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Sourball Ho!
 

13 Update!

A mini-update, ain’t that great? I'm a poet; you bet I know it.   13 (new version) -- A base of cocoa absolute and white chocolate with thirteen baneful and beneficial bits: cardamom, fig meat, grains of paradise, rice flower, chamomile, sandalwood, catnip, clove, and a bundle of five blessed blossoms and herbs. -- by my count, this is the third version of 13. I bought the first one (May 2005) and liked it but didn’t love it. Off it went to swaps. It was revised in October 2006 and I still have a bottle of that; it’s more sophisticated and “perfumey” than the original 13. This latest revision sounds nice (with catnip! Hee!) but the cardamom is scary -- that’s what made Enraged Groundhog go totally cinnamon on me. I’ll pass.   Bad Luck Woman Blues -- Spanish moss, black pepper, mullein, sweet sage, vandal root, cypress, cigar tobacco, and a puff of goofer dust cloaked by a swarthy cologne of vetiver, lime, dark musk, caramel accord, and lilac. -- While I am intrigued by “goofer dust” (la cocaina, maybe? ) the rest sounds too masculine.   Lady Luck Blues -- Honeyed Bulgarian rose, vanilla flower, benzoin, tonka, black plum, peony, and iris. -- this one sounds great! Honey and roses, yum.   In conclusion: while I was hoping to save funds for the next update (Rose Moon! More Snakes!) I’m getting a bottle of Lady Luck Blues
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I smell glorious
 

Two Orders

Two Orders BLUE MOON -- in Early June   2x5mL Blue Moon $40 1x10mL Tarot: The Hermit $26.50 [$66.50] 1x5mL Brisingamen $15 [$81.50] s/h $7 [$88.50]   JULY -- in Early June   1x5mL Cancer $20 1x5mL /July Moon/ $20 [$40] 1x5mL Boomslang $18 [$58] 1x5mL Moxie $26.50 [$84.50] s/h $9 [$93.50]     I have some saving to do
myoubi

myoubi

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I smell glorious
 

Well, my imp box is getting full...

so I guess it's a good thing that I'm not crazy about this update. While I'm eager to /try/ all three, and am prepared for the possibility that I might like any of them, none of them are scents I can't live without. Although admittedly I have a good feeling about this version of 13. I don't know why, because it has The Dreaded White Chocolate in it... but I've just got a feeling.   there are only three spaces left in my "A" imp box, or will be when all of my scents arrive. My two Queen of Diamonds decants will be moved to their bottle and King of Diamonds will probably be swapped, filling up space that will be swiftly occupied by my shortie of Havisham. My "B" box is for blends to sell or swap, and my "C" box is intent blends. I need to start consolidating my collection... unfortunately, i'm emotionally attached to rather a lot of it. Which is absurd, given how many scents I have and how slowly I go through them.   And I still need to buy 5mL's of Tarot: The Hermit and Brisingamen! Tarot: The Hermit especially is one I see using a lot of next year, for quiet study and reflection.   On the up side, Snow Moon is lovely. I swapped my 5mL of Bitter Moon for it (as lovely as Bitter Moon is, the imp will suffice, I think -- I just wasn't wearing it that much :/) and I don't regret it. snow Moon is like all the parts I liked about Snow White, minus the parts that I didn't -- the watery coconut sweetness that drove me into headaches if I wore it for too long. Snow Moon is also a less-musky dead ringer for Ice Queen, which is good because I can wear it without feeling guilty about the cost of today's parfoom   I have decided to keep Snake Charmer. I have so many snowy icy scents that as nice as Snow White 2004 is, I'm only a little sorry to see my 5mL go, and I /like/ Snake Charmer. It stays.
myoubi

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circe_blue's Blog
 

Geeky Love!

