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Lullaby - Claire Seeber

"What should be a happy family day becomes every mother's worst nightmare.

One minute Jess Finnagan is grateful for a break from the demands of motherhood. The next she is frantically sarching London for husband Mickey and 8-month-old Louis. They have literally disappeared.

As the plice launch a countrywide manhunt, Jess's panic intensifies. Mickey is then found unconcious, badly beaten, and alone.

Who has Louis? Child traffickers? A desperate stranger? Or someone closer to home?


As the hours tick by, Jess fears for her sanity as well as her son's safety.

Nothing is what it seems and everyone falls under suspicion...

#6 Read 150 books

Close - Martina Cole
"Patrick Brody knows exactly how far he's prepared to go to get what he wants. And he wants it all. Now. Before long, Patrick has become a legend in his own lifetime. Violently.

Lily Diamond is different from the of women Patrick is normally attracted to. But together they are determined that their children will have everything they didn't. Until the unthinkable happens and Lily is left on her own to look after the family in a dangerous world. The Brodies must stay close to survive. But everyone knows, your sins will find you out."



Pink For A Girl - Isla McGuckin
Most of us imagine that getting pregnant is dairly easy. But is it? The reality is that one in six couples will struggle to concieve without medical intervention. So the chances are that even if you infertility isn't effecting you directly, it's having an impact on someone close to you, be it a friend, a family member, or a work collegue.

For over two years, after making the decision to start trying for a baby, Isla McGuckin was diagnosed with unexplained infertility. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always real, this remarkable and uplifting book tells Isla's story.

Urban Dictionary Word of the Week

Selective Fatigue Syndrome:

Fatigue which is used as an excuse when you do not want to perform undesirable tasks such as work.

Urban Dictionary Word of the Week

IPOD:

It holds more songs than anyone will ever own in their lives.

#28 Watch 50 films that I have not seen before

13 Going On 30

Jenna Rink, a girl celebrating her 13th birthday in 1987, wishes to be 30 in hopes that it would help her overcome her unpopularity at school. Jenna especially wants to join the 'six chicks', a school clique led by lucy 'Tom-Tom' Wymen who takes advantage of Jenna's desire to fit in by manipulating her. Jenna's best friend Matt Flamhaff, gives her a doll dream house he built for her and a packet of 'magic wishing dust' for her birthday, which is sprinkled on the roof of the house.

Tom-Tom dashes Jenna's hopes of joining the Six Chicks by playing a cruel practical joke on her during a game of 'Seven minutes in heaven'. Jenna mistakenly thinking Matt was responsible, gets angry with him and barricades herself in the closet where she put the Dream House. She cries and rocks back and forth, bumping into the wall, wishing to be flirty, thirthy and thriving. The wishing dust from the dollshouse sprinkles on her, and seconds later, Jenna awakens as a 30-year-old woman living in a Fifth Avenue apartment, without her friends or family. It is now 2004, but Jenna has no memory of the last 17 years that have since passed since her 13th birthday.

30-year-old Jenna's new best friend Lucy , no longer nicknamed Tom-Tom - drives her to her work office. Soon, Janna discovers she works for Poise, her favourite magazine when she was a teenager. Without her best friend from 1987, Jenna asks her assistant to track down Matt. To her dismay, Jenna learns that she and Matt have been estranged since high school when Jenna fell in love with the in crowd, and that now Matt is engaged.

This is complecated by the fact that Jenna has become a former shadow of herself. She has lost almost all contact with her parents, and she is having an affair with Tracy from the art department's husband. Not only is she generally despised by her co-workers, she is suspected of giving her magazine's ideas to rival publication, Sparkle. Jenna slowly realises that the person she has become is neither trustworthy or likable, and unknowingl begins to reverse the sitution by distancing herself from her new, shallow boyfriend, acting kinder and more honest to her co-workers and friends, and trying to restore her relationship with Matt.

