day 371: lost and found

Last wednesday night I went to Asda to do a bit of shopping and buy a DVD. My choice came down to Stigmata or The Green Mile (which were both available for just over £6 each). I had never seen either of them, but Al kept telling me I should watch The Green Mile as it is one of his favourite films. I have often nearly bought it, but always been put off by the fact it is set in prison and it may have some depressing bits in it. By this reasoning it may seem obvious that the best choice would be to by Stigmata, but I hadn't read any reviews of it and no one had ever recommended it so it could turn have turned out to be rubbish. The answer was at hand though, because Al was on call that night so I felt fully justified in ringing him up and making him earn his on call money by giving me a bit of film advice. He, of course, said I should buy The Green Mile, but I wasn't ringingv him to ask whcih film I should buy I was ringing to ask him if Stigmata was any good. If the answer was yes, I would buy that, but if the answer was no I would buy The Green Mile. The answer was a grudging yes, so Stigmata was what I bought. I was in a real mood for watching a film about a priest investigating stuff, so I really enjoyed the film.

We ended the week off last week by finally managing to upload our (mine and Als) pictures onto hot or goat (het eller get) and have eagerly been checking each day to see if the photos have been accepted, but they still haven't appeared in the line up yet. They say they will appear 1 working day after uploading them, so I'm not sure what we have done wrong - maybe the person who checks the pictures is on holiday or maybe he just feels inadaquate when confronted with our pictures. I should add that I no longer just have a picture of me with a monkey on my shoulder as Al took about 200 pictures of me on our night out in Edinburgh last Thursday night and the last one looked kind of ok so that is the one I posted up.

I have been reading up about psychiatry and the mind and all that sort of stuff lately. If you invite a friend round for dinner at 19:30 and by 20:30 they still haven't turned up you could feel one af a number of ways and how you feel may make you take a certain course of action. here are 4 examples:
The friend is now 1 hour late:
1. You feel very worried and this may make you call some hospital A&E departments to see if they have been admitted.
2. You feel annoyed with them and this may make you act cold and unfriendly when they do arrive.
3. You maye feel completely indifferent to the fact that they are late so you behave exactly as you would if they had been on time.
4. The fact that they were late allowed you to spend more time tidying up and preparing everything so you are actually more relaxed and in a better mood when they arrive.

So from this you can see that it is not the thing that happens that makes you feel how you do, it is what you think that the thing that happens means.

La Rossa extends her hands.............