It's not you, it's me

It’s about time I posted something isn’t it? The thing is, I haven’t felt like blogging much lately. This has been going on for a few months now, which is weird because I used to love writing posts and blogged nearly every day. I haven’t been reading other people’s blogs either. Sorry. I guess I’ve just lost interest in the whole thing.

So I guess this is goodbye. For a while at least. If the urge returns, which I suspect it will, I’ll be back. Here or somewhere new. Who knows? Not me.

For now though, please do have a squiz at the archives. Here are some of the posts I most enjoyed writing.

Pigeon plot

Graphic Proposal

Allegory of allegories

Bubble thought

Google's Bday

Proper way

Sprinkles universe

Office party

Baby Jesus is force-feeding me beanburgers

Crumblies of today

Ooh ah kid knocky stay thin

Toilet art

Mad as a fish

If you’ve been a regular visitor, I really can’t thank you enough. It’s been ace. I’ve loved writing on here and seeing the stats rise, it’s done wonders for my confidence in my writing. Perhaps that’s why I don’t feel like doing it anymore. Maybe I’ve got what I came for. I don’t know. But it’s been massive fun, so ta.

I hope you’ll stay in touch, feel free to email or Facebook me. I am still alive. Honest. In fact my life has been enhanced somewhat lately with the advent of sugar-free Wether's Originals. Oh yeah, and I'm actually making progress with the novel. It's about time really. I guess when it's finished, that's when I'll be back.

On tour

Sorry I haven't been on the blog much lately. My absence will have to continue for a bit longer as I'm going on holiday until Saturday.

Promise to post more when I get back.

Julia
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Not Sure Alan

Lovely Tracy has sent me a shopping list. She found it in a Sainsbury’s shopping trolley in Northwich, Cheshire and, as you can see, it is a real gem.


Tracy's favourite bit is the 'Fries to go' and I like the 'Deodorant Alan - not Sure'.


Ahh. Life is good.




Thanks Tracy.

Budget Brite

My gosh, have I really not posted since Monday? I don't know where the days are going lately and it is really quite frightening.

My NaNoWriMo efforts so far this year have been quite rubbish and I am still only on just over 8000 words. This is very crap as the halfway point was yesterday and you're supposed to be on 25k by then. I can only hope to pull a couple of writing-marathons out of the bag and try to catch up that way. But I'm thinking I'll keep ploughing on, I'm writing much more than I normally do anyway, so shouldn't really grumble.

I do have two bits of good news though. The first is that I have been asked to write for the Observer Woman. How cool is that? Very. I'll tell you more about that in another post, because I'm going to put a call-out on here for interviews.

Also, and this is even cooler... The other night someone said that with my new hair I look like Rainbow Brite. I was quite moved. I do not believe I've ever received such an amazing compliment. Clearly I have achieved brilliance. In every sense of the word. I love Rainbow Brite.

You know how that Chanelle bird who was in Big Brother is kind of famous for trying to emulate Victoria Beckham? Almost like a cheapo version of her? Well maybe I could be that to Rainbow Brite. Sort of a Budget Brite.

...Or maybe I could just stop messing around get some work done for once.

Writing, replacing, and remuneration

Cool, cool, cool. It's all back on.

I've finally started NaNoWriMo in earnest. I only have 3000 words, but I've got that NaNo feeling, like last year, so I feel like I'm finally in it. I have a lot of catching up to do, but I'm going to stay positive and do my best, you never know, I might just make it.

And the girl who did my hair extensions is going to replace all the bits that have fallen out, which is brilliant, because I have decided that I like them and they are not that much of a pain now I'm getting used to them.

It also looks like I might get paid soon for the first time in a couple of months, so Christmas might not be cancelled after all.

Cool, cool, cool. Anyway, best get back to the typing.

Sleeping, eating, aching, shedding, but not writing

I haven’t posted for a while because I have been busy being in pain and eating and sleeping. I did my 20 mile run on Sunday and so I spent the last couple of days aching in the most unexpected places, stuffing myself with bread, potatoes, and sweeties, and dropping off to sleep.

I’m feeling a bit better today though and may even experiment with leaving the house later.

NaNoWriMo isn’t going very well so far, I’ve hardly written anything because I keep changing the start and I just can’t seem to get into a rhythm. It’s a shame because I was really looking forward to it. I’ll give it a few more days and see how I get on, but I’m afraid if I fall much further behind I might be lost cause.

