I.O.U...

I.O.U. One Galaxy

stars are out tonight
and you're the brightest one shining in my sky.
it's like every wish I ever made came true.
the day I woke up lying next to you.

will you be my best friend
if I offer you my heart?
'cause it's already yours.
we could hang out every night
and watch the sun go down.
as long as we could watch it rise again.

gave me a valentine.
it's these little things that stand the test of time.
I've saved the tickets from the shows that we've been to.
and a thousand other memories of you.

will you be my best friend
if I offer you my heart?
'cause it's already yours.

gave you this i.o.u. today.
it said good for one galaxy.
once I build my rocket to the stars.
we'll fly away just you and me.

(Ataris)

a little something tim made for me and i want to keep :)

I thought it would be a good idea to have this on here as a way of keeping this memory. ? .

summer time BBQs

BBQs in the summer with friends are fun! :)

housemates

As with most things, there are things I will miss and things I won't. It has been a fab three years and I am sad to be at the end of it all. I think we must know each other as well as we know any of our older friends. It's going to be sad to say goodbye to this chapter of our lives, yet exciting to move forward to the next.
What are our dreams? What are our aspirations? None of us are 100% sure, but I think that there is something a little exciting in the unknown...

circumambulate

A new and interesting word:

circumambulate

-to walk around-

I read this on the first page of Charlotte's copy of Moby Dick and liked it! :-) It has a ring to it, it's a 'long' word and it rolls off the tongue nicely :) it has a feeling of motion in the saying of it...

call the midwife

At the moment I am reading "Call the Midwife" by Jennifer Worth, it's a really interesting non-fiction book about the life of a midwife in the East End of London in the 50s (this, quite clearly has nothing to do with my uni courses...but I don't care! I picked it up in the tiny Moorland Rd library. i love libraries.)
The book is really interesting, and a little squeemy making...
An interesting fact:
p.5
"The Pill was introduced in the early 1960s and modern woman was born. Women were no longer going to be tied to the cycle of endless babies: they were going to be themselves. ... In the 1950s we [I presume she means the midwives in the East End area here] had 80-100 deliveries a month on our books. In 1963 the number had dropped to four or five a month. Now that is some social change!"

crazy statistic. no wonder we have an aging population!

we love girly days!

Today was a milly and becca day! we had our riding, which was successful -- cantering in the school, we're getting there! (slowly....but it will happen!) (maybe? one day?!) (at least we are trying!)

when we were clean again, we headed to Spoons for beer and a burger (yum!) and then to see 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' -- in premier seats, thank you very much tim! :) The film was just the right amount of tack and loveliness to end the day on! fantastic! and we left the cinema with a resounding - WE LOVE SHOPPING! hehe, even if the message was don't do it! Luckily we are both far too scared to max out credit cards!!

a visit from tim

It was lovely to see tim again this weekend, he came for what felt like a flying visit :) we had a really relaxing time.. on sunday eve, having watched Gary run the bath 1/2 marathon we went to see 'Watchmen' a film based on the graphic novel, I really enjoyed it - I think the director (Zach Snyder also, Sin City and 300) is very clever and portrayed a version of the Anti-American dream very darkly. The sound track was also fantastic.

a bed time fairy tale

"One evening a little girl named Dinah Price kissed her mum and dad goodnight, clibed the stairs, went into her room - and found three bears in her bed. These bears were a father bear, a mother bear and a baby bear. They were lying side by side, with the baby bear in the middle. They appeared to be sleeping"
---Ten in a Bed by Allen Ahlberg & Andre Amstutz

"Fairy Tales for children are universal, ageless, therapeutic, miraculous and beautiful"
---Fairy Tales and The Art of Subversion by Jack Zipes

I am about to re-read 'Ten in a Bed' as part of an investigation into the re-telling of fairy tales for my children's literature module. I used to love this book and it is very well thumbed, I hope I enjoy it as much now! Well...we shall see!

call me a snob

"The mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; til he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of white-wash all over his black fur, and an aching back and very weary arms. Spring was in the air above ans in the earth below......"
- from The Wind in The Willows, by Kenneth Grahame

We looked at 'T.W in the W' today in my children's literature module. It seemed that everyone wanted to slate it, but I think that they were slightly mis-judging the exercise of considering a classic text in that they chose not to understand the themes of friendship and adventure that it comprises of. Instead someone said to me 'but it's not as good as harry potter', to which my argument was that we should wait and see if H.P stands the test of time as TWITW has. Grahame's use of vocabulary may be 'flowery' and archaic, but as our lecturer said, it is good to read outside of our comfort zone every once in a while in order to either progress in our reading, or to understand the past. Whilst the novel may seem out dated to some, and in some cases it is, it's themes and underlying morals have the same significance as they did 1oo years ago, and it should not be written off as a 'boring' or 'irrelevant' story. Non literature students bore me in their criticisms, call me a snob, but simply saying you did not like something is not criticism, it is laziness. AGH to uncultured people who believe harry potter to be the only decent book available.

i love romantic costume dramas!

What would it be like to have people control (or at least, try and control) your life? We just went to see The Young Victoria, which was fantastic... as a young woman her mother insisted she had someone to hold her hand as she walked down the stairs, servants tasted her food before she did and she was even prevented from reading certain books. So she was incredibly rich and was heir to the throne, but all that for a loss of one's identity and independence? no thank you!
The story of her love for Prince Albert was beautifully romantic and made me teary - wonderful! Blunt portrayed her very well as a feisty young woman who just wanted control over her own life and the right to make her own decisions. The film sheds new light onto a queen who everyone thinks of as sour faced and straight laced.

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On another note, my riding lesson today went well :) we went for a canter in a field, and I actually managed to be the least panic-y out of all three of us! I think I did well, and I'm looking forward to giving it another go :)
Tim's response to me asking what would he do if I died was perhaps the most romantic thing he's ever said to me, and I'm only writing it on here in an effort not to forget it.. "I would die too".
:)

a representation of life in two new movies

thumbs up to both of them :)