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    Mod post: No wishlist posts in blogs

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    Please be aware that we do not permit swap-related content on profiles or in blogs. Please post this content only in the For Sale, Swaps, and Wanted forums, or in the Wishlists topic. ~from Swapping 101  Thanks!
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HennaFairy's Blog
 

Inventory

(this is really out of date! but ones that i like or dislike shouldn't change much.)     (ratings on a scale of 1-10, 10 being best) sorry for the formatting but this is the easiest way to update from my excel file!)   Name Status Rating   13-gone-7 Absinthe-gone-6 Ace of Hearts-gone-7 Aeval-gone-6 Aglaea-gone-5 Ahathoor-Have (imp x2)-9 Ajna: The Third Eye-gone-- Akuma-gone-7 Al-araaf-Have (imp)-6 Alecto-Have (imp)-9 Alice-have (imp)-6 All Night Long-have (imp)-8 Al-shairan-Have (imp)-7 Amsterdam-have (imp x2)-9 Anahata: The Heart-gone-- And There was a Great Cry in Egypt-have (imp half)-8 Annabel Lee-Have (imp)-8 Anne Bonny-Have (imp)-8 Antique Lace-Have (imp)-9 Antonio, the Carny Talker-ordered from decant circle- Antony-Have (imp)-7 Arcana-Have (imp)-7 Arkham Revisited-Have (imp)- Athens-gone-3 Aunt Caroline's Joy Mojo-gone-6 Aureus-gone-5 Ave Maria Gratia Plena-Gone-4 Baba Yaga-have (imp)-6 Baghdad-have (imp)-8 Baneberry-have (imp)-7 Banshee-Have (imp)-8 Baobhan Sith-Have (imp)-7 Baron Samedi-have (imp)-5 Bastet-have (imp)-9 Bayou-gone-6 Beatrice-have (imp)-8 Bed of Nails-have (imp)-8 Belladonna-gone-6 Belle Époque-have (10 ml)-8 Beltane-Have (5 ml)-9 Bengal-have (imp)-5 Bess-have (imp)-8 Bewitched-Have (10 ml, imp)-10 Black Cat-gone-3 Black Phoenix-have (imp)-7 Block Buster-gone-6 Blood-have (imp x2)-8 Blood Amber-have (imp)-7 Blood Kiss-have (imp)-7 Blood Moon-have (imp)-7 Blood Pearl-have (imp)-2 Brisingamen-have (imp)-7 Budding Moon-Have (5 ml)-8 Caliban-ordered 8/9- Calliope-Gone-4 Carnal-have (imp)-8 Carnival Diabolique-ordered from decant circle- Carnivàle-have (imp x2)-7 Cathedral-have (imp x2)-7 Catherine-Gone-6 Cathode-Have (imp x2)-6 Centzon Totochtin-have (imp)-6 Chaos Theory III: Strange Attractors-have (5 ml CCIX, CCX)- Chaste Moon-Have (5 ml, shortie)-9 Cheshire Cat-Have (imp)-8 Chimera-Have (5 ml & imp)-10 Chiroptera-Have (shortie sniffy)-8 Chrysanthemum Moon-ordered 8/9- Cockaigne-ordered 8/9- Cordelia-Have (imp)-8 Coyote-have (imp)-8 Crossroads-Have (imp)-7 Dana O'shee-have (imp)-8 Dance of Death-gone-5 Danse Macabre-have (imp)-6 Danube-have (imp) -9 Delight-Gone-5 Delirium-have (imp x2)-8 Delphi-Have (imp)-2 Desdemona-have (imp)-6 Desire-Gone-5 Despair-Have (imp)-7 Devil's Night-Have (5 ml, imp)-8 Dia De Los Muertos-Have (rollerball) '04-8 Djinn-have (imp)-9 Doc Buzzard-Have (imp partial x2)-8 Doc Constantine-ordered from decant circle- Dorian-have (imp x2)-8 Dragon Moon-Have (5 ml)-8 Dragon's Eye-have (imp)-7 Dragon's Heart-gone-6 Dragon's Milk-Have (5 ml partial)-9 Dragon's Tears-Have (imp)-8 Dublin-Have (imp)-8 Eclipse-have (imp)-7 Eden-have (imp)-8 Egg Nog-have (imp)-8 Elixir I: Seduction-gone-5 Elixir II: Succor-Have (imp)-5 Elixir III: Lustration-Have (imp)-9 Elixir IV: Quietude-Have (imp)-7 Elixir V: Moxie-gone-6 Elixir VI: Detox-Have (imp)-9 Elixir VII: Safari-Have (imp)-8 Embalming Fluid-have (imp)-9 Empyreal Mist-Have (imp x2)-8 Endymion-Gone-5 Enraged Bunny Musk-Have (imp x2), Ordered from forum 4/25/06-8 Envy-have (imp)-7 Eos-Gone-5 Eris-Have (imp)-8 Et Lux Fuit-gone-7 Euterpe-gone-3 Eve-have (imp x2)-8 Evening Star-Have (imp)-7 F5-ordered 8/9 5 ml- Fae-gone-6 Fée -have (imp)- Fire Of Love-gone-5 Flower Moon-have (imp)-5 Forbidden Fruit-have (imp)-8 Fortunato-gone-5 Freak Show-have (imp)-8 Frost Moon-have (imp)-8 Fruit Moon-Have (imp)-7 Gennivre, L'artiste du Diable-ordered from decant circle- Glasgow-have (imp x2)-7 Gommorah-gone-6 Grandmother of Ghosts-gone-5 Graveyard Dirt-have (imp) -7 Greed-have (imp)-4 Gypsy Queen-Have (5 ml)-7 Hamadryad-have (imp)-8 Harvest Moon '05-gone-6 Harvest Moon '06-have (5 ml)-7 Has No Hanna-have (imp)-6 Haunted-gone-5 Hellcat-gone-7 Hellion-have (imp)-8 Highwayman-have (imp)-2 Himerus-have (imp)-5 Holiday Moon-Have (imp)-8 Hollywood Babylon-have (imp)-6 Honey-gone-6 Honey Moon-Have (imp)-8 Horn Of Plenty-have (imp)-7 House of Mirrors-have (imp x3)-7 Hungry Ghost Moon-have (5 ml)- Hymn to Proserpine-have (imp x2)-8 Iambe-gone- Imp-have (imp)-6 Intrigue-have (imp)-7 Jack-gone-6 Jacob's Ladder-gone-5 Jersey Devil-ordered 8/9 5 ml- Jezebel-have (imp x2)-9 Jezirat Ai Tennyn-ordered 8/9- Jolly Roger-Have (imp x2)-7 Juliet-Gone-6 Kabuki-have (imp)-5 Kali-Have (imp)-7 Kathmandu-Have (10 ml imp) -10 Khajuraho-Have (5 ml)-7 King of Clubs-have (5 ml)-7 King of Diamonds-have (imp)-8 King of Hearts-have (imp)-7 King of Spades-have (imp)-8 Kostnice-have (imp)-7 Kuang Shi-gone-5 Kumari Kandam-ordered 8/9- Kumiho-have (imp)-8 Kurukulla-have (imp x2)-8 La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente-have (imp)-8 La Fée Verte-Have (imp x2)-8 Lady Macbeth-have (5 ml, orig blend)-6 Lampades-Have (imp)-8 Languor-Have (imp)- Laudanum-have (imp)- Leanan Sidhe-have (5 ml)-9 Lear-have (imp)-8 Ligeia-Have (5 ml partial, imp)-3 Lightning-Have (5 ml & imp)-8 Litha-Have (5 ml)-6 Lolita-have (imp)-8 Loralei-gone-6 Lotus Moon-Have (5 ml)-7 Love in the Asylum-gone-6 Love Me-have (imp)-7 Lucretia-have (imp)-8 Lucy's Kiss-gone-6 Lughnasadh-have (imp)-9 Luna-Have (imp)-6 Lurid-Have (imp)-7 Lust-have (imp)- Mabon-have (imp)-9 Machu Picchu-Have (imp x2)-8 Madrid-gone-4 Maenad-have (imp)-7 Mag Mell-ordered 8/9 - Maiden-gone-7 Malediction-gone-3 Malkuth-have (sniffy)-5 Manila-have (imp)-4 Manipura: The Solar Plexus-gone-- Mantis-have (imp)-5 Masabakes-have (imp), 1 Gone-4 Medea-Have (imp)-7 Medicine Show-gone-7 Megaera-gone-6 Melisande, the Puppet Mistress-ordered from decant circle- Midnight-Have (imp)-7 Midnight Mass-have (5 ml)-8 Midnight on the Midway-ordered from decant circle- Midwinter's Eve-Have (5 ml)-8 Mi-go Brain Canister-have (half 5 ml)-8 Miskatonic University-have (5 ml)-9 Mistletoe-gone-6 Mme. Moriarty, Misfortune Teller-ordered from decant circle- Monster Bait: Underpants-gone-6 Montresor-gone-5 Moon Rose-have (imp)-8 Morella-gone-5 Morgause-have (imp)-3 Morocco-have (5 ml x2, imp)-9 Mouse's Long and Sad Tale-have (5 ml, imp)-9 Muladhara: The Root-gone-- Muse-Have (imp)-5 Namaste-Have (imp)-6 Nanshe-have (imp)- Neo-tokyo-have (imp)-8 Night's Pavilion-Have (5 ml)-6 Nocnitsa-have (imp)-5 Nuclear Winter-have (imp x2)-7 Nuit-have (imp)-7 Numb-gone- O-Have (5 ml & imp)-10 Oisín-have (imp x4, empty bottle)-8 Ophelia-have (imp)-8 Orpheus-have (imp half)-7 Osun-have (imp)-7 Othello-have (imp)-7 Pannychis-have (imp) -6 Parlement of Foules-have (imp)-6 Peitho-gone-6 Pele-gone- Penthus-have (imp x2)-8 Peony Moon-Have (5 ml & imp))-10 Persephone-have (imp)-7 Perversion-have (imp)-7 Phantasm-Gone-5 Phantom-Gone-4 Phantom Queen-have (imp)-7 Phobos-Have (imp x2)-8 Pink Grapefruit-have (imp)- Pink Phoenix-Have (imp)-6 Polyhymnia-gone-4 Port Royal-ordered 8/9- Port-au-prince-have (imp x2)-8 Pride-have (imp)-7 Psyche-have (imp)-7 Pulcinella & Teresina-ordered from decant circle- Pumpkin Patch 1-have (imp)-6 Pumpkin Patch 2-have (imp x2)-7 Pumpkin Patch 3-Have (5 ml)-8 Pumpkin Patch 4-gone-3 Pumpkin Patch 5-gone-6 Queen-have (imp)-6 Queen Gertrude-gone-3 Queen of Clubs-have (5 ml, imp)-8 Queen of Diamonds-have (imp x2)-8 Queen Of Sheba-have (5 ml, imp)-9 Rakshasa-gone-6 Red Lantern-Gone-5 Red Phoenix-have (5 ml)-8 R'lyeh-have (imp)-7 Rome-Have (imp)-8 Rosalind-Have (imp)-8 Sacred Whore Of Babylon-have (imp)-3 Sahasrara: The Crown-gone-- Samhain-Have (5 ml)-9 Saturnalia-have (imp)-2 Scarecrow-have (imp)-7 Scherezade-have (imp)-5 Sea of Glass-gone-7 Seraglio-Have (imp x2)-8 Severin-have (imp x3)-8 Shadow-Gone-5 Shadow Witch Orchid-have (imp)-5 Shanghai-Gone-4 Shattered-Have (imp)-7 Sheol-have (imp)-6 Shroud-Have (imp)-8 Shub-niggurath-have (imp)-8 Silk Road-have (imp)-8 Sin-have (imp)-8 Siren-Have (5 ml)-9 Skuld-gone-4 Sleepy Moon-Have (imp)-8 Smut-have (imp)-7 Snake Charmer-Have (5 ml)-8 Snake Oil-have (imp)-7 Snow Moon-Have (5 ml, imp)-7 Snow White-Have (5 ml, imp)-8 Snowblind-have (imp)-9 Sol-Have (5 ml)-7 Somnus-gone-5 Sophia-gone-6 Spanked-gone-7 Spirits of the Dead-have (5 ml)-9 Spooky-have (imp x2)-8 Sri Lanka-have (imp)-8 Storm Moon-gone-6 Storyville-have (imp partial)-8 Succubus-have (imp)-6 Sudha Segara-Gone-5 Sundew-have (imp)-6 Swadhisthana: Sacral-gone-- Swank-Have (imp)-7 Szepasszony-Have (imp)-8 Talvikuu-Gone-4 Tamora-have (imp)-8 Tears-have (imp partial)- Tempest-have (imp)-8 Temple of Dreams-have (imp)- Terpsichore-gone-5 Tezcatlipoca-have (imp)-7 Thaleia-have (imp x2)- Thalia-have (imp)-8 Thanatos-gone-5 The Apothecary-Have (5 ml, imp x2)-9 The Bow & Crown of Conquest-have (imp)-8 The Candy Butcher-ordered from decant circle- The Caterpillar-have (imp)-6 The City in the Sea-have (imp)-8 The Coiled Serpent-have (imp)-6 The Death of Sardanapal-have (5 ml)- The Dormouse-have (5 ml, imp)-9 The Haunted Palace-have (5 ml)-8 The Hesperides-gone-2 The Ides of March-have (5 ml)-8 The Lady of Shalott-Gone-6 The Lion-gone-6 The Living Flame-have (imp)-5 The Masque-gone-6 The Mock Turtle's Lessons-gone-6 The Moon-Gone-3 The Organ Grinder-ordered from decant circle- The Perfumed Garden-Have (5 ml)-8 The Phantom Calliope-ordered from decant circle- The Pit & The Pendulum-have (5 ml)-6 The Premature Burial-have (5 ml)-9 The Queen Of Hearts-have (imp)-7 The Red Queen-Have (imp x2)-9 The Scales of Deprivation-have (imp)-7 The Unicorn-have (imp)-8 THE VORTEX-gone-- Theodosius, the Legerdeman-ordered from decant circle- Three Witches-have (10 ml partial, imp)-8 Tintagel-Have (10 ml partial, imp)-9 Tiphareth-gone-6 Titiana-gone-6 Titus Andronicus-Have (imp)-7 Tomato Leaf-have (imp)- Tombstone-have (imp)-9 Torture King-have (5 ml, 5 ml partial)-9 Toxin-have (imp)-9 Tulzscha-have (imp)-8 Tweedledum-have (imp)-7 Ultraviolet-Gone-5 Umbra-gone-5 Undertow-Have (imp)-8 Usher-have (5 ml)-8 Utrennyaya-have (imp)-6 Van Van-have (imp)-6 Vanilla Bean-have (imp partial)-10 Velvet-Have (10 ml & imp)-9 Venice-gone-6 Venom-have (imp)-6 Verdandi-have (imp)-8 Vice-Have (5 ml, imp)-7 Vinland-have (5 ml, imp)-8 Vishuddha: The Throat-gone-- Vixen-have (imp)-9 Voodoo-have (imp)-7 Wanda-have (imp)-7 Wanton-have (imp)-6 Water Of Notre Dame-have (imp)-8 Whip-gone-7 Whitechapel-have (imp)-7 Wildfire-have (imp)-6 Wings Of Azrael-Gone-3 Wolfsbane-gone-5 Wrath-have (imp)-8 Xanthe, the Weeping Clown-ordered from decant circle- Xiuhtecuhtli-have (imp)-8 Yemaya-gone-7 Yerevan-have (imp)-6 Yew-trees-have (imp)-7 Yuki-onna-have (imp)-9 Yuletide-Have (imp) -7           Sniffed and not interested in or disliked:   Aizen-myoo Anathema Beaver Moon Black Dahlia Black Pearl Blood Countess Bon Vivant Cairo Carceri d'Invenzion Casanova Corazon Darkness Depraved Dove's Heart Dreamland Drink Me Eat Me Enraged Orangutan Musk Euphrosyne Fallen Fire Eater Follow Me Boy French Love Frumious Bandersnatch Gingerbread Poppet Glitter Gnome Goneril Goona Goona Hearth '05 Hell's Belle Herr Drosselmeyer House of Night Hunter Moon Hurricane Hymn Jabberwocky Juke Joint Katharina Kyoto La Belle Au Bois Dormant Le Serpent Qui Danse Lenore Lex Talionis Libertine London Lump of Coal March Hare Mata Hari Midway Mitzvah Monster Bait: Closet Monster Bait: Underbed New Orleans Obatala Opium Poppy Pink Moon Rapture Rose Red Scorpio Sepulcher Snow Angel Snow Bunny Stardust Storm Strawberry Moon Sugar Skull Suspiro The Raven The World Tweedledee Twenty-one Tzadikim Nistarim Ulalume Unseelie Veil Villain Virgo White Rabbit Wilde Yog-sothoth Zephyr         TAL:   Have: 5 ml   White Light Temple Celtic     Have: Imps   Euphony Healing Jinx Removing Lionheart Meditation Peace Perpetuum Bonum Wealthy Business Nocturne 9 Muses       Had and passed on:   Cleo May
HennaFairy

