Wednesday, Sept. 08, 2004 - 11:24 a.m.
Greetings,
It’s official. If you put the words “pumpkin” or “harvest” in the description of something, unless the price tag is outrageous, I will buy it.
Case in point: Just placed my Avon order and I will reproduce it for you here:
Here’s my order for Campaign 19:
Pg. 18 Pumpkin Spice Mini Jar Candle (2)
Pg. 18 Pumpkin Spice Room and Linen Spray
Pg. 21 Harvest Apple foam bath
Pg. 21 Harvest Apple Body spray
Pg. 151 Pumpkin Pie lip balm
Thanks,
Mina
And this isn’t even the Halloween Avon order. My head spins just contemplating the mayhem I may get up to when the word “Halloween” appears.
The ladies room on my floor entered the new millennium today. New paper towel and toilet paper dispensers with that chic, rounded, retro appearance. Very stylish for corporate America. Still no red velvet lounging sofa or heated hand lotion, but it’s a start.
I seem to be on a Vincent Price/Poe kick as well lately. Just ordered “The Tomb of Ligeia/An Evening with Edgar Allen Poe” and “The Masque of the Red Death/The Premature Burial” on Amazon.
I was reading one of the reviews by a consumer which made me howl out loud at the part where they bitched about the “gaudy, one color” rooms in the Masque of the Red Death.” She thought Changing Rooms would “have a field day” with the purple room and the gold room and the black room.
I have three words. Read the story.
I can’t believe it’s only 11 a.m. because it feels like I have been here as long as the little girls in the Overlook have roamed that hallway hand in hand.
Speaking of the Overlook, THERE’S a place the Changing Rooms crew could really sink their teeth into. Although then it wouldn’t be half so disturbing a film I suspect.
Thomas actually went to bed before I did last night. I went to bed at 10:45, which is not late by any stretch of the imagination. I’m used to him turning in after midnight. As a result he was up at 5:40 a.m. this morning, 5 minutes behind me, and yet I still got stuck in morning bridge traffic. But it wasn’t bad, just annoying in a stop and go sort of fashion.
I went to the library yesterday for some new reading material. I completely turned my backpack inside out searching for stray bits of metal and didn’t even bring my wallet for fear of the change inside it setting off the frigging security alarm.
Only yesterday some jolly woman was manning the metal detector and she waved everyone through no matter if they set it off or not.
Some total lunatic was running around the neutral ground across the street blowing a whistle and waving his arms around and shouting something. Library patrons sat outside on the steps watching him for something to do on a Tuesday afternoon.
I’m not sure what the deal was, but I thought I heard the name of a football team as part of the shouting. Sports fan gone crazy is my guess. It was really too hot to be running around too. Goddamn smothering heat that should be relegated firmly to August.
This morning it was nice and cool though and the current temp is 78 which is wonderful.
It is absolutely pitch black when I get up in the morning to take my shower. I remember a month or so ago when I could watch the sunrise out my bathroom window as I showered. Not so now. I feel like it’s the middle of the frickin’ night. The stars are even winking in the sky as I blearily pour of blurt of Biolage shampoo onto my head and start washing my hair.
The time change is still over a month away too. I always think that Daylight Savings Time kicks in way too early and ends way too late. It should end at the beginning of October not the middle. It should never start at all, but I’m not going to climb onto that high horse today.
Although I don’t know why since this entry seems to be spinning out of control into the land of Nothing to Say in 50,000 Words or More. It’s tragic.
Power company is replacing all the gas mains in my neighborhood. So we’ll have people crawling under our house for the next month or so and then the gas gets shut off for half an hour and then power company people come out to relight all my pilot lights.
They’ve already torn up the street something fierce. This whole summer has been nothing but replacing sewer pipes, repairing potholes, and now the gas lines and mains. This is a good thing, but it makes for quite the neighborhood eyesore at points.
I’m totally boring myself so I’m ending this entry here. I’ll be back tomorrow with more nothing to say I’m sure.
Until next time,
Olrun
