They changed the formulation on my shampoo--without labeling it, I might add, so I bought several bottles I will now be donating to a shelter--and now it makes my hair nasty. Since this is the opposite of the point of shampoo, I had to go pick out a different shampoo. I hate that process, smelling the different shampoos in Target until I find one ( Read more... )

I really don't like to complain about personal stuff. I think part of it is that my parents aimed for raising me with a sense of how fortunate I've been, and since they had a very literal small child I wound up with a sense that everyone everywhere has it harder than me. Which is not generally a bad thing in a lot of ways, but it comes with a few ( Read more... )

I have always observed Valentine's Day with various people in my life--not just as a romantic love holiday, but as an excuse to give little people stickers and let older folks know I'm thinking of them and like that. Love is for everybody, and my family is a holidaying sort of family. Arbor Day, Syttende-Mai, collect 'em all. We are not ( Read more... )

Sometimes when I quit reading things, I have little pithy snarky posts about it. This time I wanted to highlight a factual error so that none of you will repeat it, because I've read this wrong, wrong thing more than one place:

It is, in fact, possible to remember and/or imagine a smell.

No, really. It is. I checked with timprov, who doesn't have ( Read more... )

Help! Where in the Twin Cities would you go to buy carpet?

Please assume:
1) I can ask Auntie Google if I just want to know a couple of stores that sell such a thing. What I want to know is where you would go, or possibly where you have gone and how it went ( Read more... )

1. Baby powder
2. Crushed-up Pez

Fail fail fail fail fail.

And now the three unopened bottles I bought last night, when I was steady, will go to the local women's shelter, and I will have to ask my mom to haul my wobbling self around Target on my big PT day so I can do the ensniffening all over again and pick a new body wash that does not smell ( Read more... )

These aren't the brownies I intended to make. But then the top wouldn't come off the vanilla extract, no matter how I twisted and swore and started flaking bits of rubber off the jar-opener. So I put in almond extract instead, and smelled it. There was a hole in the smell. The hole was the shape of cherries. So I put in some dried cherries, ( Read more... )

What do you think elves smell like? The full-sized Sidhe or Alfar or Tolkien kind, not the wee faaaaairies.

Nomail. Nothing. Not even e-mail. No acceptances, no rejections, no gifts of appreciation of my extravagant silliness...nothing.

Obviously I need to write more short stories. I can't think what's kept me from doing that this week.

At the Como Park Conservatory yesterday, there was a kid who looked just like a 17-year-old version of ccfinlay. He and ( Read more... )

buymeaclue tagged me, so I guess I'm listing eight random things about myself. If you want to do like this, please do, but I don't tend to tag people for memes, even though I don't mind being tagged myself ( Read more... )