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My parents had an old dog who howled himself hoarse everytime Dolly Belle went into heat.  It was like he was saying, "I'm old!  I'm not long for this world!  Give me one more shot, I'm begging ya!"

Fun site:  The Sloganizer.  You give them a word and they spit out a slogan.  I tried it with Bogie:

Everything is simple with Bogie! (Hahahaha!  Bogie makes everything from cooking to travelling difficult.  Why?  Because he can.  8))
Bogie for your kids! (Bogie's cranky.  He doesn't like kids much)
Bogie, Love it or Leave it! 
Bogie, since 1845.
Worldclass Bogie!
Bogie--Think Different(ly)!
You Don't Want Bogie as Your Enemy! (I think I'm putting this on my personal stationary)
Bogie, Better than Chocolate (well....)
Keep Going Well, Keep Going Bogie
Bogie, This is It (often heard in my house around 5:30 am)
Do you know Bogie?
Bogie, the clever way.
Bogie's like Heaven (only 180 degress off  8))
The Bogie Community
You can't stop Bogie (it is difficult, but his short attention span helps)
Hallelujah, it's Bogie
Bogie after a long day (it's nice to see his big old feet pacing back and forth behind the door waiting for me. )
I fall for Bogie
No need to worry with Bogie. (ha)
Bogie, where success is at home.
Call a friend, call Bogie
Bogie--what more could you want? (something he has asked every day since Rumpole came to the house.)
Play Bogie, start living
Long life Bogie
When you say Bogie, you've said it all.

They don't have the most common thing heard at my house--"Bogie, you know better!"

Modified Gibson, crocheted bun cover with seashells on the inner coil and my mammoth ivory stick decorating the inner bun.  It looks very nice. 

I was going to get some Krylon blending filament in red to use with the black thread in my eyeball bun cover, but I forgot to buy it twice, so I decided to heck with it.  I need to make that, plus I'm working on a scarf in a lattice ripple pattern using some fluffy-ish sparkly white yarn; yesterday I bought some eyelash yarn in shaded reds and oranges to crochet a scarf/shawl, and I want to make a bag out of the various balls of twine and nylon string I got at Big Lot's hardware dept.  I was looking through Quick Crochet: Huge Hooks, which is $25!  And it's mostly patterns for pillow covers or totebags made with fabric strips or multiple strands of yarn.  I don't need a book to tell me how to crochet a square and make a pillow out of it, and none of the tote patterns were particularly eye-catching, except one:  a bag made of of a large crocheted circle folded in half, with a couple of end pieces to keep stuff from falling out, and 2 handles.  I don't need a pattern, especially a $25 pattern, to make that.  I'm going to make that bag out of the twine.  When I get around to it.  Which could be a while if my carpal tunnel acts up.

The cats love it when I crochet.  My projects aren't so thrilled.  The white scarf in particular is not happy about their enthusiastic participation.

BPAL:  Penny Dreadful (Soft perfume over rich red grave loam)  My head was feeling good today so I tried this again and it gave me a headache that nearly turned into a migraine.    I just can't wear it.  This is so nice and spicy, but my skin amps the perfume and turns it into a blast of cheap drugstore cologne and I can't stand it.   I'm giving it to a friend.  I"ve learned my lesson:  imps first, then 5 mls.   

Thanks for your good wishes, Sakina.  My head must have heard you cause it stopped hurting last night.     Thanks for mailing the liver cleanse, too.  I think my whole body could use a good internal scrubbing.

Over on the LHC someone mentioned an easy way to do Heidi-like braids.  I tried it and it worked!  You part your hair down the middle from hairline to nape and braid pigtails.  Then get one of those metal-free headband elastics and put it around your neck.  Wind the braids around the elastic and then slip the whole thing back onto your head.  Instant Heidi braids.  They're twisted instead of flat, but I like that better anyway.  I secured mine with some clips and bobby pins but someone with non-slippery hair might not have to do anything.  The only problem is that I look kind of funny in this style.  Oh well.  I look funny most days anyway.   

