Meep

So I actually got to wear my stuff today. I'd mostly just been moping around the house and I didn't want to waste any. But I went for a little hike with my mom today and I thought I'd wear some while we went out. I kept getting whiffs of my perfume while I was walking and I was like "wow, I smell delicious!" But I was talking to my mom, who has been wearing patchouli from the Body Shop for years and she says she can't smell it on herself any more. (She's been wearing it for probably twenty years or something.) I don't want that to happen, so I might look into getting another one, so I can alternate. ... and I'd told myself just one. Isn't that how it always goes?

I meant to post this last night, but the epic thunderstorm was epic so I had to disconnect, just in case. Anyway, I made my first BPAL purchase yesterday. I had been thinking about it for awhile, but I had no idea what scents I would like. I knew I'd liked sandalwoods and ambers and vanillas in other stuff but I had no idea if I'd like anything else. Long story short, I never got around to ordering anything because I didn't want to spend money blind. Then yet another person on my LiveJournal flist bought a bunch of imps and I went clicking through the site again. I made a list of scents that sounded interesting thinking I'd buy a set of imps. Then I looked at the list of brick and mortar locations hoping there would be something in or around Boston, MA, where I go to school. There wasn't anything there, but at the bottom of the page was a place in South Burlington, VT of all places. I live a couple towns over and actually had an appointment out that way, anyway. So I told my mom about it and asked if we could stop there on the way home, which we did. We then proceeded to spend about the next hour trying everything that they had in stock, including a few from the want list I'd typed up. Well, I didn't end up liking any of them. I went with "Mouse's Long and Sad Tale," with "Phantom Queen" as a close second. Neither of them were on my list at home, so go figure. I'm hoping to figure out what it was about those two that I liked so I can try some other as well, but I'm not very good at that sort of thing.