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Is Anybody Out There?
 

Update

Me= -6lbs   Birthday= ipod knockoff, WoW boardgame (...I don't know), book store gift certificate, a bptp scent locket (!), Singing Moon tee and possibly an Arkham tee... and a membership to a local gym. Henceforth it'll be about $75 a month for both of us, but it's an important investment. (I'm way more excited than I sound, seriously. This is a really spectacular birthday for me.) This year's scent: Morocco, completely by chance. It was just on my desk, and a lovely surprise- the notes shouldn't be pretty on me.   Switch Witchery= The universe hated me (or my switchee) this round. My witch is wonderful, as per usual. Really delightful tea and I ADORE the loose tea filter. It's awesomeness.   Life= Joined a weight loss support type group; TOPS. Personal weigh-ins weekly sans humiliation. You say if you've gained or lost and how much and people applaud or encourage as necessary. Then there's other stuff. It's a bunch of little old ladies with silver hair and good stories. Baby shower for a friend in about an hour.   Out.
smallvoice

smallvoice

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Nia's Blog
 

Plans for the week

Unit 32: Phantasm DONE Unit 33: Rakhshasa. DONE Unit 34: Sudha Segara DONE Unit 35: Tushnamatay. DONE Unit 36: Veil DONE   Each new page of dissertation: Velvet DONE.
Nia

Nia

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Nia's Blog
 

more TAL

The last few days were quite good. another 2/5 of a bottle.   this means I already have two bottles and 1/5
Nia

Nia

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Abstract Associations
 

Sugar Cookie 2005

Affectionately nicknamed 'The Devil's Bake Sale'   Reviewed 08/13/2007   The first few times I wore this, I loved it. LOVE. It was gorgeous. If you are baking cookies and you cream together the butter, vanilla, and sugar, and lick the beaters, that taste is how this smelled.   Then, apparently, my body chemistry shifted. When I put it on yesterday, I had to take off running for the bathroom and wound up throwing up before I could get it all off. It smelled like rancid butter, and even after scrubbing my arms twice it still lingered. Wow. I'm going to keep this around for those times of the month when it's not awful on me, but I'm going to be very, very careful with testing it each time I use it.
Rovylern

Rovylern

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Welcome to the Abatoir
 

Saving Private Squirrel

Driving up the road from the store today, I saw something flailing in the road. At first I thought it wassome random garbage or something blowing around, but when I drove closer I realized it was a squirrel that ha been struck by a car. I stopped the car and hit the emergency lights and ran up to the squirrel. He was in shock and spinning around in circles on his side. I picked him up and tucked him in my jacket and held him still. My mom hurried us over to my vet clinic and I gave him a small dose of our pre-med to calm him and relieve his pain. I palpated him and felt no abnormalities in his spine, legs, ribs, etc. He wasn't bleeding either. I gave him Subcutaneous fluids and took an x-ray of his back. the x-ray was negative to my knowlage, I saw no spinal damage or internal damage. I turned on our echocardiogram machine and took a look aty his heart and organs, everything seemed normal although his heart seem arrhythmatic, this could have been caused by shock. I did all I could and set him up in a comfy kennel with lots of blankets and a hot water bottle to keep him warm. he was pretty lkonked out when I left from the pre-med, but he seems to be somewhat stable now. I'm just sitting at home waiting and fixing some dinner. after we eat we are going to go check up on him at the clinic and see how he's doing. If he passes away at least I'll know I eased any pain he was in, but I'm hoping he'll pull through like a champ and I'll have a great story of survival to tell friends and fam. I hope I did him some good with what I knew to do, I'm no expert so it was just the knowlage I've gathered over a year and a half at the clinic thats all I had to work with. Lets hope it served him well.
Meshuganah

Meshuganah

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Abstract Associations
 

La Petite Mort

Seduction, sensuality, the Act, and the aftermath all in one. The scent of warm, damp skin flushed with the glow of passion, touched by the luxuriant potency of ylang ylang and myrrh.   Reviewed: 08/11/2007   This did not start off well. It was intensely floral and soapy for the first half hour, and I was ready to write it off completely. After about half an hour, though, it faded to a very spicy, subtle floral that was lovely. Unfortunately, it was completely gone within two hours after the morph so it really isn't worth the flowery soap phase for me.
Rovylern

