There's a elephant in this room, here....

I'll huff, I'll puff, I'll set your furniture shop on fire!

Isn't that how the saying goes?

I don't know! Riots. That's what I'm talking about. Well, not talking about because I'm quite happy to let the elephant stay in the room - I won't talk to it, I won't feed it and eventually I assume it will go away of it's own accord, because it will get bored and want to return to it's natural habitat. (but hopefully not steal from, or burn down said Habitat).

It's all over the news and now the riots have hit Manchester and that's all anyone is talking about. Well. I refuse, so if you want riot news, go elsewhere. I'm not going to harp on about how scallies are running around and the police won't use deadly force, like they should be doing!

My blog today is about... well, it was about 2 things really. The first being I just got back from my run (I decided last week to jump off the treadmill and run outside, why the hell is it 100% harder?!), and I did ok. I'm not a fit person. I have asthma and as a rule I like to be lazy. What can I say?! But 2 miles in 25 mins (roughly), is probably the best I can ask for right about now so I'm saying hurrah to myself. I need to tone up and I have decided running outside is my way forward. I need to find better running songs to listen to though, so if anyone has any suggestions - please help me out! I find anything by Katy Perry is good, especially my favorite one - E.T... oh come on... it's amazing! Kiss me, ki-ki-kiss me!



I'm totally doing my makeup like this next time I go out for a run! hahah!



In other unrelated topics I wanted to talk about fitting in. I never really fit in anywhere, and part of it is because I don't want to, but sometimes I find myself on the outside looking in, especially when it comes to Internet society. I don't want Internet 'fame' - what I do want, and what I used to have on some sites, is a community. Because that's what the Internet is great for! You can talk to people as much or as little as you want about specific topics and not feel the need to know about their personal lives, unless you actually become super duper friends, in which case you add the on Facebook and photostalk them until you realise you're being a crazy person.

Community - it's the Internets silver lining, but I sometimes feel like I can't quite get my foot in the door. This place is great for that, this old Blogger here, because people drop in and out and if they like you they follow you. I never really feel any pressure to out-do anyone or try to be anyone else on Blogger, because I try to be as honest as I can be and people can like it or lump it, but I don't feel like I'm truly a 'blogger'. I don't feel like I'm in this blogging community. I'm trying to get onto a site with a forum at the moment, which will help with my writing, but I can't seem to because of technical difficulties, but I also want to try to find actual writing forums, a place I can go and get involved, enter competitions and such - but as I'm not involved in that world I find it really hard to even find the door... I can't even sneak in an open window because I don't know which one will lead to a nice community and which will lead to... dum dum dum, certain death.

Now, this blog didn't make sense because I lost my train of thought, but if you stop by here and know of any good writers forums or a site that hosts writing competitions, I would really appreciate some guidance, as there are SO many, I don't know which ones I should be looking at!

Argh - SAM need shower.

Sam

Oh yeah... and this is TOTALLY how I run!