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Scents and Sensibility
 

Chocolate quest to date

I think I've now tried every BPAL GC (and most every LE) fragrance that contains "chocolate" or "cocoa" as a listed fragrance note. It was an interesting quest. Along the way I found several nice scents that don't seem very chocolatey but are pleasant in their own way (Velvet, Tezcatlipoca, Vice) and a few that actually did exhibit a chocolate scent on me.   Bliss was the only one that had a true chocolate scent (and stayed true) on me. Not Candy Butcher, not Boomslang, nor any of the other currently available scents. A couple of the versions of Thirteen had a reasonably lasting chocolate note in the complex mix of scents. I also seemed to catch a chocolatey note in the Smut I tried, and would love to get hold of a sample of the 2007 version.   I would also love to try Lump of Coal someday, as it has been touted as an "ultimate" chocolate scent by some.   Anyway, it has been fun. Here's to more chocolate!
Vanille

Vanille

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heartbreakangel's Blog
 

And so it begins...*sigh*

I just got off the phone with my intended. She's having a rough night due to a migraine that won't ease off, and I'm still feeling pretty crappy myself with the sinus issues and bronchitis. I figured we'd have a nice, light conversation before we both finally crashed for the night. Somehow, we wound up discussing wedding stuff.   And amid all of this, things her mother's been saying came up. I immediately asked if alcohol was involved before the conversation they had tonight took place, and got an affirmative answer. Lovely.   Apparently, her mother is "concerned" that I'm marrying her because I want money, that I expect that we'll get everything when her folks die, that I'm sorely mistaken in thinking her family rich, that if we think she's going to let us live at the house we're mistaken, that she "expects a long and apologetic talk" regarding something I supposedly said two years ago, and a few other minor things that made me sit there like "...what?".   I know they're not rich. I don't care. Why her mother figures I'd think them rich just because they live on a lake, I have no idea. One of my uncles lives on a lake. He's not loaded. It's possible to do without money flying out of your backside. Sheesh.   WTF? Inheritance? Oh, yipee? I really don't care. I'd like to think it's obvious I don't give a flying fornication about money due to the fact that I'm marrying someone that's on a provincial disability pension. It's not exactly the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, eh? Lordy.   We never said we wanted to live at the house forever like the assumption has become. It's been made plain as day, or so we both thought, that we're getting an apartment and will be working toward perhaps getting a house of our own somewhere down the line. The only time we'll be staying there is when I go up on my tourist visa, during which point we'll be hunting for an apartment, moving in to the apartment, and filing my permanent resident application. I don't see where this is hard to understand.   The other stuff is one gigantic circular argument that's been going on for four years about me being possessive, me supposedly treating my intended "like shit all the time", at one point there was a supposed insult regarding my apparent loose moral standing (my father was very amused by that, really ), and it's just all stuff that only ever comes spilling out when my intended's mother's been drinking.   I do my best to ignore it. I really, really do. But now we're both afraid that her mom's going to decide to get blitzed during the reception, and let her lips do the walking, so to speak. It makes me cringe, since I'm picturing her saying something to my father, and...oh man.   This just has "mess" written all over it. I'm going to have to do some thinking on ways to keep things from getting so thick I need hip waders between now and the day of the ceremony. I know all of this is upsetting my intended, and because of that, I'm getting ticked off. Especially since there's absolutely no reason for it.   Bleh. It's about time I see about getting myself settled for some sleep. I'm hoping that I get more than six hours worth today, really.
heartbreakangel

heartbreakangel

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Is Anybody Out There?
 