Rovylern

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Abstract Associations
 

Black Opal

A play of geological darkness and jagged brilliance. Soft and luminescent with flashes of black fire.   Reviewed 08/11/2007   I don't get any floral or greenery from this at all, just creamy tonka, soft musk, and something I can't identify but, oddly, brings to mind the sound of a mountain stream bubbling over rocks.   This is a scent of seduction. Not much throw on my skin; it clings very close and getting a whiff makes you want to get closer. A tiny bit lasts for quite a while, too; six hours and still going as strong as when I first applied it.
Rovylern

Rovylern

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Diplomatka
 

When Monkeys Attack

The Culprit   Here I was, Saturday morning, minding my own business, when I spotted something gray in my front yard. Thinking it was another cat trying to pop a squat in my marigolds, I ran outside. It was a monkey. I saw the first couple of monkeys two weeks ago. They were walking along the front wall of my yard, not bothering anything.   I live in the capital of Ethiopia. I live in the city. I am truly puzzled as to how these primates are making their way into my yard. Moreover, I am pissed off that the little motherfuckers are eating my flowers.   I used to like monkeys--buy pyjamas with monkeys on them, subscribe to Monkey Wire news alerts, enjoy looking at them in zoos--but when they start destroying my property by pulling up plants whose seeds my husband brought from China, well, a monkey ass is going to get a hammer thrown at it.   It's on.
Confection

Confection

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Diplomatka
 

When Monkeys Attack

The Culprit   Here I was, Saturday morning, minding my own business, when I spotted something gray in my front yard. Thinking it was another cat trying to pop a squat in my marigolds, I ran outside. It was a monkey. I saw the first couple of monkeys two weeks ago. They were walking along the front wall of my yard, not bothering anything.   I live in the capital of Ethiopia. I live in the city. I am truly puzzled as to how these primates are making their way into my yard. Moreover, I am pissed off that the little motherfuckers are eating my flowers.   I used to like monkeys--buy pyjamas with monkeys on them, subscribe to Monkey Wire news alerts, enjoying looking at them in zoos--but when they start destroying my property by pulling up plants whose seeds my husband brought from China, well, a monkey ass is going to get a hammer thrown at it.   It's on.
Confection

Confection

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Forget Everything And Remember
 

Whoa!

Oh hey, it might be nice to update this thing, huh?   I'm doing ok overall. Got the house, got into the house. Now just dealing with details, some of which are rather large.
Kitrona

Kitrona

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HJackson's Blog
 

We're going to leave Vonage...

And we used to love them so...   This past Thursday, whilst we were busy moving and such, they charged us for a FULL YEAR OF SERVICE all at once. We had agreed to this and paid for this in FEBRUARY, but NOT this past Thursday. We were understandably surprised when they emailed to say "Hey, thanks for paying your next year's bill!!"   DH called immediately to get them to reverse the charge... we'd already PAID, thank you, this was OBVIOUSLY a mistake. After more than an hour, they claimed they didn't have anyone there who could, and could we call back tomorrow, thanks?   We called back at 3 today, understanding that they'd have been working on GIVING US BACK OUR MONEY. We had a help-desk ticket number and everything... surely they weren't just KEEPING our money? After 75 minutes, John had gotten up to a manager who claimed he was only authorised to give up to $200... and he'd do that within the next two hours, and he'd call back as soon as he had it worked out. DH said fine, but he was going to call back in an HOUR to check on his progress and obtained the guys extension from him. When he called him back an hour later, as he said he would, no one would connect him. It took him another 75 minutes of explaining ALL OVER AGAIN to SOMEONE YET AGAIN NEW what was wrong and why, excuse me, it's not OK for you to take $300+ from us and then wait 7-10 business days to return it. Finally, he got the new guy to credit back as much as he claimed to be allowed, but again, bowing and scraping and making the impression that he wasn't allowed to do that... and if the higher-ups found out he'd returned any of the money, he'd be fired.   Um, no. Getting fired for STEALING our money? OK. Getting fired for refusing to give it back? OK. Getting fired for lying to a customer? All understandable. Getting fired for giving money STOLEN FROM A CUSTOMER? Um, NO.   We'll check on Tuesday. If we don't have every penny back, we'll be leaving Vonage, we'll be making phone calls, and if we have to fight a legal battle, oh, we'll fight, and we'll fight HARD. I'm beyond angry. If it's back Tuesday, DH has decided that we'll finish what's left of the one year we pre-paid for... and then we'll get new phone service. If it was up to me, we'd be looking for a new provider NOW.   Do you have Vonage? Double check your bill... make sure they didn't stuff their hands in your pockets, too.
hjourdenjackson

