Something a bit different...

The decision to write this post was certainly not an easy one by any means, because it’s incredibly difficult to bare your soul to people, both to people you know and to the internet en masse. And trust me, I know how difficult it is – I’ve pretty much experienced every reaction under the sun when telling people I’m agoraphobic and suffer with bad anxiety: from genuine concern and honest curiosity, to blank looks and even outright contempt. One ‘friend’ of mine even had the audacity to suggest I was putting the whole thing on for ‘attention’ – that was probably the worst reaction of them all.

Belated Blogmas - the final countdown..

haul of the last week of blogmas..

Today's post is going to be a super short one. At least that's the plan, we all know how much I like to go off on a tangent...but anyway. During December, as many of you will already know, I began a series of 'daily' posts cataloging what products I received in my ridiculously extravagant advent calendar. If this is the first you're hearing of it, feel free to take a browse back over my blog to catch up - that is until you reach the post about the 17th of December when all suddenly went quiet and I went MIA for just shy of a month. I know, worst blogger ever. In my defence, in the lead up to Christmas I was working an awful lot more than initially expected, and thus my blogging schedule (if you can call a post-it note covered in semi-illegible scribble that) had to be abandoned. However, given that I loathe to leave anything unfinished I thought I'd take the time today to just fill you all in of the last 7 days of 'Blogmas'. Better late than never.

Guess who's back, back again? #2

So, I realise that I have been absolutely terrible when it comes to updating the blog. I apologise. Christmas, as it often tends to, descended into a present wrapping, chestnut roasting madness. (I know, I know, I miss it already too...) But, I'm planning on updating more often from now on. In fact, regular updates is one of my new year's resolutions - but given that some of the others were: 'curb the addiction to tonic water' and 'go running at least once', I'm not sure how achievable any of them will actually be...

I don't feel like I have all that much to update you of, such is the boredom of my life, except for the fact that I've become obsessed with lemon and ginger tea and irish setters. (I didn't see it coming either.) My first plan of action is to post a haul of all remaining days of 'blogmas' that are currently outstanding, given that I hate to leave things unfinished. After that, I'm also thinking of doing a couple of posts dedicated to what I got for Christmas, so if you're at all interested, or just plain nosy, you might want to stick around for that.

As ever, I'll tweet about blog posts as soon as I've published them - literally hot off the presses - so if you like, you can follow my twitter to be kept in the loop (it's also where all the fun goes down, as is illustrated by the twitter exchange I like to call 'bird-gate' that's shown below..)    

after reading this, how could you not want to follow my twitter..

Or you can follow me on bloglovin. (If you like, obviously it's totally up to you and I won't judge you either way.)

Now that the shameless plugging is over, I do hope you'll stick around for a bit, there's lots of different products and things that I want to talk about/show you, and also lots of fun things planned this year that I'd like to share over the course of 2014. Hopefully, it'll be a blast.

P.S If you'd like to see the video montage I made from last year's 'kodak moments', you can see it here.

P.P.S It's good to be back...