Responsible Adulthood and Profligate Perfume
I am procrastinating. Heavily. Because today is Clean All The Things Day. See, I do try to keep things as tidy as possible in here, but let's face it; clutter happens. I could just let clutter keep happening until I can't see the floor anymore and then clean it up, but ... nah. Instead, I have Clean All The Things Day, which mostly involves doing the laundry, picking up the books that have accumulated on the floor by my bed, cleaning out the fridge of the stuff I somehow didn't get around to eating during the course of the week and taking out the rubbish. I should probably actually go out into meatspace to do the grocery shopping this week too, as it's stopped raining and I've got a jar full of coins to dump into the Coinstar machine over at the Sainsbury's. Besides, the people who pack the groceries for the online delivery gave me somewhat squished tomatoes last time. Boo.
But first, coffee and procrastination. Because it's the weekend, damnit, and I'm not spending all my free time after a pretty slogtastic week at work doing yet more work. Besides, it's only midday and I haven't finished my coffee yet.
So ... yeah, there have been random acts of BPAL lately. Random acts of BPAL are awesome when you find people giving the kinds of bargains that I've been finding lately. Of course, my wishlist is still unmitigatedly huge, and there are a few I cannot find and am desperate enough to own that I'm actually considering ordering the imp's ears from the actual site? But for the most part, I'm hacking through my wishlist pretty comprehensively. So for those of you who care, here's what the collection looks like. All those with asterisks by them are the ones that are currently en route. Double asterisks mean that they're actually in London but because Paypal is run by lunatics, they ended up at
dodgyhoodoo's place and I am picking them up Wednesday, when I return the book he loaned me forever ago and we discuss the man-with-van I'm hiring to pick up my variegated and miscellaneous junk from his place next weekend.
Edit for clarification note: this list represents what I have actually have, whether it's on its way or sitting in my little panda-face bag. The wishlist will be covered in a separate post. *g*
Aelopile
Aizen-Myoo*
Al-Shairan
Alecto*
Anne Bonny
Arkham*
Aziraphale**
Bathsheba
Bella Donna Della Mia Miente*
Bess*
Black Phoenix
Bow & Crown of Conquest*
Cairo*
Casanova
Cheshire Cat*
Danube*
Delirium* (only a sniffie, but what the hell)
The Dodo
Earth Phoenix
The East**
Embalming Fluid*
Eternal
Euphrosyne
Fairy Market
Fallen
Famine**
Faustus*
Forbidden Fruit
Golden Priapus*
Hastur*
Helena
Highwayman*
Hymn*
Kabuki
Kyoto*
Lady of Shalott
Ligur*
Lilium Inter Spinas*
Loralei
Mad Sweeney**
Madame Tracey**
Megaera*
Mr Jacquel**
Mr Nancy**
Muse*
Nanshe
No. 93 Engine*
Nocnitsa
Nocturne
Nyarlahotep*
Obsidian Widow
Ogun*
Oya*
Pannychis
Phobos
Phoenix Steamworks
Port-au-Prince*
Queen of Hearts
Rapture
The Reaper and the Flowers
Rose Red 2008
Santa Eularia des Riu
Scales of Deprivation
Sea of Glass (my first BPAL, courtesy
tithenai. Someone was selling a bottle and that's on its way)
Seraglio
Seraphim
Shanghai
Spider**
Summer's Last Will and Testament**
Thalia*
Tisiphone
Titania
To a Woman*
Tristran**
Ulalume
Umbra*
Undertow
Uruk*
Vechernyaya
The Veil*
Victoria**
Villain*
Viola
Violet Ray
Vixen*
Whitechapel*
Wings of Azrael*
The Witch's Garden*
Zephyr*
Zorya
All the double-asterisk ones except the bottle of Summer's Last Will and Testament come from the fact that some kind soul essentially threw a whole bunch of decants of Neil Gaiman scents that didn't work for her into a bag and said, "Selling them as a job lot for $8. Take my imps, please". Since more than half of them were on my wishlist, how the hell could I refuse? And I'm finally getting an imp of Alecto; boo-ya!
My problem now is storage space. Currently my little panda-face bag is fine for imp storage, but that's not going to cut it when the rest of my imps get here. It's already about half full, my little panda-face bag. Might have to see if I can find a good storage box while I'm out today. And then I need to find someplace to put the storage box. Tiny flat, y'see. Tiiiiiny flat. I'm thinking that the RPG sourcebooks maybe ought to live at the bottom of my wardrobe from now on. I'd say on top of my wardrobe but it's a cheap plywood thing and I'm a little bit afraid that the 'ceiling' would just cave in under the sheer weight of the things. Anyway, after that, I could maybe move my end table over to next to the rickety rescued bookshelf and have the space by my bed have room for another bookshelf or something - anything to give me more storage space in general. Possibly a DVD rack for the various DVDs and game boxes that clutter up the spot by my makeshift desk. These are all probably things I should have done ages ago, but I didn't have a solution then and I sure as hell don't have a solution now. Though I suppose I'm closer now than I was. Basically MOAR FURNITURE. Bah.
