sporky_rat: The Badge of the Young Pioneers - Lenin's head in a red star with red flame above, the words in Cyrillic,'Always Ready!' (young pioneers)

So. Hi. I don't do access. If I write something, it's public. If it's not public, it's because I'm still working on it or it's a secret from some people. You'll know if you're on that filter.

So don't feel bad if you've subscribed and I don't grant access - I just don't do access.

♥'s, Sporky

PS. Informational Stuff - Sporky no longer has preferred pronouns. (No pronoun fits, the name does.) - Sporky does not like when people snub Sporky's geographical area.

PPS. I still aen't ded yet

PPPS. Note to self, your locked Project: Let's Get Physical post is here. Don't forget, it's monthly! And your Goals And How To Get There post is here!

sporky_rat: (Дедшка Зима)

The house has been either entirely too cold or very pleasant, and no middle ground. There's been a fire all day, and it has helped a lot. One of the big issues we have is concrete floors, and it's slick and keeps the cold really well. Perfect for summer. Awful, terrible, no good, and bad for winter.

But I do have house shoes that supposedly are arriving tomorrow? I'm fine if they show up Monday though. I don't really like how the USPS has to deliver packages on Sundays.

The upcoming months are already filling up. I'm going to be busy so many weekends!

sporky_rat: diego luna as cassian andor, looking serious and done (andor is serious about this)

Anyone else get the massive urge to make jam and can tomato sauce and do the rest of the sort of food put up in the liminal space between Christmas and New Year's?

sporky_rat: mad, bad, and dangerous to know is Q. (are you sure you want the answer?)

Why on earth would my three card draw be the Five of Coins, the Empress reversed, and the Emperor? Where's my Tower???

(I am constantly amused by my deck's intense sarcasm.)

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All of my cold weather clothing is either military surplus or hand me downs from cousins in the oil fields.

I might need to figure this out. (This is JANUARY weather, not December!)

sporky_rat: It's a rat!  With a spork!  It's ME! (Default)

I spent four days hyperfocused on learning how to art on Procreste, the art program that's available on the iPad.

I can see a very obvious progression of ability and skill in the nine pieces of art I did, and this explains my family. They'd hyperfocus on something and five days later they're really good at it and ready to move on.

It explains a few of my things as well.

Still. Nine pieces of art. Eight of them were gifts to people, one was my DR character.

Definitely going to ease up on it now.

sporky_rat: Garrus, Mass Effect 2 (hurt)

Stupid little walk for stupid little brain chemicals in stupid heat.

It was either heat or humidity, so heat.

sporky_rat: silver star on a rainbow background (silver star)

Muscles are annoying. I understand the biological method by which we develop our muscles after using them; they're still annoying when the delayed onset muscle soreness hits. Which it has, and now my hips and quads and hams are in misery.

I am working on pullups as well, and my deltoids hate me. That's fine, I can hate them back just as equally.

On the more cheerful side of working a body and being reasonably good at it, I have had several people ask me to teach them stretching so they don't do anything awkward to themselves during high impact activity.

sporky_rat: Orange 3WfDW dreamsheep (three weeks for dreamwidth)

I got bit hard by the larp crafting bug and I churned out a leather face mask with carved glow in the dark teeth and two rubber stamps in about two hours.

I have other projects on the list but there's a couple that require spatial design awareness and there's not not much of that in my brain. Fortunately, I know someone who has plenty of it.

The crafting bug really does hit hard some times.

sporky_rat: A Giant Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man cruisin' down the street in NYC (oh shit!)

Vacuuming for the flea issue does lead to some glee when you see all the dead fleas in the water tank of the vacuum.

sporky_rat: Atia from Rome looking very pleasant and kind. Text: Die screaming you pigspawn trollop (pigspawn!)

AUGH THE FLEAS THE WRETCHED FLEAS STARTED EARLY

(Also wow this year has been bad already, we haven't had a year this bad in A WHILE)

sporky_rat: A blue glass bottle of perfume (perfume)

Imaginary Author's Slow Explosions

Notes: Saffron, Rose Absolute, Leather, Apple, Benzoin, Cashmeran, Arpora Night Market

WELP NOPE

This is a NOPE right out of the bottle onto the skin, wow. I have never been so grossed out by leather and the smell of cheap gin EVER in my life.

Edit: it has been described by Brent as "elder horse girl". Leather and gin and some sort of weird animal smell.

sporky_rat: A blue glass bottle of perfume (perfume)

It's another Penhaligon today, Changing Constance.

Notes: Constance is what one might call A Very Modern Woman. She has no regard for custom, and does exactly as she likes. Cool cardamom, hot pimento, salted caramel - her contrary perfume breaks every rule. Key notes cardamom salted butter caramel tobacco

And at first sniff and on the skin, it's pretty nice. I like it. There's a faint whiff of alcohol on me, though, we'll see if that sticks.

edit: it's faded QUICKLY. that is the issue with sweet pastry smells on me, alas. it's still there in my nose but not anything else? but I'll get Brent to smell later.

sporky_rat: A blue glass bottle of perfume (perfume)

Penhaligon's Terrible Teddy, scent notes of "incense, leather, and vetiver".

