Barbie Syndrome

I have something to say and just wondered if anybody does this too. I'm not very good at expressing my anger only my sister has  experienced any physical punishment from me so this is the only way I can deal with stressful situations.

When I'm really annoyed with someone and can't think what to say I imagine that the person is suddenly turned to plastic and has shrunk to a Barbie sized doll. I then imagine that I have grabbed hold of their legs and am repeatably whacking their bodies against the window in my room. If I am REALLY p*ssed off I'll imagine I'm putting their heads in the door and repeatedly slamming the door until their heads pop off.

It doesn't even have to a real person, it can even be a person in a book that has annoyed me. See I'm not discriminative. My sister has started to spot the signs of this 'Barbie Syndrome'. Apparently I frown and get distracted and she'll say, 'You're doing it again! Who has earned your wrath this time?' So if you talking to me and I suddenly go quiet with a frown , beware I could be mentally tearing your head off. There, you've been warned!

Song: Valerie by the Zutons

To be old and wise, you must first have to be young and stupid

This week has been unexpectedly good. I was ummming and arrring about going to Lancaster for ages but on the 11th hour I decided to go and I'm really pleased I did. I needed to be somewhere that wasn't Hull.

The night out was good too. I did'nt drink a lot but I mixed quite a bit: 2 eggnogs, one red rum, one red wine and some champagne (which was given to us free by the Carlton). So yer if thats not a cocktail for a hangover then I don't know what is. But thankfully I was ok and spent the rest of Thursday in bed watching 'Sleepless in Seattle'. The afternoon I went to a place called Soupanover, which is a really groovy cafe that sells homemade soup. On the walls are movie posters form the 50's with some reference to soup and they play really relaxed Motown songs.

My Friend had this Pea soup this morning and even now my moth is watering as the taste is always amazing. *drrrrroooooooool*

It was nice to see everyone and catch up, but you still feel like a bit of an outsider since your no longer living the student life. I really miss it :( 6 months to go!


We also have a wii! This is really cool but I have a feeling that my mum and Naomi will soon bore of it how long shall we give them??

I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested!

The title is reference to the Bag Bang Theory, I've been watching a lot recently. Debating whether to purchase season 4 because it is just so good.

Not a lot to report, this week has been pretty slow. With my granddad being at home the stress is starting to show. I'm not sure what happened but i think my sister talked back to my granddad (just to be clear on this my sister and I never do this we have so much respect for him that its almost like an unwritten rule. I know this must seem child like but its always been like that). To put it blandly  my mum went ape sh*t and my sister had to stay in her room for the whole afternoon. He goes home in week so it wont be long before I can go downstairs in pjays in the middle of the day and watch movies without squirming if something rude happens.

Book wise I've finished 'the choice' by N.Sparks, inspired by seeing the notebook on DVD.  To be honest I was a bit disappointed. If anyone reads my blogg regular they will know that i usually dedicate a whole entry to a review but this drained me so much that I don't have enough energy. The book left me with the feeling of 'meh'.  Reading Sparks I was expecting a bit more magic after all the hype over him. The book had the feeling of it could have been written by any mills and boons author. I didn't care for the main characters enough and the apparent 'choice'  ( I wont spoil it for you) wasn't shocking, in fact its been used as a soap story line so many times its nearly cliche.   But I'm not giving up I'll give him another shot when I can get my hands on another of his books, as this was the only one they had in my library.

Also reading Chris Bradford's Young Samurai series. I read the first one a while ago and enjoyed it and it was a while before I read the next, and it was probably treble the amount of time when i read the next one. When ever I read these books I aways feel like I'm attempting to go in a cold swimming pool, (I'm not crazy I swear). I don't want to do it, but it will be fine once I'm in. I don't know why its like this, its almost as if I've forgotten how good the series is and don't have the energy to read it. Sometimes I have to trick myself into reading, like when I get into bed and the only book within reach is Young Samurai, so I'll curse and force myself to read it rather than getting out of my warm bed. Now that I've read the third one I assumed that it would be the last one, but to my horror I've found out there are 5 more after this! Poor Jack, he is never going to get home to England.   I also feel tricked, its almost as if I now have to read all of them. Grrrrrrr.

At the moment I'm trying to find  Dear John the movie on my laptop but it seems its not to be. I've seen it before but I just wanted to remind myself .

On my 35th square 109 to go.

Listening to 'With a girl like you' not sure who it is by but its from the Boat that rocked soundtrack.

London's calling

So beside the rant about disappointing books I've been pretty busy travelling up and down the country and sailing to Holland to the land of clogs and dope.

Lets start with London, hotel lovely greeted by eager to please Swiss concierge felt a bit uncomfortable by the fact that my eye was watering due to the fact I had just recently just hit myself in the eye with my own belt. Unsure whether to tip or not only had a tenner on me and felt that was a bit much, he probably thinks we are now stuck up oh well.

