What a weekend!
This weekend has flown by, and this morning I went back to work with the Monday blues (or in my case the Sunday blues as my working week starts on a Sunday). I was actually quite hungover as the previous evening the housemate and myself had been out in the garden, reveling in the sunshine. I got a bit carried away on the drinking, and the drunkenness led to drunken thoughts, and most importantly drunken promises. Good promises I assure you! Ok, so here we go ...
Number 1. I promise to get back into reading. This may sound a little dumb, but before I attended university I was a big bookworm - (one summer I read six books in two weeks), visiting the library weekly and spending my pocket money in bookstores. This changed when I went to University because, as the saying goes, had to "read for my degree". I spent a lot of time in the library reading academic books and journal articles. Therefore when I got back home the last thing I wanted to do was to read, and instead plonked down in front of the tv or computer. So for three years I rarely, if at all, read for pleasure.
This weekend however was nice and warm and it was a beautiful few days. So I got my lawn chair, a can of beer, and sat in the garden and began reading 'Dead Until Dark' the first book of the True Blood series which my sister had lent me a few months prior. I really enjoyed myself, and yesterday afternoon finished the book and was able to say that Charlaine Harris sure does know how to write. Now going back to last night when I was drinking with my housemate. I told her this story, and in my drunken thinking I came to the sudden realisation that I had to do something about my lack reading. Therefore I promise to read at least one book a month (got to start small I reckon!), and I'm going to record them in a post here on LJ to let you know how I get on. You can even suggest/recommend books to me if you so wish!
Number 2. I promise to start writing fanfiction (again)! I have been an avid fanfiction reader for years, but have never ventured into writing. The reason being is that I've read a lot of good fanfiction, on here and at fanficiton.net, and I feel that I won't be as good as them. You could call it drunken bravado, but my housemate said that I should post it ...and I did! It's a Gilmore Girls, Luke/Lorelai fic and I've already got five reviews saying that they enjoyed it! This has given me a lot of confidence, so I plan to brain storm my ideas and write more fanfiction stories.
I was thinking during work today of possible story lines, and I think I've got a Brittany/Santana (Glee), and another Luke and Lorelai (Gilmore Girls) fic. I just hope that people read them, and more importantly actually like them!
So there we go. Those are my promises that I made to myself over this weekend, and I will keep them! Feel free to give me a nudge if you feel I'm slipping though, as I really want to be able to achieve these goals. I hope you all had a good weekend! x