nice to meet you anyway

As I clicked on ‘new post’ on the home page of my blog.com account, colloquial name: dashboard, I was pondering the title of this blog. I then came to the very basic conclusion that the name of the blog will probably depend on what was in the blog in the first place. Revolutionary, I know. As I have gone through my daily blog trot I have come across several new years resolutions posts, a couple of “I’m on holidays” posts and one or two fashion of 2008 themed ones I decided to come here, to my own blog and create a post of my own. Not with any specific agenda in mind, just to post something. Now to fulfill that I could have just written the word ’something’ and left it at that, but wheres the entertainment value in that. Not for you though, the non existant reader of this blog, but for me, the girl who made this blog during some deep dark stage of my life when studying was my middle name and the computer was my saviour.

I’ve never been one for diary entries including a blow-by-blow account of my daily deeds, partially because, to be honest, my life isn’t really that interesting. This is possibly because, the last time I actually tried to write a diary blogs weren’t even around ie. it was ages ago and I was very young and thus had no life. Maybe I’ll turn this blog into a diary entry.

*Slaps head* what a royally stupid idea. I may be able to write one cause I did actually do stuff today but it wouldn’t be much fun for me, cause I already lived it, and no fun at all for you.

Maybe I’ll give you a few links to entertain you since I’m sure I’m inadequet:

iCing - I think, in fact, I know that I’ve linked this blog before but this is one of the first blogs I actually started reading on a regular basis. Though she does have a tendancy to be a little bit…can’t find the word…eg. she writes post on how to be charming and how to make a new years resolution which is a bit naff, but I often enjoy a read of her blogs which are updated on an almost daily basis. Bonus.

Fashion Verbatim - So witty, so concise, so entertaining, if only it lasted longer. Excellent.

WhoWhatWearDaily - The only bad thing about it is its so NOT daily, though maybe the time zones are playing tricks on me, it’s a bit of celebufashion fun.

Also, some recent finds: Fashionista, Fashion is Spinach, I am Fashion, Faking Good Bredding and Daddy Likey.

After all that hyperlinking, I’m over this post. As, I’m sure, are you. Nice to meet you anyway.

Simple yet effective.

Whether its the ones that come with the paper on the weekend, or the monthlies read by thousands of fashionistas everywhere, I’ll devour it like its a hot chocolate dipped in coffee rolled in cocoa on a cold winter eve. A tried a true method for a fashion, celeb and human interest hit a magazine comes with all the entertainment of a book, but none of the committment AND all the fashion writing of an online blog but in 3D and deliciously portable.

I have a subscription to Shop Til You Drop, a present from a family friend which is a little slice of heaven delivered to my door every month. Shop is a good one for fashion fashion and more fashion, always something I want to buy and its so nice when you see something you already own in there too! My sister gets Cleo [from the same family friend!] and also Marie Claire. Cleo is more dense in articles than Shop which also has its place, and Marie Claire shows everything I could ever want and never afford. At least not yet [here's hoping]. Pretty much every month my sis and I inevitably will buy Cosmo [where Gala from iCiNG has a column!] and maybe Madison for more of that commercial hit. We occasionally get Vogue for some high fashion goodness and I really enjoy the more indie mags Nylon when I can find it and my fav bi monthly publication frankie which in my opinion also has the best website, bonus.

For me, sitting down with a good magazine is kind of like sitting down to the computer after a month of not visiting any of my favourite blogs and reading it all in one hit. Unadultered yumminess.