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Lady Louise's A-List Life
Tuesday January 24, 2006
According to scientists yesterday was the most depressing day of the whole year?! I’m not sure it was, to be honest in the 23 days of 2006 that have passed us by so far I think yesterday was one of the better ones! I had been away so was feeling refreshed, feeling loved up, finally got my head around some of my poor finance dilemmas and just in general was feeling pretty good about life! Scientists and their bloody generalisations huh? Really if you were to look back on the previous year I bet Boxing Day was one of the most depressing days when the Tsunami took Thailand… or even the day when the terrorists struck London, what makes 23rd January the most depressing day of the year? Anyway, I’m pretty lucky I don’t get hugely depressed… I get a little stressed and perhaps anxious and down, but I have ways of dealing with it!
1. Shop (retail therapy is always a good option)
2. Run a nice hot bath and put 7 drops of lavender oil in it and soak by candlelight,
3. Say a prayer (I find sometimes religion is the only answer)
4. Play your favourite CD really loud and dance around the room
5. Watch my favourite episodes of Sex and the City
6. Go for a nice long walk in the park
7. Phone an old friend and arrange to meet for drinks
8. Write a list of all the places you want to visit/ things you want to buy/ what you would do if you win the lottery
9. Write a letter to someone special
10. Have a clear out of all your old clothes/makeup/jewellery/shoes for the charity shop (that way you get rid of your junk and you are doing something good for someone else too)
11. Plan a party
12. Daydream (always a favourite option of mine)
13. Shop (I know I have mentioned it before but it’s my favourite solution)
I know it isn’t answer to everything, but I always think if you can make yourself feel better about yourself then things will work out! Another broadcast I heard on Radio 4 on my way home lastnight talked about the phenomena that is sweeping the nation…. Volunteering! I have pretty strong views about volunteering, I have volunteered before and worked in a school teaching children to read, my mum volunteers at the church working in the fair trade shop and I regularly check out Do it just to see if there is anything I can do! Often there isn’t because I am at work all day, but I still look. Now according to this broadcast lastnight there has been a recent surge in the amount of volunteers during 2005, due to year of the volunteer I think. Volunteers also feel much more fulfilled in general with that work than with that which they are paid for, the broadcast said that they feel more as though they are making a difference, and also because it is voluntary they are doing something which they really want to do… which isn’t always possible in your career!!! So perhaps if more people volunteered on the 23rd January it wouldn’t be such a depressing day! There is a very philosophical blog for you! | | | |
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Monday January 23, 2006
Hello folks, well it’s been a slow start to the year, hasn’t it? From an A list celeb filled life towards the end of 2005 I seem to have gone into meltdown in 2006… all is not lost though, I have had a fantastic weekend this weekend! Friday afternoon, I took the train down to London where I was due to be staying with my friends Jenny and Gareth in central London. An hour later I was standing on the platform in Euston with them both, Gareth wasn’t feeling too well. He’s been playing a lot of online games lately and had thus incurred a migraine. He kindly took my bags back to the flat so that Jenny and I could hit Bond Street… he’s such a gentleman!! So we took the tube to Bond Street, in fact we got a bit lost on Oxford Street, but eventually managed to find it, but because we didn’t have much time before having to meet the others we only really got to have a decent browse in Dolce and Gabbana. I did want to get to Smythson too, but no worry, I will have to do that another time! Anyway, by the time we had finished looking at all the lovely things in Dolce and Gabbana, we were already late for dinner. We headed back to the tube and onto Victoria to try and find the restaurant, Caramel. Jenny didn’t know where it was as Manoj had booked it! After walking around in circles for about half an hour, we finally found it, and my feet were killing! Why did I choose to break in new shoes on the streets of London? Anyway, we finally found it, and it was a nice little bar/restaurant which looks remarkably familiar to one on Earlsdon High Street in Coventry. Manoj, Sandeep and Sam were already waiting for us; Gareth wasn’t going to make it being so poorly! It was really nice being down there and catching up and listening to them talk about London life… about how they all go out for drinks on a Friday after work to this bar in the ‘city’ where the merchant bankers go, and the journey from Zone 5 to Westminster and stuff. I sipped my mint and cucumber Martini, and my strawberry Bellini’s while eating lovely grilled chicken with rice and listened fervently to the London tales! I was also horrified to hear that for £250, 000 Manoj and Sandeep could not afford to buy anything in London! After dinner, Jenny and I headed