• Loose leaf rose tea. I just bought two ounces of it at an imports store in Pittsburgh -- it's black tea with rose petals and a couple of other ingredients that were on the big cannister but are not on the label, phooey. At any rate, it is delightful and I feel as though I am in a fairy tale when I drink it. (I love rose flavour -- it tastes exactly ( Read more... )

I am feeling a bit blecchy at the moment -- sort of dull grey (not a nice mossy-stone grey, but a dour, mildewy grey -- though not quite so melodramatic), but I have realised of late how little I have been posting and this saddens me. I mean, there's you guys, and also I do like to have records of things, even if the things are just the ( Read more... )

Meme! Tagged by vega_ofthe_lyre.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too ( Read more... )

One does rather enjoy a lovely day once in a while. They probably ought to be kept on hand, in jars or folded up carefully in linen, to be taken out and worn close to one's breast on the days the sun doesn't come out.

So yes -- after a Thursday that beheld shenanigans at the city park and our very dull local Red Cross Fair (we were very suspicious ( Read more... )

I have medication. I am beyond relieved about this -- I can go to Merlefest and relax and not have ridiculous mild panic attacks and fits of lethargy and maybe over the next week I can teach my body to sleep normally again. Of course, said medication arrived late, was not at the pharmacy when the doctors told me it would be, and then I left my ( Read more... )

Every night I settle down for sleep, and it thunders over me like cold water: tomorrow I could wake up, and the post could come, and there will be a letter. And it will tell me that I haven't got into any colleges.

Or possibly they will just forget all about me, or I did something wrong, and I won't get a letter at all. Ever. Statistically it is ( Read more... )

It is very chilly and slushy and grey but I have got Earl Grey and hats so things are mostly rather nice. Also I love the feeling one has after a very hot shower -- sort of cosy and soft and almost -- sore with comfort? I found myself delightedly thanking God for letting me be born into an era in which one can take long, scalding showers and needn' ( Read more... )

Oh, I do like Saturdays. I have been feeling very low the last... a while... but today somehow felt better -- I have a little money in my bank account again (which means that the whole ridiculous tangled nightmare with trying to get my bank account set up, my PayPal account to connect to it, and my money to actually go into the correct bank account ( Read more... )

The super fantastic barefoottomboy (who sent me a microphone which I have spent much of this afternoon testing out, as can be evidenced over on come_all_ye) suggested that I take pictures of some of my favourite things. I changed the prompt around a little to fifteen pictures of things that make me happy, and I now foist them upon you unsuspecting lot. (I have also done ( Read more... )

While I am still feeling somewhat at odds, the last couple of days have been rather lovely. Yesterday I went shopping, for the first time in months. I bought quite a lot of pretty things, all on sale, and almost entirely things I at least sort of needed. I have a new pair of trousers at last! And they are bright red. (Also: warm orange fingerless ( Read more... )