Thursday update

I'm doing a weekly weigh in, and I'm going to record stuff about it in here.   Loss Today: 4.0lbs Loss in August: 7.8 Cumulative Loss: 11.8lbs   Long term overall goal: 99.6lbs Short term overall goal: 35lbs   Updated Long and Short Term goals to address weight lost: 87.8/23.2
smallvoice

smallvoice

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this and that from Antaria
 

Some time with Maus

Yesterday I spent some time with Maus. Boy, did she grow! The scheme of childlike characteristics almost disappeared. I did not take her out for 3 weeks (of course I took her out for weighing and cleaning, but not to cuddle her) because I was coughing too bad. I'm still coughing a bit.   3 weeks ago she was a snuggle-pig. She loved it to be caressed. And now? Well ... okay, she still loves to search for the warmest place and is really happy when you built a "tent" with your hands and she can lay inside of it - in fact her eyes are going smaller and smaller when she is there. But if you try to caress her ... she shows that that's not what she want apart from being caressed on the head specially between the eyes. I guess if there wouldn't have been the 3week pause she still would enjoy it ... well perhaps if I can take her out more often again.   But I somehow ignore the others because of her. Lets be frank: The others will enjoy it ...
Antaria

Antaria

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In Uffish Thought
 

My Wishlist!

To start I must due to enabling my best friend (Peppermint Rose) and addicting her to ACE OF HEARTS, I must in all fairness put that at the top of my list. (i did a bad bad thing ;D)     Then for me it's CRACKED BELL     ---GCs---   ABSINTHE   ANNE BONNY   ARCANA   AUREUS   ECLIPSE   SAINT-GERMAIN   SHADOW   ULTRAVIOLET   LAUDANUM   ROSE CROSS   TZADIKIM NISTARIM   BATHSHEBA   BORDELLO   GOLDEN PRIAPUS   HUNGER   DUBLIN   ROME   VINLAND   GRANDMOTHER OF GHOSTS   URD   VERDANDI   SOL   BAGHDAD   THE HANGING GARDENS   HOLLYWOOD BABYLON   KATHMANDU   NEO-TOKYO   SANTA EULÀRIA DES RIU   SILK ROAD   TENOCHTITLAN   TINTAGEL   TOMBSTONE   WHITECHAPEL   YEREVAN   CHESHIRE CAT   EAT ME   FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH   MAD HATTER   MARCH HARE   MOUSE'S LONG AND SAD TALE   THE RED QUEEN   TWEEDLEDUM   TWEEDLEDEE   BLACK FOREST   BLACK OPAL   BLOOD AMBER   CHIMERA   GRAND GUIGNOL   HYMN TO PROSERPINE   INTRIGUE   LURID   MAGUS   MASQUERADE   NAMASTE   OMEN   PHANTASM   RAKSHASA   SCHEREZADE   SÉANCE   SHATTERED   TUSHNAMATAY   UMBRA   WILDE   ZEPHYR   DEPRAVED   DESIRE   HARLOT   LOLITA   RAVENOUS   SALOMÉ   SERAGLIO   SNAKE OIL   SPELLBOUND   SUCCUBUS   VIXEN   ANTIQUE LACE   added 9/13/07   Schrodinger's Cat   Loup Garou   Jack   ***non bpal*** The Healing Gardens: Cold Comfort Therapy (specifically the linen and room spray)
fiftythree

fiftythree

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this and that from Antaria
 

Today is ...

