I was just watching an episode of Dr Who with my son, the one where he takes Rose to watch the Earth be destroyed by the solar flare...(End Of The World I believe it is aptly named)!
And before they arrive at 'Platform One' (the observation ship, for those of you who don't watch it or don't care enough to know) :D, Rose is deciding where she wants him to take her..she suggests 100 years in the future (too easy) they then go on to 10,000 years in the future..I think..and The Doctor says 'You can step outside in to the year  12,005, the new Roman Empire'!
On hearing this for the hundreth time, because that's how many times I have watched this, it made me stop dead and think! We're barely even anywhere, as a species I mean...and yes I know Dr Who isn't real, I'm not mental! I know he hasn't really visited 5 billion years into the future and watched a solar flare burn the Earth but it's all plausible to a certain extent and the  Earth will, one day, cease to exist!
But it just made me think how small we are in comparison to everything that has happened and that is going to happen. We're not even a blink of an eye! We run around like headless chickens trying to please everyone in our lives and most of the time we try to please the ones that aren't even the important people. I spend too much time worrying about what other people think when I could be using that energy on making myself happy and actually living life, because quite frankly, we dont have any time here at all and it'll all be too quickly forgotten.  Here's the introduction to the film Contact...I think it is amazing, the sheer vastness of everything! It really gives you something to think about...
 http://youtu.be/kNAUR7NQCLA

I'm not entirely sure why I have decided to start writing a blog..I suppose it's mainly because I dont have time to keep a diary, so this will basically be a collection of gibberish. If someone thinks it's pointless drivel so be it! It makes me feel better and it might, somehow make someone else feel better!
I watched the Olympic Torch pass through a local town yesterday and although I feel a sense of pride having witnessed this rare occasion (at least for this country) I have to admit I was not all that impressed... It was over in the blink of an eye! The day itself was brilliant though, spent with someone who I love dearly and is one of the most important people in my life. She has been there for a lot of years...not always in direct contact and we spent a fair bit of time not talking at all but she's back now, we're back. I am cherishing every moment we spend together. We laugh at the most ridiculous of things!

Write what you know....

I could never quite think of the perfect idea for a novel, the sequence of events would never quite fit together in my head, then I saw the film Never Been Kissed and Drew Barrymore uttered those wonderful words ‘Write what you know’ and I thought what brilliant advice!

I can write what I know…so I had to think, ‘what do I know’? I know that Pi is 3.14, I know that acceleration due to gravity is 9.82 m/s ² on Earth, I also know that if you were to touch my neck in a specific spot with the right amount of pressure I could have an almost instant orgasm…

These are things I know for certain, I’ll never stop knowing them if I can help it and at least two of them will remain true for eternity( Unless something goes horribly wrong).

There is one thing that I know I will never know, no amount of studying, exam taking, stressing, screaming, shouting, comforting, luring, coaxing or seducing will educate me in the subject, I don’t know men.

Everyday I get further toward the conclusion that men actually ARE from Mars and we're from Venus, ok, maybe not those planets precisely but that we are from two different worlds!

I'm not complaining about men here, I'm not on a 'man-bashing' mission, I just want men out there to know we are as confused about them as they are about us. It's working both ways, believe me!

I know we have anthropological reasons stemming back thousands of years to explain our strange behaviour away (yes men you DO have some sort of back up excuse! that doesnt mean you can use it constantly) but isn't it about time we just get over ourselves, accept that we are different to each other, we will never fully understand why the other acts they way they do and just go make a cup of tea, eat a couple of biscuits and have done with it!