My favorite episode of The X-Files is on Sci-Fi right now! Of course, I have it on DVD but there's something to be said for coming across it randomly. Yay, "Bad Blood"!   "I'm in this as deep as you are and I'm not even the one that overreacted! I didn't do the--::makes stabby motions::-- with the thing!"   and of course:   "Shaft-He's a bad mother-shut your mouth!"
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grimms_creed's Blog
 

Harvest Moon 2006

My Harvest Moon 2006 arrived in the mail yesterday. At first sniff, I was convinced that it was my mystery Harvest Moon. They smell identical wet. However, once on, I can detect a subtle difference. The mystery moon is a tiny bit sweeter, and a tiny bit more apple. I will do another comparison to be sure, since it is soclose, but it looks like the mystery imp may be Harvest Moon 2005. Or not. I might be hallucinating the difference -- it's that subtle.   (oh, and my frimps were hilariously appropriate: rage (which was about right for my mood yesterday, what with finding out I am being evicted), black cat (which I had just been looking at wistfully) and a non-BPAL called brown sugar snaps that just smells divine)
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I smell glorious
 

Things I would kill to have rezzed

INGENUE -- I'd buy three or four bottles of the stuff, and all of them Unseelie -- everything I've heard suggests that it's shockingly beautiful. It sounds like my kind of wispy, ethereal floral-with-character. Hopehopehope...
myoubi

myoubi

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I smell glorious
 

Nightmares. Again.

I've gone through my whole life without nightmares. Why now?   Tonight's were strange. That I can remember... there was one where I was in the company of a young boy whom I thought was a serial killer, and I had to get away without making himsuspicious, and it was in the middle of nowhere and Sophia wasn't pickin gup her phone. There was a part where someone shut a girl's face in a waffle iron - a blistering-hot, plugged in waffle iron. There had been steam coming out of the device before, but as it covered her face and she struggled to get it off the steam turned red... it sounds comical now, but it was really horrible. I wanted to wake up.   The earlier one, that I remember less, was one where the world had gone strange... I remember that /I/ had been in another world, a through-the-looking-glass type of experience, and as frightening as that world was I had to go back there, it was my job to fix something. (And for me, th way that I could get back into the world was to drink a cup of tea -- Green tea, said the man with the fingers, was the easy way. Black tea was the respected way. Red tea wasn't spoken about, but it was clear that there were three options, so red tea must have been the third) I rode the bus (yes, there was a bus) from the other world into this one, intending not to stay long. I wasn't supposed to stay long, but then I thought, what if I got some supplies? Flashlights, batteries, stuff I could use. And I had to get back, but I think I decided to get some supplies. The world-that-is-this-world was strange, it was dark... and I was walking through an aboveground tunnel, made of brick I remember, and I was a little scared because it was after dark and the tunnel was small and I'd never really liked them anyway. There were people around me -- not many, there were two people ahead of me and some people behind. And I remember I was a little scared as a young girl, of the man ahead of me.. but then, the young couple behind me just sat down. They just sat down cross-legged in the tunnel, as though they couldn't go any farther. And after a few steps, so did the man in front of me -- this tough guy in a leather jacket -- just sat down too, like he'd given up. I went a few metres farther, out of their sight and round a curve, an then I sat down too, more because I was tired than anything, and some people from university (Leo and Elyssa and I think Boyce) came through the tunnels. They were talking about someone, someone dangerous -- a practical joker gone too far. I asked them what was going on, and the said that all of a sudden the world had gone strange, dark and dangerous. I asked them why everyone was just sittin down, and Elyssa said, "They've givenup -- they don't know how to deal with this world. The tunnels are full of them." And I asked what the current danger was, who they were running from, and Elyssa and Leo exchanged a look, and Elyssa said "Well -- it's cats."   And then I woke up.
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Goth Hobbit's Blog
 

Why I've been less than interactive lately...