... a strange day. I don't feel well. My head aches a little bit, my abdomen, too. Well, girl problems My knee aches a lot, no idea why. I am very tired and I want in my bed - now. That may be because yesterday was not that great. Well, in the beginning it was. Yesterday I had my 10 year driving license anniversary and I bought cake because of that. Well, okay, I only wanted cake. I told Olli that I want some and didn't tell that I was going to buy it myself. So he came home with red roses and a cake that you only must bake. It was so sweet of him and I was really happy. So we had lots of cake.   After that we started to clean again - on Saturday we have a party and there is still a lot to do till then. It was okay and it is nice that our house starts to look nice again. Anyway, at 21:00 we decided to stop for that day and to watch Star Trek DS9. I said something - I think in a normal voice - and he thought that I said it in a grumpy voice. Over that we started a fight. We had this one a lot of times. I really didn't mean it grumpy - but he thinks it sounds like that ... I can't hear any grumpiness so I don't know how to change and he can't convince himself, that it isn't meant grumpy. It took us 1 hour to talk normal to each other again. At this time we were already in bed. And then it took almost 1h till I was calmed down enough to sleep. So it was a short night and that's why I'm tired.   We thought our party would be bigger ... 30 people or something like that. Till now there are only 15. Well, makes it easier for me to cook.   I'm already hungry. Okay, that is nothing special. I'm always hungry.   Really strange: I want to clean the windows in our living room! We have a window-gable so it is a lot of work but I really look forward of doing it. Perhaps because everything will have color again after cleaning - right now there is a grey shadow above all.       My thoughts are drifting away all the time. It took me really long to write this entry. Guess it's simply not my best day, even if the start was nice and I talked to a woman working with me in this building. We are always the first to come here and sometimes we bump into each other and start to talk. I like her. She's a lot older than I am, and still we find lots to talk about. I still wait for another coworker to come - Mike. He is 54 I think and I really like him. And he likes me, I think. I often comes to me to talk about his relationship and asks things like "How long was there this 'fire' in your relationship?" or "At which point should we move together?". He really appreciates my opinion and I'm flattered by that because I'm so much younger than he is. I'd consider him a friend ... it will be hard when he leaves work - and I guess he will in the end of this year. After that it will be hard to keep in touch - he is living about 400km away from here and ... well I think it will end then. But I'll always keep him in my memories. He is a great person and I love it that he found a new love at the age of 53 And that he always encourages me ... in some things I am pretty childish - so when I need an objective, grownup opinion, I simply ask him.   Oh Mike, I hate it that things will change and you will go away. I guess if you'd hear that you'd smile and say "Well, that's the way it goes ..."
Antaria

Antaria

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circe_blue's Blog
 

Hello again!

So according to this, the last time I wrote a blog entry was in May. oops. Not too much have happened since then and if you care, here's a rundown of events:   - I actually got an A Virology! Yay! I'm still super-proud of my grades on the final exam and the final project 'cause I thought acing that class was going to be im-fraking-possible.   -Summer: Hung around, spent time with the bf, got some reading done. Read The Stand finally. With my love of apocalypse-y things, I dunno why I haven't finished it before now. Oh, my bf (A) also introduced me to RPGs. We played Shadow Hearts, and I wasn't impressed. The last game I ever played all the way through was Mortal Kombat II on the Sega Genesis, so you can figure out that a) I've been out of the gaming loop for a Veeery long time and b ) this whole Standing Still While Your Enemy Gets A Turn at Beating Your Ass Up did not compute with me at first. SH had its moments though, and from the demo of Eternal Sonata I played, it looks like that might be a better "fit" for me. Also, I make a bad gamer because I am content to just sit there and watch A play. Seriously. This is what we did for all of the Silent Hills, and for Bioshock. Which leads me to my next statement that I suck at First Person Shooters. You know that scene in The Office where Karen makes fun of Jim 'cause he sucks super-hard at Call of Duty II and keeps running into and getting stuck at walls? That is totally me Playing through the first level of Bioshock all you would hear me say was "Ohmigod, how do I turn around?!" "Wait, what the hell, is this up or down?!" Urg.   Also during the summer, the 'rents and I visited Niagara Falls. I'll post pics and commentary up eventually.   -Now, I'm back at my apartment at school, being annoyed with myself because the reason that we've not been receiving any mail lately was because I've neglected to post my roomie and my name on the inside of our mailslot. WTF. Luckily, energy and cable bills have yet to be sent out, and the only thing I have to worry about is getting Netflix to re-send their stuff (i'm borrowing A's Netflix while he's away. He said he put a bunch of "surprises" in my queue so I was really excited ) Also, since I've moved to a new place, I am no longer within walking distance of the school This means driving and much more annoyingly and agrravating, parking. I hate having to car-stalk people or roll my window to ask the most frequently asked question in the garage: "Are you leaving?"   Anyways, that's what I've been up to. Exciting, yes? Now I'm off to go do more exciting things like, make coffee and catch up on reading for class. Ooh, what adventure!
circe_blue

circe_blue

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this and that from Antaria
 

why ... why ...

