January

I've quite enjoyed this month so far. Well, I've enjoyed certain events that have occurred this month, the month itself is always going to be one you want to forget, isn't it? It's always too cold, no one has any money after spending it all over Christmas and there's never really anything exciting going on.



Except for the awards season starting! I love the awards. BAFTAs, Golden Globes and the Oscars a month or so later. I love it. I always want to watch the films nominated for best film, but I never ever get round to it! Hopefully this will be the year. I've been to the cinema a number of times this month already, so if I keep it up it may happen! I've always really loved film, and watch a movie over and over again until I know it inside out and upside down if I love it. Sometimes I really like a movie and think it's brilliant, but I'll never watch it again because it just didn't capture me.
Mamma Mia for example. I watched it for the first time just today. The scenery is awesome, Meryl Streep and Julie Walters are fantastic, the music is undoubtedly genius, and yet it just didn't do anything for me. I was disappointed by that actually. I have wanted to see that movie for SO long, and for me not to love it was gutting.

Also, I can't quite believe it has been almost a year since Heath Ledger tragically died. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard the news. It was one of my first nights alone in my new flat and I was settling down on the couch with a glass of wine to watch 'Film 2008' and the voice over woman made the announcement that the show had been recorded before the news broke that Heath Ledger had died. I was in absolute shock! I thought she must be totally mistaken and it wasn't right, but obviously it wasn't.
His nomination for Best Actor at the BAFTAs is well deserved as was his win at the Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actor in his role as The Joker in 'The Dark Knight'. I'm just hoping he is nominated for an Oscar and wins it. I would be saying this if he was still alive and I truely believe he absolutely deserves to win all three awards. That performance was outstanding. The best thing about the movie was The Joker. It's just such an awful shame that he wasn't around to see how much credit he has recieved as a result of that performance.

Anyway, what else has been going on this month?

Well, I've been spending a lot of time with friends from work this month, and it's great! I've loved getting to know them all better the past few months, and now I can really call them close friends. Dinner, going out, cinema, it's nice even just to get out of the house to do something but when I'm meeting them I always know I'm going to have a good time. Thanks guys!!

I've started cooking and baking more. I love baking Victoria Sponges. I must have baked around 20 by now, and each time it gets better and better. Cooking is great too. Recently cooked a chicken korma, and my my it was scrumptious! Taken from Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food cook book, there were so many flavours scurrying around in my mouth it was hard to put my fork down! My next mission is the chili con carne!!

Well, that's my month so far. Nothing special, as I said in my last post, but still really good fun. Watch this space for the next post very soon!!

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