fingerpicking good

i have a guitar teacher! finally! and the boyf says i might be allowed to go electric this summer - blimey! watch out world!

been having fun fingerpicking some blues - well i say fun, what i mean is SELF-INFLICTING PAIN IN THE HEAD! hahaha it hurts me so much to get it wrong! when i know what i meant to do but my fingers ignore my brain! how is this possible?! haha

it seems i'm having trouble using a plectrum... i only used to use my thumb to strum, but now i've gone into single string stuff it's more difficult and IT'S DRIVING ME MAD! haha just a bit... it'll get easier... one day... probably...

argh!

Happy St Patrick's Day

hello there! if you're a friend of mine you're probably thinking about having a pint of the black stuff today too! may your guinness be creamy and good on this St Pat's! cheers!

laugh out loud

i went to see a UCF last week (Ultimate Chick Flick)

you know the kind you wouldn't dream, in your right mind, of asking the man to accompany you to... He's Just Not That Into You...

superstar cast of hot Hollywood actresses all lining up to lament the world of dating - and i'm glad to report it made me shriek with laughter! this is fairly uncommon as most media tends to evoke a chuckle at best, especially in the cinema... but this film made me and others squeal in horror and delight at the things we women tell ourselves before the eternal truth 'he's just not that into you'

of course guys don't get off scottfree! they don't tell us straight that they're not into us so we have to conjur up reasons they haven't called/ emailed/ fb'd haha

in the beginning of the film it sets out the stall with a little girl in the playground crying with her mom telling her the first of many bad bits of advice girls listen to in their lives... how i wish i'd had the male friend Gigi gets in this movie in my 20s! it's so shameful to think how much time i wasted on timewaster guys! clearly i needed someone to explain the truth to me...

glad i'm not 'out there' anymore but hopefully i would be wiser in my dalliances...

great film tho, tho SJ is way too attractive... yet seems so nice! haha

she loves you yeah yeah yeah

went back to my hometown this weekend...

the sun was out and i was taking a friend round some Beatles spots (will put some pics up when all things necessary switched on and ready to swap data...)

good times!

all remarked on my accent becoming coarser throughout the weekend, pah these pesky foreigners, they don't know how easy it is to slip back into - i'm such a cuckoo when i comes to vowels! but i did get a bit of jaw ache that i won't miss - they some serious pronunciations they got in that town! haha

still can't actually believe me ears when i hear that Liverpool council deemed it acceptable behaviour to 'fill in' the Cavern Club in the late 70s/ early 80s for - wait for it, a railway project that didn't go ahead! seriously! so to make it up to the people they built a shopping centre called Cavern Walks on top instead... you couldn't make it up! idiots.

i always felt a bit of a cliche loving The Beatles and being from Liverpool, but i can say hand on heart if they'd been from anywhere else in the world the story of how they made it, against the odds and the music they made is so engaging i'm certain i would like il fab quatro! haha

there was a great quote from George Harrison after the band had split who said: The Beatles will carry on without us. And so it did!

big fringe

here is my new fringe! well what it was based on anyhow... the 'winkleman' was finally chopped into place just over a week ago and i can confirm that i quite like my new look (even tho i wasn't sure i looked like 'me' for a few days!) haha

let me tell you it's more high maintenance than i'm used to but not as much hassle as i'd worried about... my hairdresser (who i'll be seeing for a trim before too long!) says i have to dry it as soon as i get out of the shower which seems melodramatic but then i know the kinks in my hair and if they get a hold of my new front bit there'll be no hope! haha

it was a little sadness i washed my hair for the first time after it was professionally styled as we all know it doesn't look that good again til you go next time! it was ironed and light and shiny and now its kinky, frizzy me again (except the dried-first-fringe of course!) but that's okay man! it's like the real me! haha

it's THE most talked about hair cut i've had in along time - it changes how i look so much people literally didn't recognise me which is kind of thrilling, but of course we'll know whether it really suits me when my mum sees it this weekend! haha they don't hold back do mothers when it comes to having opinions on stuff - maybe she won't even recognise me either! haha

guilty as charged

to my shame (thanks RB) i have fallen foul of micro blogging!

twitter is so fun and instant and effort-free and i spend my free time surfing there casually... next thing i know i'm looking at no blogs since Feb 6th? oh my days - how rude!

so i got a new watch today :)

it's nice and shiny and took me months to pick and the best part is, even tho i had a budget of £100 for a nice flashy bit of wrist jewellery - it only cost £30! brilliant news! so as a treat i can get a nice retro Casio too for £20 with money left for cocktails! i'm easy pleased huh?!

i know twitter won't last - it can't - it's too time consuming! but it's fun while it it the latest thing so if you are on there say hi - i'm producerjodie ;)

weather

oh what a week it's been with all this snow, i made a snowlady in the back garden yesterday, complete with boobicles! hehe

and wandering around on youtube found this gem of a home video - you can't make this up!



only in England do we get excited about the weather - this is due to it's extreme unpredictability and i'm sure this is a massive influence on the general personality of this nation...

i'm looking fwd to getting semi-naked in the snow over the weekend - looks like great fun! don't know what the neighbours will say tho...

groundhog day

festive greetings all friends of the Groundhog! one day it sure would be fun to wake up in Punxsutawney (do you know how hard that is to spell?!) and take a stroll down Gobbler's Knob - even though its not in the town centre like in the film, see the hog and have some punch... ah well we can dream!

seeing the Groundhog is up there with wanting to be at the World Beard and Moustache Championships in Alaska come May - it couldn't BE any further away from England so i guess it's just not meant to be and maybe if it's back in Europe in 2011 i can make the trip... what a day that is - i heartily recommend it to anyone who lives nearer, and if you can grow facial hair - do so! haha, i'm actually quite envious of the art of facial hair, not that i would like to be a bearded lady making a living in the circus! but for guys i think its fun to have a lovely beard... apparently they've been shown in research to be scary things - but what could be more natural than a man's beard? certainly some need more trimming than others - but ZZTop looked great under their big beards... sounds like some guy who couldn't go past bum fluff started making bad pr for beards way back hehe

in other news i read today that in some parts of asia grey hair is said to be a sign of wisdom, with each grey hair representing a problem overcome - how awesome would that be if it were true - i've had a lot of problems... hehe

and why does this country just seize up in the face of a bit of extreme weather - i suppose we just not an extreme nation and hence the hysteria begins... having said that i have no idea how i'm going to get to work tomorrow with my car under 10 inches of snow... goodness me, i am NOT walking to work in the snow at 5 in the morning! haha

trying to be good

maybe i'm naive but i'm of the opinion that you should always try to be the best you can be - try to be good! otherwise you let yourself down and those around you who believe in your capabilities...

i often think i'm not the best i can be and it frustrates me... but at least i have the drive to try!

probably my standards are too high, but better than them being too low right? eventually i hope my ideas will even out to match my life but if you stop learning you shrivel and die right?

i'm feeling a bit confused about what is 'expected' of me at the moment in life... but perhaps its just in my head (that's what society does to you right?! haha)

am i supposed to get married and breed at some point? or is it just not that big a deal anymore? i read about how packaging is making people infertile this week - not a new story - but you do kinda get the impression mother nature has had anough of the parasite that is human beings and will see the more industrious of us off! haha

its so weird being 'grown up' thats for sure, when you were young you expected to just somehow know what to do when you got older... i still call my mum when something weird happens! maybe you're not fully grown up til you have kids or your parents are gone - then you have to step up and be responsible - sounds awful! haha

well i guess you just figure it out as you go along - what will be will be with a dash of influence here and there...