HennaFairy

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captain diana's log
 

reviews

So the Entire Catalog circle is in action. I have about 20 or so imps that I'm donating to the cause. I'm going to use this blog to record my reviews on all of them, even if I've already done a review. I'm going to try to be anal about it.  
Diana

Diana

1
Do you have a flag?
 

Been readin' the wank.

OK, I admit it. I've been over on the LJ BPAL Wank Thread for the past 2 hours reading other people's garbage. I'm repulsed by it and drawn to it at the same time.   Actually, I think some of it was basically right on the money. The problem is that the actual substance was buried in dumb insults and just over-the-top ranting. And I honestly do see the need for letting off steam about stuff that is irritating, especially to people who might agree with you... but there was a lot of naming names by anonymous people, and I don't think that's very cool. If you're going to name someone else in a complaint, name yourself too. Just my opinion.
filigree_shadow

filigree_shadow

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Sourball Ho!
 

I love Smut! Smutty Smut Smut!

This title was stolen from Anchorman, which like many other movies the first 10-15 minutes are the best -- "I love scotch! Scotchy scotch scotch!"   I put on some Smut before DH and I went out to grab some food and beer. Smut starts out almost agressively strong, but ends up a really nice sweet musky YUM. valentina sounds more sophisticated in that she mixes with O to make Smut-O-Rama, which is very creative and I should try. Bottle orgy! Woo!   I have several bottles that may be "in demand" on the resale market, but I would never sell them just because I like them so much. Smut is one of them -- it ends up so nice, I'm sitting like a dope with a smile on my face, that I would never want to sell them even if it was double what I paid.   If anything, I'll swap something I like but am not in love with. I don't care if it's LE for GC either, if it's something I really want. It's all about spreading the love.
dawndie

dawndie

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circe_blue's Blog
 

Apartment Wishlist

Saw the apartment today. It looked okay. It was definitely in a convenient location but the place itself is kinda small. There are only two "official" bedrooms and one of them has no windows (wtf??!!) and the other one is the master bedroom and is already occupied. That left me with the windowless wonder (aka "The Cell") and the other "room" which was a very well partitioned off area of the living room. ::Sigh:: dissapointing, but I guess I'll take it, for the price, free cable, gym on premesis and location. Therefore, I need a new bed and a new desk, everything else (chair, bookcase, bedside table, lamps etc.) I already have.   I want: This Desk and This Lovely Bed Frame Maybe this chest/drawers and a(nother) bookcase. I'm getting tired of looking. Now I'm sad 'cause I don't really like the place all that much. I've been spoiled with the sweet apartment I've lived in during undergrad, I guess. This? is nothin' like that. aargh. *********** Registered for classes and it was pretty funny watching my advisor try to find a class that I haven't already taken in undergrad. Basically, I settled on Molecular Biology and Immunology for this fall. Both of which I've taken before, just not this in depth. Scared and excited. It was hell trying to navigate the website. My sheet of directions tell me to click on links that are no longer there, so that was oh-so fun. ********* Campus was beautiful and very different from where I went to school. It's a bit smaller to be sure (one of the reasons I was drawn to this school) but it has lots of greenery and wooded areas that would've been sectioned off for development in a nanosecond at other places. ********* I'm super-tired. Woke up early today, drove hours and hours, then walked and walked and did it all over again. Can't wait for sleep tonight. And tomorrow I get to wake up to a Friday! Whooo, TGIF in advance, to everyone!
circe_blue

