The other thing I meant to mention in my mishmash post earlier was that I am being So Good and not letting myself get in on a decant circle for the new Lilith's Birthday BPAL scents, even though Baby's First Krampuslauf is described as "Dark chocolate and a hint of woodsmoke." And as usual, reading through all the descriptions was a lot of fun ( Read more... )

The BPAL Hallowe'en update just dropped. Appropriate timing, given the equinox ( Read more... )

After all these years on LJ/DW, removing icons is still a challenge for me. It's not so much "what if I want to use it again?" as "but now [however many] old posts and comments will all have my default icon!" I do wish there were a way for the sites to keep old icons stored and display them where previously used, just not accessible for new use, ( Read more... )

First, I hope those of you in the US who celebrate Thanksgiving had a lovely one today. And for the not-small subset whose family holidays are more fraught than joyful, I hope it was the best it could be, and that you have some downtime/vacation time remaining in the long weekend that you can use for yourself ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning to wet snow and rain slapping the window--not a lot of either, but more than I wanted to see when I got up. (It's stopped now.) As soon as October ended, the weather turned wetter and chillier, and there are tons of leaves down on the ground, although there are also still plenty on the trees. November=not my favorite month. ( ( Read more... )

Oof. My workday was not long by any standards--I was in the office for six hours, all told--but given that it was the first Friday of this round of Casual Job, we sort of all figured that Those Who Speak would do so for...I don't know, maybe an hour? But no, it was three and a half hours of audio. Not at all bad in its own right (and if the days ( Read more... )

(Note on this year's scents: Beth mentioned on Facebook that the 2014 Weenies should be out this week.)

( Notes on The Death of Autumn, Devil's Night, Dia De Los Muertos (2007),
Elegy IX: The Autumnal, and Fearful Pleasure )

( putting a copy here so it's not only on bpal.org )

I don't think I have a literal list of "things [read: household objects] that I used to think sounded like gimmicks and later started to think might be useful and then eventually acquired and immediately fell in love with", but if I did, my strawberry huller would be WAY up there. I finally caved and bought one while I was in Toronto last month, ( Read more... )

It's been a very low-key and unfocused day--not a bad one, but uneventful to the point that I feel kind of dazed thinking back on it ( Read more... )