Scheherazade in Blue Jeans

Help us go to Boskone! :)

Megahuge destashing sale includes full 5mls of Crypt Queen, Whipporwill, Salamander, Red Phoenix, Ivanushka, Pisces, Undine, Luperci, and many more! Decants of too many rares and unimpables to list, including Fruitcake and Raspberry SN, Retail Salons, discontinueds, Gaimans, Poes, Hony Mone! Also featuring piles of GCs and samples from many other e-tailers (CB:IHP, Arcana, Body Shop, Demeter and more)!

Just click to shop!

Since I'll be spending this week scrambling to get everything ready for our trip, and spending the following week in Florida, I won't be swapping or selling til July. (Hell, I might have the Sephiroth by then, and be swapping some away. And I'm pretty sure I'll have the Salon III, Blue Moon, and Cancer decants.)

That is all. *curtsey*

Just a place to store links!

BPAL Wishlist!

BPAL Swap/Sale Page!

BPAL Feedback!

Swap with 'song!

(In case they're checking LJ before e-mail: deyaniera, phinnia, and whitecrow0 are paged to the white courtesy phone to tell me what they've got to swap for the imps I'm holding for them.)

My readers get first crack. I'll post this at sinandsalvation if I don't manage to swap 'em away to you guys. If label condition and decant/not decant is important to you, let me know and I'll look at it and report on it; these all look satisfactory to me. I would like to swap LE for LE, but will swap 1 LE for two GCs on my wishlist. If you have Storyville - dude, let's make a deal.

LE
Cerberus
Hearth 2005
Mi-Go Brain Canister
Monster Bait: Underbed - wytchchyld

Unimpable (Salon)
Carceri D'Invenzione (ideal trade would be for Death of Sardanapal)

Unreleased
Nihil (swap for lunacies on wishlist, other unreleased, or other rarities)


GC
Anne Bonny - dragonnaelf
Bathsheba
Bayou
Djinn - phinnia
Gaueko - deyaniera
The Ghost - cissa
Libertine - cissa
Sybaris - cissa


Ava Luxe samples (same size)
Ambra Tibet
Vanille Royal

Feel free to just post your swaplist, too, as my wishlist needs updating.

Administration
Happy birthday to doctorow and ojouchan!

Hello to new reader kebechet!

Medical
Oh, hi. Cymbalta ramp-up is kicking my butt. *headshake* *wince* It's not as bad as the ramp-up on anti-seizure meds, for which I am grateful. I'm just crushingly nauseous + exhausted and having difficulty actually getting to sleep. And yes, exhaustion + nausea are my regular state of things, but this exhaustion pretty much = me lying in bed or on the couch all day without the energy to move. Other side effects... I don't know if it's related, but I'm clenching my jaw a lot. And I know this is related: blurred vision. Yeah. No driving for the 'song, not even the one-minute run to the post office.

Two weeks, you say? *hangs in there*

As for the anti-seizure med side effects - was up early, took 'em, went back to sleep, slept through anything.

Blogathon
Hey, y'know what else is in two weeks? Blogathon! And thanks to agaran, aussie_nyc and kizlj, moocowrich, and previously-thanked people, I'm up to $778 raised for RAINN!

Please sponsor me!

Other LJers doing Blogathon include faecat, slipjig, and zarhooie... sponsor them, too! (And if you're doing it and I don't know about it, just let me know!)

Remember, even if you can't sponsor, you can pimp this mother out.

Daily Science
"The 20cm Spiny Penis of the Argentine Lake Duck". Plenty of info there about the sex organs of birds, with or without penises. (Only 3% of bird species have them!)

Also, pigs have a corkscrew penis.

You're welcome.

Daily BPAL
These will slow down tremendously as I get caught up. Many of these are part of a big batch I got from enderfem, or as here-try-this! from you guys. I'm currently not swapping for anything new, just things I already know I love, to allow myself a chance to get caught up. I'm overwhelmed!

After today, I will have 17 imps left to review. Of course, I've been getting frimps with my swaps, so that may well increase. I have a few incoming swaps for new stuff. But mostly established stuff.

