I am so indecisive sometimes! I have mentioned a few times lately how I have a new site design that I’m working on. The version I have settled with is the fourth and usually it doesn’t take me that long to work out what I want. Now that I have everything almost-finished and have even added it to my Wordpress themes, I think I want to do something completely different!

Are you kidding me, brain?! Seriously, stop this nonsense, will you? I don’t have time to be twittering around with this stuff at such a leisurely pace, thank you very much!

I think I will have to come to a compromise and settle for tweaking the design that’s almost finished a little more, before I actually reveal it. I really like having fluid widths so that anyone using any screen resolution can view my site with relative ease, but the new design is not fluid and the width is quite large. While I know many people are using larger screen resolutions, there are some who still use 800×600 and I don’t want them to have to hassle with a horizontal scrollbar. Plus that would just irk me as it would feel marred and too imperfect. Not that my designs are ever perfect — that doesn’t exists — but I do like to shoot for it.

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I love the feeling I get when I find a film I can fall in love with. You can always pick them, too, sometimes within the space of the opening credits. Sure, you can grow to love a movie, but there are those ones that reel you in from the very start. Nothing in the world can interrupt my viewing, can draw me away from the story. It’s like discovering there’s one more piece of chocolate left at the back of the fridge.

I rented The Jane Austen Book Club on Sunday and it was just the right film for me to watch that afternoon. I’d had a difficult, hormonal couple of days and wasn’t feeling too cheerful so I needed to take my mind off it all, and that’s what this film did. Regular readers of this blog will know I’m a Jane Austen fan, and that my love for her writing has grown considerably in the last few months, so it wont come as much of a surprise, I’m sure, that I have fallen for another Jane-related story.

The film itself is about the lives of these five people, who form a bookclub to read all six of Austen’s novels and each person picks a book, then they host the bookclub discussion for that book. As the film unfolds you begin to see how each character’s own life resembles that of their chosen Jane book. It’s not cheesy, and it’s done in a really great way, where you realise just how real all their problems are and how we all go through similar things. Plus, the ending is nice, too (and I do love a good ending!).

I am reminded how the simplest things can help us to feel better when life is rough. Be it a good movie, a delicious meal, coffee with a friend, making something — whatever — it all counts and it all helps.

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I’m rather displeased with one of my cats at the moment. Lola keeps catching baby rabbits! She has not killed one yet and we’ve managed to get them off her before she does any major damage, but it’s really only a matter of time before she does kill one. That will be seriously unpleasant, obviously. I have enough difficulty with her playing with, catching, maiming and eating geckos, let-alone a poor baby rabbit!

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