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    Mod post: No wishlist posts in blogs

    By Silvertree

    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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Whiskers and Whispers
 

Ugggh!

Currently smelling of: La Bella Donna Mia Mente (which smells like Budding/Peony Moon with autumn leaves and pomegranate today!)   I just had the misfortune to taste the most disgusting tomato sauce ever. It wasn't even stale, or cheap (this is one of the TV chef-endorsed, pricier sauces), it was just gross. It tasted like VOMIT. I wasted a good portion of pasta on that shit. Never again!   And I managed to give in my maths assignment. Thank goodness that's over! Now, two more physics assignments to do. The quantum physics one is making my brain do somersaults in my skull...   And I want my Underpants. My mum says that the infamous USPS package I am awaiting isn't here yet
PurringPulsar

PurringPulsar

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Birdsongs
 

Oops.

I can't tell, but I think I may have just posted all the entries I wrote weeks ago. No wonder no one commented on them. I feel kind of stupid, but from reading other blogs I know at least I'm not alone!   Have to go pack now. I'm helping my boyfriend pack up all his stuff - most is going into storage, the rest will come with him to stay at my apartment with me & my roommate & our cat & dog (so cozy!) for the next month till our lease runs out. Then we'll move into the new place which we have not found yet.
spanishviolet

spanishviolet

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Birdsongs
 

A beginning

Think it's time to get this started ...   I'm just so glad the forum is back I can't say. The internet seemed so boring without it ... I still had LJ & my scans_daily comics community, but they didn't update often enough. And I missed all the random babbling and enabling!   The past couple of weeks have been grim. I've shared an apartment with the same roommate for the past nine years, and this year my boyfriend thought we could try to rent a house, the three of us. My brother wants to move out of my parent's house & I'd really like to help him, but the realtors don't want to hear about roommates (they keep not returning my calls). And I'm kind of worried that my credit isn't good enough anyway. And since the others work normal office hours & I work crazy retail hours, I've been left to do most of the realtor-talking, which sucks because I've been more inarticulate than usual lately. Arrgh! And I'm trying to stay focused on houses, but I need to make a resume & start looking for a better job too ...   So anyway, sniffing pretty things helps keep me sane. When first I got into bpal, I was looking for a signature scent - something that would make people think of me when they sniffed it. Now I can't imagine wearing the same thing two days in a row! You have your spicy days, your rose days, your foody days ... Not sure what today will be. Maybe something comforting & basic? But I need to train someone at work this evening, so maybe Mercury to help me communicate ...   I think I have to call another realtor now. Sigh ...
spanishviolet

spanishviolet

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Birdsongs
 

Ramblings

Time for another blog ... I wrote out a huge entry Saturday, then the computer ate it and I wandered off, frustrated ...   I'm feeling relaxed today. Yesterday was my Jason's birthday, and he didn't have a particularly fun day because he had work & class until 10, and was then all tired. I'm hoping to make it up for him by extending birthdayness all week.   We're taking a few days off the realtor/house-hunting thing, after a big disappointment on Saturday. Nice to not be worrying quite so constantly, for a little while at least! On the plus side, we did free credit checks online and are all clear on that front.   At work, new things to be crazy-hectic about - our newest employee is needing a bunch of remedial training & having behavioral issues. It's hard to believe anyone could have such rapid behavior changes without being chemically enhanced. Sadly we have to wait for him to keep messing up over & over & document it before we can fire him. (Reference checks these days are worse than useless - nobody says anything other than "Yes, he worked here" because they're afraid of being sued. Leading to this!) So for this week, I get to spend all my time training him over & over again. Bleah.   Even though I slept extra-late today, I'm still kinda draggy & my eyes look zombiefied. More coffee, with toffee nut creamer. I'm a coffee weakling - have to have it every day, but it must always be modified. I'm using less & less sugar these days though - teeny progress.   My Monas locket arrived this week, & yesterday I wore it for the first time with Mars. I put some on my wrists too - I could smell the locket if I sniffed it, but I seem to be a cold-natured person, 'cause I didn't get a lot of throw. It smelled best when I was outside in the sun. Should be perfect to wear to a renaissance fair - then I wouldn't have to feel sad because I couldn't reapply every hour on the hour like I normally do.   Well. Just rambling to show I'm still here, really. I'll try to be more interesting next time!
spanishviolet

