In which Neverwinter happens

 It's been a bank holiday here in England this weekend and I did spent most of it playing Neverwinter, which is an MMORPG. It's sincerely addictive. Andy can't believe that I am still playing it, not bored of it yet as I often get of things. But I tend to have two moods with something which is either 'swiftly bored' or 'completely obsessed'. Thus is the difference between Borderlands (boring, gave up fast) and Civilisation (why am I not playing this right now!?). Yet Neverwinter is still completely addictive, the music still makes my heart warm, as does smashing lots of animated skeletons to pieces. In fact you can tell how much I love it by the fact that I talked about my blogging break in June being almost entirely down to the game. So there the weekend did go, on quests and failing at dungeons. Actually the game was so hard that we only succeeded on 1/5 dungeons, and still we come back for more. I wish there were more exciting things I could tell you, but it was a weekend of domesticated nerdry.

The only other thing I did was go to a meet-up in London to do the crazy brave thing of trying to meet some new people at a book swap event. It went pretty well so I'm considering going again. I find meeting new people terrifying but I thought that I would be ok with books, a topic I am fairly confident on.

I wrote a while ago about how I need to do more sport and get fit but I find the thought of it scary. I don't like being bad at anything, which I would be. And I get competitive really easily and then beat myself up for how much better other people are than me. It was while I was worrying over this that a stranger giving me a lift to one of Andy's many orchestra events and asking me about my hobbys that I had a bit of a revelation. She asked me if I did anything musical or artistic myself. It suddenly occurred to me that I didn't have to do sporty things to make friends. So I have got myself booked in for some Japanese lessons in October. And as they cost a lot I can't chicken out of going to them when it comes round!

It was an incredibly windy day for these shots, I had to hold my hair in place!

 

I think I am actually allergic to this necklace as my neck got a bit spotty after I wore it last so wearing it under a collar is my solution in place of abandoning it.

And a behind the scenes shot!

I am still completely in love with this skirt but it doesn't seem to be the greatest quality as sadly a number of the threads have pulled and it frays a little at the bottom. I know a few other bloggers own the same Romwe skirt, have any of you had this problem? Have you tried hemming it yourself? It's so delicate I don't want to damage it. 

In which hats are back and so am I

 

I'm trying to encourage myself to get back onto blogging after such a long gap. I   confess part of the problem has been a sudden lack of interest in clothes - kind of an issue for a mostly-fashion blogger. I do have tons of Lego pictures to take/put up in the near future though. It's not even that I'm not wearing nice or even new outfits, I just couldn't quite be bothered with the posing/photographing/posting routine for a little while. The time Andy and I are spending together before the wedding has been delightfully romantic, so long as you don't mind counting hours playing Neverwinter, a new MMORPG together. Me as a Guardian, him as a Cleric - saving each other all the time with laptops side by side. Or you don't mind counting playing Magic and making new decks together as romantic. And you have to count Mario Kart!
But what I mean is we've been doing stuff together and it's been a lot of fun. And now we get married in less than two weeks!

That being said! I do have some photos from a while ago I want to share - and my work life stress has gone down a lot which may have contributed something of the cuddle-some evening time. So, I do want to get back into this world.

In the mean time, here are pictures of me in a dress-thing, turned into a shirt-thing with some shorts and a bonus hat! The top is actually long enough to wear as a dress but I tried twisting it 90s style to get this look.

Now I am off to go read my favourite blogs and get some inspiration!