There’s No Such Thing As Too Much.

I know all of my talk lately about diet pills and acne treatments has been boring, so I present to you…

…my latest stash haul, thanks to my dearest friend L. that lives out on the Left Coast. She decided to do a major stash cleaning, and instead of throwing things out, she offered them up for FREE to anybody that was willing to pay for the postage.

$12.95 for a large flat rate Priority Mail box full of all kinds of bath and body goodies? Gimmee!

I went through her list, and I think I took about half, if not more, of the stuff on her list. After she shipped the box out to me, I stumbled across her sales post on the Isle of Eden forum, and I ended up buying some more stuff from her, mainly because she had quite a few of the Purely Silk hair mists that I adore so much.

Momma’s favorite smelly stuff. Purely Silk hair mists in Strawberry Pink Sugar, Purple Pastel Sugar, Vanilla Snow, and Frosted Sugarcubes. I’m actually wearing the Strawberry Pink Sugar right now.

Bath creams. The first one is Lime So Wasted, which completely fulfills all of my lime-scented fantasies. Then we have Wild Strawberry Punch w/Lime Cotton Candy, Sugar Me! Pink, Cherry Vanilla Cupcakes w/ Red Hot Candy, and Madagascar Vanilla Cake w/Cranberry Frosting. A few of them need a good stir before they get used, but they all smell fabulous. Mmmm, Lime So Wasted…

Sugar scrubs in Sugar Me! Pink, Pink Velvet, and Mango Milkshake Buttercream. Pink Velvet smells absolutely delicious!

Other Isle of Eden goodies included a bottle of Sweet Kisses body bubbles in Pink Cherries, a bottle of Baby Kisses body glaze in Pineapple Stars, and a bottle of Eden’s Mist in Black Sugar.

There were also some non-Isle of Eden goodies, as well. Bathed & Infused body lotion in Cranberry Frosting, Glace dry oil body spray in Be My Honey from Lilypad, Silk Powder cream in Pink Grapefruit & Sugar Cane from Julphia Soapworks, Red Currant shea soap from Cocoa Pink, a Marshmallow Ambrosia bubble dome from Skindecent, a Coco-Lime bubble bar from Elixir, a sugar scrub in Candied Vanilla Apples from HoT Scent Boutique, and something else that I think is another bubble bar, but I don’t quite remember.

And a teeny sample bottle of Coca Pink’s Squeaky shampoo in Chocolate. Yum.

I am completely and totally done. I really can’t buy anything else, as I’m so out of room, it’s not even funny. It’s a good thing I’ve been using up a lot of stuff lately, otherwise, the stuff would all just stay packed in the boxes they came in!

Berry Crimson Perfume Spray.

Wylde Ivy’s description: Wylde Ivy Perfumes come in cylindrical heavy glass bottles topped off with a very modern brushed metal spritzer top. Of course all of these perfumes feature beautiful full color labels that are unique to each scent and the sparkling Swarovski crystals enclosed inside.

Wylde Ivy perfumes are super concentrated perfume oils dispersed in professional perfumer’s alcohol. $15.00 1 ounce bottle.

Berry Crimson - Intensely sweet fresh pomegranate nectar on an earthy patchouli laden base of woods. Hidden deep beneath the layers of sweet and earthy notes hide the faintest hint of fresh ginger root.

I started out my morning at 8 AM. A couple of spritzes of perfume and I was out the door, on my way to work.

As I’m driving to work, all I could think of was, “Why does my car smell like a head shop?”

This perfume takes me back to my college days, and that’s not a bad thing in the least. I was friends with a girl that only wore patchouli, and it was the perfect scent for her. A bunch of us used to hang around with her on the weekends, down in her basement, just chilling out and having fun.

Those were the good ‘ole days.

It’s now almost 7 PM…11 hours since I first put this perfume on, and I can still smell it as strongly as I did this morning. It’s a wonderful scent, and very different. On me, the patchouli ramps up and beats the crap out of the pomegranate, so the pom is barely a side note in this scent. It’s just wonderful patchouli with a hint of fruit, which makes the patchouli so much more different than what I’m used to smelling. Fruitchouli, maybe? Heh.