spanishviolet

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Birdsongs
 

Dancing

Went out to my boyfriend's open mike last night, and afterwards we went dancing at the 80's night nearby. So much fun! They saved all the good songs for late in the evening - at one point they played Madonna's Into the Groove followed by a-Ha's Take Me On, and I thought I'd collapse from dancing so hard. Also, I realized the scent locket is perfect for going out dancing - the exertion makes me warm enough to waft lots of lovely scent around my head. Usually I wear something sexier like Red Phoenix when we go out, but last night I wore Old Scratch because I'd been craving it & it was wonderful. Warm, happy lavender. And I didn't have to worry about sweating it all away.   At one point, I told Jason, "Mmm, you smell good," just thinking it was him, and he said he'd put on Geek before we left & had been waiting for me to notice, but I hadn't because there had been no opportunity to get up close & enjoy. But once I did ...
spanishviolet

spanishviolet

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Birdsongs
 

Productivity

So, today I did not file my taxes, nor call a realtor, nor clean the kitchen. I looked at my cousin's wedding-planning website & tried to convince myself I'm really not jealous, I'm an evolved person who knows no one's life could really be that fairy-tale perfect & that I need to make the most of the happy things in my own life. (But really - a photo of the happy couple in front of the Eiffel Tower?)   I'm happy for her, really I am ... I really like that side of the family & am looking forward to seeing the relatives again for the first time in several years. My boyfriend's a bit miffed that the trip will be just a couple of weeks before we move, but it's only one weekend. I don't think it will be that much of a problem ...   I did, however, test several different scents looking for a Lex Talionis substitute, since it did not come back with the other grapefruit scents, and I didn't realize how wonderful it was when it was Resurrected last fall. It's the perfect, cool-warm scent for unhappy days when I need something not too happy-smelling to comfort me. In my quest, I tried Laudanum (good for really bad days, but too smokey to fit in the same mood-category), Medicine Show (almost, but too spicy & light), Faustus (a similar feel, but sadly I just don't like frankincense that much), and All Saints 05 (the closest I could come. The austere roses & incense almost fit the same scent-craving niche!). So at least I've got an almost-backup for when I run out of LT imps.   Also, I read an excellent book by Anne Perry, No Graves as Yet, which has been on my to-read list for many moons. Highly recommended! Wonderful descriptions, vivid characters, interesting plot. I can't wait to pick up the rest in the series.
spanishviolet

spanishviolet

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Eoywin's Blog
 

Sadness

The forum is messed up for me and a handful of other people. It's a real chore to try and read anything on the forums, since I have to wade through error screens, and having the forum jump back to the main page.   Because of this, I haven't been around the forums as much as I usually would be, and I'm feeling disconnected from the entire bpal fandom which makes rather sad   I've been missing my mom an awful lot as of late too, which makes me feel sad as well. I think the stress of the wedding, and the fact that it is only 5 months away, is wearing on me.
Eoywin

