I love to hear you oralise

 Shrug: thrifted. Dress: Gap via eBay. Belt: thrifted. Shoes: Dorothy Perkins via eBay. Necklace: www.mockinghorse.co.uk

Overheard in the office: “You’ve got legs!”. Translation: colleague for whom it’s not completely unheard of to wear a skirt but who has been wearing trousers more lately happened to be wearing a skirt. Steady, chaps!

Overheard in the office 2 “Your hair’s gone all fluffy today”. Heh. That’ll be me not being one for using product in my hair, then, I suppose!

I’ll spare you the rest…

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness, like resignation to the end

Cardi: thrifted. Dress: F&F via eBay. Boots: Dune. Necklace: www.mockinghorse.co.uk

Today, I did a tiny thing.

I sent an email.

Today, I did a big thing.

I sent an email.

From acorns…

Let the sun beat down upon my face

Cardi: thrifted. Dress: F&F via eBay. Boots: Duo via eBay. Necklace: mockinghorse

I seem to have stalled. And changed. In a couple of areas of life, at least. I know that as my mental energy has been going elsewhere this blog is lacking in the more meaty, thoughtful posts that I used to enjoy producing periodically, and I’ve thought about stopping because I’m sure my limited outfit rumblings aren’t actually that interesting. I’ll carry on for now, though, in hopes inspiration strikes. If there’s anything you’d like me to tackle, though, feel free to suggest!

The other area major in which I’ve stalled is craftually. I haven’t sewn for months, though there’s an element of that partly being a summer thing for me, as knitting becomes less doable. And partly because I have reintroduced gaming into my life and there are only so many hours in a day, I am knitting, but I’ve noticed a change in my habits from how they were when I picked I back up again. I’m much more critical of how a given item will fit on me and into my wardrobe, less likely to make a challenging thing for the sake of the challenge. I enjoy luxury fibres but for shawls rather than socks or cardigans.

I read less, too. I still enjoy an hour or so of quiet house to read with some freshly brewed coffee, but I’m also writing more, which fills a related need so I don’t see that as problematic as it could be. Some of it even has a fledgling home online, but it’s explicit and is more snippets than stories at present so I’m not linking directly. You can always email/DM, if you’re ok with written sex and you promise to be kind to the writer, who is a tad rusty on the fiction writing front!

It’s funny, really. Someone commented on my interests today and it suddenly occurred that not only did they, bless them, not really have a clue about those, but that some of the more… solitary ones have shifted a little lately.

Well, I guess it would be strange if I was still doing at almost 34 what I did, how I did it, at 14!

I was born tired. I never got rested

Top: F&F via eBay. Jean: TopShop. Boots: Duo via eBay. Necklace: www.mockinghorse.co.uk

Giving myself a break from clothing-relating conundrums by pulling on a not very interesting outfit that at least had the virtue of being easy and comfy – well, half of it is cashmere – a sensation-fiend like me can’t help but enjoy wearing that!

She burns like the sun and I can’t look away

Cardi: H&M. Dress: F&F via eBay. Boots: Duo via eBay. Necklace: www.mockinghorse.co.uk

So, Happy New Year, folks! I hadn’t actually intended to take quite such an extensive blog break, but it turns out that I really needed the sort of downtime that only putting in hours of Skyrim time and spending time with select friends and family can bring.

It’s back to the grindstone now, and while I’m actually quite looking forward to seeing what 2012 will bring, I felt the need of one of my comfier, more casual outfits for a day of leaving the house while it’s still dark and gazing at apocalyptic rain through the windows.

And what did I hear from one colleague? “So, have you put on weight?”. Charming. It’s not quite as bad as it sounds – it was actually a sort of generic post-festive season greeting directed at two of us – so my raised eyebrows were 50% that it was a bizarre start to a conversation and 50% ‘oh good lord, are we really trying to bond over Seasonal Chub?’

I much preferred the approach of another woman who works there:

“I ought to be watching what I eat. So I’m going to watch myself eating a bar of chocolate.”

The walls will fall before we do

Cardi: Wallis. Dress: Dorothy Perkins via eBay. Boots: Duo via eBay. Necklace: www.mockinghorse.co.uk

She may be dead to you but her hips sway a natural kind of faith

 Shrug: New Look via eBay. Dress: Dorothy Perkins via eBay. Shoes: Dorothy Perkins via eBay. Necklace: www.mockinghorse.co.uk

Phew. Work is decidedly hectic at the moment. I have a to-do list of increasingly alarming proportions (and, of course, everything on it is high priority), I’m still training up my new staff member, and there have been a few significant process shifts within the business.

It’s all very much for the right reasons and hugely positive – I’m actually really looking forward to getting my teeth into the various things that are coming up - but while I’m enjoying it the early planning and discussions phase isn’t half tiring!

I must become a lion hearted girl ready for a fight before I make the final sacrifice

 Cardi: Wallis. Dress: Fever via eBay. Boots: Duo via eBay. Necklace: www.mockinghorse.co.uk  

Well, that’s it – it’s November, and the festive season preparations are well underway. Shenanegans have now been planned with my lot and my other half’s lot, and I’ve bought my first present, though mostly for the sake of spreading the financial load across more than one pay packet!

This is the start of expensive season for me – January, February and March all involve the birthdays of those to whom I’m very close, and this coming January my mum and brother will both be celebrating reaching Significant Age so there are further shenanegans planned for January.

I expect my bank balance and waistline will have more or less recovered come next Summer!