Flotsam and jetsam

[vanillafluffy]

It's been a mellow week. Hit the food pantry Monday morning and the library after...got a stack of books that I've been reading my way through. Evanovich, "Wicked Appetite", "The Nero Wolfe Cookbook" (A nice reminder of the series, but WAY too rarefied for my tastes.) and a Todd McCaffrey. I've also set my tree up, though it's not trimmed yet.

UPS delivered goodies sent by kukkurkurat, namely some LUSH Ultimate Shine shampoo, which smells incredible. The copy for it says, "Lovely smelling ylang ylang oil makes dull hair shiny; we've even added little bits of glitter to increase the dazzling effects. Beautiful violet leaf to decongest scalp and toning elemi oil calms nerves." I don't know what ylang-ylang or violet leaves smell like---I mean, I know what violets smell like, but the leaves?! IDK.---but the shampoo? Smells like Christmas trees! Fabulously intense. I walk into the bathroom and am surrounded by fir trees.

They also sent a couple trial size bits of soap, Sandstone, which smells like lemon verbena (or Lemon Pledge, if you don't have a frame of reference for lemon verbena). The other is called Alkmaar, which my nose insists is sweet talcum powder and chalkdust, although the site alleges "creamy sexy jasmine and honeysuckle scent with smokey vetivert undertones". Tho' I didn't say I didn't like it!

As if that wasn't lovely enough, GK sent me a couple of great shirts. Both are lightweight gauzy cotton. One is a green-on-green floral print with silver thread sparkling in it. It's missing a couple buttons, but goodness knows, I've got a plethora of replacements and it'll take all of 20 minutes to fix. The other is a pull-on top in a tribal print in shades of brown. It has sort of a sweetheart neckline trimmed with a goldish braid trim.

We're having a cool-down; the weather report says it's a bit low for this time of year: They're saying tonight's low is going to be in the low 40s/high 30s. Brrr! But I've got a nice accumulation of long-sleeved stuff that I picked up after last winter's Big Chill.

And now back to my yuletide story, already in progress....


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Comments

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I used to have ylang-ylang perfume.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

I used to have some African violet perfume...that's what I sort of expected from this stuff, but this smells good enough that I don't mind.

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