July 20, 2007

I've been noticing lately, online and in real life, that although someone earns a decent wage, it doesn't always guarantee happiness. Not that we ever expected money to guarantee anything but a roof over our heads, food in our bellies and the bills to be paid, but I think some people expect money to make them happy. That it will magically make you feel all good inside, twenty four hours a day, and that you will never become bored because you have enough money to do things to amuse you – like go on a holiday, or buy yourself a whole new wardrobe – but even with that ability, I still see people utterly bored with their lot in life. They have plenty of money but even when they buy all they want, as well as what they need, they still feel restless and have a gap that needs filling so they in turn buy more stuff and keep repeating it like an endless cycle.

I guess that is why it is better to be always wanting for something, keeps you interested, keen and helps you feel alive, because if everything was so easily gained than I too probably would get bored with it.

July 20, 2007

I'm seriously considering getting up at dawn tomorrow morning just so I can drive into town early enough to get to the shops so I can be in line for the new Harry Potter book. I haven't even read any of the other books but I've been unwillingly sucked up in the Harry Potter craze that is sweeping through out the globe and I'd like to read what actually happens, before the media gets a hold of the book and spoils it completely. Plus I've never witnessed an actual frenzy before and I might just take my camera along for the ride so I can take photos of all the Harry Potter fans that live in my zip code.

And on that note, what is it about the Harry Potter books and movies that is so fantastic? I've read some pretty amazing books - filled with magic, fantasy and other worlds which are described so wonderfully that I just want to click my heels together and wish myself there – but these wonderful books that I so love and adore don't seem to generate a lot of interest in the public eye, nor in Hollywood's either for that matter, and so no-one has stepped forward to take them on. But how long was Harry Potter a book on the shelves for before they wanted to do a movie? Two whole seconds?! The Lord of the Rings books were a perfect example of a brilliant book that would make a fantastic movie but you didn't see anyone jumping up and down to bring that tale to life now did you. Well at least not until a few years ago that is. So what is it about Harry Potter that so thrills everyone and inspires children so to want to be a wizard of Hogwarts? Is it possibly because most of the tale is based in our actual world and there is a possibility that there might be another world within our own so it might be possible that the tale could be based on a truth.

Where else do authors get their inspiration if not from real events?

July 14, 2007

The lovely Claire plugged me a little awhile ago, about posting 8 facts about myself, but I've only gotten back to it now. I tried to post some things that you may not already know about me.

1. I'm 28 and I've only had my manual car license for a year and a half now and this is only because I wanted to prove to myself, and to others too I guess, that I could actually learn to drive a manual car and get my license. It was a high point in my life and also a low point because my dad passed away not long before I was actually meant to sit the exam. I almost cancelled, almost, but a part of me needed to do it regardless of how I was feeling, and besides, I was slightly pissed at my dad that he could just die a day before my birthday too, and so I just sat the test and passed with flying colours. I cried a lot afterward though.

2. If I'm listening to music whilst on the computer than you can bet your ass that I will be singing and dancing to it. It also helps me write – the right music is great when writing fighting sequences – and I love nothing better than slipping away and singing like I was born to do it. My fav song to sing? 'Stop' by Sam Brown. Stop laughing.

3. I own all the Dawson's Creek DVD's and I love watching them over and over again, especially so when I have something pressing on my mind. There is always some type of lesson to be learnt in every episode and though out the whole series, the characters have remained true and the show seems real.

4. I prefer the company o f men than women. I just don't know what to talk about when I am stuck in a room filled with women yet I have always got the car topic to fall back on when I talk to guys.

5. I had a friend who was also my nemisis in high school, who liked to draw too. We both were arty and would decorate our diaries with surf labels – because owning stuff with surf labels on it was/is/was so cool back then - and we would try to out do each other. I was always envious of her art skills.

6. I love having the house smell good and it must be clean. It makes me feel good when the house is clean and there is a hint of fragrance in the air so each Saturday I get up early enough to do all the housework before I leave the house. I don't know why but it bothers me if I go out and the house is messy. Probably because I only have to clean it when I get back.

