Back Home and Online…

Around 09.30 pm I got home from my wonderful, wonderful sunny vacation in Scotland and what happened a few minutes ago? Heavy downpour and it’s still raining…oh well, better here now than during my time up north :-) I will probably go to bed soon, because I didn’t sleep that well during the last couple of days. Kind of restless, probably because I miss my big queensize bed without matresses, that squeak whenever I turn around. Even though I would have loved to stay in Scotland a while longer, it’s nice to be home as well. Home, sweet home. I already dread all the laundry I have to do tomorrow and to answer some work-related mails and tend to some work-related things tomorrow as well. At least I won’t have to return to the office till Wednesday. And there are so many blogs and journals and Grey’s fanfictions to catch up with as well. I hope I will be able to do some of that tomorrow as well…

On my long journey today (on the train) and a lot of times in the park or at night in the hotel room Jamie and Claire (from the Gabaldon series) kept me good company. I’m half way through book 3 (of 6) and what can I say. I’m very much reminded of the time not so long ago when I was infatuated with the Twilight series, although I like Outlander so much more already. And Outlander is by far the better written series, hands down. There are a few things in the Outlander plot that bothers me a bit, because some things seemed farfetched or too random to be true. But I was (or am) too hooked already to have that bother me too much. I don’t know if I should love or hate the writers for making me neglect things that would usually bother me.
I shouldn’t be so hard on Diana Gabaldon though. Because I love reading historic novels. Because unlike Bella & her vampire, Jamie and Claire are grownups, doing grownup things (and, no, I’m not talking about sex, well not first of all anyway *g*). Because the story is set in Scotland and it was so nice to read it while being there where it all takes place. And mostly because even though I see some flaws in her storytelling, I’m pretty sure I don’t have to deal with such farfetched things like human/vampire offsprings, men turning to wolves, imprinting on babies and protective bubbles created by mere mindpower.

I don’t know when I will be able to post the first photos and write some more about this vacation, because work and other stuff might keep me busy for the next few days. And will probably very fast disturb the still relaxed state of mind I’m in. But I had to do one thing tonight, before I go to bed. [Anyone not the least interested in Patrick Dempsey/Grey’s Anatomy can stop reading now *g*] To put in the “Made of Honor” DVD and make some screenshots. Because I was pretty sure that I recognized one of the locations they used a scene. Fangirl as I am it made me strangely giddy, even though it’s just an exterior shot and I couldn’t even recognize if Paddy was even in this exterior shot. But anyway I’m pretty sure he was around there somewhere during the shooting of the movie, because this shot was taken in Portree, which is the largest town on the Isle of Skye, where the movie was filmed. To give you a sense of the island, there are 2.000 people living in Portree and I guess it’s the biggest accumulation of pubs, restaurants and shops , so I’m sure he has been there at one time :-)