Anyway.
( Cathedral, Perversion, Anne Bonny, Jester )

Blogathon
Up to $545, thanks to more Anonymous, cid62, i_descend, liamstliam, and talix18! If I have not thanked you by name and you thought you told the site to use your name, it did not. This has happened to at least one person. Tell me who you are! :) EDIT: And enderfem!

And please, please, sponsor me!

Anonymous Confessions
hughcasey is hosting a thread over here...

Disney Princess Strike Force!
I love headlines like this: "Shrek 3 Casts Ninja Princesses".

Mail Call!
Got BPAL from cissa! Also got sartorias's Crown Duel!

Daily Science
Oh, this one's superinteresting. Unsuspected Brain Cells May Cause Epilepsy.

( Entire story under cut! )

Daily BPAL
( Libertine, Undertow, Dana O'Shee, Juke Joint )

Administration
Hello to new reader seeliefey!

Medical
The usual exhaustion + nausea, some general brainfuckery.
Was able to sleep last night. Go me!

Projects
I need to make a list of household projects and break them down into manageable chunks. And have that list in a physical format, so I can cross stuff off of it and have tangible proof that I accomplished things on any given day.

I get overwhelmed. And distracted.

Daily Science
How Chopin is Like Jazz. A Princeton researcher has developed an algorithm that turns music into geometry and has uncovered surprising similarities between seemingly disparate compositions.

Daily BPAL
( Hearth 2005, Gingerbread Poppet, The Apothecary, Penny Dreadful )

Acquired Elegba (coconut, tobacco and sweet, sugared rum - my first reaction was "sugarcane!"), Yemaya (melons and grapes, strewn with the petals of the flowers of motherhood, draped with sea mosses - I get ocean, without chemical "aquatic notes"), Apothecary (tea leaf with three mosses, green grass, a medley of herbal notes, and a drop of ginger and fig), Coyote (The warmth of doeskin, dry plains grasses and soft, dusty woods warmed by amber and a downy, gentle coat of deep musk), and another Lear. Fell in love with Alone - another LE (patchouli and cardamom with bright mandarin, labdanum, muguet, red sandalwood, angelica and gardenia - dude, I don't get any of that, I get forest)!

Had much fun with Cid and her man. *hugs* Must do this again soon!

Came home to the Torture King I swapped gegenschein for... and over half a bottle of Beaver Moon from solcita! *squees*

And got frimps from the person who sent the Torture King; alas, they're all scents I already know don't work on me. But hey, free, and now they're trade-bait! *adds Al-Shairan, Morocco, and Viscount de Valmont to swaplist*

( Very brief reviews of other stuff I tried from the collections of others (and do not myself own) )

Administration
Happy birthday to the wonderfully surreal merovingian!

Hello to new reader brycentara!

Medical
Me: "I need my pills."
Adam: "Ah, yes." *fetches pills*

Daily Science
How do brains filter data?

Daily BPAL
The way I shop for BPAL has changed... being as I still have over two dozen imps to test, I'm not currently looking for imps. If you want to swap with me, I'll swap with you! But what I'm looking for is bottles. I might like a bottle of Herr Drosselmeyer. Scratch that - I would like one, but I'm not as desperate for it as I am for a bottle of Beaver Moon (out of my price range on eBay); I can see myself wanting to smell like spice-cake cupcakes more often than Grandpa's tobacco pouch. I have two bottles of Torture King coming to live with my 2/3 bottle, so I can settle down about that one.

And I need a bottle of Blood Moon. Damn you, wytchchyld! My initial description last night, compiled from AIM with mgrasso: Whoa mama! Holy hell, I'm yummy. Blood, yes. And cinnamon, and something feral. So edible. Drink Me is lickable on me... The feral note in this makes me want to *BITE*.

Also on eBay, but I need to save my money for the Carnaval Diabolique update. Dammit.

( Lick It, Chaite, Tarot: The Star, Honey Moon )

Friday memeage...
Wearing
Polka-dot pajamas

Reading
Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett.

Planning
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 with Adam today, imp-swapping with bheansidhe today (who should let me know what time works for her).
Mini meet-and-sniff with cid62 at JavaMonkey tomorrow.

Must stain that box and edit today.

I have gardenia and coconut wafting all around me. I smell like Gilligan's Island. I'm off to shower.