The Five Year Engagement!!!

Ok, so everyone knows the basic plot of a ‘Rom Com’ .Everythings is normal at the start, then things tend to gradualy go wrong until we have a very messy situation in the middle and then of course, we have the Romaic version of the; they all live happily ever after ending. Typical. But we LOVE it! It’s true we all love a good Rom Com, they are feel good movies which give us the element of cringe, allowing us to think that there are other people in the word who also have the same goofy mistakes and problems that we do!!!

Five Year Engagement for me was a delight! I loved it! I am a big fan of Jason Segel, I honestly think he is lovely!!! The title kind of gives you a heads up that this is going to be a long movie, it may of just slightly over stayed its welcome but not enough to ruin the movie! After all they have to squeeze five years into one tiny wee movie. The length is also highlighted by the fact that family members keep dying throughout L

Emily Blunt, in my eyes, played her role as Jason Segel's fiancé superbly! Quirky and elegant but just as goofy as the average Joe.

The plot highlights to us how nothing is set in stone. Life can be unpredictable as opportunities arise and different paths are cleared. It also points out to us how you really can find the right person at the wrong time! That person may be the love of your life but you still have you own life to fulfil before you can create a joint one.

The supporting characters in the movie really add to it. They constantly have you laughing and cringing!

Overall I really enjoyed the movie, I found myself laughing, cringing and pleading with characters in my seat. I am certainly no movie expert, hence why I made no attempt to evaluate the directing or anything like that but I do love people to enjoy a good Rom Com.

Leanne x

Friday the 13th

Today is Friday the 13th, a day a lot of people are cautious towards. They deem it unlucky and fear it. It is so widely feared that it has its own terminology; paraskevidekatriaphobia.


Friday the 13th has not scientifically bee proven to be unlucky. However, if we delve into the past we can see some elements that may have sparked this idea. In Jesus' last supper, Judas was the 13th guest to arrive and the one to betray him. The day Friday was also feared by Christians as it was the day Jesus was crucified. Christians would tend to not start journeys or plans on a Friday with the view that it was doomed from the start.


Other aspects also hint towards a fear of Friday the 13th. When Capital Punishment was still around it would be on a Friday when hangings would take place and there were apparently thirteen steps up to the noose. Of course there are numerous other reasons aside from these two but I will leave finding them out to your own devices.


In fact people deem the number 13 unlucky as a whole, I have recently found out that in the catering business, the number 13 is avoided as a table number. People also feel uncomfortable eating at a table which has 13 dinners. This is due to the thought that in a year one of them would be dead. I have never heard of this before but I am not one to dismiss superstition. Seeing as it has never been proven to be wrong, I'm happy to go along with it.


Whether you’re a fan of Friday the 13th or not, remember it is still Friday which means the weekend is here!! If you are still trying to avoid anything disastrous happening, here are some tips to keep your safe....

Leanne x

I ♥ Cities

In the morning the city
Spreads its wings
Making a song
In stone that sings.

In the evening the city
Goes to bed
Hanging lights
About its head.
-Langston Hughes

It's so easy to let you mind get lost in a city. As you wonder through the streets, taking in every sight, smell, noise and feeling... it would be easy to think you were immersed inside your own 4D movie!

Have you ever had that feeling? Where you are just walking along the street with your IPod in, minding your own business, and the suddenly, an amazing song comes on and you suddenly feel like you are the lead role in a movie? That’s the feeling I get every time I'm walking through one of my favourite cities.                            

                                                             

From the way I'm talking here you would think that I have travelled half the world!!! Unfortunately that is not so, although one day I would love to!!! Who wouldn’t???

However, I do have some weird fascination with cities, as you may be able to tell by the background on my blog. I have a full list of places I would love to visit! Not all of them are cities, but the places I am most interested in are. Although I really, really hate to admit it, I am a history nerd deep deep deep down (waaaaaay down) and cities are just full of history. Each buildingholds some form of significance, the beautiful creations that most of them all are beyond comparison to the modern blocks that we build today.

The walls of each building hold so many untold stories, if walls could talk, I'd happily sit and listen to them all day long.

So far I have been to London, Dublin, Belfast and Barcelona... I'm basically interestedin any city, so if I get the chance to go there I will!!!! Although I have visited these cities and live in one of them (Belfast) I haven’t really explored them enough, so I think a revisit is in order!!!

  

Hopefully I will be able to visit more and more cities as I get older, I’d love to have that privilege and share these experiences with you too.

“When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.”

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

Leanne x