circe_blue

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Emain Macha
 

Neverwhere and Mirrormask

Sorry, I don't have any insider information to share — just wanted to talk about my recent movie purchases. In a fit of wishful thinking and "isn't Neil Gaiman swell?" euphoria, I went down to my local video store and bought DVDs of the English TV series Neverwhere and last year's movie Mirrormask.   I really liked Neverwhere (the book.) It was witty and engaging and a bit weird and very, very...well...very Neil Gaiman. A good strong stock Neil Gaiman-esque protagonist (humble, slightly befuddled, generally unaware of cute he is, thoroughly well-intentioned, and just so damn nice) and enough interesting and different characters and places to really fire the imagination.   The TV series though? Oh dear. I kept watching and thinking to myself: "the poor lambs...if only they'd had a real budget this could have been really good." Enough money for sets and props and actors who could act (they weren't all bad, but those who were walked right past "bad" and didn't stop until they'd reached "awful.") It wasn't a terrible show (although I probably gave it considerable lee-way because I was so enchanted with the book) but Lord, it wasn't good either.   After 3 shows, I stopped watching and put in Mirrormask instead.   Just the thing to cleanse the palate, as it turns out.   I think Neil Gaiman is most on top of his game when he throws mythology into the mix. More specifically, I really do think he is the master of the modern fairy tale. "Modern fairy tale." Hmmph. Sounds like something that came out of a marketing brainstorming session on how to sell the latest remake of "Three Little Pigs."   What I mean by "modern fairy tale" is that some of Gaiman's work (Mirrormask and the coming-soon-to-a-theatre-near-you Stardust) has the quality of fairy tales that might have been written down by the Brothers Grimm three centuries ago, but weren't. There is that sense of wonder and excitement and internal rules that are not expected to be exactly the same as our rules, although they are damned familiar. Magical lands, and magical figures, and I am not quite doing these stories justice when I say that in Gaiman's hands "magical" is fresh and new, and not a word that's been used to describe so many things, from Pagan to Hogworts, that it has ceased to have much meaning.   Anyway, I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you don't already know: Gaiman has a loyal and devoted presence here on the forum, and a lot of people here had the chance to oooh! and aaah! over Mirrormask when it was still in the theatre. But if you haven't had the chance, I highly recommend you pick up the DVD. It's truly a beautiful movie.
Macha

Macha

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Denise's Cool Blog
 

I got another package!

I just got my 3 imps from Caltha:   Annabel Lee New Orleans Yerevan   I love all three! Of course New Orleans totally turned into jasmine, like most others involving it... hehe... so I basically have about 5 oils that smell exactly the same on me! But at least I like it!   Yerevan and Annabel Lee are delicious!
eviltemptressdq

eviltemptressdq

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This Old Snark
 

Work? (Smirk.)

Given that her attention span is normally comparable to that of a fruit fly on a normal day, Snarky's ability to maintain "workplace workface" today has been a hopelessly lost battle from the get-go.   Not only is her heart and mind still racing through MoveIntoTheHouse scenarios, but their contractor is currently tearing up the subfloor in the main bathroom right now, with no way of being finished until the ordered flooring (Asian Tiger! Rawr!) gets in tomorrow at the earliest.   And tonight is The Great Cat Migration '06. The Snarks' furbabies do not take to their carriers very well. At all. EVER. They could be going to the land of catnip and cheeses and still with the yeowling and bloody murder.   Before TGCM'06 comes The Death Defying Cat Wrangling of Ought Six. Snarky only hopes that they have managed to leave one polypro jacket unpacked in which she can suit up in order to protect her fragile, extremely claw-able hand/arm/chest/neck skin. She has had to have medical attention applied to her body in the past. At the vet's office. Cat Wrangling is that violent, swift, and gory.   Tomorrow is the Official Day of Moving, though the Snarks have been schlepping bits and pieces of their lives over to the house for the last two weeks. Last night Snarky did their first quarterless load of laundry in their very own, new washer and dryer! They also have a shiny new fridge! The Snarks are a bit disconcerted by the new appliance smell coming off of said fridge, but they are confident that a few trips to the Safeway will eliminate the problem.   One more hour left before the bloodletting fun begins. Snarky suspects she will be radio silent after tomorrow morning possibly through Monday. The Cable Guy is supposed to be hooking the Snarks up Saturday morning (between the hours of 10 and 12, of course). Even if all goes well, Snarky might opt for the more alluring prospect of blissful unconsciousness Sunday rather than playing catchup. If Snarky gets too caught up tomorrow, she wishes all of y'all a wonderful weekend in advance.
darkitysnark

darkitysnark

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What ever happened to Generation X?
 

Fingers crossed

Today Greg (my DH) has a job interview. He's probably being interviewed right now as I type this. Please, please let them make him an offer. He's been out of work since November, and our cash flow situation is not good.   This company told him they were in a "hiring frenzy," so I feel I have reason to be hopeful. If he doesn't get this job, he's probably going to have to look for a job -- any old job, purely to bring in some income -- outside his field (he's in a very competitive field), and that will crush his ego.   I'm tired of worrying about money and health care (we are currently paying $1,000 per month to COBRA). I just want things to be settled.   If he can't get a job here in Chicago, he'd like to try his luck in California, which is a much better market for his kind of work. I don't know, though. I've never been to California. Heck, I'm such a sheltered Midwesterner, I've never been west of Iowa. He's also up for a job in Seattle. I think I might prefer Seattle to L.A., if I had to move, but it's hard to say since I haven't been to either place.   Have any of you ever moved across the country for someone else? If so, was it a good choice or a bad one?
parrot_suspect

