The World Of Jadeey



The Children's Bookshop

Tuesday, July 07, 2009
After work I met up with mum, grandma and Lincoln. We decided to take a trip to The Children's Bookshop in Kilbirnie. If you haven't been there before then you should definitely make the effort to visit.

It's an independently owned bookshop and they pretty much only sell children's books. There is the occasional non-children's book there if it happens to be a fantastic book, but for the most part it's kids books.

The staff in the store are amazing. They have read so many of the books they sell, it's amazing. You can go in there and say you're looking for a book for, say, an 8 year old boy. The staff will instantly come out with a stream of recommendations.

Yeah, I know it's geeky to be so excited about a bookshop. I can't help it though. I love books. (Why else would I have studied publishing last year?)

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Vampires

Wednesday, December 03, 2008
I am becoming addicted to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It's the new series we're watching since I'd only ever seen about 3 random episodes prior to this week. We're now almost finished season 1 and I freakin' love it.

Why did I never watch this show as a teenager? I absolutely would have adored it. It reminds me of Charmed, which I also love. Discovering new series' of tv shows is awesome. Especially when they are 8 seasons long.

I'm off to Hamilton this weekend, as I've mentioned, I've decided to continue the vampire theme by listening to the Twilight series on the way (I'm in love with audio books at the moment). I know they are considered trashy, but who cares if they are trashy as long as they are enjoyable? I don't have a problem listening to trashy.

In other news, I have extremely sore feet. And an odd protrusion on my leg. Yep, I'm getting old and falling apart.

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Helvetica!

Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Tonight I watched the documentary Helvetica. It was really good. And yes, before you ask, it is a documentary about a typeface - but Helvetica is the best font so it's perfectly understandable that there is a documentary about it. I'd been meaning to see the documentary for ages. It was at the film festival earlier this year but I missed it because I was busy the only night it was on. It was worth the wait.

What is so great about Helvetica? It's the typeface used for EVERYTHING. Street signs, packaging signs, t-shirt printing, shop signs. And my personal favourite - The Office logo.

Enough about fonts, you say? Fine.

Is everyone excited about the new Gmail themes? I am. I've been using one of the ocean ones for the past few days. But Kat just pointed out that if you use the 'tree' theme then it changes with the weather. How cool is that! I'd been wondering why it made me specify the city and country I lived in, now it all makes sense.

Yeah, I'm a geek. I'm excited by documentaries about fonts and gmail themes. I think I really need to get a job soon. :P

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