Well hello there...

Yes, I have returned! From the depths of the murky internet-less wasteland that has been our household for the last two months!

Yeah, rly. Two months. How, oh how, is that logical or reasonable? I'll shut up now, or I may actually rant for days.

So, as you can probably imagine, I'm going to have heaps to catch up on, post about and review. Sorry for my prolonged absence, but I am back! I'll catch up properly soon, expect a torrent of reviews!

NK x

Where I've Been...

Nowhere especially, is the short answer. But between stressing about flat/house viewings, tenancy applications and insurance quotes, things have been more than a little hectic. My stress levels are through the roof and that's more than a little offputting.

The main thing sending my anxiety stratospheric is the whole house move malarky. We have just under 4 weeks left on this contract, and ideally want to leave before that - if nothing else, it makes moving easier. We still have no place to move to. We have the problematic situation of being mature students with monthly income - apparently, that's just no good... there are the agents who outright won't even speak to us, and then there are those who take our applications but pick DSS candidates over us as it's guaranteed rent payment. Things feel very hard right now.

Then, there is the job stuff. Stuff being my lack of one. I really need some income of my own, and we need more cash as a unit generally. To live right now has led to debts going right up - which is exactly the sort of thing that gets to me, so that's hard to handle too. I have a lot of applications in for posts at the moment though - so I'm allowing myself to be at least a tiny bit hopeful.

Finally, there's Uni. I don't know how I feel about it right now, and no-one seems to quite understand my point. Well, some do, to an extent at least. But.. Essentially I'm meant to be moving course soon, and starting at year 1 again. I'm 6.5k down in terms of student debt, and no further forward. Add the credit card and overdraft to that and it isn't nice. And my new course might be better, but I find it hard to know - it's not something I've ever studied before, so maybe it's just another gamble that probably won't even pay off.

But right now it's the first time I've known so many to be proud of me. And I don't want to let anyone down, so I have to find a way.

But that's mostly why I've been quiet. My mojo's been a bit... screwed, recently. It's been hard to write or think or test, And I feel guilty about that.

I'm sure I'll be back on fighting form soon.

NK x

I've been gone too long.. /sigh.

Okay so this post isn't anything too crazy-exciting I'm afraid!

More so that I'm conscious of how long I've been away, I'm missing nattering and I wanted to reassure you guys that I am very muchly still in the land of the living! The first thing that's kept me away from you all is that I've been ill.

I got what felt a lot like flu but then developed into tonsilitis. It was a really nasty dose too, and I'm still on antibollocks, sorry, antibiotics, for it now. As recently as Tuesday I could barely breathe due to my throat trying to close up on me. It really sucked! Chocolate got me through, I depended on it for a good few days to keep my energy up enough when I couldnt swallow any food!

Aside from that, a lack of get up and go in the bedroom hasn't immensely helped the blog of late - but a whole heap of that has been bad timing, one thing and another then a bout of illness where kissing is actually prohibited! Does very little for the sex life!

 However, Friday just gone was a special day for us. It marked one whole year that we've officially been a couple <3 That was pretty huge for me, to be honest. It sounds corny as hell to say it, but I really do love him even more now than I did back then. Back on the sex and sex toy theme, I want to give a quick shout out to Mantric who I think rock. All shall be revealed why soon enough, but if you want to see what they have out right now, I'd suggest LoveHoney!

NK x