30 Days Of Music: Day 15 - A Song That Describes You? (And book 15!!)
I'm lax with this, but what the hell...
day 01: your favorite song - Try by Nelly Furtado
day 02: your least favorite song - Another Brick In The Wall pt 2 by Pink Floyd
day 03: a song that makes you happy - I'm On My Way by Boyce Avenue
day 04: a song that makes you sad - You Could Be Happy by Snow Patrol
day 05: a song that reminds you of someone - Don't Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin
day 06: a song that reminds you of somewhere - Sunshine by Gabrielle
day 07: a song that reminds you of a certain event - Stop Crying Your Heart Out by Oasis
day 08: a song that you know all the words to - Bitch by Meredith Brooks
day 09: a song that you can dance to - Objection (Tango) by Shakira
day 10: a song that makes you fall asleep - Delicate by Damien Rice
day 11: a song from your favorite band - Everything by Lifehouse
day 12: a song from a bandgenre you hate - Heaven (Candlelight Mix) by DJ Sammy
day 13: a song that is a guilty pleasure - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You? by Michael Bolton
day 14: a song that no one would expect you to love - Baby by Justin Bieber
day 15 - a song that describes you
day 16 - a song that you used to love but now hate
day 17 - a song that you hear often on the radio
day 18 - a song that you wish you heard on the radio
day 19 - a song from your favorite album
day 20 - a song that you listen to when you’re angry
day 21 - a song that you listen to when you’re happy
day 22 - a song that you listen to when you’re sad
day 23 - a song that you want to play at your wedding
day 24 - a song that you want to play at your funeral
day 25 - a song that makes you laugh
day 26 - a song that you can play on an instrument
day 27 - a song that you wish you could play
day 28 - a song that makes you feel guilty
day 29 - a song from your childhood
day 30 - your favorite song at this time last year
The meme comes from here.
Day 15 - A Song That Describes You?
This was quite tough actually since I'm actually very boring tbh and therefore my life/personality doesn't easily lead itself to a musical accompaniment. I gave it some thought and decided to go with this, simply because although I don't smoke, it's very me. I tend to laugh things off/ignore people if they annoy me, I do do the whole 'I need to lose weight' and then go stuff my face and I make these wild proclamations and do something utterly contradictory to it seconds later because, really, I'm not that adventurous either. At the end of the day though - despite my flaws, I'm pretty happy that I can always look myself in the mirror afterwards minus any delusions and know that whatever mistakes I make, they're small, never malicious and I generally don't repeat the big ones...just a few of the smaller ones, like having that chocolate bar etc. ;)
Peppercorn - To Err Is Human
Incidentally I cannot recommend Peppercorn enough. I am beyond sad she's disappeared and not making music anymore.
Book - 15 of 52
Read The World - Country 29 & 30 (Uruguay & Argentina) (That's me completed this continent wise at long last (thankfully - I was cutting it close!!)
Part of me really loved this book beyond the rating I gave it, but the issues I had with small parts of it just won't go away.
The story centres around three generations of women in the one family and we get their story one after the other. We start with Parajita, a miracle child who meets a young Venetian gondola maker when he comes to Uruguay and quickly marries him. The two are young and in love and for a while their lives are blissful until real life invades and the spectres from Ignazio's Venetian childhood gets in the way when Parajita falls pregnant. They have children, but soon cracks appear in their marriage as Ignazio starts drinking and gambling and it culminates one night when he hits Parajita and flees the house in shame leaving her to raise the children herself. Parajita starts earning money and having an independent life as she raises her children until one day Ignazio returns, wanting to prove himself to her.
Once the family is eventually reconciled their daughter, Eva, quits school and goes to work for a friend of her father's. No one is aware at the time that her father's friend has less than pure intentions with the child and by the time that Eva realises what has happened, she has left it too late. The man gives Eva a pair of shoes, and uses them as evidence of her stealing from him when she runs home after the first time he assaults her and tells her parents that that is why she ran home before she could explain anything and making it impossible for her to refuse to go back.
This section of the book was quite difficult to read and Eva, from a child suffering so cruely, to the adult who is estranged from her father and running away from home with a childhood friend is an interesting character. I must confess though, for much of her section when she arrives in Argentina and then when she returns to Uruguay with her own family, I found her a very difficult character to like and it bothered me her behaviour to her husband who had given up so much for her.