All of the fuzzies are doing well.  Agatha is still, shall we say, energetic.  If I could find her a kitty vibrator, I would.  She howls off and on all the time.  Last night when I got home I had Gorey at the patio door meowing and Agatha upstairs yowling and I could hardly hear Captain Jack Sparrow inquire about the rum.   8)  Of course it's not like I haven't seen it before or anything.   

BPAL:  Maenad (sweet strawberry and orange blossom distorted by carnation, black poppy and hibiscus).  It starts off as a dark strawberry scent.  I generally don't care for very berry/fruity scents but I like the dark berry sweetness here.  As it dries, sadly, the darkness goes away and it's strawberries.  Nice strawberries but not me.  I wonder how it would layer with Darkness?  Maybe it would drag those strawberries back down to the depths.   8)

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BPAL is short for Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab.  In their own words, "We specialize in formulating intriguing, compelling body and household blends with a dark, romantic Gothic tone. Our scents run the aesthetic gamut of magickal, pagan and mythological blends, Renaissance, Medieval and Victorian formulas, and horror / Gothic-themed scents."  I like them because they're different, and they're high-quality perfume oils so they don't give me migraines (with the exception of one.  )  Imp is an Imp's ear, or the sample size.  Ml is milliliters.  The scents come in 5ml and 10ml bottles.  They do ship to Europe; and be warned:  BPAL tends to be very addictive.    The BPAL forum (link is on the home page) has reviews of the scents written by the users to help you narrow down your choices.

Today I'm wearing Vice (dark chocolate, cherry, and orange blossom)  I smell like a bag of chocolate chips.  

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That it is.  Out of my first order of 12 imps, I only really liked 2 or 3, but I'm figuring out what works with my weird chemistry (roses, myrrh, florals, rum, coconut ) and what doesn't (ick patchouli!  black herbs, black musk arrgh!  Honey mead, pure poison ).  On my last batch of imps I'm batting 50% so far and the lab is generous with free imps in every order so you can try things you never considered.  There's a 2 month wait for orders, but you can go to eBay and buy some there to try, or there are always swaps on the BPAL forums if you want to trade for some imps before making the plunge.  

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Thanks for sharing your lovely LL collection, I've enjoyed looking them up. 

Well, I"m a diamond.  I've never thought of myself as the diamond type, though.  I"m more like a pearl--pale, you know, and...round.  

My hair has been diabolic today.  It took 4 tries to get it to stay in a simple bun, not to mention 2 french twist failures.  Grrrr.  I'm wearing my Blondiesturn tiger maple sticks.  I put them in parallel instead of crossed and I think that suits their curved shape better.  Aesthetically, anyway.

Gorey is back and wasn't nearly as hungry as he should have been, being away for 2 days and all.  I think he's double-dipping.   8)

I bought a Crochet Magazine at Wal-Moo last night (my fan broke and I had to get a new one post-haste.  Have you ever tried to buy a fan at the end of September?  It can't be done.  The clerks just looked at me as though I were insane.  However, when I dejectedly headed over to magazines there, sitting in the middle of the floor with no-one claiming it, was a box with a 3-tiered fan.  I have no idea what it was doing there, unless someone got tired of lugging it around and went to get a buggy, but that someone was SOL 'cuz I grabbed it and ran)  and they had a pattern for fingerless mitts made out of Sugar and Cream worsted cotton yarn to wear with hand cream in the winter.  I'm making them now; that's a great idea.  My hands get terribly chapped in the winter no matter how much lotion I use and I get the Burt's Bees hand salve all over the sheets at night.  Hopefully, since these are fingerless, I won't pull them off when I'm sleeping.  Bogie helped me so the left mitt has been lavished with tabby cat hair.  He can be so generous like that.  

