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Kushiel's Dart

So, I'm about 5 pages in to Kushiel's Chosen, but I am tempted to re-read Kushiel's Dart, just because there was SO MUCH to follow that, even with the chart at the beginning, it was difficult to keep track of everyone. I'm going to spoiler tag the rest of this entry, because I hate having plots ruined, and I plan on divulging some plot points. Pretty major ones, in fact. However, before I do that, I want to say that I was enchanted by this world and it should not be categorized with romance novels. It is so much more! On the subject of Kushiel's Chosen, Ugh. It's been a long day, and I don't really know what else to say about this... I had a ton of stuff in my head about it after I finished, but I don't have the energy now.

smallvoice

April 10, 2007

grimms_creed's Blog

Borrowed scents, from 4/7

Bewitching Brews: AUREUS (True, perfect golden light, refined into an incomparably glorious scent). I swear to the gods, this started out smelling exactly like patchouli. But soon, it definitely developed a cedar tone, which complements the patchouli (if that's really in here) quite nicely. This was nice, but I can make something identical using my own essential oils. CATHODE (Ambergris, Spanish Moss, oakmoss and three electric mints). This smelled nice out of the imp, but got a bit too sharp on me. 2.5 INCANTATION (vetiver, dark woods, crumbling and burnt black sandalwood and a drop of lemon rind). Something in here burns my nose. I can sense the sandalwood and the lemon, and they smell nice, but there is still the nose burning sensation. Ah well. 3 SUDHA SEGARA (Sweet milk and warm, healing ginger with a touch of golden honey and our blend of Ambrosia). Return of the inexplicable nose burning. If this had any note in common with Incantation, I could eliminate it from all future experiments, but, alas, it does not. The nose burning stopped after about an hour, and the fragrance is nice enough (a combination of chai and soap), but nothing that I would wear again. 2.5 Illyria: THE APOTHECARY (Tea leaf with three mosses, green grass, a medley of herbal notes, and a drop of ginger and fig). Out of the bottle, this was the most perfect green scent in the world. On me, it was the same. Until it completely disappeared an hour later. I may get my own imp of this someday anyway, and try it with moisturizer or something. 5 (without taking into account the disappearance) LADY MacBETH (sweet Bordeaux wine, blood red currant, thyme and wild berries). On me, this smelled very similar to Bewitched. 3 Rappaccini's Garden: YEW-TREES (Piercingly sweet berries over evergreen boughs, deepened by the tree's sacred wood). This smelled like yew wood, but sweeter. Hard to describe, but quite nice. 4 Love Potions: O (Amber and honey with a touch of vanilla). This reminded me a lot of Eden, but I think I liked Eden better. 3.5 Excolo: VERDANDI (Deep herbs and apple with black amber). I was so excited about this scent. I lovelovelovelovelove apple scents, and I figured this would be amazing. It smells absolutely divine in the bottle -- fresh and green and appley. But on me, it gets much warmer and darker. I'm still not quite sure what I think of it...... 3, I guess. EDIT: I really want to like this fragrance. But.... I don't. Sin and Salvation: OBLIVION (Dark musk, wood spice, labdanum, patchouli, dark African woods, and saffron). This is deep and rich and good. Somewhat reminiscent of higher quality men's aftershave, but not in a bad way. It is warm, and a bit dark, but not morose. I find it somewhat comforting, in the way that losing yourself in something larger than you are can be comforting. I really like this one! 4.5 Voodoo: FIRE OF LOVE (A catalytic, potent love oil used to spark (or rekindle) the flame of desire between lovers). This is a bit too spicy for me to want to wear it as a perfume, but I'll give it a go tonight, and see if it does anything for me ;-) Based purely on fragrance, however, it gets a 2.

grimms_creed

April 8, 2007

I smell glorious

more dreams

I just had a nap -- an unintentional nap -- and dreamt that Vic came back, was around, said hi. I dreamt that we hung out for a while (I think Vanessa brought her over) and that it was kind of awkward but that she actually explained why she'd disappeared. Why is my subconscious throwing /that/ at me while I sleep? weird.

myoubi

April 8, 2007

I smell glorious

$$:wub2:

