Work

Right, so here's my problem. You go to work to earn money to pay the bills and try to have an enjoyable life. All well in theory. The problem with this is, unless your lucky you will most likely end up in a job you hate. I ask what is the point in that? why not go on the doll then? That's what so many other people do. The problem with that though is what you do with the rest of your time? If I alone in the flat for a day on my own i go mad! I need to be doing something. I have even go so far to say if I won the lottery and didn't "have" to work again, I still would (albeit in a running my own business/charity fashion and not the 9-5 slave working).

Anyway I digress, at the moment I am looking for a new job, anything really that will get me out of my monotonous soul destroying job. Question becomes what do I go for?
I recently saw an advert for a job in Marketing on the interweb. Ive applied for this job, it doesn't technically specify what it was for except that they have many opportunities. I now have a HORRIBLE feeling that the job is that of knocking on peoples doors and selling them things... I shall update you all on Tuesday after my interview!

Stargate

Just wanted to make a quick post about my favourite show in the entire world, that and im killing time before work.

Right so about a decade ago I came across a show i found interesting, it was a new type of sci-fi show i hadn't seen before, instead of the usual, set in space hundreds of years in the future (ala Star Trek), it was set in the present day, on Earth with normal humans and normal technology at our disposal. This show was called Stargate SG:1. I fell in love immediately, later on i found out it was based on a movie, simply titled Stargate. After going back and watching the movie and the show from start I was definitely hooked.

Now a decade later, i have seen the end of SG:1's travels (with the hope of more movies), i have seen the first spin off, Stargate Atlantis, from scratch and watched that evolve into its own masterpiece of television (admittedly there were a few mistakes, as with all shows) and now i have just finished season 1 of the brand new show, Stargate universe.

This post is just a little view into how much i love these shows, what i intend to do more with this blog is delve deeper into certain aspects of these shows (and others) so i can put my opinion across to you all. I hope you will find what i have to say on these matters both intersting and informative.

For now though, i am off to work.

:(

Smoking

Ok so i have no had a cig since last night when i was in bed. I knew i had none left for today however i thought i would go to the garage at some point to pick up some more.

I did not! This was a bad idea. What was a worse idea was opening the wine, for as soon as i had drank a few glasses i NEEDED a Cig. Now i could just put my jeans on and walk around the corner to the garage and get some. But ive been told that cravings only really last about 3 minutes. So i decided i would write about it instead. Hopefully i can get some support from people both online and IRL so that i can cut down and eventually quit! Though my boyfriend is less of a help and more of a mocking reminder that i dont have any cigs!

grr

Homophobic or not?

Right then, if you follow the link i have placed in the title and read the article please come back and help me out.

Basically my question is, the t-shirt that is mentioned in the article homophobic or not? Now as you know i have a boyfriend, yet he and I both are fans of the show and of the Gene Genii.

Now i except that people who have not seen the show and therefore do not know the character may find it homophobic, but when taken in the context of the show, which is about a character from the 70's and 80's, i feel it isn't homophobic, or at least that is not the intent.

Therefore in my personal opinion, people need to calm down a little bit about silly things like this, there are much worse forms of bigotry and homophobia out there, please, focus your energies on fighting those.

Thoughts please?

Paris and the Parisians

What can one say about spending 4 days and 4 nights in one of the most romantic and beautiful cities in the world. With an atmosphere of surrealism and with an attitude of almost disbelief I walk around Paris' back streets, little alleyways which house a number of amazing little bars and restaurants, especially in the Latin Quarter. The mere fact that one moment you can be walking up a road that is not to dissimilar to one you may see in London or Manchester, the next minute you turn down a centuries old road with a beautiful view of the Eiffel tower.

My boyfriend and I were there with his Mother and Sister for the week. We had our own room in a very nice hotel near the Opera house. Each day we would make way somewhere and eat our morning Pan Au chocolate and his mother and I would enjoy a nice coffee (which has now developed a slight addiction problem for me in the form of double espresso's). Then we would see what Paris had to offer.

The first day we walked to the Louvre, we didn't go in but rather we had a look outside at the beautiful architecture and the glass pyramids. After this we took a boat bus around Paris, this offered an amazing opportunity to see some of the most awesome and most famous of Paris' attractions such as The Eiffel Tower and Notre-dame. Later after the boat we did the Eiffel Tower, when I say we I mean Curtis (my boyfriend) and I, as his sister and mum had done it last time thy were there. We took the lifts right to the top where we could see for miles as it was an absolutely beautiful and clear day. After spending time admiring the view and enjoy our lovely, though expensive champagne we went down and met up with the others. (We still have our champagne glasses from the top).

