Scratch on the moon like a familiar smile stained on my mind

[sovay]

rushthatspeaks tried a perfume on my wrist tonight that made me smell like a really swanky fish tank. It's BPAL's Y'ha-nthlei, so I see how this happened, but I was expecting more brine, less air filter. There was a great moment right after it hit my wrist when all the top notes blew off and all I could smell was kelp, but it didn't last. I think the moral of this story is that I just want a perfume that smells like low tide.

I spent today with Rush-That-Speaks, Fox, Rafe, and Lucien. Outside of getting hit in the eye with a painted wooden egg hurled at speed and close range by a two-and-a-half-year-old testing the concept of limits and also processing some emotions, it was really nice. (I put ice on my eye. It doesn't seem to have bruised. I can see out of it. I would be cool with not getting hit in the eye by anything for a week or so, though.) We ordered dry fried beef from Zoe's with garlic spinach and scallion pancakes for dinner and Rush-That-Speaks showed me Oscar #Worldpeace's "No White God."

I don't know if I will see Lucien again. I petted him especially before I left; I took pictures of him with Rush and gaudior when they got home. spatch called to tell him he was a good cat and I held the phone to his ear and stroked the sharp ridge of his back under the still-black fur. It is important to have good cats in your life. I am lucky enough to have one beside me on the couch right now, grooming his back foot. Tell your cats you love them.

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[sovay]

Unfortunately "Days of Winter Sunshine" was a temporary blend for the Yule season.

I hope you still have some left! The sole perfume I wear is also a BPAL limited edition, so I live vaguely in dread of what happens when it runs out.

I think the problem is that the scent of low tide is at least partly composed of dead fish and rotting seaweed, which probably turns off most perfume buyers, but it's so nostalgic and rich and singular to me that it's exactly what I want to wear.

I believe this is the reason we have the commiseratory phrase "hard same."