Now I can breathe again

[moonofwinds]

For the rest of the summer I promise my sinuses  I will take allergy meds and decongestants. Now can we get on to soaping? Yes? Beautiful. Soap planned for today is a smaller test batch to see how a new fragrance oil behaves. The scent is really quite nice. It is basil and lemon. It's very clean smelling. Provided it behaves, the colours will be

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[darksirocco]

How'd today's soap-making go, Lady Moon?

[moonofwinds]

It worked perfectly. Setting up in the mold at the moment. Project of the moment is sewing some cushions.

[darksirocco]

ccol!
oh, sew is fun. using machine, or handstitching?

[moonofwinds]

Machine. I loathe hand stitching and do it as little as possible.

[darksirocco]

*snerk* i'm far better off with hand stitching. i tend to kill any sewing machine i touch. needles have been known to shatter and the remnants grow WINGS. :(

[moonofwinds]

Lol. You stay away from Precious then. He is far to valuable to be corrupted.

[darksirocco]

*snickers* as you command...
omg, TELL me that's an LOTR ref! *squees thinking of golum, hugging a sewing machine in a far too creepy manner, catching 'lovely fish' for his Precious*
oh holy frag. *facepalms* one of our (not-quite)feral kittehs just ran in front of my chair, dragging his tail thru my cigarette... O.O
yah, he's fine. didn't do more than singe the fur. he's not a very bright kitteh... *shakes head*

[moonofwinds]

It is a LOTR ref. I don't let anyone touch this thing. It's a slightly more expensive machine and not readily replaceable given I do not have infinite funds. So I hug the precious.

The cat may be none too bright.

[darksirocco]

Singer brand? my gmother and mum haven't bought one yet, that wasn't a Singer.
ROFL! that last line killed me, seemed like an odd fortune you'd get from a fortune cookie! 'The cat may be none too bright...'
my fave fortune i've ever gotten was actually a Tom Robbins quote, and is thrillingly foreboding, 'The universe does not have trends, it has habits; and habits can be broken.'

[moonofwinds]

Actually it's a Husqvarna. I've used Singers but I love my Husqvarna. Sewn most of my years on this brand. Drop in bobbin, it is so nice.

Lol. I am the cat fortune cookie. That's a good fortune. The game my friends and I play is every time we read a fortune we add "in bed" at the end. Makes for some great laughs.

[darksirocco]

holy god! that's gotta be a helluva machine! what do you sew with that, trucks?!
*snerk* i shall try to remember that game, for future use... :)

[moonofwinds]

Husqvarna make excellent anything. It is a sturdy machine. I've had it for five years. My serger is less awesome but it only cost 200 to the sewing machine's 600 so I don't mind.

The game is fun. Especially when you start laughing hysterically in a restaurant and the wait staff all thing you're crazy.

[darksirocco]

yes, they certainly do! my store sells chainsaws and mowers and tillers and such from Husqvarna, so i can just imagine the kind of balls their sewing machines would have O.O
*snerk* yah, any time one can disturb hot, asian waiters is good *grins deviously* i used to go eat at a restaurant next door to my old job, and i would take yaoi manga to read while i ate...

[moonofwinds]

Lol. My favourite Chinese restaurant was by my college, been torn down for transit construction. But the waiters were always exasperated with the crazy white students that came.

[darksirocco]

the misfortune of east texas is that there are only 3 main choices for ethnicity. white(usually kinda trashy), hispanic(not-quite-english-speaking), and african-american(from louisiana, bayou-types: who are far more polite and tolerable than the white ppl). and by tolerable, i mean that i have an anti-social!Sunstreaker type of mindset...i don't like being around ppl in general... =^.^= it's why i prefer tech/cust support over retail.

[moonofwinds]

Lol. Here we have mostly white, wealthy, and trashy and in between, vietnamese, chinese, taiwanese, korean, first nations, some sikhs and some african americans and hispanics. It's a suburb of Vancouver. Very multi-cultural.

I'm friendlier than Sunstreaker but I'm not a people person. Don't want to work in retail again. Tech support is not my skill set. So I'll probably end up in retail but I will be very selective where I work.