In which the camera is back

We moved locations to just down the road to hide from the neighbours... by standing somewhere more public. Not the best logic!

After my previous post which now feels a very long time ago when I apologised for not blogging due to playing Final Fantasy X-2 in all my spare time the trend has very much continued. Only I could have blogged these last few days in the times I wasn't on the PS2, but I lost my camera cord for uploading photos. I looked everywhere for it, going pretty mad teating the house down looking for it. Naturally it actually was in the cable box which I had gone through at the start. Fail.
Anyway I am here now! I've included some random photos from recent life events along with my outfit post. See the little captions for explanation of the odd images.

I haven't worn the dress in these photos for about a year until now because it needed hand washing. Yep. That's how lazy I am. Hand washed clothes just NEVER get done. I didn't even hand wash this! I just put it in the main wash accidentally and nothing bad seemed to happen so I'm going to do it again. Maybe now I'll actually wear the dress. Which would be nice as it is so soft and comfortable.
Also, when I was wearing this dress and taking photos in our back yard our neighbour stuck her head out her window and told us she was now convinced we were crazy for standing around in the cold without sleeves. Yay, *insert super self-consciousness here*. I always feel a little embarassed taking photos, but I at least have my fiance as a kind of shame shield. With two people doing something together it's not quite so odd is it? How do all of you who take photos with a tripod and a clicker cope when people stare at you?  Or are you just so confident that it isnt an issue? Or do you live somewhere where people are too polite to stare?

This is from a visit to my sister's house. We are rather alike in our love of children's toys so we got out all her Lego people and mixed them up into strange new concoctions. The genie surgeon had to be the best though! Look how cool she is. Just what you want on an adventure.

We then tried to make a J-pop band who you can see in the back. I particularly liked swapping Einstein and Pink's hair round. Now they both look like punk rockers! Sorry for the awful light in these photos. I wasn't really trying here, concentrating more on the Lego than the photos.

My latest figure in the minifigure collection! I totally want to build a Lego sumo ring now and get two of them.

This was at Hyper-Japan. A set of four statues depicting characters from one of my favourite computer games  of all. Chrono Trigger. We did not buy them though.

Sorry for the serious face here. I guess I was a bit cold.

In which I am a windswept giant

So I haven't blogged yet in December! I havent event checked the blogs I usually read or done anything of the sort and the whole blogging world has just slipped away from me these last two weeks. Sorry blogs! I am going to go on a blogging-binge this afternoon catching up on what has been happening  everywhere. Basically I have been busy at work, and visiting my sister -but probably the biggest reason is I have two new computer games! Heh. Andy and I used to play Kingdom Hearts all the time at university. It was one of the things that our relationship solidified around. We used to play it after going clubbing. Sitting up from one till four in the morning playing both Kingdom Hearts and then it's sequel. But it wasn't our game. And when the housemate who owned them moved out so did the games. Then last weekend I went to HyperJapan. It's a massive festival of all things Japanese -yes I went in Cosplay. We ate new Japanese food, bought lots of presents and then found a stall selling classic computer games. All the ones we hadn't seen in ages. So now we're playing a join KH game again and I'm also playing Final Fantasy X-2. I don't know if you are into Final Fantasy but I was not impressed with it after playing X. It was a linear game with nothing fun about it. But the sequel is awesome! It is playing as three women, all of whom kick-ass, it allows you lots of choices and interesting interactions. Even my beloved Kingdom Hearts is very male-centric even with a cringe-worthy Rescue-the-Disney-Princesses sub-plot (yuck) so FFX-2 is winning on not feeling sexist at al. To be honest it's very hard for me not to just get up and switch it on after writing all this!

Anyway. Now you know why I've been away!

In the mean-time I have got some outfit photos from ages ago that I just uploaded. I don't know what happened with the perspective in these pictures but in loads of them I look either like some kind of giant marching past the model chalets, or as though Andy and I just used a blue screen and decided to photoshop me into a holiday area to make it look like we went away...

I love the pattern on this new dress. It's a little bit french somehow and the bits of orange go well with Autumnal clothes. (Although now there is snow on the ground I guess my colour palette has to change a little too).

Wheelbarrow necklace made by me.

Red shows and frilly socks.

I am a GIANT. I swear this picture looks so unreal!