Washed up

Saw The Wrestler last night, which was really good. Mickey Rourke did a bloody good job with the whole has-been junkie thing. Oh wait, I wonder why?

The most interesting thing for me was seeing the parallels between Randy and Cassidy. They're each washed up in the same way, each faking it in the same way.

The end was unnecessarily abrupt though.

Trailer: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I'm just not sure about this one - it looks very sappy and sentimental, despite the headliners.

I'm with stupid

Last weekend, in a fit of domesticity, I invited some friends over for a roast lunch - beef, veggies, bread and butter pudding. It was all going swimmingly until I opened a packet of sultanas for the pudding. As I started opening the packet with a knife, I wondered briefly if I should use a pair of scissors instead. And then I sliced the tip of my finger off.

PATTOTE: better living through scissors, not serrated paring knives with a bend at the tip

Things I did not expect to hear in London on a Thursday night

"Would you like to make group for to be having the sex with us?"

Blow me up, blow me down

I'm sleeping on an inflatable mattress at the moment. It's pretty comfy. Well it has been except for the fact that it's started to lose rather a lot of air. So now I have to frantically pump it up before bed and then hope for the best. But the pumping has definitely entered my subconcious, because at 3am this morning I found myself pumping up the bed in my sleep.

PATTOTE - better living through sleeptasking.

How many books you say?

70!

That works out as more than one a week doesn't it?

Fun author I'm glad I discovered - Katie Fforde

Author I knew I liked but finally got around to reading more of - Nick Hornby

Promise for next year - read more classics

PATTOTE: better living through the written word, lots of them