parrot_suspect

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Fishnets and Frankincense
 

Haircuts and odd subreferences

Yesterday I went to the hairdresser and she and I contemplated the condition of my hair. I apparently became a little impatient with the hair styling process when I was still really harried at work, and I turned my flattening iron up WAY too high. That, dear readers, can produce nice short-term results and nasty long-term results. I have a thing about fried-looking hair, and here I had it on my own head.   So I had her cut about 3 inches off the bottom. She's also starting to grow out a few of the layers, so what I have today is effectively a longer and wilder version of a Louise Brooks bob. My hair is still at the middle of my neck, so it's hardly as bobbed as LuLu's, but it has that wedge effect.   I thought this was a drastic change, so I walk into my office after getting my hair done and one person noticed. I walked back in this morning and a couple of other people (who would have said something if they'd noticed) didn't notice much of a change. Isn't it weird how we always scrutinize ourselves so intently and expect others to do the same?   I think as long as person is clean and well-groomed and doesn't display pet peeve irritants (such a French manicured toenails or artificial nails with rhinestones that may pop off and land in your lap), people really don't notice the little nuances unless you're a very visually oriented person.   So now I know that someone with a fried hair pet peeve won't be standing around, looking at me, thinking "eeeewww!"   Odd subreference with BPAL elements: I was looking at minilux's BPAL icons and noticed that Louise Brooks was pictured in a couple of icons, one being for the scent Beatrice. There's a town in my state called Beatrice; it's about 35 miles directly south of where I reside. However, it's not pronounced the way the woman's name Beatrice is commonly pronounced, which is "BEE-uh-truss." No, people call this town "Bee-AT-triss." (And put a hard midwestern "r" in the last syllable.) I do not know the source of this trend, but people where I live will jokingly pronounce the name of the town "Beat (as in the beat goes on)-Rice (as in the grain.) I don't recall what was in the scent Beatrice, and I don't think it was something that I would have enjoyed, but even if I had, it would have been terribly difficult to not tell people that I was wearing "Beat-Rice" that day.   Story that was jarred loose in my brain as a result of darkity's story from the other day, about the fake nail popping off the girl's hand on the bus and landing on darkity: A long time ago, I was eating with a then-boyfriend in a Grisante's restaurant. We were at a table that was separated from another table by a divider that was probably 4 feet high. At the other table was a couple with their young son (about 5 or 6 years old) and one set of grandparents. The kid was wired for sound anyway, and Grandpappy was not making matters better, because he kept saying to the tyke: "So are ya all excited it's your birthday? Do you think you're gonna have lots of presents when we get home? Huh? Huh?" The kid was thrashing around, kicking and waving his arms. A waitress, hoping to provide a calming influence, gave the kid some crayons so he could draw on the paper that was put on the tabletop over the tablecloth. Didn't work. Then, I looked down at my plate to take another bite of whatever it was that I was eating, and a crayon suddenly plopped down in the middle of my plate. The kid had lost control of the crayon in his hot little hand as he was waving his arms around and it landed in my pasta. The mother was mortified, grandpappy was unrepentant and the kid was too crazed from being driven into a frenzy by his apparently sadistic grandpaps to even notice. A waiter saw it happen, came over, grabbed my plate and told me he was providing me with a replacement. My boyfriend said that the look on my face, as I handed the crayon back to the mother, should have caused the entire table to turn to salt and crumble away. People! I wasn't really mad at the kid, but his adult entourage needed to have their butts kicked.
valentina

valentina

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Is Anybody Out There?
 

4 years in a 2 year school

With rabid support from my friends and family, I've sort of discovered that I have potential to learn to be an artist. I don't have technique yet, but I think I could do really well with it eventually. This is hilarious to me, because I've always thought of myself as the least artistic person in the room- can't draw a straight line to save my soul, and my stick figures come out malformed, and nothing looks the way it should- but even more, I had SUCH a horrible experience with my intro to art class I took last fall- My instructor was AWFUL. Like, really mean. Coated in sugar, but just always so negative. I almost wrote a letter to the dean about her, actually. Some of the things she did were highly offensive.   So anyway. Instead of rushing through math and science to prepare for the radiology program, I can take some art classes and other things that interest me- like foreign language, for instance- and see how I'm doing next year at this time.   I'll be married! And with a brand new name! I can't wait to change my name. I'm doing my full name, after we are married.   It's crunch time. I only just mailed off a vast majority of the invitations: Yeah, we're closing in on a month until the day. I'm so unprepared. I'm so very excited. I'm so extremely lucky... and now I'm off to bed.
smallvoice

smallvoice

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Emain Macha
 

The Fine Art of Map Making

So sooner or later, in the process of writing a fantasy novel, I find that I have to figure out where the hell my hero IS. And I will admit, I can be a bit pedantic about the whole thing. I like my maps. I like to know exactly how long it takes my hero to go from point A to point B to point C. If I don't have maps, I tend to make fairly simple but devestating errors in the geography. It's just easier for me when I have it all laid out.   Over the course of my writing, I have gradually come to the realization that I like it when my maps make sense. They don't have to of course. In a world where magic and gods exist (as they do in mine) "because I want it that way" IS a possible answer to "why is that piece of terrain filled with jungle when it logically receives no rainfall?" But it's not really very satisfying and it feels exactly like the cheat it is. I would much rather have that piece of land be filled with jungle because its near the equator and it DOES receive rainfall, and lots of it, due to the large ocean current offshore that pulls in all the really fun storms.   So last night I sat down with a friend of mine, who is a marine biologist (okay, he has a degree in marine biology...quite naturally he works in IT administration,) and we looked over my maps. *sigh* Quite, quite unworkable. Areas that I want to be warm would in fact be very cold, areas that I want to be stormy would be anything but. Some of it I can live with, but some changes — like the idea that the Capital City would not experience a monsoon season — are simply unacceptable. It's a major plot point!   So there's nothing to be done but redo the maps. Fortunately, other than the relationships between certain countries (the Manol, the Scar, and Khorvesh must all border each other) and geographical features (the Argoná plains should be...well..plains) a lot of it is very flexible.   I'm just thankful I figured this out now, before I'd spent too much time figuring out the identities of the ancient God-Kings, something that is very much tied into geography.
Macha

Macha

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circe_blue's Blog
 

Campus Visit, BPAL, The Omen etc.

