I'm taking a break right now. Not a scheduled break or anything but just a small break to recover from all these stupid invoices I've been processing. Being back at work is not very much fun. In fact, it's kind of boring. I'm kind of boring.
In fact, I'm so bored I'm just going to insert a whole load of nice pictures here for you to look at. This blog seriously deserves some sort of award. :)
I just drank THE nicest mouthful of Yorkshire Tea I’ve ever
had. It honestly warmed every bone in my body. Maybe I’m just appreciating it
more because I haven’t had a half decent cuppa in far too long. At home I have
been surviving on PG Tips (I bought about five boxes when it was half-price)
and now I’ve started work again (after a great deal of confusion and
mixed-up-dates) and I discovered an enormous box of Yorkshire Tea-bags in the
kitchen cupboard. I am very happy. Now, I know I’m meant to be taking a ‘break’
from work (in the couple of months sense) to study but now I’ve started again
and even though it’s only the first day, I think I’m really going to enjoy it.
I will no longer complain about work experience children and fat employees who
break chairs yet don’t pull their substantial weight.
Anyway, I have tomorrow off! Can you believe that? So I
guess fulltime work starts properly on Monday and today is just sitting around
and seeing how good my stationary is (the hole puncher is out of this world.)
When I sat down to write this post, I had intended to write
about my favourite children’s authors. (I’ve been thinking that my blog will be
mostly to do with music and writing from now on; enough of the boring personal
stuff. ) But now I’ve just talked for a paragraph or two about drinking tea and
working…work makes me tired, tea keeps
me awake but whatever, is this even making sense?! I didn’t get much sleep last
night and my dad came back from holiday and I was SO pleased to see him. But
now the excitement/tiredness of yesterday is over and I really need to find a
point to this post before it turns out to be crappy personal stuff again. OK… I
think I’ll write about the children’s authors sometime in the near future (when
I have the time and patience to actually write something GOOD) but for now I
want to talk about the news. LOL. Feel free to navigate away from this page.
I saw this interview on Sky News a couple of lunchtimes ago
and there was this disgraced American who was a Lord in Britain or something.
He owned the Daily Telegraph but then he got sent to prison which he wasn’t too
happy about and he did THE most surreal interview ever. It was with Adam
Boulton and the guy (Conrad Black) actually said to him, “Stop being a
jackass.” I was stunned. It was hilarious. He just carried on insulting people
and things and he really didn’t give a crap. It was hilarious. I’ll post the
video below if you want to watch it. :) (You really should watch it!)
Another news story that caught my eye (and made me kind of
sad) was that President Assad (Syrian dude) had agreed to a ceasefire over the
Muslim festival of Eid and that the majority of the opposition groups also
agreed to cease fire. This made me really sad. Both sides have just been
killing each other and now they stop to celebrate Eid? Obviously I’m happy that
they’ve stopped fighting but it just made me think… what’s the point in having
a celebration when families are torn apart and struggling? People will have lost
their fathers and brothers and they’re expected to be happy about Eid? And then
once the festivities are over, once everyone’s done celebrating, are they just
going to pick up their guns again and start shooting each other? It’s like that
German/Allies Christmas football match where they got out of the trenches,
played a match and the next day started fighting all over again. It’s sad,
really. And I wish that both sides would see how pointless all the bloodshed
really is. Why can’t people sit down and talk?
As most of you guys who read my blog already know, I only really 'got into' The Script when Danny was a judge on The Voice UK. Before that momentous occasion, I had only heard three of their songs; 'For The First Time', 'If You Ever Come Back' and 'Breakeven'. And the only reason I'd heard 'Breakeven' was because there's a thing in business called breakeven (where costs = revenues...lol). But since then, I have listened to all three of their albums over and over again and I can honestly say I never tire of their songs.
I know that people may think it's a whole load of boring love stuff but it really isn't. A lot of their songs are about separation and stuff but there are tonnes of really good inspirational songs. 'Hall of Fame' got to number one but you know, that's not the best they've done. I love that they write all their own songs (Danny and Mark are awesome writers) and I like that the focal point isn't always the singing.
The lyrics in 'If You Ever Come Back' are so lovely. It's kind of homely and beautiful and heartfelt and I love it!
Then there's 'The Man Who Can't Be Moved'... the inspiration behind that song was truly beautiful.
And the opening music for 'Breakeven'... it's instantly recognisable and so lovely. This was their biggest hit and I never used to like it but now... it's grown on me (reminds me less of business lessons in room 107... LOL)
These are a few of their their actual singles but the rest of their songs are just as good if not better. Exit Wounds, Rusty Halo, Live Like We're Dying, Long Gone & Moved On... oh I love them! I promise to post a more informative post about these guys some time in the near future!
Meanwhile... buy these!
Back to work on Thursday... slightly earlier than I expected!!! LOL.
I know my blog has been seriously neglected and the content is kind of crap but... oh well! I've fallen out of love with 'One More Night' now... sorry Maroon 5! Lawson and 'Standing in the Dark' have kinda taken over! LOL. You can watch it here! :)