Some people may have noticed that I haven't been precisely chatty of late. Gabriel's death, coming a week before the first anniversary of my Granddad's death, hit me pretty hard. That isn't the only reason, though.   D, my darling Grad Student, got another blow not quite two weeks ago. The research assistant position that he had been hoping to get for the summer isn't going to exist. U of M's School of Animal Health is in as bad a financial shape as the School of Public Health, and for the same reason: NIH grants that were slashed by Shrubya and Co.   There are obvious downsides to this, most notably being that the RA position was worth about $5000 that he's not going to have. This means running up the credit cards more than he would like in order to save money for the move back here. However, his father is on a couple of mailing lists for programming positions, and offered to keep an eye out for a temporary contract offer. While D. doesn't miss programming by any means, he's not going to turn down perfectly good money if someone should wave it in his face. First, though, his dad has to come across a temporary contract that allows remote work.   However, there are a couple good points to the news as well: first off, he is planning on coming back down for a couple of weeks in June to start the Great House Hunt. He wants to go with the realtor who handled the sale of his condo, and I am in agreement; both of us like the guy. While the realtor in question is decidedly metrosexual, he's also personable and professional, and he already knows what kinds of houses that D. and I would gravitate towards. He won't waste our time by showing us places that we won't like.   Perhaps more important, though, is that not working over the summer (assuming that D's dad doesn't find anything) will give D a much-needed chance to do something that he hasn't been able to do in far too long -- namely, relax. D. is incredibly smart and hard-working, and the fact that he enjoys learning in addition to the previous qualities has led to some of our friends to assume that academic pursuits are easy for him. That's hardly the case I know better, having witnessed just how hard he studies in pursuit of his GPA. When he starts comparing semesters and academic years to, say, Ypres, or The Somme ...well, let's just say that WWI metaphors have been a standard part of our mutual vocabulary for the past couple of years. He desperately needs the down-time before plunging back in to the academic grind.   So, here starts the planning for the next round of cross-country travel. I looked at gas prices and decided that flying would probably be a better bet, even with the addition of an extra suitcase and a rental car. First leg is Denver to Minneapolis in mid-May for D's graduation. From there, I fly into Orlando, pick up the rental car, and drive down to Bradenton for my chosen sister's museum exhibit opening. We'll reprise our piratical finery at a convention in Orlando that same weekend, then back to Bradenton for a few days. I drive back to Orlando and spend a few days with Mom, her husband, and my youngest sister, then back to Minneapolis, and then back to Denver.   D. comes down in June; in early July, I'll be flying back up for CONvergence and the start of packing. Somewhere in there, we might close on a house (under D's name for the moment), and I'll try and work in some more outside shows. Plus, I'd like to try and work sleep somewhere into all of this.   It's a lot of work. But I truly believe that the payoff will be more than worth the effort.
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I smell glorious
 

I want to dress like a girl!

In Michigan I found this beautiful frilly pink dress. It's foofy and lacy and has puffed sleeves, and looks like it was made for a five-year-old and then scaled up with room for a bosom. I love it. I pranced around the store for a good fifteen minutes, trying on shoes and wasting time because I didn't want to get out of the pretty dress. I love looking like a girl.   But I wear jeans all the time. I don't mind jeans, there's nothing wrong with them. But I have lots of gorgeous skirts and dresses. I wear jeans all the time because to dress like a girl is to attract notice, and I don't want to attract notice.   Tomorrow I am going to dress like a girl. I will be uncomfortable, because even if people aren't looking at me, I'll feel like people are looking at me. I will feel weird. And I will make myself do this every day until either I get acclimated or I don't secretly want to do it anymore, as uncomfortable as it sometimes makes me.   I am also going to learn to do my hair! Because given the price of my dye jobs, putting it in a ponytail just doesn't cut it!
myoubi

myoubi

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I smell glorious
 

I was in a Snake Charmer mood today

They don't come often, when I feel like SC. It's a powerful blend, and I don't wear it much at all -- it's not my usual sort of smell, so I have to be in the mood. Although SC is a very ladylike, /very/ sexy scent, because it's also a dark and a heady scent it also seems a bit rebellious to me -- for wear on days when I feel like not being my usual blonde self, when I feel like schlumping around in dark jeans and my rhinestone tiger hoodie, burying myself in a book, and generally absenting myself from the normal interacting world. If Shub is my comfort scent -- like a soft cashmere blanket on a cold day -- Snake Charmer is my push-off scent, something that means I've decided to step outside the world of normal human interaction, whether by being vampy or aggressive or sulky or bookish.   today was definately a Snake Charmer day.
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grimms_creed's Blog
 

