Tarzan and Jane were swingin' on a vine, sippin' on a bottle of vodka-double wine.
Did you know, the #1 song on my birthday was "Maneater" by Hall & Oates? Foreshadowing much?
Oh, HBO starts filming A Song of Ice and Fire in October!!! Sweet bloody George R.R. Martin comes to life. Now, if they can do THAT series, they can damn well do Kusheline books, amirite?!
I found rotted Popsicles in my fridge last night. How do Popsicles actually ROT? Please to be explaining.
OMG a spider almost landed on my head, sitting here at my desk. THERE IS NO PLACE THAT IS SAFE from those little creepy buggers. My coworker says they are natural and healthy, but I don't believe her. DO I LOOK LIKE MISS FREAKING MUFFETT to you!?!
I may have found an additional source of revenue - selling sex toys! Yes, I am considering becoming a Passions Party consultant. Like 90% sure. Would you buy your sex toys from me??
New BPAL order arrived last week! I have like 40 imps now, and 4 large bottles. :)
Antikythera Mechanism
Bronze gears spin inside a polished wooden case, and an entire universe dances within. Teakwood, oak, black vanilla, and tobacco.
LOVE this one! Glad splurged on a large bottle, sight unseen (unsmelled?)
Eos
The Rising Sun. She is Ostara, Easter, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of fertility and the dawn. She is a protector and friend to all children. Her scent is that of softly glowing skin, jasmine, buttercup and honeysuckle.
Glasgow
The rich scent of wild blackberry breezing over gentle rosy heather.
Wearing this today, actually. Quite nice :) Floral without being frou-frou.
Undertow
The Dark Side of Water: clean and purifying, yet menacing -- lotus and juniper with a hint of mint. A scent dragged up from the depths to the Stygian shore
Black Pearl
Evocative of the sea's unplumbed mysteries. Gentle and lovely, but menacing and profound. Coconut, Florentine iris, hazelnut and opalescent white musk.
Really enjoy this one as well. Soft, but not powdery.
Fenris Wolf
The raw, untamable power of chaos. Rosewood, amber, red musk and a dribble of red sandalwood.
Whip
Agony and ecstasy: black leather and damp red rose.
Smells like potpourri, but less old-ladyish than my London perfume.
Frimps (a random set of bonus imps sent along by the nice people at BPAL)
Kumari Kandam
The hollow scent of a vast antediluvian civilization, now frozen and buried, smothered by a thick sheet of ice and trapped deep beneath the ocean. Thick incense, clay, stone, and hothouse blooms with a spike of frost, a hint of decay, and heavy, dolorous aquatic notes.
Eris
Goddess of Strife and Discord, constant companion and sometime consort to Ares. She is a fickle, chaotic Goddess of Bedlam whose greatest passion is the sowing of dissention and turmoil. A suitably disjointed scent, bursting with gleeful mayhem: wet fruits and sharp mimosa with Martial spices and a deceptive flash of floral.
Alecto
From the Sin and Salvation collection, in the Kindly Ones subcategory:
Olive leaf, raspberry leaf, vetiver and cedarwood.
Aeval
A raven-haired Fairy Queen of Ireland. One of her eternal duties dictates that she must hold a midnight court every season and hear the pleas of married Irishwomen. The court serves only to determine whether or not husbands are adequately serving their wife's sexual needs. A judicious yet powerfully sensual blend, a mingling of justice and sexuality: sage, sweet pea, bold pale musk and warm tonka.
The Miller's Daughter
There was once a miller who was very poor, but he had a beautiful daughter. Now, it happened that he came to speak to the king, and, to give himself importance, he said to him, “I have a daughter who can spin straw into gold.”
The king said to the miller, “That is a talent that pleases me well; if she be as skilful as you say, bring her to-morrow to the palace, and I will put her to the proof.”
When the maiden was brought to him, he led her to a room full of straw, gave her a wheel and spindle, and said, “Now set to work, and if by the morrow this straw be not spun into gold, you shall die.” He locked the door, and left the maiden alone.
Spun gold, tear-soaked straw, and rose-infused amber.
Les Fleurs de Mal
The scents of the blossoms of darkness, condensed into one perfume. Features a rose base, softened with lilac and wisteria.
The one that Gretchen and I both agreed we flat-out hated was The Highwayman - it TASTED like soap. No, I didn't lick the perfume, but when I sniffed it on myself, I tasted soap at the back of my throat. UGH.
