Banning fun?

Can you believe that a school in Sydney has banned hand stands and cartwheels? What are they going to ban in schools next? Apparently ball games are also being considered to be banned in some schools. Are they going to kill all the fun things kids can do that involve physical activity and fresh air just in case they hurt themselves? Next they'll be ripping out the playgrounds and putting the kids in straight jackets. How is this going to help the obesity rate of children? They'll end up just sitting around because they won't be able to move for all the cotton wool they'll be wrapped in... what is the world coming to?!

Sunday Summary 26/8/2012

So this week was rather good! I felt quite productive! Which I haven’t for a while.

Got to catch up with a friend on the train trip home and was dumbfounded when a passenger across from us was quite annoyed and requested that we give the talking a break. I’ve never had that happen or experienced it happening to someone else. We weren’t talking about anything inappropriate or rude. We were just chatting away about anything and everything and though maybe we were a little loud at some point we weren’t doing anything wrong. When your on public transport I wouldn’t expect to have someone be so annoyed for that kind of noise. So there you go. There is a first time for everything!

Music wise, I bought 360’s album today, Falling & Flying, so I’m quite keen to get into that this week. Also been loving Taylor Swift's new stuff. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together & her collaboration with B. o. B., Both of Us.

The week in thousands of words...

Cooking white chocolate brownies!

My two year old brother who loves playing on Mum's iPhone. Certainly not something I was doing at that age!

Private performances from my talented little sisters!

Chicken Kiev. Om. Nom. Nom.

My typical Friday lunch. Spicy prawn sushi and a vegetarian curry puff.

Delicious pizza on a little date with my sister!

Good luck with the week!

The Flave #014

The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks. Finally finished reading it a week or so ago now. I didn't mind the story. I haven't actually read any of Sparks other novels as yet so this was my first. I've only seen the films for The Last Song and The Notebook, both based on other novels he's written, which I do enjoy quite a bit. I'd probably only give it a 3/5. There's just something about the main characters of Beth and Logan that in the end I didn't find them totally loveable. I don't know what it was. But it was quite a sweet story. Worth a read, just not my favourite book.

So I've already seen it but He's Just Not That Into You was only $13 at Kmart at the moment and it's a film that I just like so much I thought i would get my own copy. It's one of those films with half a dozen or so big names and the storyline involves sub story lines as different characters love lives unfold and then somehow they are all slightly connected in some way. Like your Love Actually, New Years Eve or Valentines Day. As I've mentioned many times before Ginnifer Goodwin is one of my favourites and in this film she leads the cast as the main character, Gigi, or at least she is in my head, tying the whole story together. Ben Affleck, Jennifer Anniston (another of my favs), Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Scarlett Johansson, Justin Long and Bradley Cooper all star and I enjoy all of them. Of course everyone lives happily ever after... or for the most part. Some find they were looking in the wrong places and others find their happy endings were right in front of them all along. One of those movies I will watch over and over.... 9/10.

Monte Carlo is one of those typical Disney films. It stars Selena Gomez, fresh out of the Disney machine and then Leighton Meester & Katie Cassidy who've both been on Gossip Girl, which makes it a little better. Also Corey Monteith from Glee which further makes it a little less.... painful to watch. But I wouldn't recommend. Then again I'm not really the desirable demographic.

Hadn't seen Moulin Rouge so bought the DVD and watched it finally! Starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor it's a classic that lived up to expectation. Such fun to watch! If you haven't checked it and like the musical kind then get onto it! 7.5/10.

Flavoursome!

You can't...

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

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Wed-nes-day

So today I glanced at the forecast and was a little excited that it was to be 19 degrees! It was so lovely! And as I walked to school there was the smell of summer in the air with freshly cut grass. It was rather glorious I thought. Then even when it got windy it was practically a warm summery breeze as it had a lingering warmth to it. Just a lovely day!

Slow internet is the pits. It's so easy to take for granted the internet running at a reasonable speed just like you depend on your alarm going off ever morning or water to come out of the tap when you turn it on. All of a sudden you're sleeping through your alarm or it isn't even going off.... or the tap doesn't let you have water when you turn it on anymore.... How'd that happen?! It's the most frustrating because I always tend to have a few pages running slash loading at the same time and am often multi tasking in some way or another.... but when it's slow it's like.... only being able to have one line of thought because the dame thing can barely cope with that let alone a second one. Frustration to the max!

Today in class someones phone made this sparkly magic kind of noise... like you hear in little games. It made me think of this spider web game that I used to play on Neopets. Remember Neopets? I'm sure any 90s kid does. Used to spend so much time on that thing! Playing games to earn points to buy food and accessories for my pet. Three plays to earn points, per game, per day. The meercat neopet style snake game was always clicked.... especially when the second version came out. And then there was the spider game, there were many little addictive games. And then you'd trundle off to the shops to stock up on food.... and then I have a feeling i would always be checking my pet into the hotel so that my pet would be looked after without me having to log on. Much fun was had on that thing!... happy days!

Anyway... I love it when you get to the end of Wednesday. Less than half the week to go and then it's the weekend. I live for the weekend at the moment!

Hope your hump day was as good as mine!

Pump up Spring!

I love how just listening to a song can brighten your day. Whether it be because of a memory attached or just because it's a typically uplifting song that you love. Today while I was in the gym Channel [v] decided to play three consecutive Foster the People songs. Of course firstly it was Pumped up Kicks and then I can't remember specifically the other two as I always get the titles all mixed up but wow! It just made me so happy. Just hearing the intro of Pumped Up Kicks took me back to summer, to dizzy hot days, sweating something silly, Big Day Out 2012 and just fantastic times with friends and family. I've come home and put it straight on and even now I can almost smell summer and feel the thick warm air that comes with it! I'm actually kind of looking forward to it warming up, it was quite lovely today. Usually I hate the thought of hot weather, not that I want it hot hot.... just warm. Bring on Spring!

Sick again....

All last week I had the nigglings of a cold, a runny nose and a slight irritation in the back of the throat and now it seems it's gotten worse. By Saturday I managed to have also gained an impressive cough which is only getting a little worse. Yesterday was not much fun as I did feel quite yuk for the most of the day. Was funny as I was getting stuff out of my locker and had a cough my teacher was walking past and made the comment of how unhealthy I sound and how that's a "do what you've gotta do and go home day" when you sound like that. Of course that's not what I was going to do. Can definitely feel the cold in the stomach though. Not feeling fab. Though was surprisingly energetic when I was at the gym last night between blowing my nose and running about I actually made it through my sprints feeling better than I usually do which I find quite strange. Go figure!

Even made it home in time to watch Can of Worms last night. It was quite good. I like Chrissy Swan as host having replaced Ian "Dicko" Dickson. And the panel last night was really good with Megan Gale, Fitzy and Kate. Especially Kate. She's so funny!

Anyways, better get to it!