So far I have made $120 from sales Unfortunately I did sell a half-bottle of my beloved La Fee Verte... but considering I have the equivalent of 6 5mL's (between partials and decants) and considering that I have never even gone through an imp, I think it's okay. I wore LFV today and was reminded of why I love it the way I do I keep getting whiffs of this glorious sweet lightly-herbal creaminess before realising that it's coming from my cleavage Unless something comes up, the $$ from my sales will be saved for updates.. the coming update, and then the Blue Moon update. I'm going to need at least two bottles of Blue Moon if it's anything like hte last formulation, which sounds /right/ up my alley h_f is gallivanting around London, going to parties and getting drunk on cheap whisky (shame! go for the expensive stuff.) I am jealous, abit, but mostly I wish she was back here because I miss her! Oh yeah, and I found some Unseelie. One decant, but that should be fine. No matter how lovely it is, I'm sure it won't be enough to displace my favourites and so I won't need more.

myoubi

April 8, 2007

I smell glorious

I just made monies for the update :D

and bought some partial (very, very partial) bottles at better-than-reasonable prices, but those cost $10 which is what I made off of one decant of Spooky so that's no big deal So far I've made $56, and I hope to make a little more. All of it is going towards the update on the 13th. I'll probably ship it to Amy's address, and as such I might even combine orders with her -- she wants a 5mL of Kyoto and an imp pack! Yessss, another enablee, although I suspect this is more out of indulgence for me than true obsession. Either way, it spreads the love. You can't get much for $56, especially considering shipping... but Mom will be wiring some money into my account to buy Sheila a scent locket [she saw mine and was /instantly/ taken with it] and so I'll just ask her for a couple of dollars extra to round out my shipping costs -- shouldn't be too hard. The update is probably going to be full of shinies, at least that's what's buzzing and bumbling on the fora... and given Beth's hints, the slow boil seems warranted There's not much I'm craving right now, other than 5mL's of The Hermit and Brisingamen, but those can be laid aside if the 13th offers up some particularly tasty morsels. Oh, and I'm on Zoloft again! Yaaay! And Amy might (/might/) be coming down for the 28th of April :(

myoubi

April 8, 2007

circe_blue's Blog

Whine/Confession Post

Damn you, Facebook. I was tagged in two photos and then I untagged myself because I think I look fat in them. I didn't want any of my friends from high school to think "Oh, she got fat hahahaha". So my confession is this: yes, I am this self-concious/vain. Also, I hate Facebook newsfeed because it made the whole untagging thing useless, as I had already shown up on the friend's list recent activities thing. Grrr. ************ I hate being this size. I hate that I've gained weight since college and that I delete all the pics of myself that I think are ugly becuase I think they make me look fat. Ugh. I know I'll be stressing about this Facebook tagging business all night.

circe_blue

April 8, 2007

Is Anybody Out There?

Restless

After much angst and self-doubt, I dropped precalculus... and I know I could've done it. Maybe that's all I needed, though. I still feel disappointed in myself. The former housemate who owes us massive amounts of money just told us that he bought himself a nintendo DS. The hell? That's not the only thing he's bought himself, either. And I know he has a right to do nice things for himself, but it pisses me off that he's letting repaying us slide. Or maybe he's not. Maybe it just seems like it's been a while since he sent anything. He was also a dumbass in a self-destructive mode and went to see this crazy bitch that he swears he's over, but then he's still in love with her, and whatever whatever whatever. Boo-frickin-hoo. I sound insensitive, but it's just ridiculous. He knows better. He needs to focus on himself if he's going to get well anytime soon, and doing shit like that -really- doesn't help. I just keep HOPING that he will get it together, and when he gets self destructive, I get pissed. Anyway. School. I needed one of my books to arrive in the mail today, and it didn't, and I'm sort of freaked out now. I am in love with linguistics and have found myself fully engrossed in the textbook at times. BUT. It doesn't count as a humanities credit?? Uh, the hell? It's just an elective credit, which I certainly don't need. It is listed as a humanities credit in the catalog, and if I'm not mistaken, they're sort of required to honor that, so I'm going to have a visit with an advisor and mention that. Why would linguistics not count for humanities? That's just insane. Then again, my college also wouldn't count Lord of the Rings as a lit credit. But, whatever. Because I'm so not getting rid of this course. They'd have to pry it from my cold, dead hands. Or something like that. We've spent the first week of Biology covering the chemistry used in biology. I like her well enough. She's married to my favourite instructor, and it's interesting to see her style as well. My lab instructor, though... heh. Is he even old enough to cross the street by himself? Somebody in the class was like, "Should we call you Mr. So-and-so?" I about choked. There's no way I could address that kid that way- to my great relief, he begged us not to. He's nice, but he seriously doesn't look old enough to be out of high school. (I may be exaggerating. I told my husband he was 12, so I am getting a little better.) Anyway, so I think I'll like finally having a lab, but it is on friday, which means I'm driving out there 5 days a week... much, much more gasoline. Huh. This is a pretty long entry. I'm just really restless. And... I am a bit forlorn with a turn in Kushiel's Dart about 250 pages from the end. For some reason, I just didn't see that coming. I know at some point I said that her writing was a bit pretentious, but I think it's because I had been reading things like Dresden Files and Women of the Otherworld and Weather Wardens. It's just a different genre and a different style of writing. I'm actually quite enthralled by her, and I had to get the second book, as well as the first book of her new series. (I finally nabbed a bunch of used books and made a run to the bookstore. I love that- we came out with 10 books and it worked out to less than one dollar each.) Okay. I'm going to end this now. I'm so freaking thirsty. Merfolk should not be thirsty.