A brace of loaded pistols
He carried night and day;
He never robbed a poor man
Upon the king's highway;
But what he'd taken from the rich,
Like Turpin and Black Bess,
He always did divide it
With the widow in distress.
Stand and deliver! Vetiver with gardenia, blood red rose, night-blooming jasmine, a dash of cinnamon and a faint hint of leather.
Yeah, that one is going to join Black Tower (the long-dead soldiers one), Love-Lies-Bleeding, and Dragon's Blood in the "To Trade Away" pile.
Water Taxi = Seattle Tourist
So I'm over 2 weeks late on this post, but I have pictures from the first day of the Water Taxi (April 5th), when I grabbed it (or rather, waited in line a lot) to go downtown for a haircut. First gorgeous of the year, really, and apparently over 3,000 other people thought so too! I don't think lines are normally that long, but as it was my first time taking it, I'm no judge.
I do, however, think I got some smashing pictures of the day!
Caught the free(!) shuttle down to the dock.
Seacrest Marina Park
I believe I promised eriksdb to go sunset-kayaking with him and Shelley and Shawn sometime. I took this to remind myself of that promise from last year!
Oh gods, this food smelled soooo good. I was so good and restrained myself from getting greasy fried goodness... but I think I lost part of my soul in the struggle!
They also had Squid Jigs! I don't know what those are, but I'm on board to try them!
I dare someone to lol-caption this one!
Yay ferry!
Views of Seattle and the area.
Mount Rainier
Arriving at downtown, starting at the piers.
The Smith Tower - one of the oldest buildings in Seattle (McK does work there :P), and for many years was the tallest building west of the Mississippi. Now the pyramid at the top is a residence, and the ball at the top is changed from blue to green during December.
Safeco and Qwest fields. There was a guy next to me on the ferry who was pointing out landmarks to his out-of-town lady friend, and he told her that he thinks of the fields as "the King and Queen of the Emerald City," since they look like they are wearing crowns. And the Smith tower is their scepter. An interesting thought...
So would the building on the right be the royal deodorant?
Union Station and various other interesting buildings, including 505 Union where Paul Allen works. We do work at those places, too.
I do have SOME patriotic pride.
The Olympic Mountain range.
Random mural on the side of a building.
Pillars of our world. We are, after all, a port city.
International flavor.
Top of a lightpost.
It was a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon. :)
We Didn't Start the Fire...Okay, We Totally Did
I snapped some pictures from Fire Dancing rehearsal last night!
This is Sam, who is really amazing with the fiery chains, spinning a Mayan Wheel.
Lighting Up
Chaos Theory!
Forward spins in unison.
Weaving in a Line.
The two girls in front are doing Weaves, and Sam at the back is doing a Mahasamba.
Bonus Picture
A tower of my new books from the Seattle Library Book Sale on Saturday:
And what books are contained within, prithee? Look into my crystal ball...
Fiction:
Snow White, Blood Red - Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (collection of fairy-tales for adults)
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (classic gothic horror, I think)
Vanity Fair - William Thackery (classic)
Imperial Woman - Pearl S. Buck (Chinese, current book club choice)
London After Midnight - Peter Haining, ed. (short stories of London's criminals. Bring on Jack the Ripper!)
The Wayfarer Redemption, Book One: Battleaxe - Sara Douglass (fantasy along the David Eddings line of writing. BONUS: This is an Advance Reading Copy!)
The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga Book 1 - Edward Rutherfurd (epic Irish historical fiction)
The Book of Eleanor: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine - Pamela Kaufman (historical fiction about one of my favorite women)
The Oracle Glass: A Novel of Seventeenth-Century Paris - Judith Merkle Riley (highly recommended by Gretchen, there are witches!)
Zorro - Isabel Allende (the masked man himself!)
World Without End - Ken Follett (the sequel to "Pillars of the Earth")
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (excellent book, and I got a hardback! Needs glue though, a couple of sections are falling out, did not notice at the time)
The Floating Book: A Novel of Venice - Michelle Lovric (just looked interesting)
Pompeii - Robert Harris (Roman historical fiction)
Nonfiction:
The Making of Victorian Sexuality - Michael Mason
Unauthorized Sexual Behaviour during the Enlightenment - Robert P. Maccubbin, ed.
Elemental Power - Amber Wolfe
We did not see the usual 8 boxes of The Da Vinci Code, and we were somewhat surprised that the Twilight books weren't being given away, either. Shocking!
Some things are in the works that just might make this LOLcat particularly accurate. I should take to an interview, y/n?
see more Lolcats and funny pictures
Spontaneous song & dance to Sound of Music in a Train Station? Happens more often than you might think!
