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For some reason today I've had flashes of pictures from back home storm into my mind, mostly when I've been trying to concentrate on some particularly boring piece of work (always the way).  Thing is, they're not even images of my favourite things (ok, Bluewater was in there somewhere) but mainly they've been silly things - Waitrose (I miss decent supermarkets of all things!), my road (but not the end that I lived in), my high street, workplace and strangely enough, images of Chicago where I went on a business trip with a colleague and friend.  So, go figure!

So, I think that it's been one of those days when I've been bored and bits of my mind have been wandering off unsupervised - very dangerous according to R who says I think too much and too deeply anyway.  I never really think I'm homesick as I do realise that all the things that pushed me from the UK are still there and I would probably get frustrated being back there... but sometimes... it just seems like "there's no place like home", and what I wouldn't do for a pair of ruby slippers or a time machine!  Strangely enough, the only time I am really homesick is if I listen to Virgin Radio online and then it's not the programmes or the music, it's the adverts that get to me!  Maybe it's the mundane, maybe it's the accents, I don't know.

Maybe I need this trip back to the UK more than I realise, maybe I need a fix or to just get it out of my system for a while.  As I'm feeling a bit blue about it, the things that get to me here get to me even more.  The one that's frustrating me at the moment is how long it takes for films to be released over here and how some things never make it into the cinema at all!  Some of the stuff out here at the moment or due out soon are already on DVD elsewhere in the world.  At least going to the movies is cheaper than in the UK but I'll still be adding to the DVD collection with films that I've never seen on the big screen and I'll be buying them online because the versions over here are quite often lame, just the film with no extras or whatever.  I'm going to make a list of the films that I'm looking forward to seeing this year and I'll put it on here sometime.  Such a shame that Premiere is no longer in publication - I'd subscribed to that magazine for years and read it for even longer.  I know it's online but it's just not the same, I mean, you can't read online in the bath!

Film: last film seen - about half of The Black Dahlia this evening but just couldn't get into it, despite Aaron Eckhart being in it (I think he's great and I loved him in Thank You For Smoking).  I kept thinking LA Confidential was much better, even though it was fiction - and it had Kevin Spacey in it!

Books:  same as before, though I have to admit to getting a bit bored with Velocity.  I've read so many of the Koontz books but in the end stopped as I found them a bit formulaic.  Don't get me wrong, I think he's written some amazing stories - Watchers, Lightning (can't understand why this has never been filmed), Mr Murder, Sole Survivor, Cold Fire, Tick Tock - with some strong female characters and I would have loved to have written any one of them.   Maybe that's what this book is lacking for me, strong female presence but I'm just not really into it.  I'll finish it because I may as well and I've only ever really given up on one book in my reading lifetime.

Stitching: same but not really done any since the last entry.  Was going to do some tonight when watching Grey's Anatomy (one of my current TV addictions) but ended up snuggled on the sofa with R instead, which is always time well spent.