smallvoice

April 8, 2007

giant squid!

my reviews...

I noticed this on stellans' signature and I thought it was a great idea! Over time, I will keep adding links ot my reviews (I have done so many and I don't have the time to find them all at once...) just in case you're curious. Also, it's good for me to see which scents I have reviewed in my quest to have tried the whole catalog (I wonder how long it's going to take...pretty long I suppose) Bewitching Brews Anne Bonny Bess Bewitched Blood Bon Vivant Brimstone Calico Jack Chimera Eclipse Fae Kill-Devil Kubla Khan La Bella Donna Mia Mente Leanan Sidhe Lightning Ozymandias Plunder Poisoned Apple Shattered Veil Wilde Zephyr Ars Moriendi House of Night The Phantom Wooer The Reaper and the Flowers Sheol Shroud Dark Elements Inferno Sin & Salvation Anathema Black Dahlia Hellfire Jailbait Les Infortunes de la Vertu Oblivion Roadhouse Tzadikim Nistarim Wrath Love Potions Bathsheba Bien Loin d'Ici Debauchery Depraved Desire Endymion Forbidden Fruit Harlot Hetairae La Petite Mort La Serpent Qui Danse Libertine Lilium Inter Spinas Muse Nefertiti Queen of Sheba Satyr Seraglio Severin Succubus The Temptation Vixen Whip Diabolus A Countenance Foreboding Evil Black Phoenix Catherine Goblin Hellcat Horreur Sympathique Imp Kitsune-Tsuki Kuang Shi Kumiho Loup Garou Maenad Marquise de Merteuil Nephilim Nocnitsa Troll The Carousel Mama Ji Mr. Ibis Mr. Jaqcuel Mad Tea Party Cheshire Cat Croquet The Dodo The Dormouse Eat Me Frumious Bandersnatch Jabberwocky Knave of Hearts Mouse's Long & Sad Tale Queen Alice Tweedledum White Rabbit Illyria Caliban Hermia Goneril Jester Katharina Lear Lysander Tamora Titania Titus Andronicus Wanderlust 51 Baghdad Bayou Crossroads Delphi Florence Ile de la Tortue Kathmandu Lyonesse Machu Picchu Madrid New Orleans Santa Eulària Des Riu Santo Domingo Sri Lanka Sybaris Tenochtitlan Tombstone Venice Vinland Whitechapel Ars Draconis Dragon's Heart Dragon's Musk Rappaccini's Garden Black Lily Black Lotus Death Cap Dian's Bud Hairy Toad Lily Love-in-Idleness Love Lies Bleeding Shadow Witch Orchid Squirting Cucumber Voodoo Lily Wolfsbane Yew Trees Picnic in Arkham Azathoth Brown Jenkins The High Priest Not to be Described The Music of Erich Zahn Nyarlathotep Shub-Niggurath Y'ha-Nthlei The Salon And There Was a Great Cry in Egypt Arrival of the Sabbath and Homage to the Devil Bat The Cup of Death Cupid Complaining to Venus Death and Life Completed The Death of Sardanapal Death of the Grave Digger Garden Path With Chickens The Great He-Goat The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed With the Sun Haloes Isle of the Dead Itasô Kansei Nenkan Jorô No Fûzoku Judith Victorious Kiyohime Changes From a Serpent Les Anges Déchus Lucifer Lucretia Mad Meg Madonna Orpheus Philospher in Meditation The Sailor's Den The Smiling Spider Spirit of the Komachi Cherry Tree Sunflower Three Brides Three Gorgons Two Monsters Excolo Aglaea Aizen-Myoo Al-Shairan Baron Samedi Calliope Centzon Totochtin Coyote Czernobog Eos Euterpe Himerus Khephra Kurukulla Mania Melpomene Ochosi Osun Oya Persephone Queen Mab Sacred Whore of Babylon Skuld Voodoo Blends French Love Love Me Tarot Oils The Hanged Man The Hermit Strength Sephiroth