What if it is all a conspiracy?

I've made a startling discovery. I went for a walk of Forest Gump proportions. I walked because I felt like walking. I walked because it felt good to just keep putting one foot in front of the other. I walked because I could. I stopped because I fell off the edge of the earth into... nothingness. Yes, I'm telling you the earth is flat and we've been duped by the Round Earth Conspirators. How it is that I'm writing to you now is quite a story and it has taken me many weeks to be able to get back here and get this blog out to you. For now, let's just let it lie with me simply telling you I'm not the first to fall and, together with the rest of the inhabitants of the Nothingness, a plan was made. Elvis, Jim Morrison weren't there. Neither was Michael Jackson - so let's not get silly.

Don't believe me. Think this is a poor attempt to get forgiveness for not blogging for nearly 3 weeks. I'm not the only one who believes. See this article in The Guardian and check out this website.

And next time you are out for a walk. Watch your step.

Tomorrow is another day.

I've decided I need to set myself a new challenge. I need a deadline to work towards and something that needs to be achieved by this deadline. I've got so many things I'd like to do but you know how it is, always a million and one other arbitrary things that take precedence. I am prone to excessive use of hyperbole. I'm working on it. It could take me a few centuries to get it right so I hope you have forever to wait.

Anyway, I digress. I'm prone to digression too. Procrastinating is still what I'm best at. It gets tedious I know.

So I've been making lists to see what my first challenge should be. When I decide you will be the first to know.

Suggestions welcome.

Sucker for the details

So it seems I've fallen behind. I needed a break from blog world. A recharge of my creative energy before I became too dull. I'm starting to bubble over in anticipation of the greatness that could literally spill out all over this page. This could get messy.

I'm halfway through reading The Girl with the Dragon tattoo and have to say it is one of those great novels that has you not wanting to put it down to go to the loo, sleep, eat, blog. You know what I mean?

I must confess I feel like I've read the back page of this one. I never do that but before I discovered the book we went to see the movie. It is a Swedish film with English subtitles and more than a little disturbing. One of those movies that leaves you contemplating human nature and how some people are born into evil families and grow into the bad by influence and then, more disturbingly, there are those that are just born bad and stay that way in spite of normal, loving parents and surroundings.

Anyway, as is true in most cases, the book is already proving to be slightly different and more detailed than the movie. I'm a girl who loves the details. So I'm sucked in and really enjoy it.

This is only the first of a Trilogy so I'm looking forward to reading the remaining books - before watching the movies this time.

I also discovered that the author of these 3 novels died shortly after handing the manuscripts over to his publisher - there seems to be a bit of a mystery there or maybe that is just my latent Nancy Drew tendencies hoping there is.

Good to be back. I'll try catch up on the blogs I've missed over the last few weeks.