Here I am existing in my last few hours of being 30. I quite enjoyed being 30 but I think 31 will be better. Pretty much as soon as I had turned 30 I injured myself and spent many months in pain. I cricked my neck in whiplash and it seemed that old age was going to cause many issues throughout my body. I felt as though my body was already falling apart-was 30 really so old? Of course I was a little dramatic, but you must understand that previous to that, I had never before suffered any major injury. Now before you conjure up the image of the terrible car accident that caused my whiplash, let me quickly replace it with the true story- which is really boring. Basically I walked outside in Langford's shoes and because they were too big for me, I tripped and stopped myself from falling by flinging my neck back. Yup- that's it. That simple act cost me over $3000 in physiotherapy, acupuncture and some very exciting pain killers. Now, thank god, my neck is mostly fixed, and I only have a few residual issues that pop up from time to time. Like they did last week when I spent too long putting on mascara in a weird position. The massage helped though. I am getting another massage tomorrow. I figure that it is my birthday and I should do lots of nice things to make myself feel wonderful.
Today was an OK day. It had a few proper aspects and lots of silly parts. The proper version of the day is that I got up and drove to a pilates class in Venice and then I re-wrote a draft of the short film I want to shoot with Zara and read a pilot that I should be getting an audition for. I emailed my agents about projects I want to go in on. I also cooked myself stir-fried vegetables and tofu in my new wok. Before cooking in it, I, of course spent 20 minutes seasoning with oil and cooking it off to create a film in the wok before first use. Please note how proper this is. Very proper.
The silly version of the day is that I ate a lot of lollies when no-one was looking, talked on the phone and watched the movie 'Valentine's Day' which I actually thought was pretty good. I moped around and lay on my bed and spent a ridiculous amount of time reading facebook status updates on my newsfeed, as if I would find some semblance of truth or a hint at the meaning of life in people's random observations. Sometimes, I actually do find some cool things in the news stories that people put forward, but mostly it is akin to watching a soap opera. Mindless. Being mindless is actually very good for you. It is helpful and relaxing. But you just can't do it by watching TV forever, you have to be mindless in life. I mean, by quietening your mind so that you can listen to your heart and act from a place of purity. Who knew reality TV could provide such spiritual enlightenment? Well, it doesn't. But it can be helpful for a moment or two because it distracts your brain. I thought Valentine's Day was good for that exact reason.
So anyway, the day is at an end and I must go to sleep. I pray to the universe and ask that my year of being 31 be my most prosperous, successful, creative, joyful and loving year yet.
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