hjourdenjackson

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Lili's Blog
 

More stuff

Today my mail included a non-BPAL package that is nearly (but not quite) as exciting as one from BPAL...   I got this locket, with the intention of using it as a scent locket. I'm wearing it now...it looks great and smells better!   I also got two big bottles of fractionated coconut oil, which I'll be mixing with some of my imps to put into rollerballs. I'm not sure exactly which imps to mix, though...the thought of diluting the precious (even a little) is painful, but some of them are very strong on me and I want them to last as long as possible.   Finally, I attempted using Caliph's Beloved yesterday to lure my husband into being somewhat less of an asshole...unfortunately, it didn't work, and in fact we had a gigantic fight at bedtime because I laid in bed waiting for him, in lingerie and TAL, for two-and-a-half hours before he finally turned his computer off and came upstairs...and even after he got in bed he ignored me so he could read a book and eat crackers. Jerk. What's that old saying- "I wouldn't kick him out of my bed for eating crackers", right? Well how ironic it is that the crackers were the straw that broke the camel's back!   I'm blaming his utter obliviousness and thick-headedness rather than the TAL- he said I seemed "unapproachable" even though I practically threw myself at him! I now am even more certain that trying to fix our marriage is beating a dead horse. I'll save the sexy oils for others, then! (Don't freak, we're poly and my husband knows I'm seeing other people.)
lilirose

lilirose

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Indigo's Blog
 

*sigh* Let's try this again

Due to a couple charges hitting later rather than earlier, and my transfer of funds not hitting as planned, I ended up extremely, extremely overdrawn. I've fixed it, but paying the overdraft plus the damned fees for being overdrafted cost me money I was planning to spend on Dragon*Con, and other stuff.   So I'm wearing Foundation of Fortune again.   I would really like it if the universe could help me out on this one.
Indigo

Indigo

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Nia's Blog
 

list-making is sometimes hard

I'm giving myself scheherezade because I just sent my advisor a very long email detailing my dissertation's chapter division, each chapter's subdivision, and how much progress I've made in each. It is harder than it looks.
Nia

Nia

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Diplomatka
 

Why I can't blog

Ethiopia has the lowest number of cell phone subscribers in Africa.   The country where my husband is has the lowest number of internet subscribers. While what is wrong with Liberia might be easily explained by years of war that decimated the infrastructure, Ethiopia (besides a few skirmishes with Eritrea) has not seen the conflict on the scale of say, Sierra Leone. No, the situation in Abyssinia comes down to three letters: ETC. Ethiopia Telecom will not allow competition--all of the telecommunications systems go through the government. This is why it took four months for my employer to take pity on me and give me the "consultant" SIM card (the whole time I was in country there were none available and ETC refused to issue new ones) and why, as I write now, I am on a slow dial-up.   The government shut down Skype, blogspot.com, and streaming video seems at least three decades away.   Last week the internet, cell phones and land lines shut down for the whole day. My Ethiopian colleagues thought Somalia had invaded. After living in Afghanistan, I believed them.   So, as you all know, Somalia did not invade. However, after this post I this blog might be shut down.
Confection

Confection

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Indigo's Blog
 

Review: Follow Me Boy

In the imp: Mmm, sweet and rich.   Wet: Ack. Musk. Heavy musk. Overwhelming. Endure. Endure. It must get better.   Dry down: Oh, yeah. There it is. Spicy. Mmm. Yeah.   Much later: A coworker thought it smelled babypowdery. I can smell that underneath, but it's all sexyspicy on top. And the name made her crack up laughing.   So glad I got a bottle of this.
Indigo

Indigo

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Lili's Blog
 

Wheeee!

