Is It Just Me...?

Decided I didn't like the background colour after all. It looked funny when I published the post. Instead I am experimenting now with coloured text. Ooh! How fun.

I was in a right grotty mood today. People are so rude! And not rude in a getting-up-in-your-face-obvious-sort-of way, just small things. I think that makes it worse. Manners cost nothing, you know. For some reason people seem to think it's ok to walk into a shop and ignore the person behind the counter when they say 'hello' to you. The polite response is not to stare blankly at them as if they just addressed you in some obscure foreign language. It is also not correct to reply, 'Chelsea bun', or 'white loaf', (without a 'please' attached). It would be nice if people could remember to say hello when someone else says it. I get so tired of dealing with the basic impoliteness. Were they brought up in a barn by farmyard animals? Their lack of manners would suggest so. Argh. Rant over.

I was having quite a nice week before all this. Monday was spent at the new Harry Potter Studio Tour at Leavesden with my mum and sister. It was epic. Simply could not quite believe I was walking in the Great Hall and along Diagon Alley! (Non-Potter fans will not understand the sheer joy to be derived from just walking on these surfaces. It's fabulous). I will not spoil it too much for anyone planning a trip, all I will say is - it's amazing, with plenty to keep you entertained. Oh and you can buy a Butterbeer in the backlot between studios :-) So much fun.

Yesterday I cleaned my bedroom. Not very exciting you might think - and you'd be right, downright bloody boring actually - but I managed to make the time fly by, playing my 'Hairspray' soundtrack extremely loudly. With the windows open. I caught a glimpse of someone walking past the house, looking up at the window, clearly wondering what that wonderful music was...! Haha. I am unhealthily obsessed with Hairspray. I let my mum borrow my dvd today, and I feel slightly panicked at the thought of not being able to watch it for a couple of days. I love it. Although I may have found a new obsession yesterday (once again at the hands of director Adam Shankman) in form of the movie Rock of Ages. OMG. It actually, really rocks. Never seen the stage show, but the film is epic. The songs fit seemlessly into the story, Tom Cruise steals it as rocker Stacee Jaxx (his rendition of Bon Jovi's 'Dead Or Alive' has been stuck in my head all bloody day) and Russell Brand is his usual humorous self. The young leads are amazing too, giving it their all :-) Need the soundtrack, right now. Oh, Julianne Hough (as Sherrie) does a great version of Extreme's 'More Than Words', one of my all time favourite songs. I had to look out my old Rock Ballads CD earlier today. It was my dad's, but I used to pinch it so often as a teenager, that he let me keep it! It's full of mostly 80s rock classics, and it's where I first heard Guns'n'Roses, Scorpions and INXS. I was already instilled with a love for rock music, thanks to my dad's obsession with Queen. You weren't allowed to not like Queen in our house. Fortunately I love Queen :-) Anyway, I think a grounding in Mercury, May, Deacon and Taylor afforded me the ability to love a wide variety of music, as they made use of so many different styles. It's the first music I remember hearing as a kid. It's nice to still love those tunes.

Made some summer plans this week too. Me, the BF, the GBF and GBFH are going to Cardiff for three nights in July. After I finish work on the Saturday, we're heading off there to party for the night, then hang out for a couple of days. Should be fun :-)