Later we enjoyed a charming meal, whilst Curtis' mum and sister retired, me being me took Curtis to find some bars, it took a bit of a walk but we found some quaint bars in the Latin quarter that we liked so enjoyed the rest of the night there, drinking as many different cocktails as the menu had to offer.

The next day we have dubbed "Day of the Dead". As some of you may know underneath Paris is a vast network of caves and tunnels, they used to be an host of underground quarries. Several hundred years ago, when Paris had officially ran out of places to bury the dead, they excavated thousands of dead bodies from their resting places and put them in these tunnels. They are now open to the public to have a wonder around and be surrounded by thousands of dead people.

Later that day we went to a famous Cemetery, the one where Oscar Wilde was buried. It was a beautiful and very peaceful place, I can see why people would want to be buried there... with one tiny exception... TOURISTS!!! If I was going to be buried, (which I'm not as I am technically Catholic), I would not want Thousands of people gawking at my resting place every year. This fact was made very poignant to us when we arrived at the cemetery where several black cars were entering in a funeral procession only to be surround by us lot and a load of other folks who were there to look at how beautiful it all was.

The third day we did a lot around the Latin Quarter and Notre-dame including, and this is where some of my comments on the Parisians will come in, trying to have a lovely afternoon lunch.

Now everybody knows or at least suspects the rumours are true, that the French are extremely rude, arrogant and impatient people (who hate the English). Well if the French ever want to get over this stigma, they need to get rid of a lot of people, the top of my list of those who needed removing, a Parisian waiter in a restaurant just down the road from the Notre-dame, (still on the little island). Basically we saw a nice looking little restaurant that did food and drinks and had a nice outside seating area, (though I was over ruled as we sat inside, damn being the only smoker on holiday). We sat down and the waiter came over to us, no smile, no hello, not even a welcoming face. He asked Curtis' mum whether we were eating or drinking, she simply replied "both". Well I have never seen someone in my life look as though we had just defecated on his dead mothers ashes. He handed out the menu's but not for one second did he take his horrible beady eyes of Curtis' mum. Now none of you know Curtis yet as I've not mentioned him much and its still early in my blog, but as soon as I mentioned what had happened, as he hadn't noticed being too interested in the menu, he stood up started going on with himself about how we were not staying there, at this point his sister made a quick and discreet exit... I followed.

So I guess my point is, that though we were in a beautiful and romantic city, if we were not careful, and Curtis is very prone to this, the people could have ruined the holiday. Thankfully we had each other and still enjoyed a very beautiful city.

Oh final point, sorry i know i seem to go on and on. I will make a special note of our hotel connoisseur, who was French, but he was absolutely LOVELY!! not one bad thing could be said about him, he was hilarious and his speaking English has provided us with many a quotes that will last us for many a year. So I concede its not ALL French people and not even all Parisians, just a fair few, I mean don't even get me started on their driving.

2 years later

So its been 2 years since i updated my blog. I guess i stopped as i was getting annoyed that no one read it. Well this time round I'm going to make it go viral, whatever that means.

So anyway i guess its time to catch everyone of you readers.... (anyone, hello?) about my life for the past 2 years. The last time i posted i was still in uni doing very little of anything. Since that time i quit uni, came home to work for my parents (which i did for a year and half), got myself into a long term relationship with Curtis, (my first ever male relationship), that's been going on for over a year now. We live together in our beautiful flat. I quit working for my parents and got another job that was so much better paid.

So yeah that's pretty much my life for the past 2 years. oh that and I'm now 22... if you hadn't already realised.

Other than the obvious changes life, is still pretty much the same, i go drinking and dancing and enjoying myself with my friends, i still love my TV and i guess actually the biggest change int he last 2 years is that my DVD collection is now MASSIVE!!!!

I guess what I want to do with this blog is not only talk and vent about myself, but i also wish to discuss things that matter. So for example homophobia, equal rights, the new Con-Dem government here in the UK... the list goes on.

But for starters I'm just going to leave it at this. I need firstly to get people in to read my blog so that's what I'm going to do now.

Cheers