Just when I thought I was doing better coping with Agatha's death, I read all of the beautiful things everyone said and I get all teary again.  Everyone has been so supportive; I really appreciate it.

Hair:  lace braid with rose bun and my blue and white porcelain kitty bead hairsticks.  I've had to redo it 3 times.  My hair must be in a transition stage at the moment because I can't do jack $#!^ with it.   

Bogie is harrassing Gorey again.  Gorey's skin is worse, and I've noticed that the first thing he does when I get home is to go the litterbox.  I think Bogie's keeping him from it during the day.     Fuzzy stripey butthole.  I'm going after work and getting yet another litter box and I'll put it upstairs in the guest bathroom.  It's not as gross as it sounds.  The guest bathroom has a short, narrow, space-wasting hallway leading into the craft room, so it's a good place to put the box.  Better than my bedroom anyway.   8)  Now there will be food, water, litter, toys, and flannel sheets upstairs for Gorey if Bogie continues to be a jerk.   

BPAL:  Got a big order in today.     So far I've tried Dragon's Bone (The dry, thin scent of a draconic ossuary. Dragon's blood resin with white sandalwood, dusty orris and crisp blondewood. Ha!  Wasn't what you thought it would be, was it?   8))  I ordered imps of all of the Ars Draconis scents because dragon's blood is the one note that my skin always loves.  The blend itself might not work, but boy oh boy, that dragon's blood.     Anyway:  first it's sweet sandalwood; by drydown it's a dry, sandalwoody scent, slightly spicy.  I like it so far, but I'll have to see how the second wearing goes.

Also tried, for the first wearing, Berenice (Stargazer lily, white musk, clear aloe, blonde amber and winding-cloth linen)  Light and pale, I've had various people tell me that it smells like soap, or detergent, or drier sheets.  It doesn't really, but it smells so clean I can understand why they say so.  I smell like I've been washed and dried and hung outside during a summer morning to air out.  It's similar to Dirty but more complex.  I like it. 

Two hits so far!

Took Gorey to the vet Saturday for his crusty, oozy skin.  I wrestled him into the new carrier and he MEROWED AND MEROWED AND MEROWED AND MEROWED.....   He's only about 75% of Bogie's size but he weighs nearly as much.  He's a very solid tom and boy howdy can he make a ruckus if he wants. 

His appt was at 11, so we went to the PO first.  I got out of the car and reveled in the relative silence of the never-ending PO line.  When I opened the car door, everything was silent...till Gorey looked up at me with those adorable round green eyes and MEROW...MEROW...MEROW...MEROW...  Why waste your breath if you can't annoy the Mom Cat, right?   8)

He hollered the whole time we were waiting at the vet.  I know the other people were annoyed, but he's a cat, you know?  There isn't anything you can do with cat, short of heavy duty sedation or a kitty muzzle, and I'd not care to sleep in a house with a cat I'd put a kitty muzzle on.  Anyway, Gorey's allergic to fleas and the vet gave him a depo-medrol shot.  He slept the rest of the afternoon and woke up around 9 pm all full of himself. 

I didn't get much sleep Saturday night.   

My LL sticks came in!  I got the Inner Glow Labradorite Gemstix which are dark grey rather than black and perfectly match my charcoal grey fleece set (skirt, tunic, button shirt and pants); the Rock Candy Candy Jade Gemstix, which are GORGEOUS--the stones remind me of little pears with their seafoam green and pinky-peach blush, or maybe the poisoned apple the wicked queen gave Snow White in the original story.     I have many, many green shirts, but none in that shade of seafoam green.  I"m wearing them today anyway, with a pink flowered shirt.  The flowers have leaves.  The leaves are green.  They match.  Leave me alone.     Last, I got the Gilded Vitrail Rapunzelstix.  The stones fascinate me, all grey and pink and green and shiny.  Once again, I don't have anything specific to go with them, but denim goes with everything.   

BPAL:  Alice (Milk and honey with rose, carnation and bergamot)  One of my favorites; I finally got a big bottle.  While this smells very rosey in the bottle, on my skin it turns into a warm slightly spicy carnation scent.  Mmmmm.  The bergamot is coming out a little now at the end of the day.  Yum, yum, yummy.

Tomorrow is Peony Moon.  I'm also ordering a bottle of Cobra Lily.  I love Cobra Lily.

The BPAL forum is down, too.  I can get to the main page but I get an error message when I try to access the posts.  I hope it's up again soon; I cleaned out my bottles and imps and I'm raring to swap.

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Amen to that, sister!  Denim is my favourite colour!!   

Ear-to-ear lace braid with rose bun.  My hair has suddenly decided to be puffy so my buns are larger than standard lately.  As long as they stay up I don't care what they do.   8)

Mom and Dad are coming up this weekend; tomorrow is my cleaning lady's usual day but she's taking this week off.  I have left strict instructions with Mom (I don't have to with Dad; all he ever notices is whether the lights have been left on a milisecond longer than needed.  He's quite anal retentive about it.  It comes from his mother; Grandma had 25 watt bulbs in all of her lights because it was cheaper.  Her house was like a murky cave after dark.     Dad takes unholy enjoyment in turning on all of the lights at my house when he visits.  Onery.   ):  no comments.  No mentioning the wads of Gorey hair.  No tightening of the lips.  NO STRAIGHTENING OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER!!!!!  Back when Agatha was still with me,  Mom and Dad came up and I let them sleep in my bed.  I cleaned up the bedroom and it took me all evening, too, I might add.  Mom spent 30 minutes tidying up because, "I just can't sleep in a messy room."     I couldn't find my bandannas for a week.  Sigh. 

Last night the 3 heathens were sleeping on my bed, arranged in a triangle, each about 6 inches away from the others.  Then they woke up and Bogie and Gorey smacked each other for a while and things were back to normal.

BPAL:  I couldn't get the shop to update!  There's some sort of problem; this month's lunacy was supposed to be up on the 14th but it wasn't until the 15th and even then it took me all evening to get it updated.  Then I tried to order a 5ml of Cobra Lily but I got an error message.  So I ordered a 10 ml.     Two of the new GC scents have shea scent in them, so I had to get imps.   I have to admit I'm curious.

Well,even though cats and birds are totally different;........whenever any one of my birds is screaming or fightiing I yell at everyone and then everyone is quiet. 8)   Ya see,ya don't play favorites!!!  Everyone gets yelled at and everyone gets plenty of love when need be................lol  Now the puppy love dog is a totally dfferent story!!  She can walk all over my heart,but she knows who's the mommy!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

I hate snow, too!!

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Birthday??  There's a birthday over here?  Did I miss it?  I hope I didn't miss out on any of the cake. 

Why did I think the birthday party was next week?