“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
-Ernest Hemingway.

Bits from my Book (1)

His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at her feet, and all she did, miserable sinner that she was, was to draw her skirts a little closer round her ankles, lest she get wet.
-To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf.

How can I control my life, when I can't control my hair?

This is a picture, in which i look a bit ridic (thanks for spreading that Lauren) with my new hair. i'm worried i look like im trying to be 'scene' with the dark hair and the nose ring, and i barely recognise myself. infact, one of my best friends walked straight past me today, and gave me an odd look due to my cheery smile and awkward wave. i hope i get used to it. i'm getting there! -this is the only photo i have right now!- i was hoping to feel more intelligent, sadly, i dont.

The Kind Life.

With Lent coming up, (starting next Wed) I've been thinking about things I can/ can't live without, or things i indulge too much in.  (Last year, I gave up crisps and houmous, and spent the whole 40 days and 40 nights longing for salt and that immediate satisfaction received from the beautiful crunch of a sea salt and cracked black pepper Kettle Chip- so much so, that i seem to remember having a moment of crazed deprivement, in which i dipped my hand in the bag before licking the salt and flavouring off my fingers...that doesn't quite count as cheating right?!)

However, this was surprisingly unchallenging, and not as hard as i expected, perhaps i have more will power than i thought, or perhaps, i don't need some of the things i really think i can't live without.

So in the light of this, i will be challenging myself to two weeks of Veganism, (beginning when all the dairy products in my fridge-and trust me, theres a hell of a lot of cheese and yoghurt in there, has all been finished.)

I dont expect to remain a vegan forever, I think i'd end up spending an absurd amount on spray tans, but i'm interested in seeing why it is that people take on this seemingly large dietry restriction, and what difference will it make to my health, mentally, physically etc.  I'm actually pretty excited about this, or just trying it..something new to focus on etc.

I will be taking tips from Alicia Silverstone at http://www.thekindlife.com/

Wish me luck, and watch this space to see how i'm getting on!

February Resolutions

• Read at least a little every day.
• Get in touch with old friends
• Write Letters
• Manage my money better.

'Look within and life, it seems, is very far from being 'like this'/  Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day.  The mind receives a myriad of impressions -- trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel.  From all sides they come, an incessant shower or unnumerable atoms; amd as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday, the accent falls differently from of old; the moment of importance came not here but there; so that if a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work uon his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style, and perhaps not a single button sewed on as the Bond Street tailors would have it.  Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of conciousness to the end.'

-Virginia Woolf, 1925