Nahemoth Good Omens Agnes Nutter Aziraphale Crowley Hastur Ligur Stardust Tristran Victoria The Witch Queen Yvaine Carnaval Diabolique Carnaval Diabolique Midnight on the Midway Doc Constantine Mme Moriarty Pulcinella & Teresina Theodosius the Legerdemain Parliament of Monsters Arachnina the Spider Girl Eshe a Vision of Life-in-Death Faiza the Black Mamba Meskhenet the Vulture Maiden Tiresias the Androgyne Zarita the Doll Girl Anaconda Asp Viper Australian Copperhead Banded Sea Snake Boomslang Coral Snake Cottonmouth Death Adder Green Tree Viper Habu King Cobra Saw Scaled Viper Temple Viper Western Diamondback Lunacy Blends Fruit Moon Dragon Moon Lotus Moon Black Moon Chrysanthemum Moon White Moon Bitter Moon Wolf Moon 2006 Lycaon Hunger Moon Bakeneko Crow Moon Oborot Pink Moon 2007 Milk Moon 2007 Minotaur Rose Moon Blue Moon 2007 Thunder Moon Selkie Red Moon 2007 Allison Gross Singing Moon Hunter Moon 2007 Aeaea Beaver Moon 07 Ivanushka Limited Editions 13 (10/06) 13 (7/07) A Bachelor's Dog A Bold Bluff All Souls The Atrocious Attic Bad Luck Woman Blues Bonfire Night Cancer 2007 Capricorn 2007 The Chilling Cellar The Death of Autumn Egg Nog El Dia de Reyes Enraged Groundhog Musk The Fruit of Paradise Haloa His Station and Four Aces Fire Pig The Forbidding Foyer Gemini 2007 Jacob's Ladder Lady Luck Blues Leo 2007 Libra 2007 Lick It Again The Lurid Library Kelly Pool MB Tokyo Stomp MB Ventroiloquist's Dummy A Murder of Crows New Year's Eve in Dogville October One to Tie, Two to Win Ostara The Peacock Queen The Perilous Parlor The Phoenix Pinched with Four Aces Pirate Moon Poisson D'Avril Privilege Pruno Pumpkin I Pumpkin II Pumpkin III Pumpkin IV Pumpkin V Riding the Goat Rose Red Saggitarius 07 Sol Invictus The Sportive Sun Stranger in Camp Taurus 2007 The Twisted Oak Tree Vampire Tears Virgo 2007 The Winter of Our Discontent

euterpe414

April 7, 2007

How difficult could it be?

ta daaaaaaaaa!

i finished the ribbed scarf!!!!! i actually finished it a couple of weeks ago, but i've been without t'internet. i need to upload a pic to prove it. i have now started on a cotton halterneck top in a gorgeous burgundy/plum colour. i'm speeding up with my knitting and i'm knitting 'tighter'. not sure how to explain. it's not that i was knitting too loose, just that my stitches are now uniform. my knitting now looks like the pics given as demonstrations of new stitch patterns. and this project is cheaper. £5-£7.50 depending on whether i do need to use the 3rd ball of yarn.

Nemesister

April 7, 2007

Birdsongs

Voice mail

My Grandpa Jesse died this morning, and I just found out (yes, I will answer my phone more regularly in the future so as to avoid voice mail news ...) He was 95. I think I met him twice. His children never had a good word to say about him. We never had an actual conversation (he didn't seem to like children much). But he must have had friends, and his second family probably was fond of him. I'll bet he did interesting things when he was younger, & had stories to tell. Perhaps he had mellowed with age ... Here's to you, Grandpa Jesse.

spanishviolet

April 7, 2007

HennaFairy's Blog

Jack and Jack

(i didn't make it icon size cause i think the locket would be lost...)

