The wonders of Joss Whedon and Firefly

It's been a while since I last blogged and I'm terribly sorry. I've been busy with the whole work, work, College work thing (work=bore ) but I've managed to squeeze in time to watch Firefly!
I watched the first episode a few days ago and to be completely honest here, I thought the beginning of episode one started off in a wierd place. Now that could be how the series ends I don't know, all I'm saying is I found it strange to start off with and made me wonder whether I had skipped an episode or not. I continued with it though and didn't get into it straight away, it took me a couple of episodes but I finally succeeded into falling under Firefly's spell.
Now while we're on the subject of Firefly I would just like to say one thing, and that one thing is: Nathan Fillion (aka Malcom Reynolds) Seriously people, how hot is he?!
I didn't think I would even think that about him, I mean I saw him in Buffy the vampire slayer program before I saw him in Firefly I think (don't hold me to that.) He played this priest person I think but he was evil. I didn't think anything of him while he was in Buffy, but watching him in Firefly and it's like "Hel-lo" very wierd.
What can I say about the rest of the crew? I'm liking Zoe and her Kick -Arse attitude. I like a female who can stick up for herself. I'm not too sure about her husband (I swear he dies in Serenity film.. hmm)
I haven't watched many episodes but I can't wait to watch more and then the film so I can finally understand it, and then weep because it's over :(.  We don't see much of Joss Whedon in the U.K any more. He needs to make more series because I was a major fan of Buffy when that was on T.V and becoming a fan of Firefly, damn him.
oh well, I must go and watch more :)

It has been four days since the start of the New Year and it's taken me that long to decide on goals for the year ahead. I decided against the resoultions because I just don't stick to them, or change them to something else so by the time Christmas comes around again I would have changed them like five times. Goals I think are the way forward which I will actually stick to and succeed in completing. They are as follows:

• To watch all of the star wars films-I have only seen bits of the films or a film. I don't actually know what bits I have seen belong to what film. In the past I've avoided the films just because I didn't understand them and the thought of people running around spacey type worlds with lightsavers is quite comical. I still find it comical but I will seek them out and watch them instead of running away from them and marvel and the brilliant imagination of Lucas something or other (Lucas is the director?)
• To read more- I read way to much already but not nearly as much as I should. I aim to be like Matilda in the BFG or similar. I just want to go into a bookstore or a Libuary and say 'I've read all of that shelf and the one below it.' that be so cool.
• To write more- I have my own stories to tell and not writing as much as I should, but that could be difficult what with all the reading I will be doing this year hmm haven't thought that one through, but then I am a female and we are known for multi-tasking.
• To watch Firefly- I didn't catch it the first time it came out on T.V and I probably didn't even have the right channel to watch it on so I wouldn't have made a difference. I've seen the feature film and didn't really understand It but I wasn't aware at the time you had to watch the series and then the film. So I shall do that when I get round to it, should be an easy one to complete since there is only one series.

I can think of so many more to add to this list but I wont, I'll keep it short and sweet and report back next year to tell u I failed or succeeded. I'm hoping on the latter then changing my name to Matty, because Matilida is taken. Only joking :)

Day one

I started my reading Challenge yesterday because it seemed fitting what with the first day of the new year and everything. The book i started with was Cast in Chaos by Michelle Sagara. For those who have not read the books the series follows Kaylin Neya a private Hawk with a complicated past on the road to self-discovery. In every book Kaylin learns a little more about herself and her powers as well as winding up in some sort of trouble.
 If you like the Fantasy genre and a good Heroine then I recommend the book. Well, I recommend starting from book one and finishing with book six. I'm not one for jumping leap-frogging through series, I have to read from the start to the end other wise you might miss important bits.

I expected Cast in Chaos to be a chunky monkey and I wasn't disappointed. At 503 pages It's a chunky bugger, which might not seem like a lot but when you have a deadline to fulfill it is an overwhelming number. My mind then started to calcuate, reading a book a week will leave me reading 52 by the end of the year, PANIC! ( Yes I did take a while to realise how many weeks are in a year, even though I should really know this by now)

 It wont be as bad as I first thought, I'll read the book in no time and have my number one with 99 left to go. Victory will be mine!
I could always read skinny Minnie's but then that wouldn't be very fun either, it wont be challenging enough. It takes the challenge right out of the word challenge. Now I must continue reading so I can make a review.

So It begins

So, I've decided to create a blog because It's a new year and I've wanted a blog for ages but haven't got round to making one. I think why the heck not, while I blog I can develop my writing skills and confuse the nation with my whirlwind of scattered thoughts.

As It's a new year I've set myself a reading challenge I hope to complete before Christmas 2011 or maybe New years Eve 2011 because It will give me more time to read books. I'm going for a hundred books, which I'm confident I will reach long before my deadline, but you never know what's around the corner.  I could end up blind in a couple of months and have to listen to audio books. I'm not saying that's a bad, thing I personally tend to get bored with listening to them, I would rather read. 

I don't have a New Years Resolution yet and maybe that's a good thing, because how many people actually stick to their resolution's? i know the resolution's I have made in the past I have given up halfway through them or forgotten them and changed them to something else.

So without further ado, let the whirlwind of scattered thoughts start.