Eoywin

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Denise's Cool Blog
 

My Wishlist *Finally*

Ok, I've finally taken the time to go through the Excel spreadsheet with all 800 and some odd scents. *phew* These aren't really in any particular order:     DENISE'S WISH & SWAP LIST   LE/Discontinueds: 5ml Pediophobia v1 (partials & decants OK) 5ml Eve v5 (partials & decants OK) 5ml Hua Mulan v4 (partials & decants OK)   GC: *none at this moment*   Super Mucho Want to BUY/SWAP FOR (aka: already tested, and know I want) *none at this moment*   Will ALWAYS accept more: Dandelion SN   TAL Oils I'd Like to Try none at this moment   Black Phoenix Trading Post - the Queen's Croquet Garden room spray - Okiya room spray - A Picnic in Arkham Tshirt (XXL Crew Neck Babydoll) - Brimstone keychain - Local 93 Long sleeved Tshirt (XXL Crew Neck Babydoll) - Large Imp Pouch - Soapies: SNAKE OIL! and PUMPKIN! and SHUB! - Any and ALL nailpolishes *Currently, I need me some more Midnight on the Midway & Hells Belles!   NON BPAL CocoaPink: I *LOVE* perfume spray in the scent "Snake". Yup. And it would be awesome if the "smell me across town" intensity was chosen. LOL. Also: anything in the scent Pumpkin Marshmallow. Chocolate face masks, & their Dermabrasion Face Wash BloodDrops: Lightning Bug, Midsummer's Eve LUSH: I love: "Honey I Washed the Kids" soap, You Snap the Whip" body butter, "Angels on Bare Skin" facial scrub, CoalFace soap, & their blueberry face mask ("Catastrophy" or something?) TARTS: I especially like tarts from both Becca Lights and 4FatCats. Of course both are closed right now... (fruity, mint, tea, apples, etc for scents) Arcana Soaps: Festival Floozy (soap), Inari (soap), Revival (soap), Shipwrecked (soap), & Avalon (soap) Bella Lucce: Anything in the scents of cranberry fig, cranberry yuzu, or !!NORWEGIAN OCEANIC!! I also adore the Peppermint foot treatments. Also really love the Hibiscus Honeysuckle hair treatment, and their Multi Fruit face cream. C.O. Bigelow: Ultra Mentha Lip Shine (the dark green one!) Super Bad: Chiquita soap, La Belle Rebelle soap (available at www.TheSoapBoxCo.com) Isle of Eden: Would LOVE more sprays in the following scents: Pomegranate Champagne Cocktail & Blackberry Cotton Candy. Also anything in the scent Candied Fuschia. LOVE that one! I would also like to try things in the following scents (or similar): honeysuckle SN(!!!), red apple SN, pink grapefruit SN, Frozen Green Tea Mint Souffle, Linden Green Tea, Sugar Plum Fairy, Wolf Bait, Lemonade Tea, & Mint Freeze. Villainess: I'd like to try anything in the scents Lehua (Soap Box Co. Exclusive), Neisthai, & Krakatoa; love to try the Grundy, Pearl Diver, or Scintillating Mud or the Datura Slick; and I'd love some more Crushed Smooch & Ennui Whipped (available at www.TheSoapBoxCo.com) Bunny Butt Apothecary: I'd love to try lip balms in Green Tea, Fresh Mint, or Mojito; Complexion Zen Facial Cream & Soap (available at www.TheSoapBoxCo.com) Silk Road Trading Company: would love to get more soaps in the following scents: singapore, pearls & jade, & Taklamakan. Etsy: Here is the link to my favorites!   * I'll keep this updated, and put a link in my forum signature. I will list below what I have ordered, and then link them to my reviews once I get them *   Pending Orders: Election Scents   Yule Decant Circle Order   Halloweenie Decant Circle Order   Dragon Moon Decant Circle Order   Worm Moon/Luau Decant Circle Order
eviltemptressdq

eviltemptressdq

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faedesang
 

Arrrr!

