at uni as much as i hate it. With one more year to go i would never contemplate giving up on my degree but i am constantly thinking is what i am studying really what i want to do at the end of the day. After almost five years of studying media am i finally getting a bit tired of it? this is still something i can't really answer at the moment all i think is i have to pursue and get my degree to as best as i can. At the end of the day a degree is a degree. I don't think I've used my university experience to it full potential. Its given me the independence i craved but i think i haven't really taken on the life style as much as most do but i guess i still have a year to be and do as students do.

My second thoughts were about Love. Yes its a pretty deep subject but something ever so passionate. It's been difficult for me recently I'm not going to lie. There are times when you think your more in love with your boyfriend then he is with you. Then there are times when you think maybe he's more in love with you then you are him and then you could say theres that in between where you don't really know what either of you are feeling.Though in these past few days over the weekend i think i have felt what it feels like to fall in love all over again or at least that feeling where you just can't stop smiling and giggling, where you can't stop chatting and just generally enjoy the company. I got butterflies in my stomach and everything you think is a positive rather than a negative. It feels great to feel like this again.

i guess thats pretty much on what i have rediscovered. there just little things but significant things to me.

On another note I have been reading a book for the past day and not really put it down much it was recommended on the Richard and Judy summer book club and its called "The private lives of Pippa Lee" this is a book i bought not overly knowing what it was about and from the cover assuming it would be a bit of a young romance, but i started reading the book finding it a bit slow but the character being a as I'd guess a 50-70 year old women and her life with her ill husband who is a publisher who decides to semi retire from his job any who i persevered reading until i reached a page which said part two so i was like i could stop here or carry on so I'm into part two and the book has picked up telling the story of the lady in the first parts childhood and how she grew up this is as far as i have got and am hoping the book will get better and not reach a dull climax. i'm hoping for anyone who reads this i have not given much away about the book but it makes an interesting read so far. and the film which goes with the book is due out in 2009 so i shall be interested.

A song for someone special...

I don't even know if he has ever read my blog but still I'm posting up a song which i have been listening to a lot and it reminds me of how i feel about him. I listen to it when i have doubts and stuff and it makes me feel a whole lot better. The songs called Bubbly by an artist i love called Colbie Caillat

And here are the lyrics to it:





I've been awake for a while now

You've got me feelin' like a child now

'Cause every time I see your bubbly face

I get the tingles in a silly place



And it starts in my toes

And I crinkle my nose

Wherever it goes

I always know

That you make me smile

Please stay for a while now

Just take your time

Wherever you go



The rain is falling on my window pane

But we are hiding in a safer place

Under covers staying safe and warm

You give me feelings that I adore



And it starts in my toes

Makes me crinkle my nose

Wherever it goes

I always know

That you make me smile

Please stay for a while now

Just take your time

Wherever you go



What am I gonna say

When you make me feel this way

I just mmmmm



And they start in my toes

Makes me crinkle my nose

Wherever it goes

I always know

That you make me smile

Please stay for a while now

Just take your time

Wherever you go



I've been asleep for a while now

You tuck me in just like a child now

'Cause every time you hold me in your arms

I'm comfortable enough to feel your warmth



And it starts in my soul

And I lose all control

When you kiss my nose

The feeling shows

'cause you make me smile baby

Just take your time now

Holdin' me tight



Wherever wherever wherever you go

Wherever wherever wherever you go



wherever you go

I always know

'Cause you make me smile

Even just for a while