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Beach Therapy

March 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Yesterday I had a reaaallly bad day… It was just one crap thing after another.  You know how it is sometimes…

Well when I came home from school, I offloaded everything that happened to mum and then went and cried it all out. Once I’d composed myself, Mum and I decided to take the dog for a walk on the beach. I was excited because I knew It would help me relax.

It was great. It really did help me to relax and it gave mum and I the perfect opportunity to discuss the things that were bothering me, and I came to a conclusion.. I’m not going to stay for year 13 at school.

It would appear that at school, every single thing that makes me happy is sports or fitness related (except for drama :D ), the rest of it I find stressful and boring. I want to get straight into building my career and doing what makes me happy, rather than staying at school when I can be getting started elsewhere.

I’ll either apply to join the Army (depending on how the ACE goes… My information pack arrived yesterday!!! Looks like it’s going to be A LOT of fun :) I’m so excited!!), or go to polytech, get a diploma and then my bachelor.

Either way, I’m going to reach my ultimate goal. I’m very happy with this decision and it makes me feel optimistic for the rest of the year.

Have a great day.

xoxo

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Morning Pilates

March 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment

WOW! Well this morning I got up at 6 am to do some good ole’ fashioned pilates. I popped in a DVD I have and got to it.

BOY HOWDY, it was inteeeeennnseeeee. The whole thing was 40 minutes long and it was very challenging. I managed to complete the whole thing for the first time ever and by the end my butt and thighs felt like jelly. It was a great workout and I’ll definitely be repeating it again tomorrow morning ;)

Something I’ve taken to right now is making sure I take some time just for me. I’m so busy these days and I’ve been really struggling to cope with everything I’ve got to do. My plan to help manage this is to spend more time doing relaxing things for myself. I’m cutting down on internet time drastically, limiting myself to 1 hour a day (includes blogging, reading blogs, facebook etc). So far it’s been going really really well :) I’ve been really a lot more which is fantastic because I love to read. Right now I’m reading “Plum Spooky” by Janet Evanovich. It’s really really good! It’s hilarious too.

I love Janet Evanovich, because even though her books aren’t challenging, they’re highly entertaining :)

Pilates this morning was also a way for me to take time out for myself. It’s very relaxing and rejuvenating :)

I had an AWESOME day yesterday!! I went over to my dear friend Anna’s house to help her develop a training plan for a 10km run she signed up for. I’m so proud of her for getting into it!! I was more than happy to help. I was a bit apprehensive about giving her a plan where she’d been increasing her distances in such a short space of time :/ I wouldn’t usually suggest that as it can be dangerous and increase the risk of injury, but she wanted to push herself and the race is in 4 weeks and she has no immediate sporting history.

We sussed out a plan and had a good catch up. I wish her all the best of luck!

Anyway, right now I have to get down to the swimming pools and do some swimming! That’s all I feel like right now surprisingly is a nice long swim :D

Have a great night!

xoxo

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Review of Tim Burton’s “Alice In Wonderland”

March 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Okay, well yesterday I ventured into town with Emma and on impulse, we decided to go see “Alice In Wonderland”. We’re both huge Tim Burton fans and as a result were highly curious to see his latest film.

Also, I know this movie has received a lot of bad critique and I wanted to make a decision myself.

Personally, I thought this film was INCREDIBLE!!! I truly think Tim Burton has outdone himself this time.

I love the costumes, the colours, the special effects, the story line… Wow, I just cannot comprehend how it has so far received such bad reviews! I think what it might be is the fact that, the people who wrote those bad reviews do not share the “Tim Burton Mindset”. Me and Emma love that dark, intense, weird sort of a film and so naturally, we enjoyed it more than people who don’t.

Also, viewers may have a hard time adjusting to the story line. For those who are very very familiar with the classic Alice In Wonderland tale, they might resent the fact that this was such a twist and almost a completely different version of that.

The most stand out performance of all in the entire film has definitely got to be that of Helena Bonham Carter. SHE WAS AMAZING! I have seen LOADS of her films, but this one was definitely my favourite for her. She portrayed the Red Queen so so well, it was an incredible thing to watch. I truly believe that her performance was Oscar-worthy.

Johnny Depp’s performance was not that great. He was good as usual, but I think he played his character a bit too much like Willy Wonka from “Charlie And The Chocolate Factory”. Although, when he ran, the style was identical to Captain Jack Sparrow :P (Pirates Of The Carribean). I thought that his character was a little bit dry to tell the truth.

Alice herself, played by Mia Wasikowska, was very good. I’ve never seen her in a movie before and for a first-see performance, I thought she fit the part very well and did great justice to a Tim Burton film.

However… My ALL TIME FAVOURITE character was the CHESIRE CAT!! :D

That big, fat, rolly blue-striped ball of fluff was adorable lol.

All in all, the story line was gripping, interesting and different. The cast was fabulous and each actor did their character 100% justice, and the special effects were amazing. I was hooked the whole time and wasn’t constantly checking the time to see how much longer we had left.

I give this film a 7 1/2 out of 10 and HIGHLY recommend it to anybody considering going to see it :)

Have a great Sunday night.

xoxo

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