Notes on what I've tried so far

AL-SHAIRAN (clove, peach and orange with cinnamon, patchouli and dark incense notes). Turns into a spicey perfume scent. Nothing special. 2   ALECTO (Olive leaf, raspberry leaf, vetiver and cedarwood). Nice, bit green, but nothing special once dry. 3   AEVAL (A judicious yet powerfully sensual blend, a mingling of justice and sexuality: sage, sweet pea, bold pale musk and warm tonka). Hated this out of the bottle, but not bad, once dry. a warm perfumey smell, but nothing special. 2.5   BEWITCHED (blackberry, sage, green tea, wild berries and dark musk). Starts as sharp berries (irritated my nose, but maybe that was just my allergies?), then mellows into something quite pleasant (the essence of raspberry green tea). 4(?)   BURIAL (deep, brooding forest scents, including juniper and patchouli. The scent of upturned cemetary loam mingling with floral offerings to the dead). This turned into a fragrance that I can only describe as that of the floral soap found in the bathrooms of upper class elderly women. Or at least, that was the precise mental image that it evoked for me, after I wore it for more than 30 minutes. 1   EDEN (fig leaf, fig fruit, honeyed almond milk, toasted coconut and sandalwood). This fragrance is pure love -- delicious and foody and sexy. not the best staying power, but not the worst, either. 5   HARVEST MOON (unknown year, and thus unknown notes) I love this fragrance to bits and pieces, and have thus instituted a thorough plan to try every year of Harvest Moon thus made, in an epic quest to find it again. 5   HARVEST MOON 2004 (The autumnal blooms of clematis, chrysanthemum, narcissus, sunflower, sage and lily twined with Dionysus’ sacred grapes and ivy, a bounty of apple, pumpkin, and ripe berries, and the amaranth and lingum aloes of Janus, all touched by a gentle breath of festival woodsmoke and sweet wine.). This is not as ohmygodwonderful as the unknown imp, but it's still quite nice. The first time I put it on if had an unpleasant medicinal undertone for the first hour or so, but subsequent applications have not suffered that problem, so I think it's a keeper (which is good, since I have a 5ml bottle of it!) 4.5   PSYCHE (Bulgar rose, Chinese white musk, lavender, orchid and frankincense) This is a pleasant, deep, if somewhat forgettable perfume. It faded fairly quickly. It might be worth a second try, but I'm not sure. 3   PUMPKIN PATCH 5. This was too sweet out of the bottle, but fades to something pleasant -- not too foody, interesting. 3.5-4   TEMPEST (A crisp ozone-tinged breeze. The scent of the first gentle rain before the storm). It smells exactly like the description. No real change from the imp to my skin, either, even after several hours. Well, it faded a bit (obviously), but the scent is still the same, just not as strong. 4
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grimms_creed

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Is Anybody Out There?
 

Kushiel's Dart

So, I'm about 5 pages in to Kushiel's Chosen, but I am tempted to re-read Kushiel's Dart, just because there was SO MUCH to follow that, even with the chart at the beginning, it was difficult to keep track of everyone. I'm going to spoiler tag the rest of this entry, because I hate having plots ruined, and I plan on divulging some plot points. Pretty major ones, in fact. However, before I do that, I want to say that I was enchanted by this world and it should not be categorized with romance novels. It is so much more!     On the subject of Kushiel's Chosen,     Ugh. It's been a long day, and I don't really know what else to say about this... I had a ton of stuff in my head about it after I finished, but I don't have the energy now.
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grimms_creed's Blog
 