I have my own room at work - well almost. About 4 hours per week we are 2 in the room. Me and - let's call him Tom. And we really are not best friends. It's not that we hate each other, we are just too different. He is as non diplomatic as one can be. I think I can be diplomatic if I want to. At work I usually want to   Well it started with calenders that we can order now. They should be for work, of course. He told me to get one for home. I'm too - well half and half - I have him always with me and therefore there are work-things in at as well as private things. Anyway, he thinks I'm too correct. Tells me that he does not believe that I never overlay my break. In fact - I don't. I have my mobile ringing when it's time to go back to work. If I stay too long away anyway, I take this time from my overtime. It's just the way I am. Yes, I surf while I should be working but it would be wrong to tell him so, he would use it against me if there would be the opportunity.   I'm just so tired of this ... every now and then he starts with it and in the end he says "Well, doesn't matter, I don't care." - "Funny, you talk a lot about it, doesn't seem as if you wouldn't care." - "No I don't. I don't have to. Your partner has to." - ehm sorry, why are we talking about my partner now?? This was about work!   After that he usually start to call me a bitch (hope the use of the word is the same as Zicke in German). I think I'm not. Well okay, sometimes I am, but I really try not to be. He surly is. I started to be faster then him and call him a bitch right away at this point of our conversation.   It's really that he wants to hear from me that I screw our employer - because he is doing so and wants sanction for that.   The point is: I think he is terrible. The way he economies with his money, the way he works and so on - but I don't say anything to him about that. I never start such discussions as the one we had now. I just accept that he is different and try not to mix into his stuff or way of handling things. Why can't he do the same?   The only explanation I have is that I really bully him in my silent way ... I know he hates that I have no problems with our boss because I am ... different. I tell him straight away what I think about something and if he asks me some awkward questions, I don't say "ehm er errr ... well ... er". I prefer the easy way, even if that means that I have to tell our boss something that he does not want to hear. I am terribly afraid in such situations (it's never nice to say "no I have not finished that" or "sorry, it will never work") but I try to play cool - and I guess that's why my boss and I come along ... he knows somehow to trust me. Tom tries not to say something negative to our boss - but most of the time our boss gets it and finds out.   Well we are different. But where is the problem??
Antaria

Antaria

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this and that from Antaria
 

Ants - I forgot something

Something important, I'm afraid!   On Sunday I wanted to feed my ants. So I opened the glass box - here it is called arena - and put some honey and water in it while my partner was on the phone. Of course I was listening to what he was saying ... and forgot to close the arena again. Monday after work I realized that the lit wasn't there.   I can't even tell if any ants are gone. The queen and approx. 11 workers are still there. Perhaps none of them is gone - I have the feeling that they already decided that it is time for hibernation (they hibernate even at normal temperatures, but of course you should bring them to a colder place - it's only nice because they show you when it is time) and so all the ant might be still in the nest.   Lets hope so.
Antaria

Antaria

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What My Nose Knows
 

Ars Draconis

I'm trying out two Ars Draconis scents this week -- Dance of Death today and Twilight tomorrow. The Ars Draconis line lets me indulge my morbid side a bit. Though, I really have to wonder what I'll say if anyone asks what I'm wearing today. I think I'll wimp out and just give the notes.
taramarie

taramarie

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Nia's Blog
 

School time approaches.

