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Hey,

So I've been posting a lot about my Sweetie lately (okay, since August. But still).

I am now going to post a little about me (and, admittedly, vast ammounts of materialism. Just deal with that, if you will. ;-)

So. The original plan for yesterday (had there been no bus-strike) was to have Seanchaidh over for an evening of fun and chatter.
Sadly, bus-strike made that impossible (or at least impossible without the addition of vast and unneccessary (and potentially unavailable) ammounts of cab-fare).

So here's me thinking: Dammit! That's two social evenings ruined -- in a ROW, no less -- due to this damn city! :-P

So, imagine my delight when I get a call, around 1pm, from Miz Arndis, asking me to drop by her place (just a quick trudge-through-the-deep-snow away ;-) for an afternoon of chatter and tea.

I brought my Spiffy New Shoes to show off (and, er, practice walking in - although I was mostly sitting on a kitchen chair), and she gave me my birthday+xmas present!

Which is, in fact, the subject of this post. :-D


She and Tchang got me a box of massage-bar ingredients! :-D

So I have a big bag of Shea butter, and big bag of (delicious-smelling!) Cocoa butter, and a big bottle of "Wild Heart" essential-oil blend (anise, cinamon, cloves, and some other stuff -- it's definitely essential oil: I put some on as a perfume and it did, indeed, leave a little (painless) chemical burn on the very surface of my skin. Definitely something to be diluted with other oils.

Anyway. What this means is that I can make Bath Stuff for my family's DIY xmas presents this year -- I was already planning on doing Body Scrub Mix (sort of like those layered jars of cookie-ingedients that come with a note saying "add the following Wet Stuff, mix and bake"?), but I wasn't sure what to do for the guys.
So I think the two of them (and possibly my sister) will be getting Wild Heart scented massage bars/butters made from the above plus some coconut oil and a little bit of something liquid (like maybe a teaspoon of soybean oil or something).


To that end, today will be spent (after dishes) doing kitchen experiments involving scrubs and butters (and making macadamia-nut chocolates, too, I think).

EDIT: Dishes are done. First experimental massage bar (possibly to be tested on CSI_Tokyo this evening) is cooling in my fridge. Which I hope is the right way to do it. ;-) (E.G.: I'm hoping the stuff doesn't separate on me -- though, if it does, it will be easier to re-melt into its component parts. ;-)

I need to give my cookie-sheet a good scrub, and then I'll make (more) pumpkin-seed candy and a batch of macadamia-nut as well. :-)

Body-scrub mix first, though, I think. :-)
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Must badger temp agencies again. :-)


- TTFN,
- Amazon.

It's snowing!

So the heat is now turned on. Sub-zero temperatures are definitely call to up the thermostat in my books. :-)

Today, I get to go to a hair-dying party.
I am not, however, dying my hair. I'd love to do burgundy or red wine as a hair colour, but any dye-job I do at home is still going to cost me a good $40 just because of all the dye I'd need to purchase.
So. Since I'm not *totally* sure that even a 'covers 100% of grey' dye, like Garnier, wouldn't end up (for some wierd reason) freakishly purple or something on my head (not, I hasten to point out, that I have a problem with purple hair, or purple in general, but not when I'm working retail and/or temporary office jobs, thanks very much), I'm very, very leary of getting all that dye (or even one bottle thereof) just to find out that it doesn't work on me.

Theone time I ever dyed my hair, I bought copper dye, due to over-estimating the shade of my own natural hair colour. I wanted deep red -- like Mahogany, or something -- and what I ended up with was, well, copper. A lovely, lovely colour, but completely wrong for my skin-tone.

Now, burgundy would be fine for my skin-tone, I trust. (Haha. I trust. That's funny...) But: I still don't want to spend $40 on hair dye. Nor do I want to be touching up my roots for the next fourty years.
So...

Now, I could get one bottle of, say, that garnier-nutrisse stuff that you use like shampoo. Add an old hair brush, and just brush it through the way I'd do with a conditioner, and see how much coverage I actually got. Not that much, I suspect, but some. :-) It would, in theory, fade significantly after 25 washes (or so the young lady at the pharmacy informed me) -- which would allow me to experiment without having to commit to re-touching my roots until I decided to shave my own head. (Hahaha...)

One Day, I may do it. But not today. :-)

Instead: I got cheap thrills from the drug store: A body lotion that smells like vanilla, and a body-wash/bubble-bath/'shampoo' (although not necessarily a very good one) that smells like chocolate.
Mmmmmmmmmm... :-) I look forward to using them. :-) I love foody smells. :-)

Anyway. That's been my big deal for the day.


Yesterday was Paul's convocation. So I am now married to Doctor Raven. :-D
We went for dinner with his family at The Lindenhoff restaurant. I had the chicken-peppercorn with Spaetzels. Although I was eyeing the venison platter which, apparently,w as quite tastey.

They do good apple fritters. :-)

And the new owner is called Allison, and used to waitress there back when she was fifteen. She knows all the regulars by name, and everything.
The accordion player's name is Larry, and he knows my old Music History teacher, Laurie (who also plays accordion, which is why I asked) . :-)

So that was nifty. :-)

I am enjoying (again) a humourous and common-sensical book called The Three-Martini Play date. It's quite a lot of fun. An excerpt:

"I am really just trying to give you a head start, to make sure you have some sort of a life to fall back on when [your children don't Need You anymore].
And when that day arrives, you will need friends, and a proper social life, and perhaps a hobby, and you will not have these things if you have spent the last seventeen years alienating your friends and neglecting your social life..."

I really like this book. :-)

I recently purchased: "The Madame", a novel about a hosery-factory worker who opens a brothel, and "Spiritual Mentoring", because it sounded interesting, even if it is written by Judy Harrow.

I've started a new (non-fairy-tale-based) piece of short erotica. It's a little wierd. But, then, what of my stuff isn't at least a *little* wierd. :-) It's about a librarian and an English teacher, and their mutual love of books. And you can pretty much take that in every possible way. :-)

I'll post it when it's done. :-)

- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)