After Jenna overhears Lucy badmouthing her to a co-worker, she sadly realises that what she thought she wanted wasn't important after all. She heads back to her hometown in New Jersey to reunite with her parents and reminice by looking through old school yearbooks and other items from her school days. These inspire her on her return to Manhatten. Over several outings and working together on a magazine shoot, Jenna becomes friends with Matt again. Although Matt is engaged and Jenna has a boyfriend, they kiss during a nightime walk. Dazed, Matt realises he loves Jenna but cannot change the past.

After arranging a magazine photo shoot with Matt, then making a successful presentation for a planned revamp when she gets bad news from the publisher. Poise is shutting down because the work she put into the relaunch ended up in Sparkle. Janna learns she was responsible for sabotaging Poise from within by sending material to Sparkle for months. When Lucy learns this, she cons Matt into signing over the photo rights from the relaunch shoot to her. She accepts the position of Sparkle's editor-in-chief, using Jenna's work as her own - as she did when the girls were in high school.

When an already distraught Jenna discovers Matt is getting married that day, she rushes to his house and beds him to call off the wedding. Matt cannot say yes, although he tells Jenna he loves her. From his closet, he pulls the 'dream house' he made 17 years before and gives it back to her. Jenna leaves in tears, crying over the dream house and wishing she could return to 1987.

Unbeknown to Jenna, specks of wishing dust remain on the dream house, and her wish is granted. Thirteen again, she kisses Matt, confronts the snobby Lucy (Tom-Tom), tears up the homework Lucy had manipulated her into writting, and spills juice over Tom-Tom's outfit before happily leading Matt away.

At a future date, the adult Jenna and Matt emerge as newlyweds and move into a home identical to the dream house Matt built when Jenna was 13, sharing a packet of their favourite childhood sweets.
(source, wikipedia. Bangs_McCoy)

#63 Take Chris to where I grew up

I did this on Saturday. Took Chris to were I grew up, showed him the local park, my old house, and the schools I went. I was very strange seeing my old schools again, brought back lots of memories.

URBAN DICTIONARY WORD OF THE WEEK:

Chav:
"Commonly thought to be of inferior intellect the chavette surprises us with it's cunning plan to avoid taking up a professional career and provide itself with free accommodation supplid by tax payers by spawning mini chavs at a remarkably young age, usually mid teens.
Clearly recognisable by their distinctive tribal Burberry they congregate in town centres and street corners. Chavs have a reputation of being creative with public property and their motor cars, building themselves chaviots out of mechano sets and strip lighting, and providing us with humerous banter written on toilet walls like 'shit' and 'Tasha woz here' in an attmept to relieve our boredom while urinating.
Their language is a basic form of English thus avoiding any words they cannot spell or pronounce, even to the extent of creating new words that only they understand.
Hunting in large groups chavs will single out the weakest, smallest prey and attack it without mercy avoiding any personal injury and insuring victory.
chavs unfortunately don't yet fall into the category of rodent and in effect cannot be bludgenoned to death under the guise of pest control". (http://www.urbandictionary.com/)

#28 Watch 50 films I have not seen before

White Chicks

"When a kidnapping threat is over two wealthy heiresses in the Hamptons, inept FBI agents Kevin and Marcus, try to help out by disguising themselves as white chicks. With a little help from the FBI's prosthetics department, the agents don blonde wigs, blue contact lenses, and pale body paint to transform themselves into two Hamptons bound sisters looking o live it up for the weekend. miraculously, the agents find themselves a surprise hit with the Hamptons set, providing lots of laughs and quizzical looks as they frequently slip out of character. The lewd jokes come thick and fast, providing plenty of opportunities for the Wayans brothers to flex their comedic muscles. The poke gently fun at a number of targets, mostly along gender and race lines, but also at spoiled teenage girls, and botox-riddled fashionistas. Scenarios are engineered to heighten the awkwardness of the diguises, including a dance competition, shopping sprees and a fashion show. "