Scents

I just placed another order with The Morbid The Merrier, my go-to for perfume.

When I was younger (say, about a year ago) I would say that I wouldn't be an adult until I wore my own perfume and owned pearls.

Both of those things have come to pass, though I never wear the pearls because they look awful on me without a LBD, so there you go.

When I was in the states for Christmas, I had ordered two bottles of my favorite oils from my sample set. Then, I left them in the states on accident.

This time, I ordered the following: (all images taken from The Morbid The Merrier Etsy shop)

The LUST Trio - Set of all 3 Valentine's Day Scents

Histoire du Professeur - leather arm chair, starched white cotton shirt, dusty books, a memory of sweet pipe smoke and a faint whiff of brandy kept hidden in a desk drawer.
**(I'm most excited for this one)


Histoire du Secretaire - mile-high leather pumps, skin tight wool pencil skirt, stacks of filing paper, steaming black coffee, a mahogany desk and a hint of musky perfume.


Histoire des Amoureaux - A little Eden, a little de Sade. leather, juicy red apple, a serpent slither of pepper and spice, green grass, and sweat.

Tupping liberty, I cannot wait for these. If there are two things I like, it's books and sex. I like other stuff too, of course. But really.

Can't say I'm all that excited about the label design. I do like the Secretaire one, it reminds me well of the Pulp novel covers that my dad likes (he's got a calendar, several framed prints, etc). They all seem alright in their own way, I guess I was hoping for some design unification across the set. Well, it is the scent that matters after all.

ABSINTHE Gift Set - Perfume Oil and Solid Perfume

My original absinthe perfume. Notes of anise, citrus, a tiny bit of sugar, and a hint of wood. This fragrance is heady, but delicate - powerful, yet ethereal. Definitely absinthe, but you won't smell like a licorice whip. Perfect for men or women.

Originally I was just going to get the solid perfume because I haven't tried it yet, but then I saw the gift set. With a nice combo price like that, how could I say no? It comes as good timing, as my Haus of Gloi Absinthe sugar scrub has just run out, and HoG options aren't making me feel all that excited at the moment.
Absinthe isn't really my favorite scent, but it is attractive.

And finally...

ORGAN GRINDER - Perfume Oil

Spicy, dark, and seductive. A heavy base of tobacco, smoke, pepper and wood, rounded out by just a touch of sweet. A deep, masculine scent - to be worn only by the ones our mothers warned us about.

I was sold by the description. When my sample arrived, I nearly keeled over by my love for this scent. When I smell certain scents, I want to follow them to their source and smell them forever, across parks or sidewalks or crowded rooms. This is absolutely one of those scents (the others are secret).

Now to wait impatiently for the post.

Product

In my hair after a shower, I use this oil.


Jojoba oil.


It's seriously the best. My hair is so nice and soft!

And it's getting longer... very gradually. But it's growing!

Believe

1. Plaza Lights 1, 2. Architect of Swirling Winds, 3. Dorothy and the Tornado

Oh boy oh man

It was a long and weird day. By the time I got to the end, no, to the middle part (around 4 pm) the beginning (4 am) felt like it was miles and miles away... happening in another day. So weird. Very tired.

At school I got all excited about studying (when I wasn't asleep on my desk) and about traveling... fly to Frankfurt! Fly to London! Then I listened to (half of) a great podcast about traveling the world like an international playgirl (getting sweet deals, seeing great places, and being completely marvelous about it) and got all inspired.
Well, more inspired than usual.
I also re-listened to a good podcast about making magic and manifesting. Oooo. My favorite blogger had something similar to say on the subject.

Being showered with blessings by the universe is fun and exciting, and it happens to me regularly, but when you feel a bit melancholy (as I do now) you risk attracting melancholy and lonesome things, instead of exciting and interesting things.

So that's what I believe, anyway.

Miss

Tonight when I went to eikaiwa
my old teacher was there
Little Miss Seaweed

Oh my goodness, I can't believe how much I missed her!!
She's this amazing person. So strange for a Japanese person. But I'm strange too so I think she's wonderful and normal.
With this great smile, and and always laughing and making strange noises. Telling weird stories and making jokes.