off back to her flat, where Jenny got me into watching Spaced! I wasn’t sure of it, but once I watched it I thought it was pretty funny! I was glad to get to bed early though for the busy day that lay ahead. Saturday morning, I was kindly woken by being brought a cup of peppermint tea to my room! How nice! Then after having a shower and getting ready… and swapping all my junk from my tiny Louis Vuitton bag into my bigger one, we headed off to tower of London. It was such a lovely bright day, and we passed the gherkin, which had to be amongst the highlights of my weekend, that really is some fab architecture! Anyway, after paying the big entry fee of £15 to get in the tower we wandered around for hours, looking at the suits of armour, Henry VIII’s in particular had a rather huge codpiece…. No wonder he was married 6 times!!!!! Then the crown jewels, wow, they are fantastic! Unfortunately you can’t take photographs of those! And the bloody tower and a few times we were high up on turrets looking out over Tower Bridge in the vain hope that we would see the whale (I kind of got a bit attached to knowing that whale was there during the weekend, I was distraught when I discovered it didn’t survive). At around 2pm, when we had seen all there was to see at the tower, when we had exhausted our cameras (and our feet) and been to the gift shop where I bought Peter a rather funky book on etiquette for gentlemen, we headed off for lunch! We ate a nice little restaurant, I can’t remember the name of it, but it was in Trafalgar square! I love Trafalgar Square, it’s so full of tourists and it’s really pretty I think! Anyway, after a hearty lunch… and dessert, Gareth headed off home and left Jenny and me to hit Oxford Street! Jenny wanted a new dress, so went into the huge topshop! It’s massive in there, I like the vintage section but would feel totally affronted at paying £80 for a second hand dress! Anyway, topshop didn’t have anything to offer, which surprised me considering the immense size of it! Luckily Urban Outfitters was much more accommodating and Jenny ended up getting the most beautiful black Grecian style dress! With feet even more tired and aching, we headed home to watch more Spaced! Jenny put the dress on and Gareth loved it, it really made me miss my Peter seeing them so loved up! Anyway, all totally vegged on the couch we decided we really should go out! Jenny put a lovely mini skirt and boots on, I wore my Nicole Farhi skirt, a nice white long sleeved T-shirt, my bolero jacket and my green high heels…. Insanely I did something which I never do here and went out without a coat on! I wasn’t too cold though when we hit the tube to take us to Oxford Circus. We first went to a bar, another one I can’t remember the name of, but come about 11pm we headed downstairs to the nightclub. It was an odd sort of nightclub, there wasn’t much space, and no dance floor! We ordered bottles of wine and sat in the corner talking life, love and everything. I told them all about how well Peter and I are getting on (which I think they could guess from the amount of time I had spent on the phone over the weekend) and how happy we are! They told me about how happy they are (which you would need to be blind not to see for yourself) and around 1am, we decided we had all been up too long, the wine was making us sleepy, I wanted chips and we all wanted the comfort of the flat! We headed home! This was the time when London became really appealing to me! We walked along Oxford Street to get the night bus, and it was almost as bustling as it was earlier in the day! The bus came pretty soon and still it was packed, and it just made me think how wonderful a place London is, no matter what time of day or night it is, there are people, and life and fun. Anyway, we got chips and got home and stayed up watching Shaun of the Dead until 3.30am… that was really funny. I slept really well that night! My last night in the big smoke! Sunday I finally woke up at about 11am, and the first voice I heard was that of my sweetheart on the end of my phone… what kind of mad man he is out playing golf that time of day I don’t know lol! Anyway, after a rushed packing of the bags and a change of clothes, we headed off to Camden market! I’ve heard about this place but never been! We only had an hour to do it before I had to head off for the train! Anyway, what a fantastic place, they sell everything and I’ve told mum all about it and we plan on going back soon! I managed to come back with some gorgeous stuff for all of us… I even returned from London with Peter’s first ever designer accessory! A Louis Vuitton wallet… he’s overjoyed! Anyway, my return was great, Peter and mum met me at the station and it was so wonderful to see them both! Couldn’t let go of Peter for ages, big big hugs! I seem to have come back from my break feeling refreshed as I was feeling really down when I left, I feel renewed, and even as though my passion for Peter is renewed, perhaps it is true that absence does make the heart grow fonder! He has been lapping up my renewed passion since I got back… as well as flashing his new wallet at every given opportunity! I will just be glad now when everything is sorted! But the weekend was definitely a big big help! I’m off to write my thank you card to Jenny and Gareth now! Toodle pip!