Borrowed scents, from 4/7

Bewitching Brews:   AUREUS (True, perfect golden light, refined into an incomparably glorious scent). I swear to the gods, this started out smelling exactly like patchouli. But soon, it definitely developed a cedar tone, which complements the patchouli (if that's really in here) quite nicely. This was nice, but I can make something identical using my own essential oils.   CATHODE (Ambergris, Spanish Moss, oakmoss and three electric mints). This smelled nice out of the imp, but got a bit too sharp on me. 2.5   INCANTATION (vetiver, dark woods, crumbling and burnt black sandalwood and a drop of lemon rind). Something in here burns my nose. I can sense the sandalwood and the lemon, and they smell nice, but there is still the nose burning sensation. Ah well. 3   SUDHA SEGARA (Sweet milk and warm, healing ginger with a touch of golden honey and our blend of Ambrosia). Return of the inexplicable nose burning. If this had any note in common with Incantation, I could eliminate it from all future experiments, but, alas, it does not. The nose burning stopped after about an hour, and the fragrance is nice enough (a combination of chai and soap), but nothing that I would wear again. 2.5   Illyria:   THE APOTHECARY (Tea leaf with three mosses, green grass, a medley of herbal notes, and a drop of ginger and fig). Out of the bottle, this was the most perfect green scent in the world. On me, it was the same. Until it completely disappeared an hour later. I may get my own imp of this someday anyway, and try it with moisturizer or something. 5 (without taking into account the disappearance)   LADY MacBETH (sweet Bordeaux wine, blood red currant, thyme and wild berries). On me, this smelled very similar to Bewitched. 3   Rappaccini's Garden:   YEW-TREES (Piercingly sweet berries over evergreen boughs, deepened by the tree's sacred wood). This smelled like yew wood, but sweeter. Hard to describe, but quite nice. 4   Love Potions:   O (Amber and honey with a touch of vanilla). This reminded me a lot of Eden, but I think I liked Eden better. 3.5   Excolo:   VERDANDI (Deep herbs and apple with black amber). I was so excited about this scent. I lovelovelovelovelove apple scents, and I figured this would be amazing. It smells absolutely divine in the bottle -- fresh and green and appley. But on me, it gets much warmer and darker. I'm still not quite sure what I think of it...... 3, I guess. EDIT: I really want to like this fragrance. But.... I don't.   Sin and Salvation:   OBLIVION (Dark musk, wood spice, labdanum, patchouli, dark African woods, and saffron). This is deep and rich and good. Somewhat reminiscent of higher quality men's aftershave, but not in a bad way. It is warm, and a bit dark, but not morose. I find it somewhat comforting, in the way that losing yourself in something larger than you are can be comforting. I really like this one! 4.5   Voodoo:   FIRE OF LOVE (A catalytic, potent love oil used to spark (or rekindle) the flame of desire between lovers). This is a bit too spicy for me to want to wear it as a perfume, but I'll give it a go tonight, and see if it does anything for me ;-) Based purely on fragrance, however, it gets a 2.
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I smell glorious
 

more dreams

I just had a nap -- an unintentional nap -- and dreamt that Vic came back, was around, said hi. I dreamt that we hung out for a while (I think Vanessa brought her over) and that it was kind of awkward but that she actually explained why she'd disappeared. Why is my subconscious throwing /that/ at me while I sleep?   weird.
myoubi

myoubi

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I smell glorious
 

$$:wub2:

So far I have made $120 from sales Unfortunately I did sell a half-bottle of my beloved La Fee Verte... but considering I have the equivalent of 6 5mL's (between partials and decants) and considering that I have never even gone through an imp, I think it's okay.   I wore LFV today and was reminded of why I love it the way I do I keep getting whiffs of this glorious sweet lightly-herbal creaminess before realising that it's coming from my cleavage   Unless something comes up, the $$ from my sales will be saved for updates.. the coming update, and then the Blue Moon update. I'm going to need at least two bottles of Blue Moon if it's anything like hte last formulation, which sounds /right/ up my alley   h_f is gallivanting around London, going to parties and getting drunk on cheap whisky (shame! go for the expensive stuff.) I am jealous, abit, but mostly I wish she was back here because I miss her!   Oh yeah, and I found some Unseelie. One decant, but that should be fine. No matter how lovely it is, I'm sure it won't be enough to displace my favourites and so I won't need more.
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myoubi