I start school Friday next week. Today I have picked up the school's materials for the month.   Reading the materials: Loralei DONE. Unit 55: Bordello DONE Unit 56: Delight. DONE Unit 57: Forbidden Fruit DONE Unit 58: The Lady of Shalott Unit 59: Les Bijoux.   And I'm going to do caligraphy exercises. Phew! I'll reward myself with Lolita if I complete a couple of pages every day.   The week didn't go very well
Nia

Nia

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this and that from Antaria
 

Time with my Pigs

Yesterday I spent a lot of time with my pigs. I cleaned their cage and usually they are in an enclosure I built in their room or our living room and after that I bring them back to their cage.   Yesterday I had a little bit more time (sweety was just taking a nap) so I cleaned the cage and after that I sat myself in the enclosure. Maus came directly to my fingers - she still thinks that they are eatable. But I was able to use my fingers to lure her onto my lab Even Pebbles - the shyest of the 4 - came closer, after a while she found out that it is nice to sit next to my leg because its warm there. Wittgenstein enjoyed it when I caressed him under the chin - he can make such a looooong neck. Willow was very greedy - she was choking 3 times on her carrot. A terrible noise. 3 of the 4 decided that my toes are eatable - I disagreed.   It was really nice sitting there with them.   In the end Maus was a bit nerved because I had to comb her - she's a US-teddy and has scalls - she made it clear that the comb is not her friend and that she is pretty quick.   Wittgenstein, Willow and Maus gained weight, only Pebbles lost about 18gr. But I think 18gr is not that much so I'm not worried.
Antaria

Antaria

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this and that from Antaria
 

Snake Oil

Okay, a new category!   Today I tried Snake Oil again. I got it in February, I think and I applied it once. Conclusion: Boring. A not so perfect Van Van. I decided to let it age because a lot of you say that it's great aged. New Conclusion: Not as great as Blood Amber, but nice. Quite and not too striking, but nice. A bit like candy ... sweet but not too sweet. I think I will buy a big bottle of it someday. Will have to buy a bit BPAL anyway ... I think twice a year I am allowed to do so. Perhaps I wait for the Jule-scents ...
Antaria

Antaria

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Abstract Associations
 

Crypt Queen

As sweet as death, as deep as the grave: pomegranate, raspberry, gardenia, plum, and rose with patchouli, black pepper, rose musk, and a hint of blood accord.   Reviewed 09/09/2007   I am really torn about this one. I absolutely love the subtle florals and juicy, dark berries. In the bottle, it is absolutely perfect. But on my skin there is an odd smell that comes out, I'm not sure what it is but it makes my nose tickle like a whiff of Vicks Vap-o-rub does. Maybe the pepper? It's not horribly strong but it doesn't fade away. I'm going to give it a few more tries and see how it does around other people, and if they notice that same weird scent when I wear it I may try aging it for a while before trying again.
Rovylern

Rovylern

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Forum Updates and News
 

Upcoming downtime

We're going to be doing a bunch of updates in the next two weeks. The last I heard, the forum's going to be down on SATURDAY, Sept 15, for a period of 12-36 hours (depending on how long it takes us to verify and debug).     Most of the updates are pretty boring and won't effect you overly much, but there's one big one: we're implementing a brand new the search engine for the forum. It's faster, allows us to let you search for one or two character things (though we've forced it to require at least two characters), better results, and in the coming weeks, should be querying the topic descriptions along with the titles. Also, right now, it's just set up for the forum itself, but it's got the capability to be integrated with the upcoming wiki and our blogs as well, which is pretty cool.
ipb

ipb

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giant squid!
 

wanderlust...

So I have officially, with the exception of Havana (I am going to get an imp in my next order, I swear!), I have tried every scent in the Wanderlust category!   It's my first GC category that I've tried everything in....scary....   Now if only I could review the entire category- I was so bad at keeping track of those things when I first started wearing BPAL.   Anyway, back to work! Only 8 days until this concert series I have to play in (which I was notified of 10 days in advance- argh! why can't they be organized?), and there is lots to be done....
euterpe414

euterpe414

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Whiskers and Whispers
 

The patter of tiny paws.

