Theo Fleury Signed!

Ok, there'll be a proper update very very soon I promise...but in the meantime...

THEO FLEURY HAS OFFICIALLY SIGNED FOR THE BELFAST GIANTS!!!!

*breaths deeply & clams down*

....So, as of this morning, despite not meeting specific criteria required for a workpermit, his paperwork was finally given the go ahead, thanks to the support of the Elite League and the Ice Hockey Players Association.

Due to prior commitments, Olympic Gold medal winner Fleury won't arrive in Belfast until mid October, so we'll have a temporary signing from the ECHL to start with the team for the first game of the season on the 9th of September.

(Get the full story on the Official Site)

Yay! *dances*

Big smiles all round then, eh! =)

xx jo

Hmmm......ok! *phew*

Right...I think I've got it!

I'm gonna bump Dakota off the top 5 due to her not being on the planet long enought to deserve the privilege =P She may make it back in a few years (and movies) time, but for now...

...the finished "top 5" list of favourite actors iiiissss....

*drum roll*

1. Johnny Depp
2. Geoffrey Rush
3. Johnny C McGinley
4. Nic Cage
5. John Cusack...oh no, wait! Alan Rickman...dammit I forgot about him! ...Gahh!!!

*attempts to stop head from exploding*

...ok...I'm gonna have a joint 5th...so there! *rasp* =P

xx jo

Hmmm...

So as Sarah, Matt, Raj and I skipped merrily out of seeing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last night, Sarah and myself were rambling on (as we do) about how rockin Johnny Depp is, how he is such a fantastic character actor, makes every movie he's in, blah blah blah... I suddenly realised he was actually my favourite actor. I guess I hadn't thought about this in a very long time...not since back in the media student days.

I started to wonder who else would make my 'Top 5' list nowadays, but I got very stumped.

You see, there are a lot of actors that I like. Some that would compel me to see a movie purely on the basis that they were in it... Some that might make the top 10, but very few who I would actually include in my top 5.

I spent the entire journey home from Raj's house comtemplating this very conundrum.

So far I've come up with:

1. Johnny Depp - like I said before...great actor who is able to transform himself physically and mentally to fit each character he plays, and always with a twinkle of humour flashing across his eyes.
2. Geoffrey Rush - from gentle genius in Shine, to scary as hell as Barbossa.
3. John C McGinley - he's done some fantastic movies...from Platoon, to Point Break, to Se7en, to The Rock, to Identity...and then from Scrubs, to, well, pretty much everything he's ever been in...he has the unique ability to crack me up and scare the bejeebus outta me all at once.
4. Dakota Fanning - she's so young yet so flippin talented, I cant help but think she rocks...lets hope she doesn't run the usual 'child star' gauntlet.

...but I'm still missing a 5th

*sigh*

See...I would rarely miss an Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell movie, but that doesn't mean I'd rate them top 5. Tom Hanks Is a fantastic actor, and Big definately makes my all time top 5 movie list...possibly even joined by The Terminal, but does he fit the list? Or Nic Cage? Again, been in some of my favourite movies, but is he number 5, or 6? Mel Gibson definately would have made the top 5 list even 5 years ago, but it seems like forever since I've seen him in anything list-worthy. And then there's John Cusack. Con Air and High Fidelity are also amongst my most watched movies. Eeesh, Not to mention a collection of Alan Rickman, Jack Black, Wil Smith, Steve Zahn, Jim Carey, Kevin Spacey and Steve Buscemi movies...and thats only to name a few. Gaaahh...

Ya know it's getting to the point where I'm just gonna note down all the potential canditates, close my eyes, and pick whichever one my finger points to first.

Grrrr! ...think I'm gonna have to get back to ya on this one...

Love is...

Today I had been intending to go shopping in town, but it rained. See, it's not that I think I will melt if I go out in the rain, but it rained heavly, and I just dont see why I should go shopping in icky weather when it could quite easily wait till another day.

Instead I started to do all those tiny little things I'd been meaning to do for absolutely ages...like listen properly through some music I got a while back but had forgotten about, posting pics Wrighty sent me on the NIXX site, flicking through my list of interesting blogs, and of course updating this one.

On my way through my interesting blog list, i came across a post called "Kids Define Love" on 'Life Without a Tiara' and I thought it was really sweet.

A couple of my favourites were:

"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." Terri - age 4

"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen." Bobby - age 7

"Love is when your puppy licks your face, even after you left him alone all day." Mary Ann - age 4

and "When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love." Rebecca - age 8

They made me smile =)

Also, for the last half hour I have been reading PostSecret (which I found a link to on above site...so thank you!) ...read it, it's amazing...


xx jo

Holy Mother Of All Things Shiny!!!!!!

It was announced today that Theo Fleury (...yes, THEO FLEURY!!!!!!) has a made verbal agreement to sign for the Belfast Giants this coming season! Holy crap! *dances* =D

Article on TSN.ca site
Belfast Giants Official Site

The Wedding Returns

Now that Andy & Meelan have seen their finished wedding folio, I thought i'd share a few more of the pics with y'all on here...























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Check out their website to see some of Brians wedding snaps and some pics I took previously at Tollymore Forest.

"I'll tell ya there Bobbo, either this kid has a lightbulb up his butt or his colon has a great idea"

*giggles* umm...I'm not entirely sure this is a good thing, infact... its a conundrum, i know, but dammit muffin, it sure is funny....


Which Scrubs Character are you?

You are...Dr. Cox Rebel, thy name is YOU! You don't do things by the rules -- at all -- and you're damn proud of it, despite the fact that such a philosophy tends to bite you in the ass more often than you like. Your brusque and sarcastic manner puts off most around you, but your high standards elicit nothing but respect. It's possible that your rough exterior is a cover to deeper, more vulnerable feelings inside. Only you know for sure.

Not so shiny =(

Earlier yesterday morning the streets of London were devestated by terrorist bomb attacks. The blasts on three tube trains and a bus, was reported to have left around 700 hurt, with 100 held overnight in hospital and 22 serious or critical. The death count so far is around 50.

I couldn't believe what I was waking up to. Just the night before, due to something we were watching on tv, Matt and I were talking about the sept 11 attacks. Talk about ironic at it worst.

Lu, one of my best friends, was in London, and had got caught up in the begining of it all. One of the bombs went off on her train just one stop after she had got off. Eesh. I praise the Lord she was ok.

I just dont know why people do this. I, along with the rest of NI, have lived with this sort of stuff all our lives. I grew up with it. People bombing and killing for reasons only known to them. You'd think it wouldn't shock me any more, but it does. And I'm not quite sure I'll ever understand it.




London Attacks In Depth
BBC News