One of the main things that bothered me about this book was that it seemed impossible for a strong female character to be strong unless it was contrasted by a weak male and this was particularly evident in Eva's marriage. We are met with her husband, a good man, a doctor, someone who went against expectation to provide her a good home that she manipulated into marrying her. She then, in a fit of rebellion, manages to make it impossible for them to remain in their home and then blames him as she starts an affair with the friend she had originally ran away to Argentina with who is now a transexual and refuses to return to Argentina when they are able. It's complicated, but perhaps it was just me, but I just found Eva, for the most part, hard to root for despite her tragic childhood.
The final part of the story centres on Salome, Eva's daughter who is quiet and studious and suddenly finds her self engulfed in a revolution. She starts full of great ideas and beliefs, but eventually brutal reality catches up and she gets captured, tortured, raped and imprisoned, refusing to flee when the rest of her group does because she's pregnant and thus being imprisoned for years only to come out years later to find out life has moved on. The man she loved and had a relationship with before has moved on and married one of the women who had been imprisoned with her, her friends have all moved on, her family is all older and her daughter is now in America being raised by her brother.
There was a lot about this book that I loved, the very end few scenes are beautiful and the characterisation is always good and each of the women have a very distinctive character (for better or worse.) My main issue was the way the writer wrote the men in the book. Outwith Ignazio and to a lesser degree Roberto, the male characters in the book were at best one dimensional and inferior and I say this as a woman, but I don't need to have strong women at the expense of strong men - it defeats the purpose for me.
This book is definite worth a read though. The issues I had with it don't detract from the story or how hard it is to put it down at times.
Trying to arrange a belated birthday dinner for a friend is like pulling teeth. I'm offering to arrange everything and he can't even give me a basic time, and/or type of food he would like to eat. Seriously - it will serve him right when I book some place and he hates it.
I started knitting!! Okay, admittedly I'm rubbish and even worse than a beginner but small steps and all that. I figured if I wanted to complete that part of my new year resolution I should start somewhere instead of putting it off. I have the basic stitch almost mastered (at an excruciatingly slow rate admittedly) and next I will be attempting the dreaded 'purl' (which is apparently prettier? IDK) and then it will be trying to combine them and then maybe actually attempting to make something. I'm going to try and convince some people to try and learn with me so I have a point of comparison (and I'm ngl, I thrive better with something pushing me) but if not, I'll just set a target for some piece of knitting once I have 'mastered' the stitches.
And I just realised how sad it is that I am talking about knitting on the internet...
day 01: your favorite song - Try by Nelly Furtado
day 02: your least favorite song - Another Brick In The Wall pt 2 by Pink Floyd
day 03: a song that makes you happy - I'm On My Way by Boyce Avenue
day 04: a song that makes you sad - You Could Be Happy by Snow Patrol
day 05: a song that reminds you of someone - Don't Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin
day 06: a song that reminds you of somewhere - Sunshine by Gabrielle
day 07: a song that reminds you of a certain event - Stop Crying Your Heart Out by Oasis
day 08: a song that you know all the words to - Bitch by Meredith Brooks
day 09: a song that you can dance to - Objection (Tango) by Shakira
day 10: a song that makes you fall asleep - Delicate by Damien Rice
day 11: a song from your favorite band - Everything by Lifehouse
day 12: a song from a bandgenre you hate - Heaven (Candlelight Mix) by DJ Sammy
day 13: a song that is a guilty pleasure - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You? by Michael Bolton
day 14: a song that no one would expect you to love - Baby by Justin Bieber
day 15 - a song that describes you
day 16 - a song that you used to love but now hate
day 17 - a song that you hear often on the radio
day 18 - a song that you wish you heard on the radio
day 19 - a song from your favorite album
day 20 - a song that you listen to when you’re angry
day 21 - a song that you listen to when you’re happy
day 22 - a song that you listen to when you’re sad
day 23 - a song that you want to play at your wedding
day 24 - a song that you want to play at your funeral
day 25 - a song that makes you laugh
day 26 - a song that you can play on an instrument
day 27 - a song that you wish you could play
day 28 - a song that makes you feel guilty
day 29 - a song from your childhood
day 30 - your favorite song at this time last year
The meme comes from here.
Day 15 - A Song That Describes You?
This was quite tough actually since I'm actually very boring tbh and therefore my life/personality doesn't easily lead itself to a musical accompaniment. I gave it some thought and decided to go with this, simply because although I don't smoke, it's very me. I tend to laugh things off/ignore people if they annoy me, I do do the whole 'I need to lose weight' and then go stuff my face and I make these wild proclamations and do something utterly contradictory to it seconds later because, really, I'm not that adventurous either. At the end of the day though - despite my flaws, I'm pretty happy that I can always look myself in the mirror afterwards minus any delusions and know that whatever mistakes I make, they're small, never malicious and I generally don't repeat the big ones...just a few of the smaller ones, like having that chocolate bar etc. ;)
Peppercorn - To Err Is Human
Click to viewIncidentally I cannot recommend Peppercorn enough. I am beyond sad she's disappeared and not making music anymore.