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I smell glorious
 

I just made monies for the update :D

and bought some partial (very, very partial) bottles at better-than-reasonable prices, but those cost $10 which is what I made off of one decant of Spooky so that's no big deal So far I've made $56, and I hope to make a little more. All of it is going towards the update on the 13th.   I'll probably ship it to Amy's address, and as such I might even combine orders with her -- she wants a 5mL of Kyoto and an imp pack! Yessss, another enablee, although I suspect this is more out of indulgence for me than true obsession. Either way, it spreads the love. You can't get much for $56, especially considering shipping... but Mom will be wiring some money into my account to buy Sheila a scent locket [she saw mine and was /instantly/ taken with it] and so I'll just ask her for a couple of dollars extra to round out my shipping costs -- shouldn't be too hard. The update is probably going to be full of shinies, at least that's what's buzzing and bumbling on the fora... and given Beth's hints, the slow boil seems warranted There's not much I'm craving right now, other than 5mL's of The Hermit and Brisingamen, but those can be laid aside if the 13th offers up some particularly tasty morsels.   Oh, and I'm on Zoloft again! Yaaay! And Amy might (/might/) be coming down for the 28th of April :(
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circe_blue's Blog
 

Whine/Confession Post

Damn you, Facebook. I was tagged in two photos and then I untagged myself because I think I look fat in them. I didn't want any of my friends from high school to think "Oh, she got fat hahahaha".   So my confession is this: yes, I am this self-concious/vain. Also, I hate Facebook newsfeed because it made the whole untagging thing useless, as I had already shown up on the friend's list recent activities thing. Grrr.   ************ I hate being this size. I hate that I've gained weight since college and that I delete all the pics of myself that I think are ugly becuase I think they make me look fat. Ugh. I know I'll be stressing about this Facebook tagging business all night.
circe_blue

circe_blue

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Is Anybody Out There?
 

Restless

After much angst and self-doubt, I dropped precalculus... and I know I could've done it. Maybe that's all I needed, though.   I still feel disappointed in myself.   The former housemate who owes us massive amounts of money just told us that he bought himself a nintendo DS. The hell? That's not the only thing he's bought himself, either. And I know he has a right to do nice things for himself, but it pisses me off that he's letting repaying us slide. Or maybe he's not. Maybe it just seems like it's been a while since he sent anything. He was also a dumbass in a self-destructive mode and went to see this crazy bitch that he swears he's over, but then he's still in love with her, and whatever whatever whatever. Boo-frickin-hoo. I sound insensitive, but it's just ridiculous. He knows better. He needs to focus on himself if he's going to get well anytime soon, and doing shit like that -really- doesn't help. I just keep HOPING that he will get it together, and when he gets self destructive, I get pissed.   Anyway. School. I needed one of my books to arrive in the mail today, and it didn't, and I'm sort of freaked out now. I am in love with linguistics and have found myself fully engrossed in the textbook at times. BUT. It doesn't count as a humanities credit?? Uh, the hell? It's just an elective credit, which I certainly don't need. It is listed as a humanities credit in the catalog, and if I'm not mistaken, they're sort of required to honor that, so I'm going to have a visit with an advisor and mention that. Why would linguistics not count for humanities? That's just insane. Then again, my college also wouldn't count Lord of the Rings as a lit credit. But, whatever. Because I'm so not getting rid of this course. They'd have to pry it from my cold, dead hands. Or something like that. We've spent the first week of Biology covering the chemistry used in biology. I like her well enough. She's married to my favourite instructor, and it's interesting to see her style as well. My lab instructor, though... heh. Is he even old enough to cross the street by himself? Somebody in the class was like, "Should we call you Mr. So-and-so?" I about choked. There's no way I could address that kid that way- to my great relief, he begged us not to. He's nice, but he seriously doesn't look old enough to be out of high school. (I may be exaggerating. I told my husband he was 12, so I am getting a little better.) Anyway, so I think I'll like finally having a lab, but it is on friday, which means I'm driving out there 5 days a week... much, much more gasoline.   Huh. This is a pretty long entry. I'm just really restless. And... I am a bit forlorn with a turn in Kushiel's Dart about 250 pages from the end. For some reason, I just didn't see that coming. I know at some point I said that her writing was a bit pretentious, but I think it's because I had been reading things like Dresden Files and Women of the Otherworld and Weather Wardens. It's just a different genre and a different style of writing. I'm actually quite enthralled by her, and I had to get the second book, as well as the first book of her new series. (I finally nabbed a bunch of used books and made a run to the bookstore. I love that- we came out with 10 books and it worked out to less than one dollar each.)   Okay. I'm going to end this now. I'm so freaking thirsty. Merfolk should not be thirsty.
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giant squid!
 

my reviews...