Ok, so the other 2 posts are from March and I just never made them "public" because I'm a fool when it comes to learnin the whole bloggin' craziness. Thanks to Babylon for clueing me rusty brain into how things work.. Atlanta went really really well, my niece Alyvia is the sweetest girl evah..and she has our family's touch of offbeat humor & her laugh is near identical to mine which kinda freaked everyone out! She is flying here for the summer in early June and leaving in late August..so we'll have alot of time to hang out & be nutty once again! I will try to post some pics sometime soon..she's a doll! hehe   Other night @ work(i'm a CNA) they stuck me on a unit that I've never been on before..an all male unit & they were all sexual deviants or extremely aggressive in general. It was a NIGHTMARE and i was scared for my life. Why the FUCK did they stick two girls (the other girl had never been on the unit either) on a unit w/ no explanation or w/ any idea as to how these men were...?! We have no training in dealing w/ outright sexual comments or physical aggression. I know basic self defense and could defend myself pretty well against one man..but what about 2 or 3 @ one time? UGH!!! I was so irrate..i called the shift scheduler and asked why the FUCK we were there to begin with and she simply said " we didnt have a choice..the regulars on that unit called in sick.." and went on with some other lame ass excuses. I told her i was reporting her ass for endangering not only us but the residents as well cuz we are not trained to work such a unit. Mind you, I'm a regular on an Alzheimers unit in the building ACROSS the street and they dragged my ass over there..it was like WHOA..where the HELL did I just transport to? My unit is so calm (mostly) and non aggressive..i watch out for the residents and things are pretty happy & peaceful. Well this unit was like walking into Hell itself..you could feel it in the air..the sexual tension was so thick you coulda spread it on your toast. First thing I get bombarded by sexual commentary "Hey, you're looking good sweetheart..come here..i wanna show you something in my room! It will only take a second..c;mon!" *HEEBIE JEEBIES* Holy fuck. I finally get down to the nurses office and lock the door behind me..the other girl is standing there and is like "What the hell are they thinking putting us on this unit?! OMG. what are we gonna do?" So all night long we went everywhere together and did cares on only the men we felt wouldnt attack us. We got spit on..cursed at and grabbed at..thankfully noone successfully grabbed us or pinned us down. It was so bad that we had to lock ourselves into the unit station for a half hour while some guy pummeled the door and demanded that we wash him up because we are whores and thats our job to wash his privates. GAAAAAH!!! So i opened up the upper half of the door and told him quite bluntly "Yer going to the Green room, "Hannibal"..how do you feel about that?! And if it was up to me you'd be there for eternity!!" I then proceeded to call Mr. Green (padded room) and he was whisked away. Ahhh.. one down..who's next?! LOL (I call him Hannibal cuz he looked like Hannibal Lecters clone..*shudders*) Anyhoo..to sum it up..it was frightening and I'm not a chicken shit kinda girl..i've dealt w/ lots of physical/verbal aggression but not like that..on that kinda level. I have reported the proper people and I'm praying nothing ever happens like that to anyone ever again. <le sigh> Time for some Melatonin & a cuppa..and hopefully some pleasant dreams   Listening to: Ryan Adams "Cold Roses"
Astburygrrl

Astburygrrl

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faedesang
 

Avast!

So i'm gettin on a plane to go to Atlanta, GA tomorrow morning to visit my niece i've never met yet (she's 11 now). Whole dang family is going and I hate flying on big planes! Little planes dont bother me, heights dont bother me..its just the whole 'i'm flying thru the air like a goddamn bullet awaiting impact' thing that gets me everytime. At least in small planes you can see where you're going and talk to the pilot.etc etc. and I can land a small plane if needed! I'm so damn miserable thinking about it. I will wear Tulzcha on the plane because it calms me nerves.. so say a lil prayer for me guys, ok? hehe I'm wearing my threadless.com shirt that came today! i loves it! (thanks to Babylon for enabling heh) http://www.threadless.com/product/291/Chance   oh, and if the plane does crash..Babylon gets me stash! There, its official now.   *off to practice using her pillow as a seat cushion/flotation device*
Astburygrrl

Astburygrrl

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faedesang
 

eh?

I'm just a tad excited today! Going to paint my bathroom "wading pool" blue..its so soothing to me frazzled soul. I must get back to spackling my holes in the wall though. Sounds like fun, doesnt it? I know yer jealous
Astburygrrl

Astburygrrl

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Sourball Ho!
 

Belief in "spells"

I actually "cast a spell" today, but it wasn't anything serious. I was reading the TAL threads thinking there may be some rules with oils that I wasn't aware of, but from what I gleaned there weren't -- it's respecting the spirit in which oils are created, and belief in thought, and how there isn't good or evil power, it's simply perspective.   So I got a round votive candleholder in blue glass, one of my favorites. I filled it with coarse salt, because I wanted to anchor a thin candle and it felt natural. I coated a green candle with patchouly oil (that's how it's spelled on the vial) and thought about how grateful I am that finances are going well -- we both have full-time jobs, the house isn't falling apart, our cars aren't asploding -- and put the candle in the salt. After it was lit, I put it on top of the checkbook and stood for a minute, just listening to the house hum around me. There's so much I want to do with the house, but I need patience to have the money to do it.   That was it! The rest of the day was OK; I'm still breaking out in rashes from my BPAL applications, which is pissing me off, but I feel good about us and our personal situation. We'll see!
dawndie