Book - 15 of 52
Read The World - Country 29 & 30 (Uruguay & Argentina) (That's me completed this continent wise at long last (thankfully - I was cutting it close!!)
Part of me really loved this book beyond the rating I gave it, but the issues I had with small parts of it just won't go away.
The story centres around three generations of women in the one family and we get their story one after the other. We start with Parajita, a miracle child who meets a young Venetian gondola maker when he comes to Uruguay and quickly marries him. The two are young and in love and for a while their lives are blissful until real life invades and the spectres from Ignazio's Venetian childhood gets in the way when Parajita falls pregnant. They have children, but soon cracks appear in their marriage as Ignazio starts drinking and gambling and it culminates one night when he hits Parajita and flees the house in shame leaving her to raise the children herself. Parajita starts earning money and having an independent life as she raises her children until one day Ignazio returns, wanting to prove himself to her.
Once the family is eventually reconciled their daughter, Eva, quits school and goes to work for a friend of her father's. No one is aware at the time that her father's friend has less than pure intentions with the child and by the time that Eva realises what has happened, she has left it too late. The man gives Eva a pair of shoes, and uses them as evidence of her stealing from him when she runs home after the first time he assaults her and tells her parents that that is why she ran home before she could explain anything and making it impossible for her to refuse to go back.
This section of the book was quite difficult to read and Eva, from a child suffering so cruely, to the adult who is estranged from her father and running away from home with a childhood friend is an interesting character. I must confess though, for much of her section when she arrives in Argentina and then when she returns to Uruguay with her own family, I found her a very difficult character to like and it bothered me her behaviour to her husband who had given up so much for her.
One of the main things that bothered me about this book was that it seemed impossible for a strong female character to be strong unless it was contrasted by a weak male and this was particularly evident in Eva's marriage. We are met with her husband, a good man, a doctor, someone who went against expectation to provide her a good home that she manipulated into marrying her. She then, in a fit of rebellion, manages to make it impossible for them to remain in their home and then blames him as she starts an affair with the friend she had originally ran away to Argentina with who is now a transexual and refuses to return to Argentina when they are able. It's complicated, but perhaps it was just me, but I just found Eva, for the most part, hard to root for despite her tragic childhood.
The final part of the story centres on Salome, Eva's daughter who is quiet and studious and suddenly finds her self engulfed in a revolution. She starts full of great ideas and beliefs, but eventually brutal reality catches up and she gets captured, tortured, raped and imprisoned, refusing to flee when the rest of her group does because she's pregnant and thus being imprisoned for years only to come out years later to find out life has moved on. The man she loved and had a relationship with before has moved on and married one of the women who had been imprisoned with her, her friends have all moved on, her family is all older and her daughter is now in America being raised by her brother.
There was a lot about this book that I loved, the very end few scenes are beautiful and the characterisation is always good and each of the women have a very distinctive character (for better or worse.) My main issue was the way the writer wrote the men in the book. Outwith Ignazio and to a lesser degree Roberto, the male characters in the book were at best one dimensional and inferior and I say this as a woman, but I don't need to have strong women at the expense of strong men - it defeats the purpose for me.
This book is definite worth a read though. The issues I had with it don't detract from the story or how hard it is to put it down at times.
Trying to arrange a belated birthday dinner for a friend is like pulling teeth. I'm offering to arrange everything and he can't even give me a basic time, and/or type of food he would like to eat. Seriously - it will serve him right when I book some place and he hates it.
I started knitting!! Okay, admittedly I'm rubbish and even worse than a beginner but small steps and all that. I figured if I wanted to complete that part of my new year resolution I should start somewhere instead of putting it off. I have the basic stitch almost mastered (at an excruciatingly slow rate admittedly) and next I will be attempting the dreaded 'purl' (which is apparently prettier? IDK) and then it will be trying to combine them and then maybe actually attempting to make something. I'm going to try and convince some people to try and learn with me so I have a point of comparison (and I'm ngl, I thrive better with something pushing me) but if not, I'll just set a target for some piece of knitting once I have 'mastered' the stitches.
And I just realised how sad it is that I am talking about knitting on the internet...