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First off, thank you for all the birthday wishes, you have all been very kind.
I will be adding to my journal on what I got up to over the weekend but I just wanted to get the thanks out there for all the wishes. You made my weekend that much more special.
As the years pass by there are less and less of us who share Xmas dinner. This year there will be about twelve. It’s taken in turns as to what home is to host Christmas Day and then Boxing Day. Being a Jewish family we still like to enjoy the hols and we give gifts etc but we don’t get religiously involved.
Today we were asked our views on a family day out to see a pantomime over the holiday period! (Ohh yes they did). My daughter looked at me horrified and was looking at me as if to say ‘please get us out of this one’.
I simply said that it was impractical as I have to share my daughter between us and her mum’s family bla bla.
It’s not that I don’t like panto’s (Oh yes you do), it’s just that I feel the time would be better spent doing our own thing.
Sadly, I know exactly which episode that is from,too. He's misquoting Shakespeare to a Ferengi to get back Mrs. Troi.
Just a Moment
10:21 Oct 15 2011 Times Read: 840
My birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks and I seem to always go through a reflective time in October. It’s bad enough that I’ve become melancholy over the years as it is!
I look back over the year to my last birthday and think how ordinary life has been for me. I haven’t done anything or made any decisions that have made an impact on things in general.
I have had personal victories that I am silently happy with. I have noticed this thou. It’s not the time span of the year that should be looked at but the moments, these are important as they can sometime define us. One special moment can be worth so much, and in that fleeting moment it can have repercussions that are phenomenal, the knock on effect can surpass ‘that’ moment.
My hat goes off to Requiem for remembering her dreams, even if they are sometimes on the bad side. It’s not that I don’t dream, I do. It’s remembering what I dreamt is the problem. Rarely do I think that there is any significance to the dream although as I get older I’m aware that I dream more of the dead than of anything else and maybe that in itself is significance enough.
Dreams...if I recorded my dreams, I'd have the weirdest collection of jumbled, and fantastical stuff LOL
I don't attach much significance to my dreams. Mostly, I wake up (and laugh) because my dreams are just ridiculous, and the dreams that are scarey when I'm asleep, seem much less so when I waken - I look at that as being just my subconscious mind 'replaying' senarios, thoughts and feelings, so that when I waken, my conscious mind can work as it's meant to ;)
I have ridiculous dreams as well! Funny sometimes, but outrageous mostly!
Brrrr..!
19:07 Oct 07 2011 Times Read: 869
If I put on the central heating it means I’m conceding that summer is really over. But I may just have to.
It was great to have that late blast of an Indian summer but to have it end so abruptly, well we didn’t want to be spoilt now did we?!!
My daughter is at that age now where she asks questions about ‘why’ me and her mum divorced. As I tell her the reasons in a very simplistic sort of way I feel that I’ve failed her (my daughter that is). The truth is I still believe I left for the right reasons and the fact that her mother and me are still ‘friends’ must mean I was right.
1) If you put on the central heat, you will no longer freeze your *** off.
2) Well, yeah, summer is over. You are having that delightful cold rain that is probably going to presage one of England's colder winters for a while now. Yes. Put on the central heat!
3) You are very likely absolutely correct. Remaining friends is a good sign of a well made decision. Not that I have ever been married. o.o
Star Trek
22:05 Oct 02 2011 Times Read: 882
It took a fan, a fanatic to bring this film to life.
I’m not sure what I expected but it was the way in which I would have expected it to have begun.
The special effects were divine. I guess the hardest thing was to capture the personalities of the crew we have got to know through the series we have come to love. I like Simon Pegg, he took on the part admirably but he was never a Scotty! I thought apart from that and a few other hiccups it did very well. In fact I loved it.
I was working when that was on but I'm gonna rent it out and watch it. I loved Star Trek when I was a kid and that movie looked like it would have been quite good.
A hot and lazy Sunday afternoon found me relaxing and watching the clock tick till the latest of the Star Trek films was to be shown, I was looking forward to that. I saw that Stand By Me was on but had already skipped past it as I plotted other movies for the day. There was a gap in my timetable and there you have it, I went back to ‘Stand By Me’.
How many times do I have to say, ‘I know I’m late getting around to some films and let me tell you 25 years is nothing (1986). ‘Stand By Me’ with River Phoenix was never a film I would say ‘I have to see it’ and on top of which I got it confused with another film I didn’t fancy so it was left unseen, till now.
Great soundtrack, always the first thing to hit me and the wonderful hits of the 50’s that were scattered throughout was wonderful. It a well used phrase but it was a good coming-of-age film.
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