dawndie

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Fishnets and Frankincense
 

Of bubble baths and spiders

Do you like bubble baths? I luuuurve bubble baths. And I am a damn picky bitch about my bubble bath. I used to like the Kiss My Face Peaceful Patchouli bubble bath, but they changed the formula and the bubbles leave much to be desired. I went to Victoria's Secret last week (big shock there...) and got some of their bubble bath, and it's not bad. I got the Strawberries and Champagne scent, which is rather unlike me, but that scent combo has prurient associations (in my head only, not based on any actual experience) and I couldn't resist.   I actually enjoy the V'Tae bath salts in the Sacred Fire scent. That is a really, really sexy scent that is also very comforting. Their verbiage on the package always gets me -- "Anoint. Intoxicate. Enchant. Goddess. Ritual. Magic." Ah, it evokes a web-spinner to me. I just wish they made it in a bubble bath.   And I am a bit of a web-spinner. I don't mind spiders one little bit. I don't pick them up and play with them, but I tend to give them their space and I never want to hurt them. I once got rather upset with a secretary in my office who recounted screaming and running around her kitchen at the sight of a spider before beating it to death with a broom so hard that her kids couldn't even find the carcass when she was finished. The story kind of gave me a pain through the heart. I know we all have our phobias, but holy crap, show some restraint.   Now how the hell did I get here from where I started, on bubble baths? Well let me tell you, if there's a spider in my tub and I want to take a bath, I get a magazine and respectfully move it to a secluded corner of the bathroom. They aren't stupid -- they'll stay away from hot water and bubbles.   Off to my ritual and magic in bubbleland...
valentina

valentina

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wendymehndi's BPAL Blog
 

WishList

My "I wanna try these they sound so Magically Deeelicious!" List     DRAGON MOON dragon’s blood resin, tea leaf, bamboo reed, sandalwood and cherry blossom. Sleepy Moon black opium poppy, bamboo pulp, ylang ylang, lavender, chamomile and white sandalwood. Hecate Magnificent three-faced Goddess of Magic, the Dark Moon and the Crossroads. She is the Mother of Witches, and the midnight baying of hounds is her paean. Her compassion is evidenced in her role as Psychopomp for Persephone, and her wrath manifests as Medea's revenge. Deep, buttery almond layered over myrrh and dark musk. Fée A buoyant, dulcet blend of vanilla, sunflower, carnation, honeydew, peach blossom, lychee, oakmoss and white tea Tushnamatay From the Bewitching Brews collection: Pure internal harmony and spiritual bliss: the perfected meditation blend.
wendymehndi

wendymehndi

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septima_pica's smellyblog
 

Things to swap away.

(as of 7/17/08) Italics=swap pending   BOTTLES   IMPS   GC: Against Idleness and Mischief Aug-09 Anathema Apr-09 Bewitched ? (taped) Black Dahlia Oct-08 Black Rose Mar-10 Blood Amber Jan-09 Blood Rose Apr-09 Bruised Violet Compound ? Catherine Oct-08 Djinn Jan-09 Dragon's Reverie Jun-09 Eos Jul-08 Erato ? Event Horizon May-09 Grand Guignol Oct-09 Hermia Jul-08 Horreur Sympathique ? Kali ? (rolled and taped) King of Hearts ? La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente Jun-08 La Belle Dame Sans Merci Jun-09 Lucy's Kiss Jul-08 Lucy's Kiss May-09 Marie Jun-09 The Miller's Daughter Mar-10 Miskatonic University ? Oberon Jan-09 Othello May-09 Othello ? Phantom ? Phantom Queen Jun-08 The Pool of Tears Mar-10 Queen Gertrude Mar-10 Rosalind Jul-08 Seraglio ? Sheol Aug-09 Suspiro May-09 The Unicorn Oct-08 Tweedledum Nov-08 Villain Jan-09 Viola Mar-10 Wings of Azrael Apr-09   LE: Faunalia Dec-09 Gacela of the Dark Death Dec-09 Old Man Ackerman's Instructional Toys Dec-09 Yule Cat Dec-09   NON-BPAL Violette Market: Cathedral Sep-09 Violette Market: Scottie's Blend Sep-09 Goth Rosary: Black Wings ?   I can decant from the following: (no decants right now, I'm out of empties) Absinthe Anubis Athens Bess Death Cap Death of the Gravedigger (swap for Salon scents only please) Gaueko Laudanum Nyarlathotep Perversion Whitechapel
septima_pica