I noticed this on stellans' signature and I thought it was a great idea! Over time, I will keep adding links ot my reviews (I have done so many and I don't have the time to find them all at once...) just in case you're curious. Also, it's good for me to see which scents I have reviewed in my quest to have tried the whole catalog (I wonder how long it's going to take...pretty long I suppose)   Bewitching Brews Anne Bonny Bess Bewitched Blood Bon Vivant Brimstone Calico Jack Chimera Eclipse Fae Kill-Devil Kubla Khan La Bella Donna Mia Mente Leanan Sidhe Lightning Ozymandias Plunder Poisoned Apple Shattered Veil Wilde Zephyr   Ars Moriendi House of Night The Phantom Wooer The Reaper and the Flowers Sheol Shroud   Dark Elements Inferno   Sin & Salvation Anathema Black Dahlia Hellfire Jailbait Les Infortunes de la Vertu Oblivion Roadhouse Tzadikim Nistarim Wrath   Love Potions Bathsheba Bien Loin d'Ici Debauchery Depraved Desire Endymion Forbidden Fruit Harlot Hetairae La Petite Mort La Serpent Qui Danse Libertine Lilium Inter Spinas Muse Nefertiti Queen of Sheba Satyr Seraglio Severin Succubus The Temptation Vixen Whip   Diabolus A Countenance Foreboding Evil Black Phoenix Catherine Goblin Hellcat Horreur Sympathique Imp Kitsune-Tsuki Kuang Shi Kumiho Loup Garou Maenad Marquise de Merteuil Nephilim Nocnitsa Troll   The Carousel Mama Ji Mr. Ibis Mr. Jaqcuel   Mad Tea Party Cheshire Cat Croquet The Dodo The Dormouse Eat Me Frumious Bandersnatch Jabberwocky Knave of Hearts Mouse's Long & Sad Tale Queen Alice Tweedledum White Rabbit   Illyria Caliban Hermia Goneril Jester Katharina Lear Lysander Tamora Titania Titus Andronicus   Wanderlust 51 Baghdad Bayou Crossroads Delphi Florence Ile de la Tortue Kathmandu Lyonesse Machu Picchu Madrid New Orleans Santa Eulària Des Riu Santo Domingo Sri Lanka Sybaris Tenochtitlan Tombstone Venice Vinland Whitechapel   Ars Draconis Dragon's Heart Dragon's Musk   Rappaccini's Garden Black Lily Black Lotus Death Cap Dian's Bud Hairy Toad Lily Love-in-Idleness Love Lies Bleeding Shadow Witch Orchid Squirting Cucumber Voodoo Lily Wolfsbane Yew Trees   Picnic in Arkham Azathoth Brown Jenkins The High Priest Not to be Described The Music of Erich Zahn Nyarlathotep Shub-Niggurath Y'ha-Nthlei   The Salon And There Was a Great Cry in Egypt Arrival of the Sabbath and Homage to the Devil Bat The Cup of Death Cupid Complaining to Venus Death and Life Completed The Death of Sardanapal Death of the Grave Digger Garden Path With Chickens The Great He-Goat The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed With the Sun Haloes Isle of the Dead Itasô Kansei Nenkan Jorô No Fûzoku Judith Victorious Kiyohime Changes From a Serpent Les Anges Déchus Lucifer Lucretia Mad Meg Madonna Orpheus Philospher in Meditation The Sailor's Den The Smiling Spider Spirit of the Komachi Cherry Tree Sunflower Three Brides Three Gorgons Two Monsters   Excolo Aglaea Aizen-Myoo Al-Shairan Baron Samedi Calliope Centzon Totochtin Coyote Czernobog Eos Euterpe Himerus Khephra Kurukulla Mania Melpomene Ochosi Osun Oya Persephone Queen Mab Sacred Whore of Babylon Skuld   Voodoo Blends French Love Love Me   Tarot Oils The Hanged Man The Hermit Strength   Sephiroth Nahemoth   Good Omens