The Langham was lovely, felt like royalty when we pulled up and a doorman helped me out of the taxi XD One day I will stay at this hotel it was wonderful. A pianist played Pocohontus's colours in the wind' as we ate it under a chandelier. I will never forget it as long as I live

The ballet was a bit of let down due to the fact we felt a bit sickly due to the champagne we gulped down at the Langham, are seats werent that great we were leaning over the bar a lot to see. Giselle just could not compare to the Nutcracker but I guess it was ok for £10. Some of the expressions the ballerinas pulled reminded me of some of the expressions seen in anime which amused me.

The light that Camden once had for me seemed duller this time, maybe it was the fact I didnt have much money but it seemed a little bit less exciting than last time I visited. I don't think it helped that I had a sore nose  from blowing it all day either.

Phantom of the Opera was heart stopping.


Overall it was good trip but I wish I had been feeling better then some of my pictures would have been a bit better as most of them have me looking stiff and fed up. Arrrgh I hate colds!

Talk about Holland another day. Currenty listening to TS - fifteen. There are also  6 mugs and one glass in my room just thought you ought to know.

Septimus Heap

Hiiii haven't updated in a while but in my defence ive been in London and Amsterdam so I've been one busy bunny, but before i ramble about my ramblings I have to discuss this series of books I have read.

The Adventures of Septimus Heap.


Heard of it? No neither had I till since a few days ago. While being stuck in bed with a cold and nothing to read I raided my sister's bookcase and found this.  There are currently 5 books out and I've read 4 of them.

The first two books were quite good and they gave off a spark which suggested that maybe 3 would be just as good, how wrong I was. The whole plot of the first book was charming what with the mix up of babies and the long lost princess. I found that it was a nice stroke of Sage's to make the the main character seem insignificant and cowardly throughout the first half but then find his feet and reclaim his name.

I liked the character of Marcia, strong willed wizard who is not intimated easily this is definitely refreshing but was slightly disappointed when in the second book she seems just childish and silly refusing to see Septimus point of view.

I sympathised with the character of Merrin he had spent the whole of his life been told his name was Septimus Heap it was'nt his fault, he was bound to feel some bitterness to the real Septimus but I can only roll my eyes at his stupidity and his constant repetitiveness of making the same mistake other and other again   (of siding with the biggest bully in the play ground).

My favourite character was Simon Heap. I know too much about sibling jealously not to connect with him. He's hurt and annoyed that his younger long lost brother has been handed everything on a plate, I mean wouldn't you be if you had studied for years?  Maybe it was a bit extreme to pull the skeleton of your brother's arch enemy out of the water but people have done stranger things. I've read on forums that people have type cast him as the typical bad guy that waits to long to kill their enemies. I can't believe that Simon would have ever of killed Jenna he would have let go at the last minute.  He also genuinely loves the stubborn Lucy Gringe whose father is the mean gate keeper. His devotion is sweet and was the only thing i read about during book 5 the rest  I skipped.

I didnt read book 3 as my sister didn't have it but if it was anything like book 4 and book 5 I am glad I missed it out. Sage seems to running out of ideas and recycling old ones. Something goes missing main character goes off to find them not before calling on sister or aunt to let them know what has happened, something old nemesis appears something unrelated happens blah blah blah *yawn* they have to travel somewhere and then come back, and then anti climax ending where a lot doesn't happen.  I found myself scan reading most of the dialogue as a lot of it seemed unnecessary.

As the books go on the main characters seems to become more self righteous and more predictable is this Ms Sage's idea of character development?!?? As I would certainly not want to hang around with them in real life.

The illustrations in the book are lovely and I always looked forward to seeing the next one but they were always seemed to be repeated in other chapters. Was this laziness or way to cut expenses in the publishing department?? It would have been nice to see a new one in every chapter.

Another thing I liked was the catchup chapter they did it at the end where she told you what happened to less important characters which I thought was a nice touch.

I've read the reviews and have been surprised to see that there have been comparisons made to Harry Potter. Lets get things straight, when I first read HP i roared with laughter, after many rereads I still have a good chuckle. When I first read this i gave a weak smile and even if I did reread i hardly think that even a muscle would twitch in my face. Nothing can compare to HP NOTHING!!. HP is so easy to read you can just sit there and realise you've read a chapter without a blink of an eye. But with this it sometimes felt as if I was swimming in treacle.

Maybe I'm being a bit harsh they are targeted towards 12 year olds and maybe as a 12 year old I would have  like it more. I just think Sage should have stopped at number 2!

As indivudally books the first 2 books get 3.5 stars out of 5
4 and 5 get one star out 5

Worth a read I guess if you got long train journey but its not a Rowling classic by any margin.