It's been ages since I've written in here huh?   But I need to announce the arrival of two darling new additions to the family...my long awaited new kittens, Serafina and Smurfette. I got them via a shelter from someone who wanted to sell his kittens-and I was not expecting the almost dangerous level of CUTE I saw when I met the kittens. it was so hard choosing two kittens from a litter of six adorable little fluffy bundles of joy. I ended up choosing eventually and I think I chose well-the kitties are so sweet and playful and are always chasing each other and jumping about and just doing the sort of cute kitten stuff that makes me all wobbly inside. Sera is the grown up one with more black than white on her face, and she is also the more mature and and clever kitty, whilst Smurfette is the energetic, playful, mischevious little rogue who has one eye in black fur and the other in white, almost like an eyepatch (mum calls her the little pirate). I am so pleased to have these wonderful darlings in my life-I haven't been this happy in ages!   I will post pics asap!
PurringPulsar

PurringPulsar

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Forspecial Plate's Blog
 

Ginger

Ginger is a hit-or-miss note for me. I love Shub-Niggurath, but I don't like the ginger note in Saw Scaled Viper and War. I like Sudha Segara, but I don't love it, and I'm not sure I can smell the ginger in it. It smells more like sparkly lemon and lime to me. I have a wee sample of ginger essential oil from Nature's Gift, and I really like how it smells. Oh and I do like Pumpkin Queen, but I don't love it (wait.....PQ does have ginger, doesn't it?).   I was reading reviews for Shub-Niggurath and couldn't believe all the variations people are smelling. I don't smell lemon at all when I wear it. And were there really different 'versions' of Shub? I always wonder if that's true or if it's just people's different perceptions of the same scent. I have a decant of pre-resurrection Shub, and also a bottle of the resurrected Shub, and they smell exactly alike to me. Of course, I don't know how old the decant is.
forspecial_plate

forspecial_plate

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this and that from Antaria
 

Angry an undecided the 3rd

Okay, I am angry now ... the managed to restore a part of my page! With SCC-file (edit: ooooops! CSS, of course!) and all! But they wrote that they are working for a new page that will appear in the end of September. Anyway ... I hope they don't use my css! I know that I won't be able to tell them that they are not allowed to do so, but I'd like to!   Anyway, they could have make an own design for this temporal page! And if it was only white, so what?? But to use my design without asking me is not okay - at least I think so!   They are *put in some terrible words in here*!
Antaria

Antaria

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this and that from Antaria
 

Piggies

My 4 guinea pigs make me happy every day. I stand up in the morning, go into the bathroom and after that in their room - before I even open the door they are already calling out for me - or better: For food.   When I open the door they start to sit up and beg - against the cage-fence (I'll be so happy when we finish our biiiiig guinea cage with glass), pushing each other away, squeaking so loud that I wonder how my partner can sleep. Even our smallest, now 7 1/2 weeks old, starts to do it and shows her sweet little belly. I call it "The Belly-Parade"   Then I take the bag with the hay and this sound makes them go crazy. They start dashing through the cage, sometimes clashing to each other, bouncing like silly (in German it's called poppcorning) and squeaking even louder. It is so wonderful to watch. And when it start to trickle the hay down on them they jump more and more ... you really could think they don't get any hay for years - in fact they get it 3 times a day, sometimes more often when they eat it fast.   In the end there is a big mountain of hay in the cage and - it's moving! Because Maus - the little one - crawl ito the hay and starts going here and there while eating it ... after 5 minutes there is no mountain left, it's all bulldozed down by the 4 pigs.     I always loved my pets but I never thought that guinea pigs would be that great
Antaria

Antaria

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this and that from Antaria
 

I love my bed

I always loved my bed - sometimes I start to giggle when I go to bed because I'm just so happy about my bed. Then I think "Everybody should have such a bed".   A week ago I decided that it was time for a bed-change. Since my Sweetheart and I moved together we had a self-made bed because he had his mattress and I had mine, his was to hard for me (but we both could fit in it if we have to) and mine was too small for us both and too soft for him. So each of us kept the own mattress and we built a base where they both fit. So we had a really huge bed - but it was not what we wanted. We have been dreaming about a waterbed since we knew each other and last Friday we finally bought one.   And now I even love my bed more than before! It is wonderful even if the fine-tuning is not perfect yet - I'm still thinking that the wateramount is not perfect but I don't know if I need more or less water. We can change the slow-down (or how it might be called in English) ourselfes when we want and I guess I want it with less slow-down.   It is so nice to lie down in this wonderful bed, nothing aches and it is warm ... the only thing I don't like is the venyl-scent but it will go away, I think. And you can counteract it by applying BPAL before goinig to sleep. Unfortunately I forget that very often and then I am too tired to go and get some - I should place an imp beside the bed ... good idea.   Most of the time at work I think about my bed ... and how wonderful it would be to go to slepp right now. Well, it is nice if you are happy about your bed every day - but it makes it very hard to leave it in the morning.
Antaria

