My 2010

1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
I stayed at home alone overnight (well it was actually for 6 nights) for the first time ever, kept track of absolutely everything I spent in a spreadsheet (which I found very interesting) and applied for ESA and filled out a DLA renewal form myself (dad has done them for me in the past).

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't usually make New Year's resolutions but plan to make some for 2011. In 2011 I want to get back to blogging regularly, become more active in a volunteering job I do for AYME, keep up with my communication (letters and emails) better, complete my project 365 (I'm trying to take a photo every day for a year which I'm putting up on Facebook), maybe try out some more volunteering, find something productive to do with my life and try to overcome my shyness a bit. I'd love to have a boyfriend but really can't see it happening.

3. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
I don't usually celebrate New Year's Eve, but tonight my older brother and his girlfriend are coming round so we'll have a nice time as a family. Might move the Wii downstairs so we can play on that :)

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No-one I was very close to but a little friend from hospital died in September :( You can read a bit about Kennedy here.

5. What countries did you visit?
None, I'm waiting til my health is a bit better to go abroad again. There are loads of countries I'd like to visit though.

6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
More energy. And teeth free of braces :D

7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I can't think of a specific one.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I've got lots of medical ones. Coming off all forms of articificial nutrition which I'd been on since 6 months old and managing to maintain my weight without them, not having an overnight stay in hospital all year (for the first time ever), completing my transition to the adult hospital, having my first scope without a GA...

9. What was your biggest failure?
I think my confidence has failed me this year, my shyness has got worse and I've felt disappointed at how I've behaved in lots of social situations.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Ongoing health problems but nothing new.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
I didn't actually buy it but the best thing I acquired was an iPhone thanks to my older brother :D As for things I bought myself I find it hard to pick just one - my camera, my Trollbead bracelet and my hard disc recorder are just a few that spring to mind. And of course all my concert tickets.

12. Where did most of your money go?
On concert tickets. But I spent quite a lot on DVDs too.

13. What song will always remind you of 2010?
Anything by any of the 8 artists I saw live in 2010! :D And Forget You/F*** You by Cee Lo Green because it's been played on the radio and music channels a lot this year and it's also been covered at 3 of the concerts I've been to.

14. What do you wish you'd done more of?
I wish I'd had a more productive year.

15. What do you wish you'd done less of?
I can't think of anything.

16. What was your favourite TV program?
This year I discovered some fantastic TV programmes including Outnumbered, Misfits, Miranda and Peep Show. I think I discovered Gavin and Stacey either right at the end of 2009 or right at the start of 2010. I thought series 3 of Ashes to Ashes was a letdown though.

17. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Hate is a strong word and I don't use it lightly. So I don't think so.

18. What was the best book you read?
I'm currently really struggling to read novels, so have actually only read one this year.

19. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Marina and the Diamonds.

20. What was your favourite film of this year?
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland or Toy Story 3 I think. And St. Trinians 2 was very good. I also saw E.T. for the first time this year :D

21. What did you do on your birthday?
I went to London with my mum and a friend. We went to the film museum, saw Avenue Q and ate at Yo Sushi :)

22. What kept you sane?
My family and close friends

23. Who did you miss?
I missed my friend Lizzy because I wasn't able to see her nearly as often as I'd have liked to.

24. Who was the best new person you met?
I've 'met' some great people over the Internet this year and a couple face-to-face too. I think the most amazing person I've met is Jay. I don't think I've mentioned her before but she is a huge inspiration to me and a great friend.

25. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010:
That cognitive symptoms are really frustrating, hence me now not being able to think of anything sensible to write here! :P

I got this meme from Holly's blog :)

Apologies

As you'll have noticed my plans of blogging regularly again have failed. I just seem to have been very busy recently, but with lots of fun things as well as the usual hospital appts. I'm going to relax over Christmas and then try to get going again on my blog in the new year. I've got lots of things I'm looking forward to sharing with you, such as all the concerts I've been to (I think I went to 6 in about 7 weeks), my trip to the BBC Television Centre and more :)

And of course I must say,
Happy Christmas everyone!

My 4th transplant anniversary

Today is my 4 year transplant anniversary. I'm having quite a reflective day and I've been doing lots of thinking about the last 4 years and of course thinking of my amazing donor family too. I feel very privileged to be in contact with my donor family and emailed my donor's sisters this morning to let them know that their family is in my thoughts today.