septima_pica

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littletingoddess' Blog
 

warm fuzzy kitty cat love

It is so beautiful outside tonight that I took my daughter to play at the school playground 3 houses away from our house. Echo, our cat, who is indoor/outdoor, followed us there. He was so cute, prancing along next to us. I sat on the bench while she played on the monkey bars, and he just wandered around, never venturing very far away. She then wanted to go to the other side of the school, where there is another playground. Echo stayed behind, meowing plaintively, but I know he knows the way home, so I wasn't concerned. She played for about 15 minutes, then we came back to the first side..... guess who was still there. And of course came prancing right up. He sat on the bench with me for another 15 minutes, as I watched my daughter play, then followed us back home. He just seemed so uncatlike, almost as if we had brought a *gasp* dog along! He is now inside, next to my desk, completely stretched out and fast asleep.
littletingoddess

littletingoddess

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This Old Snark
 

Soul/Stale Mate

Antimony ruminates on the Lloyd Dobbler/Diane Court dichotomy of soul mating.   Snarky has to admit, should the world of couples fall into the strict either/or of Lloyd or Diane archetypes: she aspires to Dianeness (Dianeity?), but is most likely the Lloyd in her relationship with The Mister.   Sure, Snarky is the rightful egghead of the two. Her nerdiness and geekiness are such to elicit hybrid words like gnerd or possibly nee(k) (an homage to Monty Python, which adds a flavor of Dork to the mix as well).   Heck, she even started making notes in dictionaries (her own copies, of course), she was crushing on Diane that hard.   But her yearning for The Mister, even now almost six years into their marriage, is all Lloyd. She feels she needs to be a better woman to be with him. He makes her want to succeed at things she's barely even dreamed about. He didn't take her across the pond, but they did end up on the other side of the country to follow his career. (OK, and it was separate flights so no hand/breath holding, "waiting for the 'ding'" moment for the Snarks.) (Which seriously? Next to the "holding up the boombox" moment? One of Snarky's favorites.)   Currently The Mister has a slight advantage to Snarky on bread winning. Very slight. The care and feeding of the home fires is done jointly (though the laundry-and-dishes part of the kindling often gets neglected). Snarky has taken the reins of the check book and manages most of the financial matters of the house, though The Mister does his Annual Duty of Using His Accounting Degree Once a Year for Taxes.   All in all, Snarky has to say her relationship with The Mister falls into a more stereotypical, "traditional" one (man provide, woman manage)... with leanings toward scale-like equilibrium rather than yin-yang parity.   She is thinking about taking up kickboxing.   Today Snarky is nekkid! Well, in the ol factory sense anyway.
darkitysnark

darkitysnark

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Cake or Death?
 

A mostly-recovering drama groupie says what?

