Wednesday, January 28, 2015

4 - FOUR - 4

I've been pretty busy lately, then again, I guess all of you are to. Anyway, as bad as I am at blogging when I saw this on Christina (who totally rocks)'s blog (Easily Entertained) I just knew that I was going to do it. I love reading other peoples answers!

So why don't you copy the questions and answer them on your blog, just let me know so I can go and check out your answers.

Four names that people call me
- Jolene
- Josephine
- Mary-Jo
- MJ

Four jobs that I've had
- au pair (in Germany)
- conveyancing secretary
- legal secretary
- bookkeeper 

Four movies that I've watched more than once 
- Die Hard (all of them)
- Love Actually
- Iron Man (all of them)
- Grease
To be fair this list could be a lot longer

Four books I'd recommend 
(I'm going to go with four series, cause picking a single book is too hard)
- His Dark materials trilogy (by Philip Pullman)
- Stephanie Plum series (by Janet Evanovich)
- Outlander series (by Diana Gabaldon)
- Jack Reacher 'series' (by Lee Childs)


Four places I've lived (in South Africa)
- Riversdale, Western Cape
- Glencoe, Northern KwaZulu-Natal
- Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (aka Limpopo)
- Pretoria, Gauteng Province

Four places I've been
- Windhoek, Namibia
- Carole, Italy
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- New York, New York

Four places I'd rather be right now
- Lying on a beach with a cocktail in my hand, with the husband, kids & friends 
- Lying on a beach with a cocktail in my hand, with the husband, kids & friends
- Lying on a beach with a cocktail in my hand, with the husband, kids & friends
- My couch, with a cuppa tea

Four Things I don't eat
- kidneys
- liver
- black or white pudding
- sweetbread

Four of my favourite foods
- Beef carpaccio
- Steak & friet (fries)
- Chicken caesar salad (with anchovies)
- A good burger (not from a fast food chain)
- Nachos with all the trimmings (bonus answer)

Four tv shows I last watched
- The bachelor
- NCIS LA
- Girlfriends guide to divorce
- Modern family

Four things I'm looking forward to this year
- summer holiday, no idea what we are doing but it will be summer & will have two weeks off work
- christmas holiday, cause I love christmas
- city trips with my girl friends 
- impromptu parties

Four things I'm always saying
- oh my word!
- no worries, you are grand
- oi stop annoying each other
- can you please hang up your swimming stuff?

So there you have it, lots of pointless information about me. Your turn next and don't forget to let me know if you answer it so I can go read all about you!

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Coming soon ....

A new year means new TV series, and that always makes me happy!

Here are some of the new series starting this month:



Marvel's Agent Carter
We have been watching all the other Marvel shows (movies and tv series) so we will for sure watch this

Empire
I saw the first episode of this series and Loved it! This should be really good.

Togetherness
I love Amanda Peet

Man Seeking Woman
I think Jay Baruchel is really funny so I hope this show does not disappoint

Fortitude
I'm going to watch the first episode of this and see what I think, I mean it has Stanley Tucci in it, but still, not 100% confident that I'm going to like it

Galavant - you can read my post about it here

Donnie Loves Jenny
I'm quite a big fan of all things Wahlberg so I'm happy to watch these two. Plus I think they make a totally cute couple

Hindsight
I watched the first episode of this and it really is quite an interesting question. I mean, what would I change if I could go back and change one single thing?

Babylon
This English series is directed by Danny Boyle who is quite a controversial comedian and looks like it could be fast paced. I'm also a fan of  James Nesbit

Eye Candy
I must admit that I was rather surprised that this was a MTV production cause it looks really good.

Backstrom

I know I'm going to enjoy this one!

What new shows will you be watching this January?

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Sing his name!


Okay, I just had to watch the first two episodes of this new abc series cause it is just too strange not to.

I mean, Vinnie Jones in a medieval musical????

What is it all about? A hero who has lost his spark in life after losing the love of his life to the evil King Richard. But is King Richard really evil? Or is the love of his life actually a bitch? Oh and did I mention that is a musical.

This new series is the brain child of Dan Fogelman (Crazy Stupid Love, Tangled, Last Vegas …) composer Alan Menken (A Whole new world, Aladdin, Kiss the girl, the Little Mermaid) and lyricist Glen Slater.

It stares Timothy Omudson as King Richard, Vinnie Jones as Gareth the kings right hand man, Mallory Jansen as Madalena the love quest and Joshua Sasse as Galavant.



I can’t tell you if it is going to be good, bad, or terrible yet. Regardless I'll probably end up watching the whole series just cause, well it is a medieval musical starring Vinnie Jones. Oh and John Stamos was in the second episode.


Have you seen it?

If not, take a look at the trailer: