Over the last several years, I've wound up with quite a bit of BPAL perfume, especially since I don't actually wear perfume much. (Largely due to one of my best friends being massively allergic to scented anything; we don't even live in the same city anymore, but I still think in terms of "would this make K sick?" a fair bit. I figure it's a good ( Read more... )

Fine, October. We've turned the heat on. *shivers ( Read more... )

• It's started feeling like autumn here. Mostly it's that the nights are noticeably cooler, but there's also a tang in the air even when it's still summer-hot during the day.
• We have once again killed the tomatoes. RIP, tomato plant.
• Last Wednesday I finished at Casual Job, so I get a month or two of freelancing and house guests. (House guests!!! It's ( Read more... )

I always forget this until it happens, but when the mornings first get cold I inevitably think of coming home from Hong Kong, even though what I'm remembering isn't from here or there. We were in Hong Kong in August, and it was brutally hot the entire time, and on our way home we stopped in Vancouver to spend a few days with
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We don't appear to be directly in the hurricane's path, and by the time it gets this far north it's apparently going to be down to a tropical storm (which is the usual way of things). I don't envy New Brunswick, though, and I hope everyone down in states it's hitting stays safe. :/Last night's butter chicken outing was a smashing success. Oh, happy ( Read more... )

I'm depressingly predictable about weather. This weekend is the first one that feels like winter, and I say that without having set foot outside yesterday. Yesterday there were flurries, today the predicted high is 0 (ah, Celsius and its tidy freezing point), and tonight I kind of want to go see Deathly Hallows, except that my lizard brain is ( Read more... )

I fell prey to another DW friending meme. Oops? As I said to
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