I have decided that the shape of the hotel-supplied cereal bowls here is a contributing factor to my malaise. They're less bowls than they are plates with a gentle slope towards a wide and shallow central depression, which is stupid in two ways. No, three. 1) It's much easier to spill things when you're carrying them in a bowl of this ( Read more... )

Expenses so far for my planned knockoff of LUSH's Marilyn hair lightener/moisturizer ( Read more... )

Right, it's been way too long since I bored you all with my perfume-related escapades. And I'm hopped up on 8oz of strawberry-flavored white tea, and caffeine makes me babble, and I don't want to babble about anything important because I'm in a bad mood and will end up saying a lot of things I regret, so ( I BORE YOU NOW. )

Anyone who is not interested in hair care, or interested in hair care but in a hurry, should know that this entry is basically one long rave for Lush's solid shampoo bar Karma Komba. Feel free to move along to your next pressing appointment.

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When I said I couldn't really talk about it, "it" was something like this: I was sitting there half listening to the pastor's sermon, which was about reaching out to others in love and clasping their hands and the hands being the hands of Jesus, and half thinking my own thoughts, which were about how I got to make the hardest, craziest decisions ( Read more... )

I'm in a good mood now because I just spent two hours reading Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris aloud to my mother, and it's one of the best books I've encountered lately, and I feel I've discovered a friend and kindred spirit in the author, and reading aloud is one of my favorite activities. Jeremy won't let me do it to him because he, like me, has no ( Read more... )

So that order I placed with Skindazzles last night? I just got an e-mail from the woman who runs it.

Hi Savannah! Thank you very much for your website order. I’ll have this shipped out to you within 3-4 business days and will send you an email to confirm shipment. Have a great week!
Candy

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is effective customer ( Read more... )