Pride and Prejudice

I thought it fitting that I should write a portion on the subject of Pride and Prejudice. I first watched all 6 hours of the TV series (v. good), although not all at once! Fell in love with the story and then went to see the new film, which, while not as good (i think) as the original, has a very interesting take on the story. THEN I tried to get the book, which was harder than I thought (do you know that there's some bookshops which only sell modern books???!), until eventually my dad ordered it off amazon.

Well, I've just finished that and it really is amazing. I don't know what anybody else thinks about Pride and Prejudice, but I think it's a lovely story. If only we could all marry men like Mr Darcy, life would be perfect!! I'm thinking that if I had been named Elizabeth Laura, instead of Laura Elizabeth, i might have grown up a little more refined and more like Elizabeth Bennet and therefore more likely to find a Mr Darcy. I feel more like Lydia (without the flirting), so I really hope I don't end up with a Mr Wickham!!

Should I? Shouldn't I?

Still trying to decide whether to spend 3 months away in Denmark in a university where I don't know anybody, on my own, to gain some much needed international experience (and a chance to be REALLY independant) and of course to learn about teaching - oops almost forgot about that bit! I really don't know what to do! Like I want to go but am a little scared, but i'm more scared of Laurence Siberry who is breathing down my neck for a decision! And to be honest i'd be scared to tell her i've changed my mind once again!!! But any pearls of wisdom would be appreciated. (i'm going to try to decide tonite lol!)

Pros:

Life's unanwered Questions

I want to start a list of life's unanswered questions.

Here's a few to start you off (please reply to this post with you own questions):

Is there ever NOT a sale in DFS?

Random

I was surfing the web and came across this picture in Habitat modern art (don't ask why i was there...) and I thought it could serve as a kind of logo for "the couch", in fact it could be THE couch. I thot it was rather groovy anyway.

I was watching a very interesting programme on the tv there all about Ebay and how it works. Not that I haven't been on before, but I decided to have a little browse on Ebay myself and see what I found...

CGP GCSE German Revison Guide for £1.50

a page of Carrickfergus Castle Royal Mail Stamps from 1968 for 10.50

Beethoven bust £4.99

Some Scoubies for £1 (wonder if that was Lee-Anne?)

And of course some old rope.

Shoe number 23...

I bought a new pair of shoes today. They were a little grubby but they were only going to give me as much discount as my student discount - instead of it as well. So i just opted for student discount so i could take them back if I wanted. But I don't want. I love them. Aren't they pretty?

I just love paisley patterns at the minute, that's why I bought them even though there's only gonna be a few warm-ish days when I can actually wear them!

Some pictures from the weekend...

My granny's wall

Unfortunately I deleted the picture of the truck that smashed the above wall. It was a pickup incase you were wondering...

Catch-up

I haven't been blogging in a while - I can't say I've been really busy or anything, I just haven't been bothered... I'm sure I could be forgiven for feeling like that once in a while!

Lee-Anne made me a lovely scoobie keyring last nite - Thanks Lee-Anne!


Went to tae-bo last nite and feel like I've been good to myself, altho even driving there at 8 o'clock there was no-one on the roads - strange!















see www.rice.dk for more funky stuff. It's my new favourite website!

Peaceful...

Took this picture at a wee place called Loughan, near Ski Supreme. I thot it looked kinda cool.

This post is dedicated to Julie

a.k.a. Smurf! (don't ask cos I don't remember why we call her that lol!)

Julie was a little disappointed I didn't mention her in my last post so hi Julie! Julie steals toothpaste from Supermarkets.

Amendment to last entry - I am not promoting drinking (cos i think it sounds a bit like that), but the fact that jen brough 20 people home is v. funny! And I had to mention that she was drunk otherwise it would have just been random!

Muses from the Royal Thai

This post is a tribute to Jen Flem (not her real surname!)

JONATHAN!

Jen Flem came home drunk one night and brought 20 people with her!
Legendary!

(of course, the best part was that her mum and baby brother were sleeping upstairs!!)

Ode to a yellow post-it

The humble Post-It (TM) is 25 years old today! The idea originated with an organ player, which is interesting cos lots of the time I use post-its when I'm playing the piano, as well as for loads of other stuff....in fact, how would we ever survive without them?? Every two minutes in work we leave someone a sticky, or stick one on a file with extra information, or use them to mark a page!

Thankyou to Paddy-In-My-Office for sharing that useless information ;-)

However, it is possible to take the Post-It phenomenon too far...