Reeking of: Dragon's Milk.   Ugh, I'm such a drama groupie. Months after the fact, I'll go sifting through threads, digging up old drama to read through all over. Thing is, the stuff usually amuses me — not to the point of joining a comm like fandom_wank, mind, but it does tickle me in a sick kind of way. I say "usually," because it doesn't here. I hate wank here. I want everyone here to get along and sing cheesy songs (just not that one about rowing a boat ashore!) and make pretty necklaces out of flowers while sitting in a huge circle. (heh.)   On other Forums, I'm more of a lurker. I'm more... removed from it all than I am here. Not that I'm an especially-noticed member 'round here (heh, hardly), or that I'm among the most active, but still, I'm more active here than in any other fandom/community I haunt ("haunt" is also a perfect word for what I do on other Forums). Besides that, Beth (and Ted et al) is/are far more involved with their customers/fans/love-monkeys than any other... *what's the word? Subject of Fandom? Something along those lines* I've encountered. I mostly frequent Forums devoted to... things. Lush-type forums.   I guess it's a "More involved + Cooler/More Involved *whatever that word is!* = Not so amused by the snark and drama between forumites/thrown at *that damn word again!*" sort of thing. Plus, Beth is freakin' awesome, so it's not the same when wank's directed at her here than it is when people go on tangents about how much **** sucks and that ****'s owner needs to get a life/die/whatever. Kind of like the difference between someone berating your first cousin and the 38747276546th cousin you know about, but have never met/seen/spoke to/etc.   This all probably ties into my "Why we're not part of some perfume-related cult" rant from the Confessional thread. Same thing, really, just not in the very same vein. I don't know. It's early, and this whole post-o'-pointlessness started when I started sniffing through old threads on another Forum and found a sticky pile of wank.   I should either sleep, or go back to reading some of the (relatively) better smut over at RestrictedSection.org. Luuuucius.
Aredhel

Aredhel

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Sourball Ho!
 

Am I old?

Currently listening to: "This Side" by Nickel Creek -- I this CD   Currently smelling like: Port-au-Prince, then Montresor   My unofficial goal with this blog was to go 1 full month of entries, and I couldn't even accomplish that -- I created an entry yesterday, but deleted it as so craptacular I couldn't post it, lots of familial complaining. So what's happened since then?   Yesterday: my Mom turned 60! I can't believe it. That sounded so old when I was growing up. DH even said, "Your mom is 60? She doesn't look it." She doesn't act it either. That's my goal: to not act my age. My mom has so many hobbies and interests, plus she and dad own their own business, they're busy and interesting. I admire their lives and want to be more like them in that aspect.   Today: we probably spent too much at Home Depot, but I told DH as we got in the car, "I like going into those stores, I just wish we had the money to do what we wanted." It was outside stuff, topsoil and grass seed and stain and waterproofing for a little wooden bridge. Then we went to a pub and drank beer and I had the best baja spicy shrimp tacos EVER and then came home and watched Sopranos. Oh, and both the Suns and Mavericks won their playoff games, so DH is happy.
dawndie

dawndie

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Fishnets and Frankincense
 

Damn the torpedoes

Do you ever have one of those spells in your life, where you'd just like to put the universe on notice that he/she/it can stop tossing grenades in your path? That maybe you're just tired of dodging explosions in the road, and a bit o' smooth sailing might be a lovely change? Just long enough to have a little time to get some things figured out? I think some people are given a life of more combustables than others. And my life, for the last year, has been a series of big-ass explosions and smaller rumblings, more akin to a volcano getting ready to blow. I'm getting weary of it.   Maybe if I could be a little more clueless, everything wouldn't seem so acute to me, but who wants to be clueless? Sometimes I think those of us who are rather gothic in our outlook are simply the people who just can't stop paying attention long enough to get clueless. Not that I can't be clueless about many things, but they usually aren't important enough to tranqulize me to what's going on.   But I suppose to be awake to the difficulty of life is also to be awake to the gorgeousness of life, so why be a whiny-pants about it?
valentina

valentina

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Whiskers and Whispers
 

Freedom is over...and French Enraged Bunnies!

Currently smelling of: Bess (first time testing), and the Lion (smells of sugared amber iced tea!)   I just have to show this little flash off: hmm, Enraged Bunny Musk, anyone?   Holidays are now finished...as intensive studies season begins. Coursework and exams!   I'm back on campus and a little bit homesick, though not too much. I have my BPAL to console me, thank goodness. The stupid boys have returned and invited their girls in, but they've been pretty quiet so far. I'll see what happens as the night progresses.   It'll be nice to see my friends again tomorrow, but also annoying to get back to studies and loads of coursework. I have maths coursework due in on Tuesday and as usual, I'm procrastinating again! Must get back to work...
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Filling the Periodic Table
 

Who isn't in love with Lloyd Dobbler?