It’s a gorgeous scent, and I absolutely adore it. My parents will probably think I’ve been smoking pot if I ever wear this around them!

We have another Wylde Ivy winner.

RV’s store rating?

Time Warp.

Grrrr.  I’m guessing that my face didn’t take to kindly to me trying out some new facial cream last night.  Even though my face is SO SOFT, I woke up with a nasty case of chin zits.  Seriously, adult acne SUCKS.

So does having sensitive skin.

My facial skin’s been going through some interesting phases lately.  Some days, it’ll be so irritated that just touching it with my fingertip will turn it red and blotchy.  Then there’s days like today, where it’s smooth and soft, and it feels the way it used to years ago.  It’s got bounce, the tone is even, and it feels good.

Minus the zits, of course.

I also tried out a new facial toner last night…I don’t think that’s what caused the breakout, but you never know.  I haven’t used toner on my face since I was a teenager, so maybe my face thinks it’s okay to go back in time!!

Google Can Be Your Friend.

It’s always a lot of fun when my Mom calls me and asks me to look stuff up on the internet.

“What’s the difference between regular life insurance and senior life insurance?” was her latest question.

“Um, I dunno.  Senior is for SENIORS?”

What I’m really thinking is, “Woman, do you know what the hell GOOGLE is?!”

Aye yi yi.

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I have finally gotten all of the photos taken that I needed to get done.  Now I just have to upload and edit them.  Of course, the card reader in my computer died last week; thankfully, I’ve got a USB travel reader that I can just plug in and use.  I’m not about to take my computer apart AGAIN for something as simple as the stupid card reader.

I got my latest BPAL order in yesterday’s mail, and it contained two bottles of the latest Chaos Theory blends.  Chaos Theory blends have no scent descriptions, and each bottle is different.  Since they were only $15 a bottle, I figured I’d get two…just for the simple reason that I wanted to see how different the scents would be between the different bottles.  I haven’t really taken a good whiff of either of them, so it remains to be seen just how different they really are.

Hay Moon 2008 Perfume Oil.

BPAL’s description: The moon was but a chin of gold
A night or two ago,
And now she turns her perfect face
Upon the world below.

Her forehead is of amplest blond;
Her cheek like beryl stone;
Her eye unto the summer dew
The likest I have known.

Her lips of amber never part;
But what must be the smile
Upon her friend she could bestow
Were such her silver will!

And what a privilege to be
But the remotest star!
For certainly her way might pass
Beside your twinkling door.

Her bonnet is the firmament,
The universe her shoe,
The stars the trinkets at her belt,
Her dimities of blue.

HAY MOON
Hay absolute, tall grasses, dry honey, mallow, cardamom, amber, and wheat. Only available from 6/17/08 - 6/20/08.

Smells like wood. Wet wood at first, then a drier, rotting wood as it dries on my wrist. After a few minutes, it starts to smell like the back of my Grandmother’s closet. Can you say mothballs?

And silly me didn’t realize this oil has cardamom in it, otherwise I never would’ve ordered it.

*scratch*

This is one of those perfume oils that smells much better in the bottle than it does on my skin.

Five minutes later, it smells like…well…did you ever drop a book in your bathtub? And then you know how you set it out to dry and it puffs up and gets this weird pulpy wet woodsy-type smell?

Well, there you have it.

Yuck. Off into the sale pile this one goes…

RV’s product rating?
(Remember, perfume reviews are based on my skin chemistry. It could smell amazing on you, even though it smells like crap on me.)

Cranky.

There is nothing on earth that you can do when a woman is PMS-ing.  When her normal acne cures don’t work and she’s got a zit on her nose the size of Kentucky; when she’s so bloated that the button on her shorts is threatening to pop; when she’s eating everything that’s not stapled down within a three mile radius…

The best you can do is just GET OUT OF HER WAY.

I don’t normally suffer from PMS, but this month…holy moly.  I’m so bloated that I can barely fit through doorways and my face is exploding.  Couple that with monster cramps (which I NEVER get!) and an appetite to rival that of Godzilla, and I’m quite a cranky chick.