Antaria

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Diplomatka
 

The Third Worst Day of My Life

There is a reason why you never hear the words “dentist” and “Africa” in the same sentence. There are few places in the world where you would be better off letting that rotten root fester than actually seeking professional help and pretty much the whole continent (except for South Africa and one hospital in Nairobi) qualifies.   Let me start from the beginning: about a month and a half ago, I was lying on the couch one Sunday night, watching Dr. Phil, drinking a St. Georges and eating popcorn when I broke the back off one of my lower front teeth (which was cracked during a raspberry verenyi incident in 2004) by biting down on a kernel. Since I had been medevaced back to my cute little Tennessean dentist, Dr. Gregory, less than a month before for an abscessed tooth, I had little choice but to suck it up and visit a dentist in town.   During the said abscessed tooth episode, which involved a lot of swelling, pain and visits to the dickhead South Asian dentist Dr. Raina (yeah, that’s right, I used your real name) who withheld information about treatment options, I was advised by an American working for a Christian aid agency about a Chinese dentist on Bole Road who did good work. Crumpled in my chair during the food security workshop from the pain, I decided I had nothing to lose by visiting Dr. Ling. Although she could do nothing to help me with my abscessed tooth except pull it (since a root canal had already been done) or “make a little window” to clean the roots by drilling into my jaw, she decided it was in everyone’s best interest to send me back to Dr. Gregory and promptly filled out my insurance paperwork (which Dr. Dickhead Raina refused to do).   This episode solidified the bond between me and Dr. Ling. Inside I swore that if any other dental problem arose I would go to her.   Back to the broken tooth—in August I went to see Dr. Ling who drilled down my two front teeth to little nubs before I knew what was happening or was able to ask for anesthesia. She then made impressions of my teeth, put in temporary (but nice looking) caps, and informed me that my new ceramic teeth would be back from China in a month. Those teeth came in last week and were installed. They looked good, but were a little too big. Dr. Ling told me to wait a week and see if I still thought they were too big and she would sand them down. That visit took place today.   This morning I got up, threw on some jeans and got in the car to Bole. By 9:00 Dr. Ling had ground down the teeth and I was on my way. Looking in the rearview mirror, I realized a mistake had been made—there was a considerable gap between where my top and bottom teeth met in front. I thought about it for a while, got ready and went into the office. By 11:00 I was distraught. Here I had fucked up the only front teeth I would ever have-- I went back to Dr. Ling. She was reassuring, we would fix it, she told me. The next hour was the worst, and nearly the most painful, of my life.   I have a high pain threshold: I have suffered peptic ulcers, burst ovarian cysts, and dry sockets and taken them all like a Pionerka. Something about this visit today made me squeal like a five year old. It took Dr. Ling about 35 minutes to drill the teeth, crack the ceramic, reassure me, shoot me up with anesthesia, and do some more drilling. I screamed, I cried, I squirmed, I bled. I was ashamed of myself for acting like such a big baby. I was mad because I was having this done in East Africa instead of East Tennessee. After what seemed like an eternity, Dr. Ling took impressions and put in temporary caps. I decided there was no way I could work for the rest of the day and packed it up to come home. Here at my dining room table, four hours later, my jaw and teeth are still aching. The pain and the humiliation of the whole day ranks only behind the riots in 2006 and losing my job three years ago. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Never see a dentist in Africa, NEVER.   Nothing left to do but light up a sheesha and have some wine.
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