2009 Round-up

Can you believe it's the end of the year ALREADY? No, me either. And stranger still, it's the end of an entire decade?! Yieeep! What are we going to call the next decade i wonder. Surely we can come up with something better then the noughties?

Anywho, 2009 is definately very low on my list of favourite years. It has mostly been marred with pain both physically and emotionally. i have found it a very difficult year & i am thankful to see the back of it. However there have been little spots of wonder and happiness that i'd like to share with you. The stuff i want to remember when i look back:



Road to trips to Bournemouth & getting to spend time with these lovelies


Making the Art Mobile pretty


These girls (cinema trips, consumption of wine, dancing, craft nights, going to gigs, eating out - what would i do without them?)


My sister's Graduation




Art Trip



Coldplay Wembley (single most amazing gig of my life to date)
Other noteable gigs - Kings of Leon, Keane, Snow Patrol, Air Traffic, Red Light Company, Teitur.





Spending time with this cutie and seeing parts of her beautiful country


Getting a new tattoo




V Festival





Making Cupcakes (& eating them!)


Dancing at Chaos




Fancy Dress



Hanging out with the Winchester Crew


LaserQuest


Snow


Making a fort & hanging out with this little fella (& his mummy)


Trips to L-Town



Collecting plastic sunglasses



Visiting this boy


Blowing bubbles

Not to mention My iPhone, pedicures, a trip to Brighton, Southsea Fest, knitting club, unlimited cinema, listening to Coconut Records, reading the Southern Vampire Mysteries & watching The Office - An American Workplace.

Thank you blog readers, flickr contacts & twitter followers for sticking with me. i wish you very beautiful things for 2010.

Favourite Films of ohnine

i am fortunate enough to have unlimited cinema & dvd rental which means i watch a lot of films (except horrors, i don't like horrors). i estimate i saw 90 of the films released in the UK in 2009. Here's a little round-up of my favourites this year. i'm not saying these are the best films of the lot, there were many that had brilliant story lines, amazing actors and beautiful soundtracks. But these i'd happily watch over and over again and would highly recommend.


Up


District 9


Away we go


The Hangover


The Time Traveller's Wife


Slumdog Millionaire


I Love You, Man


Fantastic Mr Fox

Some others i thoroughly enjoyed: Julie & Julia, Inglourious Basterds, Coco Before Chanel, Law Abiding Citizen, Milk, Zombieland, The Young Victoria, 50 Dead Men Walking, Defiance, Gran Torino.

And some i found to be terribly disappointing: The Invention of Lying, Knowing, Love Happens, Funny People, Me & Orsen Wells, New In Town, Public Enemies, Watchmen, Vicki Cristina Barcelona, Dorian Grey, Land of the Lost.

What were your favourite films of 2009?

Celebrity crushes of 09'

Dev Patel


Ringo Starr


John Krasinski


Will i am (with or without dreds)


Mr Buble


i am mostly crushing on the fictional charater Eric Northman in the True Blood books but i think they did pretty well on the casting of Alexander Skarsgard for the tv series too ;)



Aaron Johnson



A girl can dream...