7. My favourite number is actually 7 and it is meant to be lucky. I have seven letters in my name, first and last, and my old phone number used to have 3 7's in it.

8. I had a Rainbow Bright kid when I was younger and her name was Shy Violet. I was really peeved that I didn't get Rainbow Bright herself but I grew to love Shy Violet and her purple hair.

I'm not sure who else would like to do this but I'm going to plug Emily because I am sure she has something, eight somethings in fact, that will be interesting to hear.

July 14, 2007

No-one I speak to on a regular basis seems to know what transpired between our Manager at work and the Environmental Officer but what we do know is that that the EO left Thursday morning, in quite a hurry I might add, and we haven't seen him since. The word “suspended” seems to be floating around quite a bit but a part from that, it's all hush hush and just pretend like nothing interesting has actually happened here. In the meantime I am doing some of the paperwork that is required of the EO whilst the EO's understudy is pretending to be running the show on the other side of the stick. I don't really mind doing what I am doing because it's something new to learn so I'm not bored with it but now the understudy is acting like he should be doing the paperwork instead (which would be nice if the boy could actually spell!) and the EO has only been gone 2 days. Rude much?

Then again it never was any secret on his exact thought's of his boss. Come to think of it no-one really liked the guy.

Richard and I have been cleaning most of the day away and trying to turn this house more into a home. The kitchen is slowly coming together and same with the rest of the place but we just have so much stuff that it is difficult to make the place look completely tidy when we don't even have enough room to hide all our magazines and books. I bought some shinning new coloured pencils the other day and plan on keeping them all to myself so I can colour in my desk drawing that I have yet to do the final draw on. Normally I would do this at work but I've been kept a tad busy lately and I don't think that is going to ease up anytime soon. Better busy than bored I suppose.

July 06, 2007

Was it just me or was the last episode of Heroes, a bit of a fizzler. Because I was left scratching my head and saying ”What the?” inside my head over and over again. Richard gave it a big thumbs down too, which says a lot because Richard loves the show. But if I'm correct, I've seen previous episodes of the show with more drama in it. What gives? Did they just throw that together without really thinking about? Was a key writer of the series fired recently and we don't know about it?

Actually one show that has really gone down hill is McLeod's Daughters. I used to religiously watch that show - I still do but only because I want to find out what happens next and there is nothing else on TV at that particular time slot. Now the reason I loved the older episodes of McLeod's Daughters was for the simple fact is that they kept the plotline simple. There was Claire and then there was Tess. Two sisters completely different who are thrown into running a farm together because their parents are all dead. Yes there was romance, yes there was a little drama, but it was simple drama and most of it related back to the whole farming lifestyle. And the music, I loved that music in the background, by the same artist too, and the showing of the landscape through out the show. It really got you involved in the show. Now though it's all drama, drama, drama! And none of it actually relating back to farming really. I mean is Drover's Run still in a huge debt? How could Tess leave Drover's when she loved her sister so much? How could Nick? What ever happened to Blaze?

All these unanswered questions really and it truly is a let down. This is what happens to all the good shows. They produce something fantastic, and then when it starts getting well known, they suddenly have to spice it up and it's all about ratings and winning logies.

If I ever get talented enough and rich enough to write a show, remind me to keep it real through out the entire series.

July 06, 2007

”For every piece of happiness, there is always a piece of unhappiness..”, a quote I heard from Dawson's Creek, Series Three, or something like that. It was when Dawson was interviewing the grumpy man who ended up being a film maker, in a previous life or so it seemed, and how the love of his life – the woman who inspired him – fell in love with his leading man and ran away with said guy, breaking the film maker's heart, and him living the rest of his life alone and miserable because of it. It was quite unsettling to hear it but only because I know first hand that love has this capability, that a broken heart sometimes cannot be mended, no matter how much time passes, sometimes it just never heals and even when you have moved on, and you are finally smiling again, from out of no where the old pain will return and it's still as raw .

Sometimes, some hearts are meant to stay broken. And not everything that is broken can be fixed.