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I'm So Tired... Took the first of my Citalopram yesterday which I've been prescribed by my doctor to try and help with my tiredness. I *finally* drifted off to sleep this morning at about 6:30am after hours and hours of unsuccessfully attempts to succumb to nighttime unconsciousness. Clearly, the Citalopram is not going to agree with me. The last lot of tablets they gave me did the exact same thing to me, so frankly I wasn't really surprised that I was laying wide awake in my bed at 5 in the morning so tired I thought I was going to cry. What I *was* surprised about was the fact that I woke up maybe a hour or so after I'd managed to get to sleep feeling like I was about to throw up. This was new. And completely unwelcome. After the nausea had passed, I got up (now again completely wide awake and still ridiculously tired) and checked the leaflet in the packet of Citalopram to see the possible common side effects; top of the list difficulty sleeping and feeling sick. Back to the doctors again. Labels: health
posted by Hayley on Monday, February 02, 2009 @
12:54 PM
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They're Gonna Make A Big Star Out Of Me... The second in the National Treasure series. Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) is on the treasure trail again in this movie, trying to prove that his great-grandfather was not implicated in the assassination of president Abraham Lincoln. The chase leads them to Buckingham Palace, the Oval Office, the Library of Congress, Mount Rushmore and a hunt for the Lost City of Gold: Cibola.  Yeah, not bad. Having seen the first film it was much as I expected it to be. Family fun along the same vein as Indiana Jones type films (although it'll never be as good as Indie!). Suspend your disbelief for a bit and get carried away with it all. Nicolas Cage is starting to show his age a bit though (not that he was ever my cup of tea) but there is Justin Bartha wearing geeky brainy specs playing Riley Poole :P Labels: 100 films
posted by Hayley on Sunday, February 01, 2009 @
9:22 PM
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Doctor, doctor Well, I had my first doctor's appointment today in a few months. I hadn't bothered to make one for ages because they were all telling me the same thing (i.e. nothing) and I'd just got to the point were it was just too tiring for me to go through the whole palaver to get no further. However, I was pleasantly surprised this time. It was the first appointment I'd been able to make with my regular doctor. Up until fairly recently she'd been on maternity leave and I'd had to see a string of other doctors at the surgery. All of which had been very nice but I'd only got very vague ideas about what was wrong with me back from them and none of them had attempted to give me a diagnosis. Basically, I'd be told that lots of people go through phases where they are very tired and that I'd be better in a month or two. And they were still saying this to me after I'd been seeing them for 7 months (and after I'd been ill for 9 months). It's now 11 months since this illness started, 9 months since I first dragged myself to the doctor, 8 months since I had to give up work because of it, 7 months since I moved back home with my parents so they could help me cope with ordinary day-to-day stuff which I was struggling with, and 4 hours since I've had my first tentative steps towards a proper diagnosis; ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndome. I've known that it was that for months. I've been telling people that that's what I had, I was so sure of it. And now it's just nice to have a doctor say it to me too. It's nice to have a doctor actually listen to me and not just metaphorically pat me on the head and tell me it will all be ok in a bit. Because it won't. In fact statistically, I'm more likely to get worse this year than I am to recover. And they can't even treat me. But, I've come to terms with that and I'm just trying to get on with things now. And, I know having an official diagnosis doesn't actually change anything but somehow it still makes me feel like I'm making progress with my ME and it's a small step towards me eventually getting better. Labels: health
posted by Hayley on Saturday, January 31, 2009 @
9:41 PM
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They're Gonna Put Me in the Movies I expect everybody knows the basic tale of Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling, so I won't bother going over that aspect of the plot here. It's basically the same storyline but with the additional element of a dubious rat (imaginately called Ratso) who the ugly duckling takes to be his father.  Awful, awful, awful. Do not watch this movie unless your only alternative is setting fire to your house for entertainment. The animation was poor even for it's time; none of the attention to detail and little touches that Pixar put in, and none of the charm and wit of Dreamworks Animation movies. The less said about the script the better. Parts of this film made me cringe, and not even in a funny way like The Office did. Little kids might like it I suppose, but that's only because they don't know any better. #7. Magnolia (1999) Bit of a difficult film to define this one, but here is my best shot: Set in Los Angeles, this film follows the lives of several people and we watch as these lives intertwine and coincidence brings them together at different points during the course of this epic movie. Some of these meetings are brief and some of a longer duration but all are significant. A dying man with an estranged son and a much younger wife, a lonely cop, a troubled ex-quiz show kid genius and a trouble current one, a veteran quiz host and fearful daughter are but a few of the characters that are at the core of this story.  I quite liked this film although it was very long and I got a bit restless half way through! I found it a little difficult to follow at first because of the chopping and changing through the individual threads portrayed by this giant cast. I don't think I've ever seen a film with so many protagonists in it! But once I familiarised myself with the faces and names I really started to get into it. Watching this film again will no doubt show details which I missed in the first watching; links between the characters will become more visible and with hindsight things which I thought were not that significant the first watch will gain deeper meaning. And also, any film which contains scenes where it is raining frogs has got to be worth a watch, surely? ;) Labels: 100 films
posted by Hayley on Thursday, January 29, 2009 @
2:50 PM
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Let's Go See the Stars God, this whole 100 films in 2009 thing would have been so much easier if I'd actually started my blog at the same time I started watching these films! And, I haven't even started thinking about writing my books up yet (although, I only have two of those so far - lol). Anyway, enough of my complaining about something which I have chosen to do and on to the movies! Based on the hit stage show, which itself is based around the songs of ABBA, this movie follows the story of Sophie Sheridan (Amanda Seyfried) trying to discover who her real father is in time for her wedding.  Ok, so this was just pure indulgence for me. I saw this at the cinema and just loved it, and to my joy I got the DVD for Christmas. It's a ridiculous feel-good film so you shouldn't watch it and expect anything more than that! Acting is of course great which is to be expected with such a fab acting cast (with the likes of Colin Firth, Meryl Streep & Julie Walters) but the singing is a little ropey in parts, although for me this adds to the charm of the whole thing; hinting at what it would be like if real people just suddenly burst into song in their everyday lives. Fun and frivilous, probably not one for the boys, but definitely a girlie night in, a few bottles of wine and this movie and I'll be proper happy ;) In the middle of his divorce Will Hayes' (Ryan Reynolds) 10 year old daughter asks him to tell her the story of how he met her mother. And so, we follow him and his love life (the women he dates and those he nearly does but doesn't) all set against the background of his work for the Clinton presidental campaign.  Fairly typical romantic comedy. Nothing to write home about. It was all a bit blah, so blah in fact that I can't really thing of anything else to say about it. Maybe that's a little harsh, but having seen dozens of chick flicks in my life this one doesn't really stand out. The main thing I remember from this film is how Ryan Reynold's teeth can look a little weird sometimes. I think he reminds me of a chipmunk or something. Labels: 100 films
posted by Hayley on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 @
10:04 PM
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