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.

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.

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!

Nearly a week without a post! I am not doing so well on posting at least three times a week. Maybe I should spam my blog a few times today? Nah, maybe not. I have good reasons for not posting, actually. Things have been super-busy this week with two birthdays and a bunch of other things. Who has time to blog when you’re enjoying the sunshine and socialising? Puh-lease, I know where I’d rather be (in a pool, thank you!).

I forgot to write about going to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Saturday. All I can really say is that it was a fantastic, enchanting, well-told story with wonderful actors who were a delight to watch. It definitely had me with a case of warm-fuzzies afterwards.

In other news, expect a new site design shortly. I started work on one yesterday and I should have it finished today or tomorrow, in hopes of putting it up either before the weekend, or early next week. This weekend in a long one as it’s Anniversary Weekend and we’re having a bunch of people to stay with their tents, plus it’s my nanna’s birthday on Saturday. Should a great time if the weather stays nice!

In lieu of a post about something possibly less interesting, here is a Friday Five meme, instead!

1. What would you do right now, if money were not an issue?
I would go on an overseas trip until July, which is when university will start, for me.

2. What would you do for the next three years, if money were not an issue?
Go on overseas trips whenever I could, buy/rent a very nice apartment in the city, employ a personal chef, volunteer the time I would spend working to good causes.

3. What is bringing you the most joy right now that requires little or no money?
Reading.

4. What types of things do you find enjoyable that require no money?
Aside from the aforementioned reading, I love to play and laugh with my nieces and nephews, daydream, play with my cats, swim at the beach, create new things out of old things, to name but a few.

5. Is there anything you’ve been meaning to do for a long time, but put off because of money?
Get another tattoo, jump off the Sky Tower, go on a holiday.

Bits of tree keep flying at me! That is a hazard of using my computer in the car on a windy day, I suppose.

I have finally started and uploaded my 101 in 1001 days list. It’s not complete yet but I wanted to get it public and up and all that. I’m quite excited about it, actually! I think it’ll be a good motivation to accomplish my goals. I like to finish what I start and I like a good “race”, so, here’s hoping I do, indeed, do 101 things in 1001 days.

Anyway, aside from that I have been fairly hermit-like as of late, except today I went out looking for job vacancies (there isn’t much but still worth handing in my CV to places) and hung out with my mum and one of my sisters, plus her two kids. The weather has been very warm lately and therefore no one wants to do anything! Including me.

Yesterday afternoon I had the urge to read Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice*, an urge I couldn’t resist, no matter how tired/down/blah I was feeling. Of course this meant I had to go and search through some of my boxes in the shed since I didn’t have the book on hand. Fortunately the boxes are not difficult to find and me being the compulsive organiser have everything well labelled for occasions such as this. P&P was found without much fuss, along with a few other things.

I ended up going through a couple of boxes that had some of my ornaments, framed photos and things like that. I haven’t seen a lot of this stuff in over a year so I was really pleased to dig it out, so much so I picked out a few things to add to my room. I am very strapped for space so I can’t keep many ornaments or anything out since there is no shelving, but I think I have used what space I do have to show off some of my favourite things.

After I gathered what I’d found I began cleaning, tidying and slightly rearranging my room. I felt so good for having done it, and my anxiety levels went down as a result. Christine commented on my post yesterday about lack of enthusiasm saying that tackling the tiniest tasks first is a good way to breed motivation. She is right, of course, and I knew that before but even the tiniest things seemed ginormous. However, after doing more to my room I feel that I have made some progress and now want to get some other things done. I guess it was the little spark I needed, coupled with Christine’s reinforcement (thanks, Christine!)

*I’m really having a Jane phase at the moment. P&P is the only novel of hers that I own, but I have three film adaptations of her work on DVD and they all happen to be some of my favourite movies. I’ve been watching them all a lot, lately.

Since Christmas I’ve been feeling slightly lost because I don’t really have any projects on the go, now. Usually I have creative things to do, I feel like reading and what-not, but lately all I feel like doing is watching movies… Perhaps it’s the heat and the anxiety I’ve experiencing recently. Well, whatever it is, I know I really need to start getting motivated to do things before I get stuck in this rut.

I have kind of started knocking out ideas for a new site design, but my heart is not really in it at present. That seems to be how I feel about many things, which is rather a giant pain!

Oh, well, hopefully soon I will be feeling better and my creativity will come back.

What are some things you do to help motivate yourself?

I don’t know that many people who don’t have at least one crush on a celebrity. Seriously, there is usually always a famous person one fancies. I personally am the Queen of Celebrity Crushes. I’ve been practising since about age 5 (a young Michael Jackson was my first) and it’s progressively gotten nuts-crazy-insane more amusing since then.

My latest is Elliot Cowan, an actor who recently played the Jane Austen character Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy in a mini-series called Lost In Austen. It’s no secret that Pride and Prejudice is one of my all-time stories, be it in writing or one of the many on-screen versions. Elliot is actually now tied for #1 Mr. Darcy, with Colin Firth. He does such a brilliant job at capturing Darcy’s character, and let us not pretend Elliot isn’t bloody gorgeous!

The only issue with this new crush of mine is the lack of information and, more importantly, visual media available on the Internet. So mysterious and aloof, which I suppose is very attractive in itself but downright frustrating on a Sunday afternoon when you’re bored and feel like having a good perve…

Do you have a celebrity crush? Come on, tell me all about them (so I don’t feel so nutty…)!

There are several things I could be doing right now but I can’t find any sort of motivation to get started. I still feel tired and groggy after being woken up by a text at 6-something this morning. It was a good text though, resulting in Epic Awesome. I luff my friends. But, I digress, I am now sitting on the couch listening to music on the TV instead of compiling my 101 things in 1001 days list or starting to sketch out ideas for a new site design.

I am getting nada from my brain at present! And I’m hungry, also.