This moment always makes me laugh – had to screen-dump this scene from Hush:
Favourite Buffy moments #1
This moment always makes me laugh – had to screen-dump this scene from Hush:
Recently I’ve been revisiting Buffy The Vampire Slayer. It’s been strange watching them all over again as they were such a huge part of a life I once shared with my ex-husband and an ex-friend.
But now, I can watch them again and not feel pangs of memories. Now I just revel in how utterly awesome Buffy was and still is.
I also went into a bit of a pinning frenzy with some of my favourite quotes etc. and thought I’d do my own as I’m watching.
So here’s the first from Series 4 – Episode 8 – PANGS
I’m sure there are more important things I should be doing right now.
BIG THANKS go to Big Bang Theory Transcripts who has done a brilliant job of transcribing virtually all of the episodes.
Ah the joys of insomnia! Today I decided to do some of my own ‘quotes and images’ based on quotes by four of my favourite writers.
If I haven’t credited the photographer for the image it’s because I couldn’t find out who it was. If you know or are the photographer and want me to remove this please let me know and I will do so straight away. If not just give me your name etc. and I’ll credit 🙂
It’s time for me to ‘fess up – I have a massive girl crush and I have had since time immemorial – or at least it seems that way.
You see, back in the early 90s there was a short-lived programme on TV called Naked City and one of its hosts was a young woman called Caitlin Moran. I still have an episode of it tucked away somewhere on VHS where Bob Downe performed. But I was entranced by the host. I knew she was only a couple of years younger than me and was amazed that this vivacious, sexy, intelligent woman was doing so much more with her life than I was.
A few years down the line I posted some of my wares on ebay, one of them being an Aladdin VHS. Someone called Caitlin Moran bought it, I emailed her back and asked if she was ‘the’ Caitlin Moran – she was. I was so excited for some bizarre reason.
I’ve followed her work ever since – her writing for The Times, her book, ‘How To Be A Woman’ and her tweets. I’m not stalking her, honestly, I just have a truly massive girl crush on her.
Today someone pinned this on Pinterest:
I can’t eloquently say why I think she’s an amazing woman. Why she’s so inspiring or why I want to give every teenage girl that I teach a copy of her book. But I do want to share with you one of my other favourite Caitlin Moran quotes:
“If you want to know what’s in motherhood for you, as a woman, then – in truth – it’s nothing you couldn’t get from, say, reading the 100 greatest books in human history; learning a foreign language well enough to argue in it; climbing hills; loving recklessly; sitting quietly, alone, in the dawn; drinking whisky with revolutionaries; learning to do close-hand magic; swimming in a river in winter; growing foxgloves, peas and roses; calling your mum; singing while you walk; being polite; and always, always helping strangers. No one has ever claimed for a moment that childless men have missed out on a vital aspect of their existence, and were the poorer, and crippled by it.”
― Caitlin Moran, How To Be A Woman
In her book she had written about the joys (and pains) of motherhood. As a woman heading childless towards her 40s I still feel an ache inside sometimes that I will never be called mum (apart from when another teacher walked into my registration class and addressed me as ‘mum’ accidentally; or from the numerous students who sometimes do it – accidentally). I’ve never wanted children however there is a slight ache about this. It’s difficult to explain. Anyway, as I read her book, and read about her joys with her children it made the ache somewhat heavier. Then, I read the passage above. And I know that this feeling I have inside isn’t real. I KNOW I don’t want children and it’s just a part of my age and conditioning that causes this.
So thank you Ms Moran. I know this may seem like a creepy teenage love letter to you but I assure you it’s not. It’s simply thanking you for reminding me that my desire to remain childless does not make me a freak. That I can be a whole woman without rugrats and when people say to me ‘don’t you think you are missing out?’ I regale them with the things that they are missing out on by NOT having children. They walk off more depressed and empty the local Tescos of their cheapest wines.
Found here
I don’t know who said this – but I agree. I’m not a vengeful person however I just know that if I’m happy it really pisses off those who don’t want me to be!