I’ve just returned from the most magical of shops, a new discovery of mine - Hobbycraft. The adverts on the TV are typically annoying but they obviously worked on me because I hotfooted it over there and could have spent hours and hours in that store. Unfortunately, I managed to only stay there for an hour because I (very sadly) wanted to catch the end of the Coronation Street omnibus.

There’s some very interesting work going on at Pixar: The Incredibles looks very good, and the cute lamb in Bounding is especially sweet. I’m glad that Pixar are splitting from Disney after the next couple of films, because it seems completely unfair that Disney get to do whatever they like - as long as they pay the right money. The right to make sequel after sequel even if Pixar don’t want them to is pushing their luck a bit.

I just finished reading the whole of the Heat special double Christmas issue, with all the TV listings and I’m sulking because I can’t find Mary Poppins in there anywhere. I know she has to be in there someplace, but I can’t find her.

Okay, so here’s the lowdown on what’s been going on recently… My love of Queen is still going on unabated, I listen to them a lot and have recently started singing loudly to Bohemian Rhapsody and falling in love with it all over again. I got a workout DVD, which is mostly dancing which is great because you’re so busy concentrating on getting the moves right, you barely notice you’ve been exercising for an hour. I really, really wanted to be learning something new so I had a peruse through some courses. Psychology, Economics, that kind of thing. To help me see if it was for me, I picked up a copy of The Economist and I loved it! It’s weekly, though, and that’s not fair because it’s taking me to get through it. Mr C says I should just read as much as I can and then get the new one each time because soon I’ll be understanding it more and more and finding it easier to read, so when I finally manage to finish it before the new one comes out, it’ll be a momentous day. I went to the cinema on my own and saw the third Matrix film. I thought it was really good. I’ve heard people saying they thought it didn’t end properly and didn’t explain all the things it opened up in the second film. Now, I’m completely positive they should have just left it at the one film because that one was a classic and changed the way films are made today. The second one left a lot to be desired, but I thought the third made up for that totally. It answered all the questions I have and it seemed to end properly to me, the action was great (especially when Agent Smith’s face goes all slow-mo and wobbly) and there were only a few corny bits which I was thankful for. Basically, my opinion is that if they had to make it a trilogy, then they ended it well, even if it lacks that extra something in the middle.

I met up with my brother today, and we went to the cinema to see Pirates Of The Carribean. It was really good, although a little unsettling, that I went to see Orlando Bloom in a movie – see if he could shake off the elf-ness – and came out loving Johnny Depp instead.

Okay, so each second that I’m living is going about as fast as a snail, and yet I never seem to get anything done. Not that I have anything that’s particularly pressing to get done but it’s kinda annoying. Mother and I just watched Now and Then that I recorded from yesterday, I love the music in that film!

Deep Blue Sea was on last night and I hadn’t seen it before. I knew, however, that Samuel L Jackson died in the middle, and time was ticking on and I complained that he hadn’t died yet. Two seconds before he got eaten. Oops.

We went to see Final Destination 2 last night and it was really good. It wasn’t as good as the first one as there was less plot and more gore, but any film that shows a man getting a ladder in his eye, a boy being squashed by a sheet of glass and a guy being sliced into pieces by barbed wire, that’s gotta be pretty damn good. Of course, I had a nightmare afterwards and it takes a real film to stick with me that badly. The only other was 28 Days Later.

I don’t feel so good today. I had the day off and slept most of it and still all I want to do is crawl back under the covers. In more positive news, we just watched Ocean’s Eleven and Brad Pitt has never looked finer.

I can never help myself. I have a gorgeous apple and blackberry crumble sitting in front of me. I know that it’s hot, just out of the oven, but still… I’d sacrifice ending up with a burnt tongue for any kind of crumble, it has to be my favourite dessert! I thought I was having a useless day, I was trying to achieve things but they weren’t going right. I took my friend shopping but didn’t get anything for myself, I tried to tidy up some, but ended up making more mess. At last though, I’ve managed to do something productive and completely alter the layout of Lyrics of the Day. And if I say so myself, I’m quite proud of it.

It’s just… amazing. I mean, even that word doesn’t do it justice, I’m honestly speechless about it and there are few things that can have that effect on me. Two thoughts – Orlando Bloom, beautiful man! I could never get a crush on him, but my god… he’s beautiful! And secondly, the scenery? I can’t even begin to describe it. I love a film that I can get totally lost in, and this one I did. Twice I realized I’d just been gaping at the screen open-mouthed, and once I realized I was actually biting my nails, something I never do.

I just watched Britney in her film Crossroads. It was a lot better than I thought it would be, which is a sneaky way of not really giving you any opinion on it at all. Britney was also a better actress than I thought she would be. Ha. I didn’t really buy the name Lucy, though. Of course, the main problem with the film is that I don’t get on very well with the emotional scenes. I’m pretty sure my heart turns to stone when there is something that should stir up a normal human reaction.

We went to see the James Bond film yesterday, I really enjoyed it! I know it’s been around for a while, we were going to see it before but somehow never got round to it. It is good though, and Halle Berry, she has perfect skin.