How is it Tuesday already?!

I’m so frazzled by the festive season already and it’s still weeks away! LOL. I’ve found that having your own place with bills and silly things like council tax to pay for makes Christmas shopping almost impossible. It’s not like I can get presents for people from the 99p store!

I’d been quite pleased knowing that this year I wouldn’t have to buy anything for Tone. He’s really difficult to buy for and I always ended up spending more on him than I wanted to. So you can imagine my annoyedness when I got into work yesterday and got told the Secret ‘but not really so secret’ Santa presents had been drawn and that I was buying for Tone. He’s never taken part in it before, and I bloody bet he fixed it so that I have to buy for him. Grrrrr, he really makes my blood boil sometimes. Anyway, the budget is always a tenner so I don’t have to worry about overspending. I was tempted to tell him to take a tenner out of my wages but that isn’t really in the Christmas spirit is it?! LOL. And then, to top it all off, I get a phone call earlier from Mavis telling me that Tone had flowers sent to her and that he’d remembered that she loves poinsettias (always thought you spelt that poinTsettia!) The little bugger eh?!

So I’ve been having a think about what to get him and so far my thoughts are:

1. socks (shit and boring – just like Tone)

2. a dating guide book (he could really use some tips)

3. Hollyoaks girls calendar with all the boobs cut out (LOLLL)

4. Danny Dyer’s book – hahaha.

Anyway, I must crack on, am looking into buying myself Final Draft or something as a ‘to me, from me’ Xmas pressie so maybe I can finally start some writing in the new year.

What do you all want for Christmas?

Trying to find a fish in that big old sea....

What is that they say at the start of the first Bridget Jones film? Like as soon as one area of your life goes well, another one falls on its arse. I should Google that or somethin but yea, I feel a bit like that at the moment. I’m loving the flat and having space to myself. It’s nice to tidy it a bit and come home knowing that it’ll still be how I left it (Tone not getting trashed ‘with mates’ or Mavis putting my magazines in the microwave lol)

But at the same time, I’ve been getting a bit lonely. I know I get a fair amount of male attention in my line of work, but it’d be nice to have a nice guy around.

Now, as a rule, I’ve found that I attract losers or meanies, so I’ve decided to give Internet dating a go! (My only experience of this is Danny Dyer, yes, Danny Dyer sending me a pm on Facebook!!!!!!)

So I had a look online to see which sites looked good, and there are thousands of the things! Surely if there are so many, it dilutes all the hotties and spreads them around? Some of them seem to have really stupid names too. I mean, e-harmony? Anyway, I managed to find some comparison sites and chose one without a stupid name, but then it takes FOREVER to sign up. I got a bit fed up after page 3 of 7. ‘Tell us more about your job in up to 250 words’ Ermmmm, it won’t take that many. Then it asked me what my style was. ‘Bohemian, Business, Classical, Cool, Ethnic, Rock, Sophisticated, Sporty, Trendy, Other.’ I mean, what do you even put for that?! I put sophisticated, because after all, I do have coffee table magazines now. Then it asked what my best feature is. My best feature? There was a box to tick that said ‘I’d rather not say’ – how kinky is that?! I ticked ‘A sweet spot not on the list’ but then I thought it would be a sure fire way to get the perves interested, so I went with eyes. Classic eh?

So now that I’ve gone through a GCSE in signing myself up to get matched with someone, I just have to sit and wait I think. At least now I know that I’m sophisticated with nice eyes!

How has your week been?

Happy Tuesday.

O.M.G

So I musta shown up on Danny Dyer's delicious radar, cos not only did I get sent a Deviation press release (me, the press!! hahaha!), I only got a FB msg off of him! Or the person who operates his his Facebook account anyway, I'm sure he's too important to respond to saddoes like me, LOL. I do like to think of him though, feet up on the desk, dictating these FB messages to some gorgeous secretary before sending her out to get him some pie and mash. (MMMMMM, my fave hinthint LOL).

So, anyway. Here's what the press release says:

King of the indies Danny Dyer will be taking on a new challenge this November in new thriller, DEVIATION.

Danny plays escaped convict FRANKIE who kidnaps a young nurse AMBER in a desperate bid to evade the authorities and flee the country.

Told in one night, DEVIATION sees Frankie hold Amber hostage in her own car, taking her on a terrifying ride through the seediest backstreets of London. Amber is played by Anna Walton, of HELLBOY 2: THE GOLDEN ARMY and THE MUTANT CHRONICLES.

DEVIATION is a tense psychological thriller in the vein of other white knuckle rides like THE HITCHER, RED EYE, PANIC ROOM and THE VANISHING.

So what attracted Dyer to the role? “Frankie is a complex guy, he’s not *just* a “psycho.”” says Danny. “He’s a tortured soul, but not one of those fellas Hollywood asks you to believe the hostage will identify with and even try and help get away. This guy is evil, but we can see why he’s ended up like this.”

DEVIATION is written and directed by JK Amalou (HARD MEN, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE QUEEN), produced by J.K., Lara Greenway (CRIKEY VILLAINS) and Michael Riley (VAMPIRE DIARY, OUTLANDERS, SUGARHOUSE, LAVA).

You can follow the movie here on Facebook, the official blog here or here via Twitter.

This is all so cool. Mega congrats to lovely ladies Lucy and Lara for being involved in all this (and thanks to Lucy for sticking me on the mailing list, know it was you really! LOL). But seriously: movies always seem so far away somehow, like other people make them, yet here they are getting stuck in. It makes me feel like I can do this too and bloody hell, I needed that reminder after the past few months I can tell you.

ROCK ON TUESDAY!

Please hold

Oh, hi. Not much to report this week. New flat still awesome and Mavis took me for Sunday lunch on well... Sunday. Unfortunately at Toby's Carvery she got a bit freaked out by all the meat on the slabs, so we ended up going to Esso and getting cold pasties. Had a nice walk by a frozen duck pond though. Until we found a frozen duckling. Mavis tried to put it in her handbag to take it to the vet so we had to have a bit of a tussle. Ended up taking it back to Dollis Hill and burying it in the garden. Then next door's cat dug it up again, so now Mavis is on high alert with a saucepan and a water pistol I got her from Pound Stretcher, LOL.

Other than that, I've been working and mostly squeeeeeing like a sad fangirl over the delicious Danny Dyer. Can't believe he's in a movie that's been written by someone I sort of know via someone else I met once (Hi Lucy). AND he's my friend on Facebook now, how cool is that??? I always swore I'd never be one of *those* girls but I gotta admit, seeing people in blog and facebookland put a movie together with people I actually recognise is well-inspiring. Makes me think that one day I could write a movie, or even a movie with Danny in! How cool? Would like to see the look on Tone's face THEN, hah!

So anyway... back next week. Leave your message after the tone.... BEEEEEEEEP!