VD With Bolt

VD passed quite well, pretty pleased with how it turned out and now Wolfie has gone home, I am missing him more than ever. It was just a good weekend of hanging out together and eating loads and loads of really bad food, made special by a truly special guy. But enough of the luvvie-duvvies - suffice to say we had a great time.

Went to see Bolt today (in 3D as well) and without wishing to be sacrilegious, I must admit I am getting a little disenfranchised with the formulaic plots of these type of movie. The script was, in effect, a slightly new twist on the tried and tested 'pet gets transplanted from home and must find his way back, learning valuable life lessons on the way' notion and I wonder whether perhaps film-makers have lost their creativity. I know there are only a finite number of plots out there, but I just felt I had seen it all before. That's not to say the film was bad though - the animation was top quality and Bolt is just cute as buttons. There are also one or two heart-wrenching moments that made me cry so it was a very pleasurable hour and half and certainly good value for money.

I am also getting closer to discovering the problems I have regarding self-worth. The main problem stems from the fact that I blame myself for who I am and when I get down or angry, I feel I have let everyone down. This grows and grows because the fear induced causes me to be more reactionary and less balanced in my viewpoint and so the feelings of anger and worthlessness are exasperated. This means that what often starts as such a minor incident, gets magnified. I am trying to learn to accept that sometimes I do go mental and sometimes I do get stressed and try to forgive myself for it because that way - mountains will not be made out of molehills and week long depressions become half an hour issues. I have an understanding partner who accepts me for who I am - despite my silly spells and bizarre fears - so I am hopeful that things will improve further.

Yesterday Wolfie and I went to Durham for VD as we wanted a change of scenery. It's a nice wee city but there is very little to do there (so much so, we left after three hours). It was extremely busy and dare I say that there was a lot of rude people there - particularly those with pushchairs who thought it would be acceptable to run into you in order to get you to move. There was a lot of jostling going on in the throngs of people too. Still, Wolfie and I looked around the shops for a bit and had a glimpse at the Cathedral too before we went home.

Apart from that, I cooked a massive fry-up breakfast for Wolfie this morning and I got him a special present for VD, which I gave to him in the evening. I think he enjoyed. We also watched The Magicians starring the Peep Show guys, which was an excellent movie, and also tons and tons of Family Guy and American Dad. As I say, it's been a fun weekend :-)

And now all I am doing is drinking the four half-empty cans of Tyskie we bought last night...

VD With Bolt

VD passed quite well, pretty pleased with how it turned out and now Wolfie has gone home, I am missing him more than ever. It was just a good weekend of hanging out together and eating loads and loads of really bad food, made special by a truly special guy. But enough of the luvvie-duvvies - suffice to say we had a great time.

Went to see Bolt today (in 3D as well) and without wishing to be sacrilegious, I must admit I am getting a little disenfranchised with the formulaic plots of these type of movie. The script was, in effect, a slightly new twist on the tried and tested 'pet gets transplanted from home and must find his way back, learning valuable life lessons on the way' notion and I wonder whether perhaps film-makers have lost their creativity. I know there are only a finite number of plots out there, but I just felt I had seen it all before. That's not to say the film was bad though - the animation was top quality and Bolt is just cute as buttons. There are also one or two heart-wrenching moments that made me cry so it was a very pleasurable hour and half and certainly good value for money.

I am also getting closer to discovering the problems I have regarding self-worth. The main problem stems from the fact that I blame myself for who I am and when I get down or angry, I feel I have let everyone down. This grows and grows because the fear induced causes me to be more reactionary and less balanced in my viewpoint and so the feelings of anger and worthlessness are exasperated. This means that what often starts as such a minor incident, gets magnified. I am trying to learn to accept that sometimes I do go mental and sometimes I do get stressed and try to forgive myself for it because that way - mountains will not be made out of molehills and week long depressions become half an hour issues. I have an understanding partner who accepts me for who I am - despite my silly spells and bizarre fears - so I am hopeful that things will improve further.

Yesterday Wolfie and I went to Durham for VD as we wanted a change of scenery. It's a nice wee city but there is very little to do there (so much so, we left after three hours). It was extremely busy and dare I say that there was a lot of rude people there - particularly those with pushchairs who thought it would be acceptable to run into you in order to get you to move. There was a lot of jostling going on in the throngs of people too. Still, Wolfie and I looked around the shops for a bit and had a glimpse at the Cathedral too before we went home.

Apart from that, I cooked a massive fry-up breakfast for Wolfie this morning and I got him a special present for VD, which I gave to him in the evening. I think he enjoyed. We also watched The Magicians starring the Peep Show guys, which was an excellent movie, and also tons and tons of Family Guy and American Dad. As I say, it's been a fun weekend :-)

And now all I am doing is drinking the four half-empty cans of Tyskie we bought last night...