Movie Review: Enchanted

My firned and I have been trying to get together to see a movie together for a while now, but our only free days are Sunday mornings. We really wanted to see another movie, but it was on at the worst time so we decided to see this. It's a pretty unique storyline and there is that fairytale ending of 'they lived happily ever after'.

James Marsden seems to have had a lot of movies out recently - Hairspray, Enchanted and the soon-to-be-released 27 Dresses (which he looks absolutely hot in!) He can be my Prince Charming anyday! *grin*

Plot: Giselle (Amy Adams) is banished by an evil queen (Susan Sarandon) from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan.

Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn’t operate on a “happily ever after” basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer (Patrick Dempsey) who has come to her aid – even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince (James Marsden) back home – she has to wonder: can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?

Christmas 2007

I'd like to wish everybody a Merry Christmas.

I hope those of you who live in the Perth metro area are keeping cool on this bloody hot day! (it's over 44 degrees celsius here!)

Separated At Birth?

I was watcing Video Hits the other day and they had on the music video for the Bandaid song from about 20 years ago.

Check it out here. You see Bono clearly about a minute into the video. Pause it. Zoom it if you can and then check out the picture of Daniel Radcliffe to the right.

How freaky!

New Mobile Phone

I bought a new mobile phone yesterday, the Nokia 6300, after my last one gave up the ghost. It is crap!

When it rings you don't hear it, even if it is up at maximum volume. This is because the speaker is at the back of the phone, next to the camera. So when you have your phone sitting on your desk, it is face up (naturally).

The battery doesn't last anywhere near what my old one did (Nokia 6610i) and it's a lot more difficult to navigate. I'll keep plugging away.

Anyway, I may upgrade again in a couple of months and maybe change my number because I keep getting nuissance calls and obscene pictures and texts.

Incommunicado

My mobile phone is doing this weird thing where I can't hear anyone that I call or who calls me unless I either have them on loudspeaker (not very good when on a crowded train when everyone is listening to you) or when my hands free is plugged in (which is not very often because I keep it in the car and never remember to connect it, besides which I tend to ignore my phone when I am driving unless I can pull over safely and quickly).

So, now I've got to buy a new phone. This is problematic because I am very happy with my provider. I have not been in contract for several years and have no intention of going into another contract when I don't need to. Even though I make it clear that I want to buy the phone outright because I'm happy with my plan, the phone dealers still feel the need to try to sell me their products.

I'll just keep shopping around until I find the phone I want.

Random Facts 19

1. The oyster is usually ambisexual. It begins life as a male and becomes female. It may go back and forth many times.
2. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults laugh 15-100 times a day.
3. One thousand tonnes of meteor dust falls to Earth each day.
4. A single 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
5. Impurities in gemstones give them their colour.
6. If you remove the pip, the flavour of the olive will be diminished.
7. Babies have taste buds all over the insides of their mouths, not just on their tongue.
8. One of the best ways to clean pewter is to rub with cabbage leaves.
9. Iceberg lettuce, until the 1920’s was called ‘criphead’.
10. About 10kg of milk is needed to make one kilogram of natural cheese.

Spelling Quiz

I Scored a 100%!

More Joondalup Fires

Because the new computer system is being installed this weekend, work closed at 5 today and will not reopen until Monday.

Instead of finishing at 8 we all got to finish early. A group of us headed off to the pub for a well deserved drink before going home.

At the intersection of Wanneroo Road & Burns Beach Road was another fire. I could see the flames while sitting at the traffic lights. They also had the helicopters dumping water on the fires.

I found out from my step brother (he's a fireman) that this one was an accident.

We haven't even got to the really hot weather yet and already we've had several fires around our place. Scary!!

Fires In Joondalup

Tuesday lunch time we had a couple of fires in the bush just off Joondalup Drive. Wanneroo Road and Joondalup Drive were closed for several hours while they tried to get it under control.

On my way home from work (9ish) they were still mopping up. It came dangerously close to jumping Joondalup Drive and threatenting the houses overlooking the lake.

The sad thing is they think that it was deliberate. Why would someone do that?

The smell is all through the house, making it hard to sleep.

Me?! The Social Butterfly?!

This weekend I have not spent one night at home for dinner!

Friday I drove to Ace's house because I was babysitting for him and his wife while they went to dinner and a show. I had to be up by 5.30 to get to their place for 7.30 to catch a bus into work. I didn't get home until after midnight.

Saturday was tough because I had training for a new computer system they are implementing in a week, so I had to be up at 6.30 to get into Perth for 8. Training lasted all day, so I didn't get home until well after 5. I got changed and headed over to a bbq at one of my neightbours down the street. I didn't get to bed until 2.

And this morning I met up with a friend for coffee in Osborne Park and got home around midday.

Ace was cooking me dinner (not ordering pizza) so was at his place about 5.30 and didn't get home until well after 11.

It feels like I've only been home to sleep this weekend. I haven't seen the folks for more than 5 hours since Thursday night because they've still been in bed when I've left and in bed when I got home!

This week at work is not going to be any different because I am on the late shift where I start at 12 and finsih at 8, so they have left when I get up and in bed when I get home!

Maybe next weekend I will actually sit down for a home cooked meal with them?