Miranda

Hello everyone!…. I’ve just been watching old episodes of Miranda. Season 3 has just been on TV and I couldn’t get enough of it. I’m not usually a fan of slapstick humour but there is something very relatable about Miranda. I missed season one and two and managed to find it online so started watching it this week! It’s so funny!

She plays a woman in her mid-thirties, single, facing pressure from her mother to marry and have children, has a long time crush on her friend Gary and a lovely friendship with her best friend Stevie. She lives alone and finds plenty of ways to keep herself busy and she doesn’t take herself too seriously. I feel that there is often a stigma attached to single women in their thirties but Miranda addresses this and draws on it and I feel that other single women like myself can relate to that. She talks about many issues that all normal women may have – not feeling like they are excelling in a career, not feeling attractive enough, having a poor sense of style, annoying friends, a pushy mother, hating the gym, the awkwardness of sex, romance and dating. As a girl who went to an all-girls school I can relate to this phenomenon!

She identifies herself as overweight, tall, awkward looking with a unique sense of humour and unsuccessful with men. The fact that she is open and honest about herself and is not vain or arrogant makes her so relatable and instantly likeable. She is just herself and we take her as she is – cringe worthy humour and all. We feel like she is the girl we secretly are inside or a friend we know in our own lives that we love.

I feel myself actually laughing out loud relentlessly at her jokes. Me and my best friend often quote Miranda and Stevie without even realising it! You should check it out, it’s very down to earth and a great watch!

A happy quote ...

Here is one that made me smile :) 

"Remember ...To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world" 

Anonymous 

Pen pals

Hello my loyal readers,

Today I am going to tell you about my pen pals. I have 2 pen pals atm. A pen pal is someone that you write to regularly that you have not seen before. I joined an international pen pal site called interpals. I joined it back in February. You make a profile and list your interests, requests, favourite films, books and music etc and you can find like-minded people and message them. I have been messaging this one guy for about 2 months now and we’ve been messaging very regularly sometimes multiple times a day. We went from messaging on the site to emailing and it’s nice. I look forward to reading his messages and love the surprise when I notice that I’ve got new mail in my inbox. It reminds me a lot of the film ‘you’ve got mail.’ Cheesy I know!

My other pen pal is a girl that lives in the same city as me. It’s really cool how we both live in the same city and even have mutual acquaintances and we talk about places in our city that we’ve been to. When I go into town I look around and see if I can spot her. It’s silly cos I live in such a big city but just in case we bump into each other, I keep a look out.

Anyway, what I dislike about pen pals especially online pen pals is that we talk regularly, send each other cute innocent pictures and quickly become such a big part of each other’s lives, in the fact that we think of our pen pal during the day and what they’re up to and can’t wait to see what they’ve replied with. It’s all new and exciting but unfortunately we have never seen each other and may never do. I’d really like to meet both my pen pals. Especially the guy as we have become close, as close as you can be with the written word. It’s hard cos I don’t really know much about him and everything that I do know it what he tells me and that’s such a small part of the overall picture. It’s sad to think that I may never meet him, even after writing to each other for so long.  He doesn’t seem too keen to meet me. I think it may be fear that we may not get along and our expectations may be very different to the reality.

It’s strange to think that there is a person thousands of miles away that I have never seen, who is a part of my life. I don’t know how he walks, what his mannerisms are like, whether he is loud, shy, quiet, outgoing, does he smile a lot? What makes him cry? What he smells like? These are all things I may never know. 

P.S. Thank you to my two new followers for choosing to following me :) And as always thank you to my loyal long time followers :)