Clash of the Titans

I went to see this film on Wednesday - Orange Wednesday in fact :)
I actually quite enjoyed the film, it wasn't what I expected in some parts but it was good.

It's about Perseus trying to save a city from Hades and the Kraken and has to go on a little journey to speak to the 3 witches, while battling all kinds of demons along the way, including huge scorpions and the medusa. I really liked the Medusa bits, was good. To be fair to Hades though, he was given permission by Zeus to wreak his havoc on the mortals as they had started to rebel against the gods and stopped worshipping them, which made them weaker.
Oh and Perseus gets a pegasus and I would like one of those now as well, although I'd still prefer Toothless :)

And on a completely separate note - a 2nd follower! woo! it's almost becoming crowded in here haha lol. My new follower is Carol, who is kindly going to show me what Twitter is all about at some point :D TA!!

Right here we go...another day, but it's Friday so that's always good, but ideally I'd like to go back to bed now lol. But happy things to come - cinema tonight to see the Bounty Hunter and then go home and watch Lost and then sleep! woo! Then off to the hospital tomorrow yay!

So I got my assignment 2 back yesterday - so quick. When I saw it sitting there in my inbox, my heart just briefly stopped beating and my stomach dropped and it did take me a few minutes before I'd open it! But I got a B so yay! So I'm very pleased with that considering I hadn't thought I'd do very well, having found it so difficult and took me ages to finish. My tutor said that the only problem with writing self help articles of this type (to be honest, I wouldn't have classed my article as self help, I was going more for life story that Red likes) is that food intolerance might not be mainstream enough or affect enough of the potential readership that a magazine would accept it. He said that I might get lucky though and send it to an editor who has a similar problem. But on the positive side he said it was well written, highly informative and interesting read :-) so I don't suppose I could do much better - well maybe a whole grade higher haha but only being on assignment 2 I'm quite chuffed!

So I will send a query email to Red and see if they're interested and if not, maybe try to do a little re-write to hopefully fit another publication, but one at a time. I might look at removing the bits that are "self-helpy" and see if that might make it more appropriate. And also get on with Assignment 3, which I think I talked about in my last post - if not I will come back and edit this one :-) so I might need to start going back to the library. Also might ask friends if there's anything they think I'm good at or know a fair bit about and see if any of those could make for a good filler. Also need to check out the freelance market new magazine for the reader's letters section, also maybe think about a tip of some kind I'd be good at...can't think of anything off the top of my head but we'll see.

YAY...and NAY

Woo! So assignment 2 is finally done and dusted and sent off woo! That does feel really great to have it out of the way, but also scary that now someone will read it and probably have a go at it :( but never mind, I  tried and I can only learn from what they say and keep going with assignment 3, which doesn't seem very different to assignment 2, so yay more non fiction joy! lol It's all good practice - keep the mantra going!

On a plus side, i did actually write a paragraph of the globe story which was interesting. Despite having read hundreds of books, when it came to actually getting the layout right, I had to go back and check in a few books lol :-) but better to get it right now than have to go back and change it all later.

On the NAY side of things, it's back to work today :( didn't want to get up and go out, but at least the mornings have started getting lighter again now so almost back to where we were a few weeks ago. Very nice having the light evenings though.

Going to see Clash of the Titans in 3D tonight, which should be good. I looked up the length of the film to make sure I'd be able to get the last train home as for some reason I thought it was going to be an epic one but it's only 106 minutes so not very long at all! So I'm looking forward to my swalt popcorn tonight yum!

So where to go now with the next writing assignment? There's a total word limit of 2000 words and you have a choice of how you want to do it - can be one 2000 word article or it could be an article, a reader's letter and filler with a combined word count of 2000 or any combination of those types of writing. I think doing a reader's letter might be a good start as it's only about 150 words. As for a filler, I'm not really sure what I would write about or who i could aim it at. As for the article, it'd be back to all the research and analysis again of various magazines. So here I am back to being stuck again :( Never mind...I'll get there in the end again I suppose. Unless of course my article for assignment 2 comes back all covered in figurative red pen and basically needs a re-write :( What to do then? Cry? Give it all up? Watch this space...:-)

Easter Monday

So here I am, sitting here really wanting to continue with my assignment - I did do a little bit yesterday and have done some today but I think as I've found it so difficult, I'm just not connecting with it so I keep daydreaming, which isn't very helpful :(

But I suppose the quicker I get on with it, the quicker it will be over with and out of the way! It's so easy to give yourself advice, just not good at taking it :) Well I suppose by writing a post on this blog means I'm doing some writing of some kind which can only be a good thing.