To me it doesn't feel right celebrating my transplant anniversary when I know what my donor family are going through, but some years I like to do a little something with my family. My parents asked me to choose our evening meal today because one of the biggest changes since my transplant has been me learning to eat. Mum is at work til 8pm, but when she gets in we'll all be sitting down together and having Chinese crispy duck with pancakes, yum.

If you aren't already on the organ donor register then please sign up here, you can save lives like mine. If you've already signed up then please spread the word. Thanks.

Quick Update

Sorry for not posting again for a little while. I know I'd just got back into the routine of blogging and was trying to get my blog up to date, but my health hasn't been too good over the last fortnight so I've not managed to keep up the blogging.

As you'll know I went to 2 amazing concerts a couple of weeks ago. I blogged about seeing Marina and the Diamonds here and hope to blog about seeing Eliza Doolittle soon. It seems that a combination of attending 2 concerts close together and then getting a virus (mainly manifesting itself as a bad cough) has knocked my health a bit and this past week or two my energy levels have been lower than they usually are.

I've got a busy week coming up with 2 more concerts, so am really hoping I'll have enough energy to manage those. I hope to get back to blogging soon.

Birmingham and Marina & the Diamonds concert

On Saturday (23rd Oct) me and mum spent the afternoon in Birmingham before seeing Marina & the Diamonds in concert that evening. In the morning we got prepared to go out and mum painted my nails for me.


We set off just after lunch and the drive to Birmingham went smoothly. We got parked and then walked into the city. On our way we spotted 3 or 4 upside down signs!


We walked to the Bullring and had a little wander round there before stopping for drinks in a cafe. While we were there the pendant bit fell off my necklace but luckily I was sitting down so caught it and mum helped me put it back on. I didn't have much luck with my jewellery - a matching necklace and earring set - on Sat. As well as my necklace coming apart, when I took if off at home I discovered the chain was knotted (I have no idea how that happened, maybe it was like that when I bought it), which took dad quite a while to un-knot. And one of my earrings must have fallen out while I was out because when I came to take them out I only had one in!

Then we wandered round an outdoor and indoor market. We both found the markets very interesting because they was so multicultural. I took lots of photos so here are a selection.

These suits said on them from age 1 upwards!

Mum bought a piece of purple material which she wore as a scarf that day and is now planning to use to make a knitting bag.



After that we spent a while in warm Waterstones - mum looked at knitting books and I surfed the Internet from my iPhone on one of their comfy seats :) Then we wandered towards the venue, stopping at a cafe in the train station to eat our packed sandwiches.

We got to the Town Hall quite early. We heard that the support act was called CocknBullKid and were each given a free wristband which would let us have a free download of a CocknBullKid song. We were given Marina & the Diamonds stickers and had a photo taken holding those which I think might be put up on her website or Facebook page at somepoint. There was a stall selling various Marina & the Diamonds merchandise so I bought myself a hoody. Sorry this picture isn't very good quality, it was taken on my iPhone so I could put it up on Facebook then.


Me and mum just sat and relaxed til the doors opened at 7.30pm. We saw this schedule so knew roughly what time everything would be happening.


We found our seats, which were in the middle of the front row of the circle so we had a great view. I tried to take some photos but my camera didn't work very well at that distance in the funny lighting and my iPhone camera isn't very good and has no zoom. I got photos 2 which show the set up quite well. The first was taken on my iPhone, so with no zoom. And the second was taken on my compact camera to try to show the set better.


The venue slowly filled up but I was surprised that there were a few empty seats in the circle. Apparently they'd sold out so it looked like some people hadn't been able to make it. Downstairs was standing only. I saw a very little girl who only looked about 7 in amongst all the people standing downstairs. She was wearing ear defenders for the noise. Personally I think she was a bit young to be at a standing concert. I was seated next to an odd man who was there on his own. I think he may have had OCD as he kept using alcohol hand gel to clean his hands. Next to mum were 2 very drunk women who were very noisy and made the whole row of seats shake with their dancing! Luckily they calmed down a bit after a gay couple sitting the other side of them told them off and then they left. It was quite chilly in the circle to start with but once the doors were closed I got a bit warmer.

Here is mum trying to learn some of the lyrics before Marina came on.