So tomorrow I go to visit the campus of my grad school. I have an apartment viewing at 11, advisor meeting at 1, and campus tour at 2. Logic would have dictated that the campus tour should've been scheduled first so I would know where to meet my advisor and see my apartment building but scheduling with this particular tour guide was kinda difficult, since he has stuff going on that day and wants to get home early to take care of his sick daughter. I am kinda excited and aprehensive at the same time.   Apartment Viewing: The campus made a deal with a hotel chain so it is renting out several floors to graduate and international students. Which means that although the apartment is technically off-campus, it very close (across the street) and high speed internet and cable is through campus. Whoo! Also, the price is amazing. It would cost $900-1000 in the area I live now to get either a crappy one bedroom in a sketchy area or a studio. I will be paying much, much, less. I am viewing the "master" bedroom. Rock. And the girl who I talked to who will potentially be my roomate sounded really nice. She's getting her master's in physical therapy, very cool.   Advisor meeting: I'm still kinda scared about this because I have images in my head of the worst case scenario which would be the advisor laughing at me and telling me I wasn't accepted after all. Argh. Though it probably will just involve reiterating the rules of the program (3.0GPA or above to graduate, no C's allowed), and picking out some classes for fall. Ah, it kinda feels good to be picking out classes and buying books again after (only) a year of working out in the "real world". I will miss my lovely steady paychecks and most of the people I work with. Also a friend once said to me, the best part about working vs. School is that after you come home from work, you're technically off the clock and there's no extra work like projects or studying to be done. Ahhhh, that *is* nice.   Campus Tour: Looking forward to this, the campus looked really nice on the website/brochure. I went to a fairly large college for undergrad and that took a lot of getting used to. I'm glad I'm going to a smaller place for grad. ******************* I was going to make an order this month but I didn't really think Lotus Moon would work for me. I'm afraid of Soap!Lotus and Evil!Rose which happens to be one of the scents that my skin amps like crazy. Maybe next month? Is next month Hungry Ghost Moon? Either way, I want new smellies before I go away for fall!   Also, I was heartbroken when O turned to a sweet soapy concoction on my skin. Dammit, I wanted to smell like sex too! I left it for about 2 months and either I'm starting to get used to it, or it has morphed a little, but I don't find it so icky anymore. Death on a Pale Horse, despite the coolest name ever, was too masculine for me. I do love The Hamptons and Swank though. Man, I must smell like a lush! ************** Has anyone ever seen the Japanese trailer for The Omen? I did, and when the priest says "his coming has heralded the Apocalypse" or something similar the trailer goes through a montage of sorts of all these disasters. Fire, flood, etc. Anyways, I thought I saw a flash of, get this, two very tall buildings in a large city with smoke coming out of them. Yep, the Twin Towers. I thought I was seeing things, but then I rewound my downloaded trailer and yep, there they were. WTF?! Are we blaming 9/11 on Damien now?! Ugh. I was disgusted that they even brought it up in that way. I saw another trailer today on TV and for a similar part, they showed a clip of the Asian tsunami. You know, that footage that's taken from the balcony of a hotel in Thailand and then this huge wave comes crashing into the patio/pool area. Again, ugh. ********** On a lighter note, I'm listening to the Firefly soundtrack. It makes me happy, especially theme song which I used to sing as "Take my love, take my land, something something cue the fiddle" Rawr, for Simon Tam.
circe_blue

circe_blue

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littletingoddess' Blog
 

"You smell like pot...."

I love the observations I get from others when I wear BPAL. Sometimes they are right on with what the intended feeling the scent is supposed to provoke, and other times... not so much.   Today I wore Thanatopsis to work. One of my coworkers, who I adore, as soon as I was smelling distance from her, she said, "you smell like pot". Not in a "ewwww!" kinda way, but in a "hey... got some to share?" kinda way. LOL Now, I've smelled pot burning, and it's no where close. So a bit later, so mentioned it again, so I got asked for other coworkers opinions. Hey, any excuse to thrust my wrist under the nose of an attractive male coworker!! He said "vanilla?" Not sure where he got that from. Another female declared "incensy". So we figured out that the first girl was associating it with the incense she burns to hide the smell of the pot!   Kelly, the same coworker, has observed that Roadhouse smells "like sex"... like parking down a country road. And Lust smells sexy, she's complimented me many times n that one.
littletingoddess

