I've worked out what gives me blogging block. The thought that I need to say something really interesting/profound/witty etc, that makes it worth publishing. So I end up saving a bunch of thoughts till I have enough to blog about it, and then by the time I get there it's a jumble of thoughts and too hard, and I give up halfway through a draft. I've decided to make myself a challenge of posting at least twice a week from now on, and they can be simple paragraphs about a tv show I'm watching, or essays on life and chocolate.
So it's been ages since I wrote. I'll write up a review of 2012, and the hopes/dreams/plans for 2013 after we know if the world ends Friday. It'd be a total pain to sit there and work out 2013 is the year I'm finally going to complete my life size cross stitch of The Big Pineapple if life is wiped out before I can start the project. For now here's just a quick run down of what's been happening in Courtney world.
- I was having a very difficult time with work a few works ago, there was a lot of uncertainty, I felt I was failing as a manager and as a worker and I was very unhappy. Things have improved, as I've got a better understanding of where things are going and I feel way more settled.
*Ooh an "I've spotted a shiny thing" interlude - Everybody Get Up by 5ive is an awesome pop song. I really like 5ive.
- Man Vs Food is my new favourite show. Of course it's not on anymore and I'm just catching up on old episodes but man I love it. American tourism and culture and ridiculously delicious looking food. It's a winner.
- It's a week to Christmas. For those who know me, Christmas is when meek, mild-mannered Courtney, turns into a crazed tinsel flinging control freak. I feel like I've not been able to spread my usual Christmas cheer to people around me this year which has saddened me. I've also been really conscious/guilty regarding how easy it is for me at Christmas, I can change decorative colour schemes at the drop of a bauble, don't blink when buying presents for people etc, and having the reality hit me that some people can't even eat at this time of the year, have no toys for their kids etc, and so many animals are abandoned, hit me hard. So I've been trying really hard to donate to charities, in the vague hope that I can spread some cheer to someone who could really use it or at least take the pressure off them worrying if they can eat that day.
*Interlude, I love the way Cerys from Catatonia rolls her Rs when she sings Road Rage...
*Oh Stephen Gately... RIP :(
- In news I think is really exciting, after spending ages umming and ahhing about what I want to study next. I've decided that I really want to study interior design, despite not being sure I have much talent for it at all. I know I can't draw! (Art was one of the classes in school I quit as soon as it become non-compulsory.) I do definitely have an interest and I do think I'd be somewhat good at it but we'll see how it goes. More on that in a future blog.
- Saw the latest Bond film, Skyfall - I love James Bond so much, and was basically in tears halfway through the film as it felt like I was watching a Jason Bourne film rather than a Bond one, but then it got really good, and had lots of nods to the Bond geeks like me. I was very pleased to have the character of Q back.
*A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton is a really special song to me, that, Complicated by Avril Lavigne, Hella Good by No Doubt and the entire Spirit Room album by Michelle Branch, send me straight back to my first trip to the US. Instamemories. Oh! The Greatest View by silverchair too. I don't like them at all, but that song reminds me of heading to Universal Studios on a beautiful summer Californian day, on my sister's birthday.
- The trip planning has moved on since I last blogged, airfares are officially paid for, hotels are booked, all the scheduled Paris sightseeing is booked, and we're slowly booking London sightseeing. Again this is worthy of it's own blog post so will update more about it shortly.
Um is that it? I feel like the last month has just disappeared, I've been permanently sidetracked but feel like I'm getting into a more cleared head. I have a week off from Christmas Day (hurrah for office shutdown) and I'm so looking forward to it.
Hope things are well for anyone reading this.
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