She has been in Germany this past... year and a half.
When I first came to Japan she sat next to me, and we talked and laughed and drank tea and ate sweets together.
Hopefully she will come back, to Japan, and to the same school, and sit next to me again. Actually talking with her tonight made me sad that I'm leaving.....IN A YEAR. WHAT.

But it would be a nice sort of circle to my time here.

Frown

BLARGH life got really lame all of a sudden >:( I've been feeling really crappy and lonely lately -- this past week at work was sort of heel-dragging and dull. I read a lot of Anna Karenina because I had so much time. But the book is electronic, so I can't see how many pages are left. WHEN WILL IT END ALREADY??

Anyway I thought Friday would be good because I could go to the Education Center to help put together the Summer edition of our "book full of suggestions about how to teach the children". Overall it was an OK time, but maybe my expectations were too high or something, because I was in a crappy mood the whole time... my main homey Dianne wasn't there, and I was the only person who brought a lunch, so I wound up sitting in the collating room by myself for lunch... until, thank god, Boss Victor showed up and talked with me and shared in my cucumber and cake. I'm thankful for that.

I blame the previous week , hormones, and the fact that I'm not really so tight with the folks there. It was like being alone in a crowd, like at work, except it was with English-speaking people, which somehow makes it much much worse.


Today dawned windy, and I was all optimistic. I had a friend coming in to enjoy a music concert with me, and we would drink some coffee and gossip happily and I could just put all this negative feeling behind me and all would be well. Optimistic (or more accurately, in a slightly better mood) I got many things accomplished this morning, and came home to do some housework and get ready for the afternoon evening.

And she cancelled on me -- or rather, was going to a different music concert with different people, and basically expected me to rework my plans and join up with them, instead of the other way around. Not to be a bitch, but I think I rearrange my life a lot for folks, and this was just... well... I can hardly justify this, I guess. We make plans, according to wisdom, with the expectation that they won't come to pass. This is typical. So I shouldn't be disappointed. I shouldn't be so angry that the only human interaction I've had today was with shop keepers. I should have gone out and made my own interactions. Damn her, it's a big pile of camels back straws and I don't even feel I have the right to get all shouty about it. I want to shout SO BAD.

Grr grr grr


It's so weird because it was actually a good day, and I got something nice done, and I'm technically happy with it, and the weather is great... but if it's all so good, why do I feel so lousy?

Deep

Hm new template designer. I don't know about that. But I'll probably have to try it out anyway.





1. Cookie Splash V.1, 2. Cookie splash! v6, 3. Cookie Splash II, 4. coffee splash


Like the Chinese fortune cookie paper on my wall says, "You tend to have deeper thoughts than you are able to express to others". It reminds me of why I was such a lousy student of philosophy. I could see both sides of the argument, and was never able to articulate myself. I couldn't stick to my guns because I didn't have a gun to stick to. And if I ever got passionate or felt injustice or worked out how the other guy was in the wrong, by the time I got around to figuring out how to express it, I had already seen the other side of the argument and decided it wasn't worth the fight.

Stupid Chinese fortune cookie! Sometimes I wish I was simple-minded.

Dark dark dark

This is not so serious... Serious stuff is over here.

But today had some non-serious points as well.

For example, someone asked me today what "Irresitiblement" meant.
(by Sylvie Vartan) but that's not the version I know. Actually, I'm listening to that version now, and I hate it. I like it by The Eccentric Opera.

They do it better. So there.

Um

actually

it's really weird to try and listen with the loud Awa Odori drums in the background.
Get out of my park!
It's as bad as the stupid black dog who barks EVERY DAMN MORNING at 5:30 while his owner chats with other dog owners at the foot of the footbridge. I hate that dog. I want him to shut up. I want his owner to sleep in and not take him out where he can bother people. People who are sleeping. Like me. I want him to fall in love with one of the other dogs so that he is too busy sniffing that dog's butt to bark.

I really like this song lately:



and the chorus tune in this one:



now you're a ghost!