BPAL:  Nefertiti (Egyptian iris and olibanum with red and white sandalwood, soft myrrh and a breath of North African herbs).  First it's floral, not too sweet and a little unusual.  I love this stage.  Then the sandalwood comes out and a slight spiciness--yellow spices, not cinnamon or clove.  Then the myrrh hits and that's where it stays.  My skin amps myrrh, but I like it--to me it's a translucent green slightly bitter smell.  I re-applied halfway through the afternoon to get the flowers back.  I think this would do very well applied to the skin with a scent locket as well.  

We Three Kings has a creepy verse about myrrh that scared me when I was a kid.  Who'd have thought I'd grow up to love its scent?  

The myrrh verse is still creepy, though.  

[quote author=13bodies link=board=journals;num=1112294026;start=195#205 date=09/27/05  My hands get terribly chapped in the winter no matter how much lotion I use and I get the Burt's Bees hand salve all over the sheets at night. [/quote]

My hands get really dry in the winter-working in the gyms I'm always washing my hands alot.  I really like the Body Shop's almond oil intensive hand rescue.  Maybe give it a try!

Your fingerless gloves sound awesome.  Any chance you'd make a cotton pair for moi?  I'd gladly pay you...I'm getting sun spots on the back of my hands from driving in the desert sun and haven't been able to find driving gloves that don't bug me. 
Be sure to post pics when you get your first pair made!

I never got back into the habit of taking my hair vitamins after vacation in August.  My hair doesn't seem to have suffered, but I see the difference in my nails; they aren't as hard as they were and I broke my R thumbnail yesterday.  Bleah.

Modified Gibson with Moroccan Twilight Sterlingstix.  I made the inner bun with less than 1/4 of my hair and it doesn't look like a cowpie today, but it is a bit heavier than the poop-like bun.  It pulled on my scalp for about 5 minutes then it adjusted. 

I never thought about it before, but there was a poll on the LHC about hair care and I've gone almost completely natural.  I wash with CV bars, use my herbal rinse for color and slip, and oils and aloe to tame the unrulies.  I do use a little bit of commercial conditioner in my Fox's Shea Conditioning Cream, and very very rarely I use some hairspray if the catfish whiskers get out of control.  I didn't plan this but it's a simple workable routine for me.  I'm lucky; though my hair is icky boring brown-grey the non-damaged bits are strong and stay well moisturized on their own.

IWANTIWANTIWANTIWANTIWANTIWANT to color my hair.  Now.  I get this way every so often, and I used to get some temporary color to satify my urge, but I don't want to do that.  I WANT HENNA!  And I'm not going to use any henna because the next urge to color might not strike for 8 months and what would my roots look like by then?  Maybe I could bleach Rumpole and get it out of my system that way.   8)  Or turn Bogie into an orange tabby for Halloween.  

I woke up and sunlight was pouring into my room, which is bad news because I should be up and around before it gets bright out.  I managed to focus on the clock and it was only 3am and it took my sleep-fogged mind a good minute to realize that my bedside lamp was turned on.  It's a touch lamp and someone (I'm guessing a grey stripey menace) was playing around and turned the light on.  I am so glad they don't have opposable thumbs.  I can hardly keep up with them as is.

BPAL:  Viola (tea rose, lilac, Calla Lily, and Somalian Rose, golden Peruvian amber, Spanish moss, red sandalwood, rosewood, myrrh, and Mandarin) that I got in a trade with Divewench.  Another floral/woody/myrrh blend like Nefertiti, but completely different.  The flowers were sweeter and more familiar and the woody component was more subdued.  The myrrh took over at the end (I seem to amp myrrh--luckily I like it) but it's a pale green opaque scent.  I like it.

Well, I'm almost done with my gloves; I just have to crochet the finger stubs on the left one.  I like them but they're a bit heavy which is fine for bedgloves.  I like the fingerless style and they're quite easy to do--just a crocheted rectangle that's sewn together at the short ends with a hole left for the thumb--so I think I'll make a pair out of the Boa yarn I got for a shawl.  Then I'll have a fuzzy shawl and fuzzy hands.  Hee.