littletingoddess

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Emain Macha
 

The BPAL art you'll never see

Oh believe me, it exists.   Some of it, you may yet see — one day. There is a t-shirt design that's been hanging out in the wings for about five months now while we sort out color and t-shirt styles and the fact that the company that we usually use for the shirts doesn't make the kind of shirt we really want. Hopefully it will get sorted out fairly soon — I want this shirt to see daylight. Then there are the label designs that were, for one reason or another, rejected — or simply haven't been used yet because the Lab is in too much chaos. Sometimes I know far in advance what will be in an update, and sometimes I don't know until it's up on the web site. There is plenty of artwork that just wasn't quite right, and so wasn't used.   So on to the BPAL art that you hopefully WILL see:   Right now I'm starting to work on the Carnival Diabolique art, because although I don't yet know what the individual scents will be, I can start work on the look and feel (and this time I'm going to do a better job of making sure the posters are made, and that the artwork will make an easy transition to t-shirts and maybe *crossing fingers* some cool hoodies.) Beth has mentioned another artist she knows for making some different poster designs, and I'm very excited about that possibility. (I know my limitations, and although I CAN do twisted freakshow art, this other person is without doubt so much better at it I can only applaud them.) I started some portraits of lab staff before Convergance, and am planning on finishing them in time for the summer. (They are very easy to paint, being an exceptionally pretty group of people.)   Of course, what I am REALLY looking forward to is the Lacuna series. I don't know exactly what Beth has planned, but I wants to do the labels...oh yes...   It should be a very lovely summer.
Macha

Macha

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Is Anybody Out There?
 

School

I HAVE to apply for financial aid for the '06-'07 school year very soon! Turns out I'm going to be taking a series of two math classes instead of this one I'm failing so miserably right now. It sucks, and I don't want to fail again. It makes my GPA cry. And by fail, I do mean fail. I'm trying to see the positive side, which is that I'll get to take more classes that I really want to try, to prepare for the career path I'm interested in before the pressure really sets in. Since when did 2 year colleges become 4 year schools?   I'm really, really tired.
smallvoice

smallvoice

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Squash Soup
 

what's that smell?!

It's another dull and rather long day at work but it matters not when I'm wearing teh Underpants. The only thing that I'm sad about is it's quick-fade tendencies. I also don't feel like anyone can even smell it. I haven't gotten one compliment and gosh darn it, it smells fabulous on me! I know that I'm a scent addict but I'm always noting when people smell good and I tell them too. A delicious smell can totally make an otherwise yuckerific day and so I like to appreciate those that brighten my days. Eh...I'm sure it's just me that's weird. I was actually thinking about my obsession with smell the other day. I have the keenest sense of smell and I often associate different smells with moments in my life or places I've been to. I remember things based on their smell more so than what they actually look like. I know that it comes from my childhood. I had a super weak bladder as a kid so essentially I always smelled like pee which isn't all that great for making friends. Once I got over that phase, I became absolutely obsessed with being clean and smelling good. I also think it comes from my mom who is constantly remarking on how things smell. It's kind of interesting how your childhood shapes the rest of your life and how it can have such a huge impact on such seemingly natural things like how we use our senses.   I think that's enough rambling, I just thought that you all would sympathize with my general whinning....or not but what can I do?
jessiesquash

jessiesquash

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Fishnets and Frankincense
 

Celebrate

Things to celebrate:   It's going to be around 80 degrees here tomorrow! Woot! It's been almost chilly for a month now and I am getting the urge for some semi-hot weather. Remind me I said this when I'm complaining about the weather in July.   I maintained my self-control and ordered a 10 ml of O and one bottle of Lithia. That's all.   I get my hair done tomorrow. It's just entirely too long for me to stand it right now.   I did the trip to my mother's care center, the dinner and my trip home with equanimity. The drive was pleasant. I listened to Shawn Colvin on the way down and she was good preparation.   I'm leaving work now to go to yoga class. I think doing some yoga is going to jar loose a few mental blocks that I've been struggling with all day long. It's worth a try...     Music in my CD player: Bob Schneider, "Lonelyland." Because Baby Bob just rocks my world! And he's always something to celebrate!!!!
valentina

valentina

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Filling the Periodic Table
 

T-18 hours!

Just 18 hours to go!   So anxious. I think I'm pretty ready, but I won't know for sure until tommorrow morning. Ooof. Unfortunately, there is a lot more on these exams than can be tested in 35 questions, so the tests are *very* different from sitting to sitting. There is a certain element of chance about whether or not the material on the exam overlaps well enough with the stuff I've studied. I could get blindsided.   Anyway, thanks for all of your well wishes!
antimony

antimony

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Gone Batty
 

::Yawn::

I had initially decided to start my blog with a recap of my vacation but I'm feeling pretty tired at the moment so I think I'll do that later. I had to get up at quarter to five this morning to work on some servers during the maintenance window. Unfortunately there's no other time to do this but I don't really mind. It means that I get to leave work early and that means I'll miss rush hour traffic. The only crummy part is that I have to get up early the rest of the week to finish the installs so my sleep schedule is going to be off this week.   The first thing I'm going to do when I get home is crawl into bed with my vampire book. I'm not usually one for vampire stories but I really like Charlaine Harris' take on them. My only complaint is that they aren't long enough and I usually finish them within a day or two. It's a nice change from all the history stuff I've been reading lately.   I almost wish that I didn't have belly dance class today but I know I'll change my mind once I get there. That's how it usually goes with yoga too. I just wish I had the chance to take a longer nap after work but since I have to get up early that's probably a good thing.   Gah! My boss keeps sending me emails about new projects and tasks and my mind is so mushy right now that I just can't process them. I have a feeling it's going to be like that all week.
miss apple

miss apple

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