It’s also not helping me that my Isle of Eden perfume smells SO GOOD that I want to chew my wrist off…

Bacci de Miele Foaming Bath Butter And Shower Creme.

Julphia Soapworks description: This is a luxurious and versatile cream soap, gentle enough for your face but best as a moisturizing body wash or shave cream. Just a dab on a shower pouf will provide you with plenty of lather. Choose your scent from any of our selections below and denote in the comments section at checkout. $6.00 3 ounce jar.

Bacci de Miele: Warm & luscious - a pure rich pool of sweet, amber colored honey.

This…now this is a honey scent that I can get along with! It’s not overpowering at all. It’s a warm, rich honey scent, almost like a honeycomb.  I love it.

This is a soft cream soap, and very fluffy.  It smooshes easily into a bath pouf, which is what I use in the shower.  Oh, the lather.  The soft, fluffy, honey-scented lather!  The soft, fluffy, honey-scented, NOT DRYING lather!  The best thing about this bath cream…well, two things, actually…

1. The scent lasts for quite some time once you get out of the shower.  I kept catching whiffs of honey as the evening progressed.
2. It didn’t dry out my skin AT ALL.

When you order, you can specify whether you prefer your bath cream to be firm or creamy.  I prefer the creamy.  In fact, I LOVE the creamy.

Julphia also has a 6 ounce jar available, and I think I’m going to be ordering a bunch of them.  I need this bath cream in some lime scents.

Oh, wait…damn no-buy…

RV’s product rating?

Breathe Easy.

I’m starting to think that maybe the husband and I should invest in some sort of air purifier, like something from IQAir. It’s either that, or I stop using the scented oil wall plugins that I love so much.  The headaches I’ve been getting lately are getting on my last nerve, and I’m tired of dealing with them.  Since the doctors can’t figure out WHY I’m getting them, maybe if I quit using the wall plugins for a while, maybe I’ll be able to figure it out.

Or, maybe I could stop wearing so much perfume.

Right.  I don’t see THAT happening!

Eh, I’m not paranoid.  I’m not worried that the scented oil plugins are ruining my health, but I do think an air purifier would be a good thing, especially since hubby and I don’t really open the windows in our apartment to air out the place.

Of course, all of these headaches could also be attributed to the fact that I work for a printing company…

Downgrading Is NOT An Option!

Luckily, the no-buy that I have imposed upon myself only extends to bath and body products, and not technology.  Or sexy shoes.  The way it’s looking, I’m going to have to lay out a nice little chunk of change to get my cell phone replaced, since cracked screens ARE NOT covered under warranty.

We’re going to the Sprint store tonight, in the hopes that maybe I can sucker them into replacing it anyway, since the outer screen isn’t cracked.  I doubt it will work, but it’s worth a shot, especially since if it doesn’t work, the cheapest place to get a new Palm Centro is on eBay.

Or I can get on a waitlist for a new touchscreen for $80, and then replace it myself.  That’s the CHEAPEST I’ll be able to get out of this little predicament.

Unless I downgrade to a Katana that I have.  No way in hell am I doing that.  Nuh-uh!

Oh, and to cap everything else off, hubby lost his MP3 player.

NOT.  HAPPY.

Down And Out.

I took the day off today, in the hopes of being able to get some things done around the house. As we all know, the best laid plans always fall apart, and right now, hubby and I are in serious need of one of those Vegas vacations, just so that we can get the hell away from everything.

I woke up this morning with a raging headache, that pretty much meant nothing was going to get done. Hubby was in such pain today that he couldn’t even stand up straight, and he just spend the last four hours sleeping.  I also spent a good portion of the late afternoon napping, in the hopes of getting rid of my headache.

And the cats were fighting all afternoon.  That certainly made for fun times.

At least I managed to get some things done LAST NIGHT.  Two full boxes of bath goodies have been put away.  I am now officially out of room.  Sadly, I still have two very large boxes full of stuff that needs to be photographed, posted, and put away.  It’s a daunting task.  I also have some stuff that I sold that I need to package up to get out in tomorrow’s mail, and I have absolutely no energy to do even that mundane little task.

My bed and my stand fan cranked up to high are looking pretty darn good right about now…