HennaFairy

April 7, 2007

Filling the Periodic Table

It's so totally spring.

Woo Hoo!

antimony

April 6, 2007

I smell glorious

Monster Bait: biggerCritters... and nightmares

I'm excited about MB: biggerCritters, and I'm contemplating purchasing a critter just to get the bottle with the Speshul label. I'm doing this mostly because I had horrible nightmares last night. I can't remember most of them but what I can remember was horrible -- my worst fears, oozing out of my subconscious to get me. Not monsters or the supernatural... being abandoned by the people I care about, and knowing I deserved it. I'm so glad I'm awake. It wasn't a good night. [small]I dreamed, among other things, that Hannah didn't care about me any more... that was horrible. Some of the taint of that is still sitting in my mind.[/small]

myoubi

April 6, 2007

bryghtrose's Blog

Reviews

I'm trying every scent that comes my way, because I never know when I'm going to find something wonderful. Aeval Aglaea ! Allison Gross Amsterdam Anne Bonny Antique Lace Aquae Massage Oil Arcana Archangel Winter Asphodel Athens Aunt Caroline's Joy Mojo Aureus Ave Maria Gratia Plena Aziraphale Baobhan Sith Bastet's Laughter (TAL) Bathsheba Bayou Beltane 2006 Beltane 2008 Bilquis Black Hellebore Black Opal Black Rose Block Buster Blood X Blood Rose X Bow and Crown of Conquest Brisingamen Burial Calico Jack Calliope Capricorn Cathedral Catherine Clio ! Coiled Serpent Cottonmouth ! Crossroads Dance of Death Danube Death of Autumn, The Delirium Dia de los Muertos 2007 Dragon's Bone Dragon's Heart X Dragon's Musk X East, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa ! Endymion Eos ! Ephemera Erato Ether Euphrosyne Event Horizon Fairy Market ! Fallen Forbidden Fruit French Love X Glasgow Hades Haunted Harvest Moon Helena Her Voice Hetairae Hemlock Highwayman Hollywood Babylon X Horn of Plenty Hurricane Hymn ! Hymn to Proserpine Intrigue Jailbait X Jasmine Cottage Jolasveinar Kitsune-Tsuki Kostnice Lady Una Languor Leanan Sidhe ! Les Fleurs du Mal Libertine Lilium Inter Spinas ! Lilith Long Night Moon ! Loralei Love-In-Idleness ! Loviatar Lucy's Kiss Luna The Lurid Library Lust Lysander Mad Sweeney Magdalene Mag Mell Malediction Mama-Ji Mandrake Mania Masquerade Mata Hari Medea ! Melancholia Melisande, the Puppet Mistress ! Midnight Kiss Midnight on the Midway ! Midwinter's Eve Miskatonic University Mistletoe Mme. Moriarty Claw Polish Mr. Ibis Moon Rose Morgause Morocco Moscow Nanshe Namaste Neo-Tokyo Netzach Nephilim Nero Niflheim Nuit O Oberon October 2007 Old Scratch Opium Poppy Ostara Oya Ozymandias Pannychis Paris Parlement of Foules 2008 ! The Passionate Shepherd to his Love ! Pele Penitent Magdalen, The Penthus Pepper Persephone Perversion X Phantasm Phantom Queen ! Pontarlier Prague ! Pulcinella & Teresina Queen Gertrude Queen Mab Ra Rapture Raven, The Red Devil Robin Goodfellow Rose Red 2005, 2007 ! Rose Red Soap Salome Scarecrow Scherezade Schrodinger's Cat Sea of Tranquility Seance Sed NonSatiata Selkie ! Seraphim Shadow Witch Orchid ! Shattered Shroud Silk Road Sin Singing Moon Siren Sloth Snake Oil ! Sol Invictus Storm Supportive Sun Suspiro Swan Maiden Szepasszony Tamora Tempest Terrae Massage Oil Tenohtitlan Thaleia Thirteen (4/13/07) Tiger Lily Tiki Queen Titania Tombstone Tweedledee Tzadikim Nistarim Ulalume Umbra Unicorn, The ! Villain Vinland Viola Voodoo Lily War (Good Omens) X White Light (TAL) ! White Moon ! White Phoenix White Rabbit Wicked ! Wilde Wolfsbane Wrath Yggdrasil Yvain 51 ---------------- ! : loved X : hated

