Eat, drink and be merry

Christmas has been and gone for another year; though this year I haven't really been my usual festive self. In previous years, I have been known to begin weekly viewings of The Muppet Christmas Carol halfway through October and to be counting down the days until the german Christmas markets arrive in town. Obviously, and sadly, it can never really be the same as being 7 and eagerly anticipating the arrival of Santa, but for some reason I just wasn't feeling that excited.

Nevertheless, I had a great day with my parents and older sister, rounded off with a four and a half hour (yes, you read that right) game of Trivial Pursuit. I'm not sure whether we can blame that on our sometimes very questionable answers or the rather strong cosmopolitans I'd been mixing all day..

Despite not really knowing what I wanted this year, I was lucky enough to receive some lovely presents.

Rabbit slippers from Accessorize, Jon Ronson 'The Psychopath Test', crystal nail file from Leighton Denny, earrings from Wue, Chanel Coco Mademoiselle, Moleskine small ruled notebook, opal stacking ring from gingerpickle.co.uk, Bobbi Brown Long-wear gel eyeliner in Black Ink, Morrocan Oil

Close-up of my lovely ring

I also received a reindeer onesie, a blouse from Ark, a dress from Urban Outfitters...and a micro-pig calendar. Slightly less glamorous but greatly appreciated.

I haven't yet looked at any sales and to be honest it's unlikely I will; even if I wasn't so depressingly far into my overdraft (counting down the days until my student loan comes in), sales just stress me out. I have been the person working in retail at 8am on Boxing Day dealing with rude, greedy customers and I would hate to be that person for another poor sales assistant. Though, maybe the asos sale could tempt me..online shopping can't hurt anyone, right?

What did you get for Christmas?

Days are gone

It happened. I neglected my little corner of the internet yet again. 

I've said it before and I'll say it again; I would really love to actually start blogging regularly and for the past few days I've been feeling a little blue, so I thought what better way to (yet again) re-start my half-hearted foray into the blogging world than with a run-down of a few of my favourite things from the past few months.

1) HAIM 'Days are gone' album - The title of this post gives this one away. I was eagerly anticipating HAIM's debut ever since hearing their EP earlier this year, and I wasn't disappointed. My lovely housemates actually bought me this album on vinyl as a birthday present, and while usually I'm not bothered about buying current music on vinyl, I was actually planning on adding this one to my Christmas list, so well done housemates! I've listened to this album more times than I'd like to admit to and I'm getting ever-more excited to go see them at the institute in town on the 5th of December- I have such a girl crush on Este, not even her bass face can put me off.

2) Christmas Cookie yankee candle - I think it's become ingrained in me that come the 1st of November every year this candle comes out and is burned constantly. Part of me thought maybe I'd grown out of this sweet-scented tradition this year, maybe to discover a slightly more mature candle, but it seems I am once again a slave to it. Also, it can be very useful in my chilly student house as a hand warmer - I have been known to wander the house clutching this like an extremely early carol singer. I'll definitely be asking for another of this for christmas.

3) Malteaser 'Merryteasers' - Every easter I indulge my addiction to these little bars of heaven (A.K.A malteaster bunnies) so it is both a blessing and a curse that they've now been brought out in a reindeer version for Christmas. Especially seeing as they're usually on offer at the Tesco express down the road and I have a terrible inability to control myself.

I seem to have written a surprising amount for just three things, so I think for now I'll leave it there. I'm hoping to figure out where I can take this little blog- it just seems so hard to stand out with so many others out there.

Until next time x