A pox on that Photobucket! While I was hardly likely to be posting a pic daily under the current (manic) work circumstances, I did try to slap up a few more, only to be thwarted time and time again by Photobucket, which refused to let me upload anything and kept on logging me out. FEH! Still. Today it finally seems to have cooperated, which means I ( Read more... )

LJ! Skimming my long-abandoned Friends list, I feel a certain... sad nostalgia. Sad because part of me pines for the days when I had the time and mental space to be an Active Livejournaller who read every entry on her Friends list and posted regular updates of her own. Still, with the range of competing parental, professional and RL social demands ( Read more... )

Just logged onto Livejournal for the first time in months, purely, I fear, because I remembered that I have people on my flist who post photos of their outfits in May, as well as November. I remember thinking last Clovember that I might join in, mostly for the fun of posting cool weather outfits, but as it's turned out most of May has been so warm ( Read more... )

(Such a quiet Clovember this year. Tch. But I shall forge on, December tho' it be where I am, and post one last clo post ( Read more... )

As those of you privy to the tales of Puffy O'Blisterface on FB will know, I am currently recovering from a nasty bout of ocular shingles, and am a scabrous and disfigured horror to behold. Happily, Clovemberists need not behold such horrors this day, for I have salvaged a few outfits from the pre-Puffy era for your perusal, including another ( Read more... )

OK, OK, so I fell off the Clovember wagon. BUT, in my defence, I have been *insanely* busy, what with caring for two children, looking at real estate, writing two training programs, memorising speeches for today's Toastmasters area finals (of which I actually won the Humorous Speech Contest, and thereby qualify for the district finals, although ( Read more... )

When terrible international events strike, I never know what to do on social media. On one hand, it feels churlish and trivial to be posting pictures of clothes without making any attempt at a meaningful, sensitive response (intellectual or emotional) to events in Paris and Beirut. On the other, the amount of thought and research required for me to ( Read more... )

Got some message from Livejournal to say that my last post had been viewed by so many people it had made the top 200 list! Bizarre. That seems very unlikely to me (to the best of my knowledge, only a fraction of my Friends list are still active on LJ, and I can't think why people who've never heard of me out in LJ land would discover and come ( Read more... )

Oh, Clovember, you're so quiet this year. In times past you were abuzz with outfits and commentary from ten or twelve people! Still, I shall keep flying the Clovember flag. I'm not in any way posting the actual outfit I wore on the day of posting, of course, but for whatever reason I feel like getting into the spirit of things suddenly, whether or ( Read more... )

The US, it seems, harbours all manner of strange sartorial rules and anxieties. No wearing white after Labor Day, for example (to which I say huh?). No "matchy-matchy", which is some strange style code for wearing more than one piece of jewellery that came as a matching set. Then there's this weird fear one will make oneself ridiculous somehow by ( Read more... )