bryghtrose

April 6, 2007

Squash Soup

Order musings

Skip this, it's just me musing about my next order. Since it's spring and almost summer, I'd like to get a few new GC scents that I've been noting as good spring scents. I'm definitely getting; MB: Ventriliquist Dummy MB: Bloody Mary MB: Tokyo Stomp .....and I might get a couple of the Dogs Playing Poker scents; Riding the Goat is really peaking my interest and one other whispered to me the other day but I can't remember which one. I'm wearing Bordello today and really loving how fresh and sweet it is so I might order a 5ml of that for the season. I need one more springy scent so I'll have to decide between getting something like Amsterdam (light florals) or Manhatttan (modern and sleek) or maybe even Empyreal Mist (very green and fresh). I also really want a 5ml of St. Theresa in Ecstasy but I'm not sure if I should wait until later or not. I have a few things that I need to sell on ebay to boost my paypal balance a bit. I'm getting my tax return in a few days but I really need most of it to pay off bills. I'm thinking I should only use about $200 of it on teh smellies. I'm a bad girl because I just ordered a couple of Villainess soaps too and I still am working on my Snake Oil soap and I have one Kumiho to use! Now I'm going to go haunt the Retail Therapy section in hopes that I can find some really good body lotion....preferrably unscented....because my skin has been so dry lately.

jessiesquash

April 5, 2007

Whiskers and Whispers

Birthday bloggings

From: http://www.paulsadowski.org/BirthDay.asp 5 April 1985 Your date of conception was on or about 13 July 1984 which was a Friday. You were born on a Friday under the astrological sign Aries. Your Life path number is 5. Life Path Compatibility: You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 5 & 7. You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 3 & 9. You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path number 8. You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 6, 11 & 22. The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2446160.5. The golden number for 1985 is 10. The epact number for 1985 is 8. The year 1985 was not a leap year. Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 2/20/1985 and ending 2/8/1986. You were born in the Chinese year of the Ox. Your Native American Zodiac sign is Hawk; your plant is Dandelion. You were born in the Egyptian month of Paony, the second month of the season of Shomu (Harvest). Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 14 Nisan 5745. Or if you were born after sundown then the date is 15 Nisan 5745. The Mayan Calendar long count date of your birthday is 12.18.11.15.16 which is 12 baktun 18 katun 11 tun 15 uinal 16 kin The Hijra (Islamic Calendar) date of your birth is Friday, 14 Rajab 1405 (1405-7-14). The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 7 April 1985. The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 14 April 1985. The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 20 February 1985. The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 26 May 1985. The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 2 June 1985. The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Monday, 16 September 1985. The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Saturday, 6 April 1985. The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 19 February 1985. As of 4/5/2007 7:03:40 AM EDT You are 22 years old. You are 264 months old. You are 1,148 weeks old. You are 8,035 days old. You are 192,847 hours old. You are 11,570,823 minutes old. You are 694,249,420 seconds old. Celebrities who share your birthday: Agnetha F„ltskog (1950) Colin Powell (1937) Frank Gorshin (1934) Roger Corman (1926) Gale Storm (1921) Gregory Peck (1916) Bette Davis (1908) Spencer Tracy (1900) Booker T. Washington (1856) Top songs of 1985 Say You, Say Me by Lionel Richie We Are The World by USA for Africa Careless Whisper by Wham! Can't Fight This Feeling by REO Speedwagon Money for Nothing by Dire Straits Shout by Tears for Fears Broken Wings by Mr. Mister I Want to Know What Love Is by Foreigner The Power of Love by Huey Lewis & the News Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 3.14481409001957 years old. (Life's just a big chewy bone for you!) There are 366 days till your next birthday on which your cake will have 23 candles. Those 23 candles produce 23 BTUs, or 5,796 calories of heat (that's only 5.7960 food Calories!) . You can boil 2.63 US ounces of water with that many candles. In 1985 there were approximately 3.7 million births in the US. In 1985 the US population was approximately 226,545,805 people, 64.0 persons per square mile. In 1985 in the US there were 2,425,000 marriages (10.2%) and 1,187,000 divorces (5%) In 1985 in the US there were approximately 1,990,000 deaths (8.8 per 1000) In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds. In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds. In 1985 the population of Australia was approximately 15,900,566. In 1985 there were approximately 247,348 births in Australia. In 1985 in Australia there were approximately 115,493 marriages and 39,830 divorces. In 1985 in Australia there were approximately 118,808 deaths. Your birthstone is Diamond The Mystical properties of Diamond Diamonds are said to increase personal clarity to help one see things clearly as well as be straight-forward and honest. Supposedly, the higher quality the diamond, the better it is supports these qualities. Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources) Opal, Quartz, White Sapphire Your birth tree is Rowan, the Sensitivity Full of charm, cheerful, gifted, without egoism, likes to draw attention, loves life, motion, unrest and even complications, is both dependent and independent, good taste, artistic, passionate, emotional, good company, does not forgive. There are 264 days till Christmas 2007! There are 277 days till Orthodox Christmas! The moon's phase on the day you were born was full.