Agnes Nutter Aziraphale Crowley Hastur Ligur     Stardust Tristran Victoria The Witch Queen Yvaine   Carnaval Diabolique Carnaval Diabolique Midnight on the Midway Doc Constantine Mme Moriarty Pulcinella & Teresina Theodosius the Legerdemain Parliament of Monsters Arachnina the Spider Girl Eshe a Vision of Life-in-Death Faiza the Black Mamba Meskhenet the Vulture Maiden Tiresias the Androgyne Zarita the Doll Girl Anaconda Asp Viper Australian Copperhead Banded Sea Snake Boomslang Coral Snake Cottonmouth Death Adder Green Tree Viper Habu King Cobra Saw Scaled Viper Temple Viper Western Diamondback   Lunacy Blends Fruit Moon Dragon Moon Lotus Moon Black Moon Chrysanthemum Moon White Moon Bitter Moon Wolf Moon 2006 Lycaon Hunger Moon Bakeneko Crow Moon Oborot Pink Moon 2007 Milk Moon 2007 Minotaur Rose Moon Blue Moon 2007 Thunder Moon Selkie Red Moon 2007 Allison Gross Singing Moon Hunter Moon 2007 Aeaea Beaver Moon 07 Ivanushka   Limited Editions 13 (10/06) 13 (7/07) A Bachelor's Dog A Bold Bluff All Souls The Atrocious Attic Bad Luck Woman Blues Bonfire Night Cancer 2007 Capricorn 2007 The Chilling Cellar The Death of Autumn Egg Nog El Dia de Reyes Enraged Groundhog Musk The Fruit of Paradise Haloa His Station and Four Aces Fire Pig The Forbidding Foyer Gemini 2007 Jacob's Ladder Lady Luck Blues Leo 2007 Libra 2007 Lick It Again The Lurid Library Kelly Pool MB Tokyo Stomp MB Ventroiloquist's Dummy A Murder of Crows New Year's Eve in Dogville October One to Tie, Two to Win Ostara The Peacock Queen The Perilous Parlor The Phoenix Pinched with Four Aces Pirate Moon Poisson D'Avril Privilege Pruno Pumpkin I Pumpkin II Pumpkin III Pumpkin IV Pumpkin V Riding the Goat Rose Red Saggitarius 07 Sol Invictus The Sportive Sun Stranger in Camp Taurus 2007 The Twisted Oak Tree Vampire Tears Virgo 2007 The Winter of Our Discontent
euterpe414

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How difficult could it be?
 

ta daaaaaaaaa!

i finished the ribbed scarf!!!!! i actually finished it a couple of weeks ago, but i've been without t'internet. i need to upload a pic to prove it.   i have now started on a cotton halterneck top in a gorgeous burgundy/plum colour. i'm speeding up with my knitting and i'm knitting 'tighter'. not sure how to explain. it's not that i was knitting too loose, just that my stitches are now uniform. my knitting now looks like the pics given as demonstrations of new stitch patterns.   and this project is cheaper. £5-£7.50 depending on whether i do need to use the 3rd ball of yarn.
Nemesister

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Birdsongs
 

Voice mail

My Grandpa Jesse died this morning, and I just found out (yes, I will answer my phone more regularly in the future so as to avoid voice mail news ...) He was 95.   I think I met him twice. His children never had a good word to say about him. We never had an actual conversation (he didn't seem to like children much). But he must have had friends, and his second family probably was fond of him. I'll bet he did interesting things when he was younger, & had stories to tell. Perhaps he had mellowed with age ...   Here's to you, Grandpa Jesse.
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