The support act was on from 8pm til 8.30pm. She was called CocknBullKid and was very good, definitely one of the better support acts we've seen. The sound balance wasn't quite right and the music drowned her out at points, which was a shame. If you're interested you can find out more about CocknBullKid and listen to some of her music on her MySpace page here. And you can get a free download of a good song called CocknBullKid here.

After CocknBullKid there was a short break while they set the stage up for Marina & the Diamonds. She was on from 9pm til about 10.15pm.

Marina performed 16 songs in total - all 13 songs from her album The Family Jewels, an iTunes exclusive track called The Family Jewels, Seventeen and a new song called Jealousy. She opened with The Family Jewels which worked really well. All the songs were great but the atmosphere was brilliant with Oh No! because everyone knew it and was singing along, me included. I sang along to all the songs (apart from Jealousy of course because I didn't know it) and had nearly lost my voice by the end! You could tell that the audience was singing along when Marina changed the timings of some songs and caught the audience out! The songs weren't performed hugely differently to the way they sound on the album but there was more emotion in them and they were more performed than just sung, if that makes sense. There were spotlights dancing around the walls for Jealousy. And she sang Happy Birthday to someone in the audience.

The set was very simple but it worked very well because Marina was such a strong performer that she didn't need lots of props to support her performance. Her voice was fantastic, despite her having a chest infection. There was only one song (towards the end) that her voice didn't sound perfect on. The screen on the backdrop was used effectively throughout the concert. Before Marina came on a short film was shown on the screen at the back and after that it was used a few times between songs and a few times for videos or animations to accompany songs.

Marina was very friendly and chatty to the audience between songs. She needs her fans help to beat Enrique in the Europe category of the MTV EMA music awards. And she made a lovely thank you speech to her fans, which was genuine but not cheesy.

Marina wore 4 different costumes throughout the concert. She started off wearing a plain black long dress with a yellow pompom round her neck. Although she changed outfits throughout the performance, the yellow pompom remained throughout. And she had a blonde streak in her hair. She wore an amazing feathery hat for Mowgli's Road, performed Hermit the Frog with 4 red balloons tied to each wrist and held some pink plastic hearts for another song. Marina wore a couple of different pairs of heels (including some plain black ones and some with yellow blocks around the heels) but took them off for some songs so she could jump around. And of course she wore a few different pairs of sunglasses. Most songs were performed standing at the microphone with some dancing around but she performed Obsessions and Numb sat at the keyboard. Her second outfit was a short dress. It was mainly pink and white check but had silvery snake skin like patches. Her third outfit was blue and white striped and glittery and looked like a pair of pyjamas. She only wore that for Numb sitting at the piano. Her final outfit was just used for the finale of Hollywood. She went off before that and it looked like she'd finished, but I knew she'd have to come back as she'd not performed her big hit Hollywood yet. That outfit consisted of a pair of Stars and Stripes trousers (one leg was the stars and one leg was the stripes) and a yellow cheerleader jacket. Marina also held a plastic hamburger for the start of Hollywood.

Afterwards I persuaded mum to let me go round to the stage door to see if could meet Marina as I'd heard she might be coming out after the show to meet her fans. We'd only been waiting a few minutes when someone told us it might be up to an hour til she came out. I really wanted to wait but mum wouldn't let me wait as she was very tired and still needed to do the hour and a half drive home. I understand that but was very disappointed as I'd love to meet Marina. So we walked back to the car and then drove home. We got a bit lost on the way back due to the SatNav not getting signal quickly enough when we set off, but it soon got us back on track.

I've found a good set of photos from the concert posted on Marina's Facebook page, which you can see here. I've been having a look for Youtube videos from that night and most are very poor quality. However if you're interested you can see Jealousy here.

