Huge thankyou to TLB for taking me to see the new Pirates movie last night at this amazing historical venue and for introducing me to Burp Burrito's (cheap, vegan/vegetarian options, good ingredients and delicious!) Pirates is very visual, but you will have no idea what is going on...but it's so pretty to watch, that that's alright 
Oh, and Kiera Knightly sucks.
Other movies:
I finally got around to seeing Marie Antoinette and I loved it. I think (and I will need to get some books on Marie because I am now very interested in her) it was shot from her perspective...her life was so luxurious and she was completely sheltered from the outside world by sycophancy and custom. It was very idyllic and dream-like. I like the way that the sophistry of the French aristocracy and the game-playing that occurred at court was almost completely left out, instead you had this extremely original and narrow view of the court as a place of endless parties, food and beautiful clothes...that it was a narrow perspective makes it sound like it could have been boring but it absolutely wasn't, I think it was just how a very young and cloistered Queen saw her little world. I would have loved to have been in her shoes (except for the guillotining part).
On books:
Australian Houses of the Forties and Fifties by Peter Cuffley. Very well researched, good photography of houses and homewares...an excellent source book.
Downfall by Traudl Junge...Hitler's last days. Spooky stuff.
It has been raining non-stop and I am reduced to wearing damp underwear and my sons jumpers
For once, I would like it to stop!
* Anaesthetics freak me. In a nutshell, you are pumped so full of drugs that you lose consciousness and cannot breathe for yourself.
How can people accept this and not worry about it? It is one of the scariest things to me...
* My OCD affects me far more when I am going to work. On weekends I can leave the house without doing my "checking".
I have to learn how to keep that state of relaxation.
But it seems odd (to me) that something as enormous as making sure you're house is safe when you are not there is as simple as one click of the lock...I just struggle against this overwhelming sense of there having to be something more to the process.
BTW I need rich husband.
Oh, and Kiera Knightly sucks.
Other movies:
I finally got around to seeing Marie Antoinette and I loved it. I think (and I will need to get some books on Marie because I am now very interested in her) it was shot from her perspective...her life was so luxurious and she was completely sheltered from the outside world by sycophancy and custom. It was very idyllic and dream-like. I like the way that the sophistry of the French aristocracy and the game-playing that occurred at court was almost completely left out, instead you had this extremely original and narrow view of the court as a place of endless parties, food and beautiful clothes...that it was a narrow perspective makes it sound like it could have been boring but it absolutely wasn't, I think it was just how a very young and cloistered Queen saw her little world. I would have loved to have been in her shoes (except for the guillotining part).
On books:
Australian Houses of the Forties and Fifties by Peter Cuffley. Very well researched, good photography of houses and homewares...an excellent source book.
Downfall by Traudl Junge...Hitler's last days. Spooky stuff.
It has been raining non-stop and I am reduced to wearing damp underwear and my sons jumpers
For once, I would like it to stop!
* Anaesthetics freak me. In a nutshell, you are pumped so full of drugs that you lose consciousness and cannot breathe for yourself.
How can people accept this and not worry about it? It is one of the scariest things to me...
* My OCD affects me far more when I am going to work. On weekends I can leave the house without doing my "checking".
I have to learn how to keep that state of relaxation.
But it seems odd (to me) that something as enormous as making sure you're house is safe when you are not there is as simple as one click of the lock...I just struggle against this overwhelming sense of there having to be something more to the process.
BTW I need rich husband.
VIEW 6 of 6 COMMENTS
i actuatlly
*like*
kiera knightly
and the fact that y'all can
spell her name .....
you have written so much
made me long for adelaide
when i dont need to
ik like anaesthetic
especially how it makes
me feel under and post op
the raw shark texts
is the book i reocmmend you spend some
time on
it is AMAZING
really really AMAZING
i have never read anything like it
do anything to get a copy
...
i have loved marie antoinette
since age old enough to know
she was queen
(was also quite in love with princess di - but dont tell ANYONE)
the movie was just as i would imagine
her life to be
decadent, sheltered and small
what it was to be queen in france at that time
this is a huge comment
jc
xxx
appear
to be sooo lame
jc