These hair extensions are annoying me as well. The look lovely, but take ages to wash and dry and they keep falling out. Honestly, they’re all over the house and the vacuum doesn’t suck them up. Hmm. They were only supposed to be a bit of fun, but I’m not really enjoying them right now. So I might end up giving up on those too.

I wonder what else I may find to quit to this week? Being a quitter hopefully.

NaNoWriMo Brits Blogroll - update

Just added a bunch of new folks, hope I haven't missed anyone - give me a shout if I have.
Please add the blogroll to your own blogs too, the code is:







Copy-paste:

tscript language="javascript" src="http://rpc.blogrolling.com/display.php?r=d1728f23405f6fc536ea16434082f2d1" type="text/javascript"/script

And then add all the <>.

Or, if you know how I can post the code without blogger showing it as the actual blogroll in the post, let me know and I'll make this less confusing!

Less stalking more writing

I just saw some flowers being delivered to Elderly-Gentleman-Who-Lives-Across-The-Road. This reminded me of a post I wrote a while ago after seeing a birthday cake and presents arriving for him. And, whaddaya know, the post was dated 2nd November.

It's Elderly-Gentleman-Who-Lives-Across-The-Road's birthday again!

How weird it is that I know this and yet we have never even spoken to each other. Actually, it's a bit like I'm stalking him or something. Maybe I am. It would be just my luck to end up being the stalker of some doddery old man instead of the kind of glamorous celebs you are supposed to stalk. I expect I am the laughing stock of all the other stalkers...

Anyway, I best get on with things because I didn't get to start my NaNoWriMo yesterday. I ended using the time I'd set aside for it going to get my hair extensions cut because they were all one length and, with my short real hair, I looked like I had a bad mullet. This was an excellent use of my time and if you think it was not then you are simply wrong. I love them now. Pic coming soon.

Good luck to all my fellow NaNo-ers!

The Day of Fear

NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow, so it'll probably be short 'n' breathless updates (like last year) until November is out. I am very excited and a bit nervous.

But that is not the thing that I am most excited and nervous about... This afternoon I am getting hair extensions. There's not much point in me keeping it a secret after I made such a fuss about getting my hair cut short. Thanks to everyone who said they liked that style, but I'm afraid I've never felt comfortable with it.

I’ve always dreamt of long Rapunzel-like locks, but my hair seems to have something against my shoulders – before gets anywhere near them, it splits. So I've decided to go for it and get extensions. I am so a WAG.

I am also going to the dentist today, which is always fun.

I hope it is not a mistake to do this kind of thing on Halloween. Everyone gets really into the spirit of it nowadays don't they? Ooh, 'spirit' - how funny am I? Not very. But anyway, so I'm a bit worried that the dentist might shave my teeth into a scary pumpkin-mouth shape and that the hair-dresser will give me scary hair like Russel Brand.

If they don't I'll post pictures of my new do soon.


By the way, I've decided the Wednesday Pressie feature is a bit lame, so I'm scrapping it. The regular weekly blog content thing has been an interesting experiment so far. Some bits I'll probably keep long-term, although I don't know if I'll keep them weekly, and other bits I'll bin. Sorry there was no Tuesday Tea Party yesterday, I didn't have time to pretend to bake the cakes.

Monday Mystery: Pet foods

Why is it that people who eat meat, are often appalled at the idea of someone eating an animal they would think of as a pet, like a cat or dog? I mean, it’s widely accepted that a pig is as intelligent and emotional a creature as a dog, so what’s that about?

Having dinner in a restaurant with the boyf on Saturday night, I overheard the following snippet from the table opposite...

“Oh David’s going for the swordfish. You’ll eat anything won’t you David?”

“I suppose so [puffs chest out], I don’t have any food prejudices.”

Food prejudices. Great. So, eating a threatened species of fish is a virtue to this guy is it? I suppose I’d be like some kind of Nazi for thinking that’s best avoided am I? What with all my Food Prejudices and stuff.

And then he goes...

“When I went on a survival expedition we ate all kinds of things.”

And his friend says...

“What, so would you even eat cats and dogs?”

Am I missing something? Surely cats and dogs are not in trouble as species are they?

I dunno, it’s a Monday mystery to Buckley. What say you?