Two lovely packages from the Labs today- both my BPAL imps and my TAL 5mls.   I got two frimps with the imp order- Black Dahlia and Venice.   Of course I've sniffed every last one, but am forcing myself to wear only one per day until I've gone through all of them and can decide what works and what doesn't. Today is Queen (from the Voodoo collection). It's working really well on me. My husband and my son both like it, also. I'll probably write a review later on, when (if?) I discover how long it takes to fade out.  
lilirose

lilirose

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Welcome to the Abatoir
 

Some Salvation

Today I felt really good about everyone around me at work. They were all complementing me and telling me how good of a job I was doing today. I really appreciated the kind words, after all everyone has been giving me this feeling like I'm the lowest on the toem pole lately. One of the fellow assistants told my supervisor I was "Working my butt off" and I was flattered that she noticed how hard I was trying to do a good job. My supervisor even talked with me about the other assistant whom took the posistion of part time tech, which upset me, and she explained that she was thinking in terms of the fact that I'm in school and can't work certain days that it would be inconvenient. I felt better after she told me the reasons ans also that it honestly never dawned on anyone to mention it to me because they all thought everyone new we were replacing the old girl. Today has made me feel so much more comfortable with the people I work with and I felt a twinge of nostalgia from the old days when I still felt repsected and I realized that today, I finally got the respect I'd been waiting for and I finally got some justice towards the uncontrolable stresses that have been weighing on my mind. What a wonderful feeling.
Meshuganah

Meshuganah

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Lili's Blog
 

Home from the holiday

I had a wonderful time in Scotland, and better yet, only minutes before I left, I got six imps that I'd purchased from another forum member!   I was in a rush, and wasn't thinking straight, so for some reason I only brought two imps with me and left the others. I took Dragon's Heart and La Belle Dame Sans Merci. The former was a winner, and almost certainly will be a 5m purchase, but unfortunately the latter turned out awful on me. I put more detailed descriptions in the reviews section.   Today I'm wearing Ephemera, and I really like it a lot. Have also added a review for that one.   Best yet, there were two CnS e-mails waiting when I got home! Today is a bank holiday in Ireland so the postman didn't come, but hopefully tomorrow will be full of TAL and BPAL goodness!   Edited to add: as I catch up on the forums I am too tempted by some of the new swaps...someone stop me, I need to at least try the stuff I've ordered before I get more!
lilirose

lilirose

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Nia's Blog
 

Plans

These are my rewards for the next five units:   Unit 26: Masquerade. DONE Unit 27: Morgause. DONE Unit 30: Ode on Melancholy   I'm skipping some because the missing units are likely to change when the school year begins.
Nia

Nia

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Nia's Blog
 

On the second TAL bottle

I've managed to stay away from the computer quite well this weekend. I'm awarding myself 2/5 of a bottle, let's see if I derserve the third ml today!   I'm giving myself other 2/5 because I have been working like crazy in the garden.
Nia

Nia

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Scents and Sensibility
 

The quest begins!

This is the first post under the category "Quest for Chocolate." As noted in this post, I am looking for one or more really true, strong, lasting chocolate (and/or cocoa) based scents. A worthy quest!   So far I have tried the following BPAL scents, all of which are supposed to have chocolate and/or cocoa notes: Vice (smelled like chocolate covered cherries until it dried, then became just candied cherries from that point onward), Gluttony (no chocolate scent was detected at any point), The Candy Butcher (smelled like chocolate cream until dry, then just smelled like cream), Enraged Groundhog Musk (fruity and spicy but alas, no chocolate detected) and Centzon Totochtin (nice but no chocolate).   A bottle of 13 (July 2007) has just arrived, and it does smell like cocoa just sniffing the bottle... have yet to try it (waiting to see where I can get wand caps before using the bottles). Imps of Bliss and Boomslang are on the way, as well as an imp of Intrigue and a couple other editions of 13. So let's hope that at least one of those turns out to be a good chocolate scent on me.   Widening the search, I ordered a few samples from DSH Perfumes based on a recommendation in this thread, and those will arrive within the next couple of days. Meanwhile I have Grog on one wrist and Irish coffee (i.e. Miskatonic U.) on the other to get me through the evening. Hooray for comfort scents!
Vanille

Vanille

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