Trip to Norwich

I'm out tonight seeing Marina and the Diamonds in concert but wrote this blog post last night and scheduled it to post tonight so you'd have something to read :)

Back in August I asked mum if we could go away for a couple of days so I could have a change of scene. The rest of my family had been away to Glastonbury Festival in June but I'd not been away that summer. We looked for a city that would be easy to get to on the train(s) and that had a Premier Inn (because my older brother Chris works in one so could get us a discount) near the city centre. We decided on Norwich and booked just a week or so in advance. We decided we'd only be able to fit in staying for one night but that was enough for us :)

In the morn of Wed 18th Oct we got a lift to our local train station with mum's friend and work colleague so we wouldn't have to pay for overnight carparking. We caught the 10.10am train I think and while we were waiting there was a man also waiting who was playing the music in his earphones so loud that everyone else in the shelter could hear it, so I wasn't sure why he was even bothering with the earphones! We made sure we didn't sit near him or a drunken man (at 10am!) on the train. The first part of the journey went fine and then we only had about 5/10mins to wait for our next train. We found seats (facing forwards like I like) and had just got settled when we got turfed out those seats because someone else had reserved them, yet there weren't any reservation signs on them. We could only get seats facing backwards so mum complained when we saw an official person and apparently the reservation signs get left off a lot but it's the responsibility of someone at a different station so they can't do anything about it. Anyway, it turned out that at one of the next few stops the train went into the station and then back out again the same way, so we actually ended up facing forwards for most of the journey :) I just listened to my iPod on the train and mum knitted a sock.

We got into Norwich station at 12.30pm but couldn't book into the Premier Inn til 2pm. As we were going past anyway I persuaded mum we ought to pop in and see if our room was ready - and it was. So we could drop our overnight bags off then rather then lugging them round the city. We presented Chris' work card when we checked in as Chris had said it might entitle us to a discount, but it's at the member of staff's discretion when it's a weekday. We had a lovely lady checking us in and she agreed to let us have a discount. I think it was about 20% off :)

This was the Premier Inn we stayed in:


We walked into the centre and on the way looked in a few shops including some charity shops. We also visited a film shop and a lovely independent bookshop which we spent a bit of time browsing round.


Then we sat on some benches and ate our packed lunches.

After that we went to somewhere called Strangers' Hall which was like a museum and each room of the building was made up to be like it would have been from a different era in the past. Mum wanted to look at rooms from a certain era because she was reading a novel set in that time. I found the Victorian rooms quite interesting. In some of the rooms there were guides to tell you a bit about it and answer your questions but most of them seemed to be quite lonely elderly women who just talked and talked and talked! Hehe. On our way out we spotted a guidebook which we both thought would have been helpful before we went round the museum! The lady selling them said they were new in so we could be the first to have them, but we had to not look for typos because apparently there were a few! So we bought one to have a look at in our own time.

We then stopped for some drinks.


After that we went in another film shop and then went to the market. The yarn stall was just closing so mum thought we might go back the following day, but we didn't in the end. We then looked round some more charity shops, visited a shopping mall (where we picked up some toothpaste because before we set out we discovered our two small tubes were 3 years and 18 months out of date, whoops!), had a sit down (because my feet were really painful) and visited a few more shops. In The Works I bought a book of short stories to read while we were away. Then we had drinks in Starbucks, where they were testing all the alarms out! When we left there we passed a busker playing a penny whistle who had his pet ferret with him. It was very small for a ferret and so cute, so I had to stop and stroke it :) I want one!

By that time it was about 6pm I think so we headed to a Japanese restaurant for our evening meal. We went to an independent one called Shiki. I had green tea to drink and rather than having one big meal I had 2 half sized meals - chicken katsu and salmon teriyaki. My mum had avocado & tofu salad and vegetable tempura. We had a lovely time and enjoyed our meals.



After that we weren't ready to go back to the Premier Inn for the night so we walked out of the city centre and along the river to an area where there was a cinema, 10 pin bowling and lots of places to eat. We bought tickets to see a film a little while later and had drinks while we were waiting. It was good we bought the tickets earlier because when it came to time to go in the ticket queue was out the door!

After that we headed back to the Premier Inn and stopped for apple juices in the bar. I got stuck talking to a lonely business man until mum rescued me. Then a man came up to us and asked if he could show us some magic tricks. He did 3 and one of them was brilliant, I can't work out how he did it. It was a bit more complicated than this but basically he asked me to think of any card in a pack of cards and then he wrote down on a piece of paper what card he thought I was thinking of. Then I told him and he turned over the piece of paper and his guess was correct. Wow! The next day we saw him walking through the city in a suit with a briefcase - he must be a businessman by day and a magician by night :)

When we got back to our room mum attempted to run herself a bath but couldn't work out how to do it as she could only get cold water. While she was trying to sort it she accidentally pressed something which made the water come out of the shower rather than the taps - while her head was over the bath! Hehe :P She got her bath sorted eventually. She also spotted a sign on the mirror saying - 'If you've forgotten your toothpaste just contact reception'!

