According to my Sunday paper ‘style’ supplement, these…

are the next big thing that we’ll all be after in 2010. So, being a bit partial to a bit of fashion hosiery I decided to check them out. And got quite a massive shock when I found the price… A cool £199 for a pair of tights Needless to say, as nice as they are, I’ll probably be giving them a miss for a while!!!

A little strange that I should decide only now to dredge up a blog post, when just a few days ago, I was notified that my steph-angel.com domain would be up for renewal in a few weeks time. Mmmmm I thought; maybe the time is right to finally put this website to bed? It’s been wastefully inactive for a painful amount of time now, which kinda reflects Steph as well. I’ve blogged before about how my life has changed since becoming a dad and how this has made it harder for Steph to be around, so I won’t go over that ground again. But as with many things, there’s always many reasons why things don’t or can’t happen and the lack of Steph is just the same. There’s really too many reasons to explain fully and if I’m really honest, for most of the last 18 months or so I really haven’t been that bothered about the lack of Steph… But recently I have been.

I still have many of the issues which make Steph being around a bit awkward, but recently I have started to miss being Steph. I really can’t think when it was that a bit of makeup last touched my face, but I’m eager to have the opportunity to get the brushes out again. When that will be I really don’t know, but the desire is there again, which it really hasn’t been for an awful long time now.

So with this in mind I’ve decided to renew my domain and give Steph a stay of execution for a little while longer… And just to prove that Steph does still exist (slightly, and with no makeup )

Mmmm… It’s taken a while I know. But just to say, Steph is still around and will be looking to be a little bit more ‘active’ (whether that be online or socially) soon.

I know it’s only brief, but hey

Not unusually (for me), I’ve had a nagging little thing whirling around my head for quite a time now. I’ve spent ages trying to think up the correct plan of action, but as yet I’ve drawn a blank, so I thought it was probably time to share…

I love having this blog, I love to blog (not that you’d know that if you look at the amount of posts this year!!!),  I aslo love all the people I’ve got to know through having this blog, but and this is a really big but, I hate the fact that I can’t share this blog with 99% of the people I know. And there are a lot of people I know who’d be genuinely interested to know that I do in fact blog. There’d also be loads who wouldn’t even know what a blog is, but I’m not overly concerned with them

I think if this was purely a ‘tranny’ site (which it did initially start out as) then there’d be no question of wanting to share this site with everyone, but as I mentioned when I gave this site a face-lift recently, the tranny bit is actually now quite a small part of this site; my last ‘tranny’ post was on 20th December 2008

And all this has been niggling away at me for ages now, as I’ve been weighing up the options…

I could completely remove any trannyness from this site… Which in effect would be like returning to the closet and hiding, which I so don’t want to do.

I could have a ‘boy’ blog (which I have already made)… But then what happens with this site? Do I then turn this site into a pure tranny zone with nothing else (I’d really rather not ).

And there lies my dilema. I want a blog that I can share with non tranny friends & family, I don’t really want to abandon this site and I definitely don’t want to lose friends from this site. I did initially think that I’d get the non-tranny site up and running and just post non-tranny stuff onto both sites and keep the tranny stuff for here, but then Becky’s PROBO ( ‘Potential Route Of Being Outed’) rule comes firmly into play… I have two websites with exactly the same blog posts on them (I’m guessing a Google search would pick them both up pretty close to each other), the site layouts are almost identical (I’m lazy!!!) only one has pictures of a rather blokey looking girl on it… Hey hang on a minute it’s the same person!!! The PROBO is frighteningly high (or low, I’m not sure how the scale goes???).

And that’s pretty much where I’m at…

And I must point out that  I’m talking about the business type here as opposed to the heavy duty tattooing that some people favour… I’ve always been secretly (I don’t know why??) fascinated by people’s loyalty to certain brands and what that actually tells you about those people. It’s probably just my urge to be really nosey!!! Either way, I for one am hopelessly blinkered and loyal when it comes to branding… So for example, this…

tells you that I love all things sexy and shiny, regardless of their many faults and flaws am an out and out snob when it comes to food shopping, am hopelessly addicted to the best shoes on the planet (I’ve lost count of the amount of pairs I own!!!), even if they are truly shite in the winter drink far too much of the black stuff, would love to own another Alfa regardless of their many faults and flaws I would also love to finally understand how to properly use the wonderful WordPress,  I again love all things sexy and shiny, regardless of their many faults and flaws am stupidly loyal to my Epson printers, despite the fact that mine is currently broken!!! and I will only ever buy the Guardian & the Observer… I’ve no idea why I do this, but I always do??? And I’m sure, deep down, this says a lot about me

I could easily compile a list of brands that I won’t touch even if you paid me, regardless of their many assets and plus points (I’m just not a Nokia kinda person, sorry!!!).

Again, the pure nosey side of me would love to see other people’s list of brands, but that could easily turn into one of those awful meme’s, which I hate, so I’ll leave it with mine for now… But I reckon I could already allocate a few brands to a few of my readers

After a rather dodgy weekend and an emergency call from the nursery on Monday, I’ve found myself in charge of a poorly little boy today He’s been up and down for days; Saturday he was throwing up, Monday his temperature was touching on 40°c Tuesday he was causing mayhem at home with a very stressed and tired mother and Wednesday his temperature had hit the roof again, so spent a very enjoyable 2 hours at the doctors with his bored father… The upshot being, my little monster has a chest infection. We left the surgery armed with a bottle of luminous yellow liquid that my son hates with a passion!!!

Today, I arranged to take the day off work, which in my self employed/teaching line of work is always far from easy… And my poorly little monster spent most of the day doing this…

I should be very grateful that he’s made such a remarkable recovery I guess… Needless to say, he’ll be back at nursery tomorrow!!!