(or a list of excuses for neglecting my blog)

I can’t remember where I came across the expression “time vampire” but it perfectly sums up what happens to me when I switch on my computer on a morning and attempt to have a productive day. Today is a fine example. Today, I decided, was the day I would finally put together something for my blog. Something witty, something informative, something entertaining… then this happens…

“You’ve just been tagged in a note on Facebook.”

And there’s the time vampire. I’m hopelessly hooked on these things – although half the time the questions are pathetic, repetitive and aimed at high schoolers. I’m in my mid-thirties, married and really should be spending my time doing something far more constructive than sharing with my pals who was responsible for the fourth text in my inbox.

So off I go to a blank text file ready to share my thoughts with those three viewers we have left here (Hi Gary).

“New post alert in “Pictures of Gene Hunt” at Luigi’s”

Oh one quick look at the pic thread won’t hurt, will it?

Oh eyes and hands, eyes and hands and hair and ohhhh dear I’m lost on a wave of squee. Damn you Glenister. Damn you. I was hoping to use this first weekend at home in a few weeks productively to share a few tales of what’s been happening recently and here I am again sucked back into the fandom… oh look! A new theory about how Ashes to Ashes and Life on Mars links in with the bible and Gene Hunt is in fact God! Fascinating!

But now, back to my blog. After I’ve chatted to my friends. And eaten. And done a bit of tidying up. And fed the cat. And been shopping. And phoned my mum.

Bugger.

I will try harder. I promise. I shall stop feeding the book of face and feed the blog of me instead… or at least try to.