This non-fiction stuff is a lot harder than I'd even imagined. I already knew I couldn't read non-fiction books, no matter how interesting the topic is, I just get bored reading it, but I actually thought writing it might not be so bad - well that's me told. But because of this, I keep going off thinking about fiction stories and have a few ideas now for a couple of short story competitions that are coming up, not that I have even a remote chance of even being short listed, never mind winning, but it's all good practice :)

Anyway back to it :)

Ooooh

A FOLLOWER!! Who'd have thought it? Well...actually me...since I forced her to join hehe :) ah well at least she doesn't need to ever read this.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter to all! Hope the day brings lots of chocolatey goodness and that the Easter bunny was kind :-)

So Thursday night was good - we came 4th in the quiz!! amazingly brilliant for us, but also heartbreaking to be so close...especially when we were dithering over a couple of answers and got them wrong :-( never mind, there's always next time...and the time after that. Another great thing about the quiz was the addition of Sian's very yummy black bottom cupcakes with a lovely green cream cheese frosting! Soooo nice.



On to Friday - didn't do very much, watched previous week's Over the Rainbow and didn't get dressed til gone noon. Then I pretty much just messed around til I needed to go and wash my hair before Sian came around. When Sian came, we played Just dance on the wii - very tiring work, but a good work out, especially for the arms, which i'm still feeling slightly today! but on the down side of this great work out, another shower was needed lol. So we got ready and eventually left mine about 9:30pm and got the train in to town and walked down to the Pan Am on Albert Dock. We both said at the end of the night that the experience was good to have had but never again! Everyone was old and retiring or were in their 40s and above and divorced with children!! nd then we got trapped into a booth by this crazy psycho woman dissing us cos we had cocktails and said that our daddy probably paid for them!!!! ha! the cheek - they were out of our own hard worked for cash!! :p never mind, we managed to escape soon after and grab a taxi before she could follow us lol.

Got up the next morning and watched new Lost, yay! go Lost - it was a 2 person episode but won't say any more in case Sian does actually read this one, and I like being alive :) Dropped Sian off at the train station later on as she was meeting Carol in town and I was going shops with my mum, needed a couple of bits from Speke retail park and then needed the missing ingredients to make chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting! Then getting home from Asda was a bit of a disaster, I was carrying a couple of bags from my car to the house and the next second I hear *smash*! The 1L bottle of vodka had made a vodka bottle shaped hole in the carrier bag and smashed all over the driveway!! So we had to clear that up and mum got on the phone to Asda who said as long as we could bring the top bit back to prove we hadn't opened it (when would we have drunk it? In the car on the way home?) then we could get another, which is good as spirits are quite expensive (although weirdly the 1L bottle was cheaper than the 750cl bottle, but I wasn't about to complain!).
Then it was all a bit of a rush to get some lunch and get sorted before Sara came to pick me up to go to her dress fitting, which was lovely and she looked gorgeous in it, Neil will be so chuffed!



Got back home later on and made those yummy chocolate cupcakes and they were so so yummy!!! We've only eaten one each so far and mum already wants another batch making!! lol. Then sat down to watch Doctor Who, first one with the new guy in and have to say i thought he was quite alright in the role and I'm definitely open to seeing more from him and hopefully he'll do really well.




And today is Easter Sunday, not long got back from church, so still have the whole day ahead. I'm going to try and think about doing some of my assignment today although I'm fairly sure I'll be able to convince myself that today is a holiday and I should really leave it til tomorrow, but we'll see :) Have to get at least the vast majority done before going back to work - this is my own personal goal, so wish me luck!!

Catch ya later

Easter Holidays Woo!!

So all dressed up and nowhere to go...for the last 3 minutes of work. Then off to Revolution for one then on to quiz and back to the drinking, wherever that may lead us. Should be a good night all round.

La la la - anyone nothing else to write at the moment so will get off and leave this place for 5 whole days!