I watched "Say Anything" again tonight. (for like the 1000th time)   I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.   I'm a brain. Unfortunately, *not* trapped in the body of a game show hostess.   My boyfriend basically shares Lloyd's worldview. He's not into the whole buy/sell/process worldview. He doen't have a degree, and although he has a good job in computers, I don't think he's figured out what he wants to do when he grows up.   Plenty of aquaintances have questioned what the hell the two of us are doing together. He makes me laugh. He's sweet to me. He's the kind of guy who would point out glass for me walk around. I spent about 11 or 12 hours studying today. He brought me a warm lunch, and warm dinner. He's been cleaning the apartment. He makes the whole house run while I focus on my studying.   ---   I was discussing relationships with other actuaries at a seminar a couple of weeks ago... And we all realized that of the sucessful corporate high-ups we knew, most of them did not have high-powered spouses. Even the female partners at the consulting firm I used to work for, their husbands were artists, caterers, one owned a fly-fishing shop... All good careers, but not corporate. And the men too, their wives didn't work, or also had similar non-corporate careers.   I think there's a lot of value in having both people in the relationship working in fields with very different challenges and very different definitions of success. I think it makes it easier. You get stressed over different things, and not always at the same time, kind of makes it easier to be there for each other.   That, and for people in very time-consuming or high-stress careers, I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting to be with someone who is more home-oriented than career oriented. I don't think it's a gender role thing, after all, I'm the one working all the time, and who spent the first couple of years as the primary income in our household. But, you know, *someone* needs to keep the home fires burning.
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Whiskers and Whispers
 

Weird 'rainbows' and end of holiday moanings.

Currently smelling of: Eclipse (delicious cinnamon-heavy bottle, mmm), and will smell like Bathed and Infused Italian Wedding Cake after my bath.   I saw something weird in the sky today. It looked like a little piece of rainbow-but it wasn't raining-it was a sunny, hazy day. And rainbows usually form in the part of the sky opposite the sun, usually against the raincloud. This 'fragment of rainbow' was actually in the haze just to the left of the sun, and just stayed there for about 20 minutes and at times it was quite bright, it looked almost like a muted, colourful, second sun, whilst at other times it looked like a faint fragment of rainbow. It was a beautiful but strange phenomenon-I have no idea what it is and what caused it though-I'm guessing it's the same mechanism that causes rainbows but normally hazy clouds don't go all rainbow-y! I just wish I had a camera at the time...   I really am going to miss living at home. No more of my mum's lovely cooking. No more peace and quiet. No more lovely smells. I have to go back to my little room where I have to put up with constant NOISE from the boys-be it extreme bass from their awful hip hop/RnB music (the bass is so high, it's almost tremor-inducing!), having to hear them vomit every morning because they drank too much, hearing them chat loudly and drunkenly in the corridors at 4am, and hearing the guy opposite making his girlfriends scream with the door ajar (I really hope the screaming isn't what I think it is!!) so everyone can hear how much of a ladies' man he is, and the early morning prank fire alarms set off by the drunk boys. I also have to put up with the messiest, greasiest kitchen ever, and the stink of those awful chicken nuggets and fried sausages and George Foreman grilled burgers, and the sheer stupidity (and the smell!) of the boys in my flat-they seem to have evolutionarily reversed back to their ape stage. Their girlfriends are not much better, yapping like deranged chihuahuas at 3am every morning. And the boys smoke weed despite the uber-strict no smoking rule for our halls (so strict, that no candles or incense is allowed in the rooms!) and the stink of the stuff seeps into my room all the time...   But another thing I'm not looking forward to is exams. Loads of exams and tons of coursework. I'm struggling with the maths coursework already, it's giving me real grief! And I have to do physics coursework as well, three lots of it, including one about quantum physics, which is very fascinating, but the maths behind it brain-meltingly difficult! Stuff about one-dimensional boxes and semi-infinite wells and so on...oh, my poor head...   I'm hoping to come back next weekend-to a nice new bottle of UNDERPANTS!!! I am really looking forward to trying these pants on, seriously. And the Raging Rabbit too!
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