Day 3212
Emily is spending the morning with Mr Tim. Mom has taken my car and gone to church and then to lunch. I am *blissfully* alone right now!
I notice that I have the very best luck with smellies when I can't smell a thing at all. A long time ago, when I was in Paris, I had a horrible head cold... a lot like the one I have now. I could not smell, not nothing, not no how. And there was a tour of a perfume factory on our itinerary. This was delightful until we got to the gift shop at the end and I couldn't smell anything to know what I wanted to buy! So I got one because it was a beautiful bottle shaped like a rose, three tiny bottles of Santal and a small bottle of Muguet for my mother. The rose shaped bottle turned out to be Si Jolie which is one of my favorite rose perfumes, the santal was the best sandalwood I'd ever smelled up until that time and the Muguet was... muguet. Which I love. On the way out, I stopped at a street vendor and bought the charm I had told everyone I was going to get in Paris:
L'Arc de Triumph
Mostly because when I told people I was going to Paris in the spring, they would comment "Oh, you'll have to get an Eiffel Tower for your charm bracelet". Now, I think the Eiffel Tower is one of the ugliest structures on the planet, so I would indignantly reply "No, I won't! I'm going to get a L'Arc de Triumph!" (In some ways, I was rebellious in my teens... it was just not as obnoxious as to be very noticeable.)
This whole little story brings me to this morning. Last night, I put in a bid on an ebay auction that was reasonable but not horribly over the top and went to bed. The auction ended around 3:45 this morning and with this cold I was not staying up to put in a last minute bid even if I lost it. But I didn't... I won it! An imp of Mabon, an imp of Scorpio (don't know if I like this one or not.. it's the discontinued Celestial, not the 2007 version), an imp of Hellion (I know that will go straight to the swap pile) and testable sniffies of Egg'd Mailbox (never tried) and F54 (!!!!!!!). From a seller that I know from the forum so I know she's legit.
I have the best luck with smellies when I can't smell a thing.
And now I have a Book of Days to work on while Emily is working on her Science Fair project and a brand new Quiltmaker magazine to peruse in the bath. Maybe if I add Karma to the water, my head will open up enough for me to smell it!
I notice that I have the very best luck with smellies when I can't smell a thing at all. A long time ago, when I was in Paris, I had a horrible head cold... a lot like the one I have now. I could not smell, not nothing, not no how. And there was a tour of a perfume factory on our itinerary. This was delightful until we got to the gift shop at the end and I couldn't smell anything to know what I wanted to buy! So I got one because it was a beautiful bottle shaped like a rose, three tiny bottles of Santal and a small bottle of Muguet for my mother. The rose shaped bottle turned out to be Si Jolie which is one of my favorite rose perfumes, the santal was the best sandalwood I'd ever smelled up until that time and the Muguet was... muguet. Which I love. On the way out, I stopped at a street vendor and bought the charm I had told everyone I was going to get in Paris:
L'Arc de Triumph
Mostly because when I told people I was going to Paris in the spring, they would comment "Oh, you'll have to get an Eiffel Tower for your charm bracelet". Now, I think the Eiffel Tower is one of the ugliest structures on the planet, so I would indignantly reply "No, I won't! I'm going to get a L'Arc de Triumph!" (In some ways, I was rebellious in my teens... it was just not as obnoxious as to be very noticeable.)
This whole little story brings me to this morning. Last night, I put in a bid on an ebay auction that was reasonable but not horribly over the top and went to bed. The auction ended around 3:45 this morning and with this cold I was not staying up to put in a last minute bid even if I lost it. But I didn't... I won it! An imp of Mabon, an imp of Scorpio (don't know if I like this one or not.. it's the discontinued Celestial, not the 2007 version), an imp of Hellion (I know that will go straight to the swap pile) and testable sniffies of Egg'd Mailbox (never tried) and F54 (!!!!!!!). From a seller that I know from the forum so I know she's legit.
I have the best luck with smellies when I can't smell a thing.
And now I have a Book of Days to work on while Emily is working on her Science Fair project and a brand new Quiltmaker magazine to peruse in the bath. Maybe if I add Karma to the water, my head will open up enough for me to smell it!