I didn't sleep very well that night, I think I must have woken up about 10 times during the night! So I was quite tired on Thur but my feet were feeling a bit better :)

We had breakfast at the Premier Inn and we'd just ordered continental, so we could help ourself to as much of the food as we wanted - just not the cooked stuff. So I had 3 croissants :D We then checked out of the Premier Inn because otherwise we would have had to return by midday to check out. They said we could leave our bags there though and pick them up later, so we left our overnight bags there as the Premier Inn was just next to the station. One of the members of staff complemented mum on her purple hair so she got very chatty with them and even told them about her sticking pantyliners on her forehead when she dyes her hair, so she doesn't get the dye on her skin! What's she like?!

From there we walked to a shopping centre on the other side of the city. Mum loved the architecture of it but neither of us were very impressed with the shops as they were mostly fashion clothes shops. We had drinks in a cafe there though and then when we left we found 3 charity shops in a row. I walked out of one in disgust after I saw they were charging £5 for second hand DVDs - you can buy new DVDs from £3 online! Then we got a bus to a street we wanted to explore at the other side of the city.

I saw this at the bus station:


On that street I found a shop like Cash Converters where I bought myself a DS game :) We found a few charity shops on that street and mum found some fabric shops but the only knitting shop she found was closed! We stopped for drinks in a nice cafe there.

We did a bit more wandering about including in some nice quaint streets


Then we found ourselves back at the mall we'd visited the day before. We'd been looking out for some sandwiches for lunch but I didn't fancy any we'd seen, so we had jacket potatoes in a cafe in the mall instead and I tried chicken tikka for the first time. I managed to finish it all :) Mum spotted that someone left their wallet behind so she handed it in. We planned to sit on some grass outside the mall for a bit as I was quite tired but of course as soon as we sat down the sun went in and it became quite chilly and windy, so we moved on.

We found a few more nice shops including a fair trade one and a craft one. On our way back to the Premier Lodge mum bought a newspaper which she put on top of her shoulder bag as her bag was quite full. A bit later mum realised the paper was nowhere to be seen and must have fallen off her bag somewhere back along the route. She didn't go back to try to find it though because we'd come down a hill and she didn't fancy walking back up it. We were both surprised how hilly Norwich was!

We had drinks in the Costa attached to the Premier Inn before picking up our bags and heading to the station. The first part of our journey went quite smoothly (I listened to my iPod again) apart from stopping temporarily part way because there was a fire on the line somewhere. We soon got moving again though and I thought that would be the end of the problems - I was wrong! At the station where we needed to change for our second train we learnt that all trains on our route had been cancelled because of this fire on the line (I think it was caused by a landslide or something like that).

Mum phoned Chris who agreed to come and pick us up from the station if need be, but then it sounded like there might be a train running so mum said she'd let him know what was happening. We got drinks and I got a croissant from Starbucks on the platform and dashed off to find out what was happening. A train was coming so we'd be able to get to our local station :) We got on the train and let Chris know we just needed picking up locally. Then we had our drinks and I got such a shock when I looked at the receipt. They'd charged me £1.70 for a cup of milk as that was the size of their smallest coffee! I couldn't believe it! Usually we'd have checked earlier but we'd been in a bit of a rush. Never mind.

When we got into our local station Chris was 15mins late to pick us up, but we eventually got home. What a journey! :P

Films

In the last few months I have watched lots of films on DVD and on TV:

• 2012 - Not much of a plot but good special effects.
  
• The Box - Stupidly I ignored the bad reviews and watched it anyway. Terrible film and only half the mystery is every revealed to the viewer
• Breaking and Entering - Nothing special, but enjoyable enough
  
• The Golden Compass - Enjoyable enough for me as I'd not read the books, but apparently it's an awful film if you've read the books
  
• Duplicity - So confusing, I couldn't follow it
  
• Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant - Again I quite enjoyed this because I'd not read the book
  
• The Soloist - Very good film, I'm surprised it wasn't promoted more as being based on a true story
  
• My Best Friend's Girl - Average romcom
  
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - Very well made and thought provoking
  
• Bolt - Average - enjoyable enough to watch but nothing special and nothing compared to Pixar films.
  
• Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland - I'd previously seen this at the cinema but enjoyed rewatching it on DVD, a great film
  
• Where the Wild Things are - I didn't enjoy this film, maybe I'm not the target audience
  
• Sweeney Todd - One of my favourite films so I enjoyed rewatching this
  
• St. Trinians 2 - Another great film I enjoyed rewatching
  
• Ponyo - Good Studio Ghibli film, don't feel it quite stood up to the likes of Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle though
  
• The Princess Diaries - Rewatched this as it always makes me smile
  
• The Brave One - Something just didn't quite work in this film, the main character and her motivations weren't at all believable.
  
• Pretty Woman - A great romcom I enjoyed rewatching
  
• Lorenzo's Oil - An unusual and thought provoking drama
  
• Shrek 1, 2 and 3 - I love the Shrek films, don't think I need to say any more. I don't think the 3rd is nearly as bad as people make out
  
• While You Were Sleeping - A great Sandra Bullock romcom that I enjoyed rewatching
  
• As Good as it Gets - I didn't really enjoy this romcom
  
• Toy Story 2 - A fantastic Pixar film that I rewatched in preparation for seeing Toy Story 3
  
• Mickey Blue Eyes - I can't believe this film isn't more well known, I thought it was one of Hugh Grant's best roles and it was hilarious in places
  
• The Net - I enjoy rewatching this film even though it seems to have lots of negative reviews
  
• Mrs Doubtfire - I'd not seen this for many years so I enjoyed rewatching it and it made me smile
  
• Juno - One of my favourite films, I've lost count of how many times I've seen it now. I'd highly recommend it
  
• Dan in Real Life - This didn't leave much of an impression on me but I don't think I minded it at the time
  
• Matilda - Lovely film
  
• Magicians - Great comedy
  
• James and the Giant Peach - The animation was good but the film didn't keep my attention
  
• Hard Candy - Wow, Ellen Page is amazing!
  
• The Ugly Truth - Predictable romcom
  
• The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - I found this film quite tricky to follow with all the actresses in all the flashbacks and memories. Quite enjoyed it though but it wasn't anything special
  
• Casper - Lots of fun
  
• Liar Liar - Didn't keep my attention
  
• Kiki's Delivery Service - One of my favourite Studio Ghibli films
  
• Whip It! - Enjoyable comedy starring Ellen Page and directed by Drew Barrymore
  
• Flatliners - Much better than I expected and stayed with me afterwards. One of Julia Roberts' early roles
  
• Ghostbusters - I didn't enjoy it at all
  
• Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang - Funny lighthearted film but nothing special
  
• Signs - I didn't think I'd like this but I did. I think Abigail Breslin is great and it was nice to see one of her early films
  
• Groundhog Day - I got a bit bored rewatching this as it seemed to drag on
  
• Charlotte's Web - Nothing special but enjoyable enough
  
• The Nanny Diaries - I liked this comedy/drama
  
• Girl, Interrupted - An amazing film I enjoyed rewatching to share with my mum. I'd highly recommend it
  
• Cruel Intentions - Enjoyable enough but I don't think I'd rewatch it
  
• Keeping Mum - I was very surprised by this dark comedy, I really enjoyed watching it
  
• Big - Didn't keep my attention
  
• ET - Can't believe I'd never seen this before. I loved it
  

I've been to the cinema a few times too. There I have seen:

• Shrek Forever After in 3D - Really enjoyable but I'm not sure the 3D effect was necessary as it only seemed to add to one short section
  
• Toy Story 3 in 3D - Wow! I think this was even better than Toy Story 1 and 2. The 3D effect wasn't too in your face but wasn't too subtle to notice either
  
• The Rebound - Enjoyable enough romcom but nothing special
  
• Knight and Day - Great comedy
  
• Salt - Good action/thriller, kept me interested but the plot was simple enough to follow
  
• Inception - Very well made and I managed to follow the plot without too much effort
  
• The Switch - Funny romcom but nothing special
  
• Tamara Drew - Great comedy/drama
  
• Life As We Know It - Surprisingly good romcom with lots of funny bits although predictable
  
• Eat, Pray, Love - Enjoyable but a bit long