Where to start? With a blog it seems. Anyone that knows me well knows that I love to read and write and I have always dreamed of writing a book and hopefully one day I will ….. my biggest problem seems to be that I come up with these fantastic ideas and storylines only to realise I have stolen it from a book or movie already in existence so yeah so I am still a little way off winning the pulitzer prize, and I would also have to be american so hmm maybe I will settle for making the Whitcoulls top 100.
I think one of the strongest skills you can have is the ability to read and write well and I was lucky in the fact that my mum read to me a lot when I was young and I absolutely attribute this to my love of reading. I am the same with my boys and am forever buying more books when there are so many they have yet to read. If anything some more bookcases would be a good investment rather than piles of books slowly forming on the floor next to the various bookcases. First world problems right? only something a book lover would understand.
I don’t read as much as I used to nor as much as I would like and there are probably a few reasons for this ….. the usual adulting stuff, kids, work, life etc and damn technology and by that I mean having the ability to binge watch multiple TV shows until the early hours on netflix/lightbox/neon or whatever else damn on demand service they have available. I have a love/hate relationship with Netflix and by this I mean I hate that I love it. I wish I could stay strong and hold on to my $14.99 a month and instead invest my time in reading one of my many untouched books but no I am weak . . . screw you netflix (I didn’t mean that . . i’m sorry).
As my boys are getting older I am enjoying the books that we can read together because as much as I enjoy The Gruffalo after reading it 50+ times it is nice to move on so we are now reading one of my all time favourite childhood books – The naughtiest girl in the school by Enid Blyton who also wrote Noddy and the Famous Five and in my opinion one of the greats. I recently remembered this book and thanks to good old Trade Me found it for $2 #bargainoftheweek. It was first published in 1940 so an oldie but a goodie.
People that have bad grammar piss me off, there i said it. I am forever frustrated when scrolling through copious amounts of crap on facebook (that’s for another blog) and I come across something that I may have liked or even loved had it not been for the lack of punctuation and or bad spelling but I can’t be seen to condone that sort of behaviour. If they did have a spell check emoji you could react with then I would use that or even the ability to edit someone’s post for them but yeah well I can’t see that ending well so I will just continue to be annoyed by people that spell ‘thanks’ with an X, drop the ‘a’ from that and acronym everything TIA, FML, OMG, TGIF how busy are these people that they can’t add the extra letters . . . . not to mention how bloody old it makes me feel when I don’t know what half of them even stand for. Thanks sissy for hooking me up with the hip words of the day LOL.
So yeah thats me an overly opinionated lover of words and this I have decided is how I will get all those ponderings, opinions and general rants out of my head and onto metaphorical paper . . . so thanks for reading and stay tuned.
Emma
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing” Benjamin Franklin