First whiff: that is some leather and incense. I can't identify the incense, but it's definitely there. Sort of reminds me of the leather gloves we had with the thurible at church, they had a sort of similar leather and incense smell.

I had to go look up what exactly vetiver was supposed to smell like and I got this: "deep, sweet, woody, smoky, earthy, amber and balsam" and that is exactly all the things I'm smelling under the leather.

I think I like this one. Shame it's so expensive. (I find it very funny that all the perfumes that are tentatively classified as "men's perfume" are the ones I like the best and smell best on me. Except the musks, those are tough.)

edit: oh now there's some weird musk smell, where did that come from???? this one might not stay. alas!

sporky_rat: A blue glass bottle of perfume (perfume)

I did say it was particular.

(It's Danger Eau from House of Fanatics and if it wasn't musk city, I'd love to try it.)

sporky_rat: One of the Awesome Future Dudes from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. (you talkin' to me?)

Someone remind me at some point (this is probably a reminder to myself) that I want a "perfume" icon. I think I know the photo, even.

sporky_rat: Doctor Who (#9) with his arms crossed, leaning against the TARDIS. (stupid apes how i love you)

Today's contestant is by Solstice Scents, and it's Corvin's Smoked Apple. (I think, I'm writing this on the driveway.)

The notes are: "Applewood Smoke, Apple, Caramel, Benzoin, Guaiacwood", and right out of the spritzer it was smoked cinnamon caramel apple with a faint tang of pecan.

Not a lot of Apple, but very caramel. I liked the pecan touch. Pretty good. Stayed a while, it's a sweet smokey now.

sporky_rat: Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins looking classy af over his silver headed cane (elegant terror)

Okay, the Summer Plum was just too much soapy/lotiony plum. Now we've got California Love and the scent notes are: "California lemons, cashmere, white musk, a trace of guava, marine notes, salted pistachios, coconut suntan lotion, a drop of cannabis. (fantasy note, there is no cannabis in this fragrance.)"

And w o w is that musk coming through. I amplify musk like nobody's business apparently (it happens with Old Spice deodorant). This vaguely like walking past the Hollister or American ...Eagle? store in the mall in the early aughts.

We'll see how this goes. I can sort of smell some marine notes and lemon but the musk! It's STRONG.

sporky_rat: Effie Trinket in pink at the first District Twelve Reaping (Effie Trinket)

Today's is Sucrebeille's Summer Plum. The notes are "A lush blend of juicy, ripe plums and plum blossom".

Out of the bottle? Holy flying cows, Batman, this is grape Kool-Aid. 100%. Ten minutes on my skin (ish) and it's a plum soap with a hint of body lotion, tiny bit of violet. Not real violets, fake violets. I know what real violets smell like, I rolled down that hill as a child.

Probably a trade as well, we'll see.

[Edit] There's the faintest hint of the wild plum tree when it's in blossom, but still overwhelmingly grape Kool-Aid. I like grape Kool-Aid, not this much. And not with the tinge of body lotion. What is that note??

sporky_rat: Adora Belle Dearheart looking very unimpressed (it's a tingle salad!)

I'm trying Sucrebeille's Mother of Dragons perfume and the notes are "Sweet vanilla, smoke from the village you just burnt to the ground, decadent leather".

First skin smell: W O W it's like walking into Tandy Leather with my friend who wore nothing but vanilla perfume for years. Not bad. Very sweet, very leather. We'll give it time.

[edit] Several hours later it went plasticky vanilla on me. Very strong plastic, very strong. Def one to trade off to someone else.

sporky_rat: Joker, being serious and belying his nickname (Serious Business)

The D.E.A.D. drills have been very helpful, especially since my review book is missing quite a lot of more modern information. It tests on Cemeteries & Cremation , Management and Merchandising & Casket Parts, Funeral Service Counseling, Funeral Service Administration, Legal and Regulatory Compliance, Funeral Directing and Communications, OSHA, and Scenario Arts.

So far, I'm doing reasonably well on it. I try and spend an hour and a half studying (and testing, it's 163 questions and I think I have two hours at the testing centre to do it), and then have a break, and test again. My scores are going up, and it's nice to see that none of my composite scores are lower than an 80 since I started writing down the questions I was missing and making sure to review them. (Imagine that, writing in a notebook I've had hanging around! No, I actually bought a set of three National Park covered journals to use for this, and it's been really helpful. Despite what the listing says, they're not hardcover, more the slightly-more-hardcover-than-a-paperback-book hardcover.

Seven days

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