Just a little somethin' somethin'
I don’t really have much to say but I wanted to blog. Just wanted to put my little voice out there. I still have my two kitties, Rocky and Other One. They were almost good to go a week ago but have gone downhill again so looks like I will have them for a grand total of a month! Unfortunately now they are really and truly in the naughty kitten stage. I sing them a little song as I chase them around the house that goes to the tune of ‘Single Ladies’ and goes “All the naughty boys, all the naughty boys”. I don’t think they appreciate my wit but that’s cats for you. This means my water squirter is going to be getting a good workout. I unfortunately really enjoy squirting the cats with water, catching them in the act of doing something naughty and then watching them jump in the air due to shock at being sprayed with water! I’m a mean old thing!
I’ve started a prayer journal which I am doing for a month which is part of my 101 in 1001 but also it’s just great in general. I’m also reading my Bible more and whilst I am tired due to getting up at 5.30am each morning, I feel like everything I am lacking in physical energy, I am more than making up for in spiritual energy.
I went to the Lifeline Book Fair today on the hunt for a book. I got tired of it before I made my way through the entire warehouse. I just don’t have the stamina of a young Laura any more. I am thankful however for my year working in a bookstore, it means my eyes are trained in the art of running down book spines quickly and efficiently. But then my neck hurts from craning to look at all the books. I found one book I wanted but decided to leave it and buy a hotdog instead. Then I found that the book was at my local library anyway. Yay, for saving money and then spending it correctly on a sausage sizzle!
I had a look at the author’s (Kristin Cashore) webpage when I was trying to locate the name of the book to check it was at the library. I’ve spent the rest of the afternoon on her website and I kind of love her/want to be her/want to be best friends with her. Wow, I really hope I like her book. She had a great quote on her page:
"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't
been written yet, then you must write it."
-Toni Morrison
Fine, then. I’ll write it. I’m looking forward to NaNoWriMo and actually making a start on my little novel that’s been in my head for a few years now. I haven’t actively worked on it for about three years… wow, I thought about it and it’s actually more like five years!
I figure this book is probably going to be a Young Adults fantasy book, just because that’s what I like to read. I LURVE my fantasy novels but for some reason, fantasy novels written for adults just don’t do it for me. They tend to have long battle scenes, complicated political problems and overly long graphic sex scenes involving a Faery Queen and the King of the Centaurs and while that is fine, whatever floats your boat, I just don’t want to read the mechanics behind how a fairy and a horse get it on. I feel like YA fantasy books always tend to have a sense of humour. Romance is certainly there but it’s subtle and chaste. Or bawdy, and just referred to as an aside. And I feel like (at least in the books I’ve read) there’s a lot of animal/human contact (of the non sexual kind!) in YA novels. The heroine has a talking dog sidekick or can mindmeld with her trusty unicorn. And *that* ladies and gentlemen is what I would like to be reading about. Because I simply can’t do that in real life. Other genres don’t interest me as much because if I really, really wanted to, I could solve a crime or have a hot romance with an Italian count. But I could never lead the barbarian hordes against evil dictators or ride a dragon. To me, that’s what reading is about. Escape. And I guess writing too. Although writing is sometimes putting down what I’m feeling onto paper in order to understand it a little better. But mainly it’s to escape. So if you ever see me flying by on my dragon or drinking mead at the local tavern, don’t forget to wave and say hi.
I’ve started a prayer journal which I am doing for a month which is part of my 101 in 1001 but also it’s just great in general. I’m also reading my Bible more and whilst I am tired due to getting up at 5.30am each morning, I feel like everything I am lacking in physical energy, I am more than making up for in spiritual energy.
I went to the Lifeline Book Fair today on the hunt for a book. I got tired of it before I made my way through the entire warehouse. I just don’t have the stamina of a young Laura any more. I am thankful however for my year working in a bookstore, it means my eyes are trained in the art of running down book spines quickly and efficiently. But then my neck hurts from craning to look at all the books. I found one book I wanted but decided to leave it and buy a hotdog instead. Then I found that the book was at my local library anyway. Yay, for saving money and then spending it correctly on a sausage sizzle!
I had a look at the author’s (Kristin Cashore) webpage when I was trying to locate the name of the book to check it was at the library. I’ve spent the rest of the afternoon on her website and I kind of love her/want to be her/want to be best friends with her. Wow, I really hope I like her book. She had a great quote on her page:
"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't
been written yet, then you must write it."
-Toni Morrison
Fine, then. I’ll write it. I’m looking forward to NaNoWriMo and actually making a start on my little novel that’s been in my head for a few years now. I haven’t actively worked on it for about three years… wow, I thought about it and it’s actually more like five years!
I figure this book is probably going to be a Young Adults fantasy book, just because that’s what I like to read. I LURVE my fantasy novels but for some reason, fantasy novels written for adults just don’t do it for me. They tend to have long battle scenes, complicated political problems and overly long graphic sex scenes involving a Faery Queen and the King of the Centaurs and while that is fine, whatever floats your boat, I just don’t want to read the mechanics behind how a fairy and a horse get it on. I feel like YA fantasy books always tend to have a sense of humour. Romance is certainly there but it’s subtle and chaste. Or bawdy, and just referred to as an aside. And I feel like (at least in the books I’ve read) there’s a lot of animal/human contact (of the non sexual kind!) in YA novels. The heroine has a talking dog sidekick or can mindmeld with her trusty unicorn. And *that* ladies and gentlemen is what I would like to be reading about. Because I simply can’t do that in real life. Other genres don’t interest me as much because if I really, really wanted to, I could solve a crime or have a hot romance with an Italian count. But I could never lead the barbarian hordes against evil dictators or ride a dragon. To me, that’s what reading is about. Escape. And I guess writing too. Although writing is sometimes putting down what I’m feeling onto paper in order to understand it a little better. But mainly it’s to escape. So if you ever see me flying by on my dragon or drinking mead at the local tavern, don’t forget to wave and say hi.