Now back to your regularly scheduled Wednesday!
Oh, HBO starts filming A Song of Ice and Fire in October!!! Sweet bloody George R.R. Martin comes to life. Now, if they can do THAT series, they can damn well do Kusheline books, amirite?!
I found rotted Popsicles in my fridge last night. How do Popsicles actually ROT? Please to be explaining.
OMG a spider almost landed on my head, sitting here at my desk. THERE IS NO PLACE THAT IS SAFE from those little creepy buggers. My coworker says they are natural and healthy, but I don't believe her. DO I LOOK LIKE MISS FREAKING MUFFETT to you!?!
I may have found an additional source of revenue - selling sex toys! Yes, I am considering becoming a Passions Party consultant. Like 90% sure. Would you buy your sex toys from me??
New BPAL order arrived last week! I have like 40 imps now, and 4 large bottles. :)
Antikythera Mechanism
Bronze gears spin inside a polished wooden case, and an entire universe dances within. Teakwood, oak, black vanilla, and tobacco.
LOVE this one! Glad splurged on a large bottle, sight unseen (unsmelled?)
Eos
The Rising Sun. She is Ostara, Easter, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of fertility and the dawn. She is a protector and friend to all children. Her scent is that of softly glowing skin, jasmine, buttercup and honeysuckle.
Glasgow
The rich scent of wild blackberry breezing over gentle rosy heather.
Wearing this today, actually. Quite nice :) Floral without being frou-frou.
Undertow
The Dark Side of Water: clean and purifying, yet menacing -- lotus and juniper with a hint of mint. A scent dragged up from the depths to the Stygian shore
Black Pearl
Evocative of the sea's unplumbed mysteries. Gentle and lovely, but menacing and profound. Coconut, Florentine iris, hazelnut and opalescent white musk.
Really enjoy this one as well. Soft, but not powdery.
Fenris Wolf
The raw, untamable power of chaos. Rosewood, amber, red musk and a dribble of red sandalwood.
Whip
Agony and ecstasy: black leather and damp red rose.
Smells like potpourri, but less old-ladyish than my London perfume.
Frimps (a random set of bonus imps sent along by the nice people at BPAL)
Kumari Kandam
The hollow scent of a vast antediluvian civilization, now frozen and buried, smothered by a thick sheet of ice and trapped deep beneath the ocean. Thick incense, clay, stone, and hothouse blooms with a spike of frost, a hint of decay, and heavy, dolorous aquatic notes.
Eris
Goddess of Strife and Discord, constant companion and sometime consort to Ares. She is a fickle, chaotic Goddess of Bedlam whose greatest passion is the sowing of dissention and turmoil. A suitably disjointed scent, bursting with gleeful mayhem: wet fruits and sharp mimosa with Martial spices and a deceptive flash of floral.
Alecto
From the Sin and Salvation collection, in the Kindly Ones subcategory:
Olive leaf, raspberry leaf, vetiver and cedarwood.
Aeval
A raven-haired Fairy Queen of Ireland. One of her eternal duties dictates that she must hold a midnight court every season and hear the pleas of married Irishwomen. The court serves only to determine whether or not husbands are adequately serving their wife's sexual needs. A judicious yet powerfully sensual blend, a mingling of justice and sexuality: sage, sweet pea, bold pale musk and warm tonka.
The Miller's Daughter
There was once a miller who was very poor, but he had a beautiful daughter. Now, it happened that he came to speak to the king, and, to give himself importance, he said to him, “I have a daughter who can spin straw into gold.”
The king said to the miller, “That is a talent that pleases me well; if she be as skilful as you say, bring her to-morrow to the palace, and I will put her to the proof.”
When the maiden was brought to him, he led her to a room full of straw, gave her a wheel and spindle, and said, “Now set to work, and if by the morrow this straw be not spun into gold, you shall die.” He locked the door, and left the maiden alone.
Spun gold, tear-soaked straw, and rose-infused amber.
Les Fleurs de Mal
The scents of the blossoms of darkness, condensed into one perfume. Features a rose base, softened with lilac and wisteria.
The one that Gretchen and I both agreed we flat-out hated was The Highwayman - it TASTED like soap. No, I didn't lick the perfume, but when I sniffed it on myself, I tasted soap at the back of my throat. UGH.
A brace of loaded pistols
He carried night and day;
He never robbed a poor man
Upon the king's highway;
But what he'd taken from the rich,
Like Turpin and Black Bess,
He always did divide it
With the widow in distress.