Right. I really should do at least part of Clean All The Things Day so that I can take out the rubbish on my way out to the grocery shopping before the rain sets in again. And I'll see what I can do about the storage space situation while I'm at it. (I r a mof'ing adult, yo.)
But first, coffee and procrastination. Because it's the weekend, damnit, and I'm not spending all my free time after a pretty slogtastic week at work doing yet more work. Besides, it's only midday and I haven't finished my coffee yet.
So ... yeah, there have been random acts of BPAL lately. Random acts of BPAL are awesome when you find people giving the kinds of bargains that I've been finding lately. Of course, my wishlist is still unmitigatedly huge, and there are a few I cannot find and am desperate enough to own that I'm actually considering ordering the imp's ears from the actual site? But for the most part, I'm hacking through my wishlist pretty comprehensively. So for those of you who care, here's what the collection looks like. All those with asterisks by them are the ones that are currently en route. Double asterisks mean that they're actually in London but because Paypal is run by lunatics, they ended up at
dodgyhoodoo's place and I am picking them up Wednesday, when I return the book he loaned me forever ago and we discuss the man-with-van I'm hiring to pick up my variegated and miscellaneous junk from his place next weekend.
Edit for clarification note: this list represents what I have actually have, whether it's on its way or sitting in my little panda-face bag. The wishlist will be covered in a separate post. *g*
Aelopile
Aizen-Myoo*
Al-Shairan
Alecto*
Anne Bonny
Arkham*
Aziraphale**
Bathsheba
Bella Donna Della Mia Miente*
Bess*
Black Phoenix
Bow & Crown of Conquest*
Cairo*
Casanova
Cheshire Cat*
Danube*
Delirium* (only a sniffie, but what the hell)
The Dodo
Earth Phoenix
The East**
Embalming Fluid*
Eternal
Euphrosyne
Fairy Market
Fallen
Famine**
Faustus*
Forbidden Fruit
Golden Priapus*
Hastur*
Helena
Highwayman*
Hymn*
Kabuki
Kyoto*
Lady of Shalott
Ligur*
Lilium Inter Spinas*
Loralei
Mad Sweeney**
Madame Tracey**
Megaera*
Mr Jacquel**
Mr Nancy**
Muse*
Nanshe
No. 93 Engine*
Nocnitsa
Nocturne
Nyarlahotep*
Obsidian Widow
Ogun*
Oya*
Pannychis
Phobos
Phoenix Steamworks
Port-au-Prince*
Queen of Hearts
Rapture
The Reaper and the Flowers
Rose Red 2008
Santa Eularia des Riu
Scales of Deprivation
Sea of Glass (my first BPAL, courtesy
tithenai. Someone was selling a bottle and that's on its way)
Seraglio
Seraphim
Shanghai
Spider**
Summer's Last Will and Testament**
Thalia*
Tisiphone
Titania
To a Woman*
Tristran**
Ulalume
Umbra*
Undertow
Uruk*
Vechernyaya
The Veil*
Victoria**
Villain*
Viola
Violet Ray
Vixen*
Whitechapel*
Wings of Azrael*
The Witch's Garden*
Zephyr*
Zorya
All the double-asterisk ones except the bottle of Summer's Last Will and Testament come from the fact that some kind soul essentially threw a whole bunch of decants of Neil Gaiman scents that didn't work for her into a bag and said, "Selling them as a job lot for $8. Take my imps, please". Since more than half of them were on my wishlist, how the hell could I refuse? And I'm finally getting an imp of Alecto; boo-ya!
My problem now is storage space. Currently my little panda-face bag is fine for imp storage, but that's not going to cut it when the rest of my imps get here. It's already about half full, my little panda-face bag. Might have to see if I can find a good storage box while I'm out today. And then I need to find someplace to put the storage box. Tiny flat, y'see. Tiiiiiny flat. I'm thinking that the RPG sourcebooks maybe ought to live at the bottom of my wardrobe from now on. I'd say on top of my wardrobe but it's a cheap plywood thing and I'm a little bit afraid that the 'ceiling' would just cave in under the sheer weight of the things. Anyway, after that, I could maybe move my end table over to next to the rickety rescued bookshelf and have the space by my bed have room for another bookshelf or something - anything to give me more storage space in general. Possibly a DVD rack for the various DVDs and game boxes that clutter up the spot by my makeshift desk. These are all probably things I should have done ages ago, but I didn't have a solution then and I sure as hell don't have a solution now. Though I suppose I'm closer now than I was. Basically MOAR FURNITURE. Bah.
Right. I really should do at least part of Clean All The Things Day so that I can take out the rubbish on my way out to the grocery shopping before the rain sets in again. And I'll see what I can do about the storage space situation while I'm at it. (I r a mof'ing adult, yo.)