PurringPulsar

April 5, 2007

I smell glorious

I feel gross

and so you know what I did? I went upstairs, put my wrist to my bottle of Shub, and upended the thing. Then I proceeded to smear the resulting puddle of lemonginger goodness all over my forearms, my neck, my temples and the extra got rubbed onto my hips. That is the first time I have /ever/ upended a bottle onto my skin -- I almost alllways take from the cap, and not more than one little droplet. I smell like ginger. The whole HOUSE smells like ginger. and you know what? I totally do not care. It is just /that bad/ of a day. Now I'm going to drink some tea and watch House MD until I run out of episodes. House's snarkitude will make everything better (if that man wore BPAL, he would wear Shub. I know it).

myoubi

April 5, 2007

Ahania's Blog

I'm doing the cookie dance!

I just found a recipe for vegan chocolate chip cookies that doesn't call for margarine! It's exciting is that I have yet to find an unsalted vegan margarine that doesn't have death fat in it, and when I bake with the salted stuff it always ends up gross. Now I have some inspiration to get over this death flu and unpack until I find my cookie sheets!

Ahania

April 4, 2007

Birdsongs

Weird

I forgot my ex-boyfriend's birthday was the 3rd. Now I feel oddly guilty ... We had friendly conversations over the weekend, then he got angry Monday over an issue with the other roommate (he was trying to put me in the middle of their dispute again, and I was thinking how much I don't miss feeling like I have to put up with his emotional manipulation). So yesterday we exchanged irritable messages, and I didn't say happy birthday or anything - because I totally forgot until 2 am the next day ... I know it makes no sense to feel guilty. But it kind of points out how much things have changed in an uncomfortable way. Anyway, I've been feeling good this week. All ready for my fresh start - my card of the day the other day was The Fool. Exciting beginnings! Spring is the perfect time for that (although it feels like it's practically over already. 80 degrees today - bleah).

spanishviolet

April 4, 2007

Golb? Blog? Bolg?

whatever.

Well, life goes on. I'm standing still and the world keeps passing me by at a quickening pace. I have had that feeling for so many years now, and I have had enough of it. For a couple of months now a new feeling has started to grow; that it's time for me to move on. It's time for change. It's kind of a good feeling and I'm terrified that the determination and hope I've felt will fade away. I'm tired of crying over something that was probably just a hopeless, silly dream anyway. I'm tired of feeling left out from life the good stuff in life. Not that my life is really that bad - it really isn't, but I guess it's easy to focus on the stuff that's missing in our lives, especially when it's big, important stuff like love. It's spring, finally. I have very mixed feelings about spring, because it's a time of change and time seems to speed up a notch during these months. The blackbirds has started to sing at dusk when I'm on my way home from work. It's the most beautiful and melancholic sound in the whole world. Pondering whether I should make an order for Milk Moon or not. I probably will. Thank god(ess/whatever) for BPAL. ...and a little rant: my body chemistry has acted weird for a couple of days - none of my smellies smells like they use to! I miss the way they use to smell on me. Hope it changes back soon.

Maia

April 3, 2007

Is Anybody Out There?

First day back

I'm sure you'll all be relieved to know that there was no drama today, save me losing my schedule and finding it shortly thereafter. I'm kind of afraid. I sort of like all of my classes and feel comfortable- they're not necessarily going to be particularly "fun", but that's okay. I tentatively like my instructors. I think I may keep this schedule. Yeah, that's all.

smallvoice

April 2, 2007

Diplomatka