Stand and deliver! Vetiver with gardenia, blood red rose, night-blooming jasmine, a dash of cinnamon and a faint hint of leather.
Yeah, that one is going to join Black Tower (the long-dead soldiers one), Love-Lies-Bleeding, and Dragon's Blood in the "To Trade Away" pile.
Water Taxi = Seattle Tourist
So I'm over 2 weeks late on this post, but I have pictures from the first day of the Water Taxi (April 5th), when I grabbed it (or rather, waited in line a lot) to go downtown for a haircut. First gorgeous of the year, really, and apparently over 3,000 other people thought so too! I don't think lines are normally that long, but as it was my first time taking it, I'm no judge.
I do, however, think I got some smashing pictures of the day!
Caught the free(!) shuttle down to the dock.
Seacrest Marina Park
I believe I promised eriksdb to go sunset-kayaking with him and Shelley and Shawn sometime. I took this to remind myself of that promise from last year!
Oh gods, this food smelled soooo good. I was so good and restrained myself from getting greasy fried goodness... but I think I lost part of my soul in the struggle!
They also had Squid Jigs! I don't know what those are, but I'm on board to try them!
I dare someone to lol-caption this one!
Yay ferry!
Views of Seattle and the area.
Mount Rainier
Arriving at downtown, starting at the piers.
The Smith Tower - one of the oldest buildings in Seattle (McK does work there :P), and for many years was the tallest building west of the Mississippi. Now the pyramid at the top is a residence, and the ball at the top is changed from blue to green during December.
Safeco and Qwest fields. There was a guy next to me on the ferry who was pointing out landmarks to his out-of-town lady friend, and he told her that he thinks of the fields as "the King and Queen of the Emerald City," since they look like they are wearing crowns. And the Smith tower is their scepter. An interesting thought...
So would the building on the right be the royal deodorant?
Union Station and various other interesting buildings, including 505 Union where Paul Allen works. We do work at those places, too.
I do have SOME patriotic pride.
The Olympic Mountain range.
Random mural on the side of a building.
Pillars of our world. We are, after all, a port city.
International flavor.
Top of a lightpost.
It was a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon. :)
We Didn't Start the Fire...Okay, We Totally Did
I snapped some pictures from Fire Dancing rehearsal last night!
This is Sam, who is really amazing with the fiery chains, spinning a Mayan Wheel.
Lighting Up
Chaos Theory!
Forward spins in unison.
Weaving in a Line.
The two girls in front are doing Weaves, and Sam at the back is doing a Mahasamba.
Bonus Picture
A tower of my new books from the Seattle Library Book Sale on Saturday:
And what books are contained within, prithee? Look into my crystal ball...
Fiction:
Snow White, Blood Red - Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (collection of fairy-tales for adults)
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (classic gothic horror, I think)
Vanity Fair - William Thackery (classic)
Imperial Woman - Pearl S. Buck (Chinese, current book club choice)
London After Midnight - Peter Haining, ed. (short stories of London's criminals. Bring on Jack the Ripper!)
The Wayfarer Redemption, Book One: Battleaxe - Sara Douglass (fantasy along the David Eddings line of writing. BONUS: This is an Advance Reading Copy!)
The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga Book 1 - Edward Rutherfurd (epic Irish historical fiction)
The Book of Eleanor: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine - Pamela Kaufman (historical fiction about one of my favorite women)
The Oracle Glass: A Novel of Seventeenth-Century Paris - Judith Merkle Riley (highly recommended by Gretchen, there are witches!)
Zorro - Isabel Allende (the masked man himself!)
World Without End - Ken Follett (the sequel to "Pillars of the Earth")
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (excellent book, and I got a hardback! Needs glue though, a couple of sections are falling out, did not notice at the time)
The Floating Book: A Novel of Venice - Michelle Lovric (just looked interesting)
Pompeii - Robert Harris (Roman historical fiction)
Nonfiction:
The Making of Victorian Sexuality - Michael Mason
Unauthorized Sexual Behaviour during the Enlightenment - Robert P. Maccubbin, ed.
Elemental Power - Amber Wolfe
We did not see the usual 8 boxes of The Da Vinci Code, and we were somewhat surprised that the Twilight books weren't being given away, either. Shocking!
Some things are in the works that just might make this LOLcat particularly accurate. I should take to an interview, y/n?
see more Lolcats and funny pictures
Spontaneous song & dance to Sound of Music in a Train Station? Happens more often than you might think!
Click to viewNow back to your regularly scheduled Wednesday!