Martini Moments – October Update From a Blog Break

1. As soon as I announced my hiatus from the blogadrome, I became instantly aware of the amount of blog noise that floats through my brain frequently during the day. I had never realised before how much time I spend thinking of blog posts.

2. Thankfully, I’ve been successful into casting these away and concentrating on my priorities.

3. I don’t want to jinx myself by saying that my writing efforts to date have been encouraging. The word count is rising daily, and the quality of writing is not the kind that is making me cringe.

4. When the Muse decided to visit at 11.29 pm and give me one heck of a sleepless night, it was the metaphoric arse kick I desperately needed.

5. Is it my imagination or have most of you reduced your blogging activities of late?

6. Sadly, the Martinis have been scarce so far, with Margaritas surpassing them as the weather moves into the warmer phase.

7. And with warmer weather comes jaunts to the beach where many inspirations intermingle with the sand. Yet I am harnessing the inspirations from the shades of blue and turquoise into my real life writing project.

8. But I am taking the odd break to study the perfect shoulders, the rippled abs, and killer smiles.

9. David Beckham, I hate you. Thanks to your influence, every man is branding himself with an array of large and hideous tattoos, and I’m all for a clean canvas.

10. Good to see hair is making a comeback. Not every man is waxed from head to toe, that includes baldies. A bit of hair chest and a two day beard are starting to look good on some men, though anyone with hairy back or worse, a grey/white forest on their chest/back should be given a painful waxing for burning my retinas.

11. I miss you all. Not so much blogging per se, but the friendships and the regular contact we’ve had over time through my blog. There, I said it.

12. The book I’m writing would have to be the most adventurous writing project I have undertaken to date, and one I am most serious about. Anyone who knows me well understands my determination to finish it.

13. But every good project needs a time waster. Like selling your soul to Facebook after finally caving in to ‘global pressures’ to ‘join or not be updated’.

14. Doing personality tests (such as the Myer-Briggs) as one of your fictional characters is a lot of fun and a great time waster that can be classified as ‘work’.

15. 2 and 2 make 4. 2 and 2 also make 22. Twice. 2 and 2 also make 2.