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Wednesday January 18, 2006
How dizzy am I blog folks? What with all the carry on that went on over the weekend, it completely slipped my mind that I spent a lovely evening with Peter on Sunday when we went to see ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ at the cinema! We stopped off first for a bite to eat and a cosmopolitan at Franky and Benny’s then straight into the film. It was his suggestion to go and see it, and I have to say I hadn’t mentioned that I was really keen on seeing it so I was really impressed that he had suggested something I wanted to see anyway! We’re in tune! Lol!
So the film. It was fantastic, it was about 2hrs 15 minutes long, which I always think if a film is that long, it has to be really good to hold your attention! And it was! The costume and filming was fab. It’s about this girl who gets sold to a house where they train up geisha, when her mother and father die. Anyway, this horrible geisha keeps putting her up to doing bad stuff and so she is getting regular beatings and in the end is told she will not be trained to be a geisha but instead will be a servant to them! So she grows up watching her friends go into this glamorous life of geisha while she runs around in grey rags like Cinderella. She meets this kind older man and she falls in love with him immediately but knows to truly have him she must become geisha. A nice geisha takes her a trains her up and she’s the most wonderful geisha around, her ex enemy the older geisha hates her and keeps trying to get one up on her… all the time she is in pursuit of this chairman! Anyway, the war comes and the geisha goes… but will she ever get her man? I don’t want to ruin the ending for you, but needless to say I loved this film. Go see it now!!! | | | |
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Tuesday January 17, 2006
I found this website, it’s called Be a fashionista well I already am lol. Anyway, the idea behind this website, is it’s a bit like a luxury car club, where you pay your monthly subs and then you get to drive posh luxury cars… however in this instance it’s bags! The thing is, although the bags in the £100 per month price tier are admittedly pretty funky:
1. That is an awful lot to pay a month for the use of a bag, enough of that and you could buy the bag anyway.
2. I have better bags than are in the lower price brackets… I have Louis Vuittons, Dior, Karen Millen, Gucci, etc etc.
I wonder if people would want to hire out my handbags? That way I keep the line updated, and fair enough other people will be using them but at least they get their full use then… hmmmm, interesting! | | | |
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Well hello folks! I know I am getting really lame at posting entries on my blog of late! I think it is a mixture of not having much time and not having much to put in the blog! This past weekend has been awful, I’m not going in to it as I have only just about got past the angst, but needless to say I don’t fancy another one of those for a long time! And then I went to the dentist yesterday who has told me I must be under a lot of stress because I have began grinding my teeth, not good! Sweetpea went and bought me a lovely ultrasound toothbrush today, think he is worried about my pearly whites! Think hopefully that will make them whiter and then at the beginning of next month I will be getting my hair cut quite short to start growing it again as it’s not really growing how I want it! I hope I can get some length back on it by summer, but if not then at least it will be a nice style! Timmy, my new dog, he’s doing just fine! I love him and I know originally I wanted a Paris Hilton style dog, but now I have him I’m so glad I have a proper mad dog to drag me up the road when we go ‘walkies’… he’s my little friend and loves nothing more than a fuss! Anyway as I said I’m not dwelling on the weekend, so catch you later!
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