"you know what would be fun?" "no! why would i know a thing like that?"

[bossymarmalade]

Have recieved Valentines from robanybody (inside an even prettier card! You doll you), smartlikejustin (omg, it's like a little tryptich of mass production! Hee!), and a Lunar New Year's card from trumpeterofdoom (I enjoyed the story completely!) -- mucho thanks to all of you! I adore getting random mail. Thanks also to karabou, who sent the Summers brothers. So, so pretty! eeeee!

Now, jchalo kindly shipped me the bpal scent "De Sade", which is described as "the essence of pleasure heightened by pain: the raw scent of leather", along with strict instructions to post my feelings about it. Well, I don't know about the pleasure-pain principle, but I do know that I put some of it on the insides of my wrists and then spent the REST OF THE DAY trying to devise non-obtrusive ways to sniff at it. It has a clean, slightly bookish smell; goes on sharp, but mutes down into a delicious sort of smooth whiskey-and-wood that I adore, vaguely sweet under a smokier topnote. If you like the smell of pipe tobacco and leather-bound books, you'd probably like it. Thank you, sweetie!

And now,

1. Worn a pumpkin costume and danced to country-and-western music

2. Been suspended from high school for drinking on school property

3. Smoked grated nutmeg/dried banana peels/assorted teas

4. Kissed a nun (on the cheek, perverts!)

5. Attended a school that still employed corporal punishment

6. Visited a sewage treatment plant

7. Thrown thumb tacks out of a window at a teacher

8. Eaten fresh brown sugar and freshly burned sugar cane

9. Shaved a strip of skin off my knee

10. Jumped off a "pirate ship" into the Caribbean Sea

Comments

[ex_halo669]

yay! I'm so glad you like it :)

and well done for following the strict instructions. the citizens of Topeka, Kansas welcome you with open arms ;)

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

I really quite love it! As much as I loved the card that came with it, ahahahahha! I have it propped up against my mirror so I giggle all through fixing my hair in the morning. *g* Thank you!

[katlike.livejournal.com]

Oh, de Sade is so lovely. I mix it with the single note of Honey, sometimes. :)

I will have to think on this 10 things list.

You've smoked nutmeg? o.O

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

I tried de Sade with some of the burnt-sugar vanilla lotion I have, and it's unimaginably good. mmmmmmm!

You've smoked nutmeg?

I have indeed! I lived with two of my best friends and we had no cable and so eventually when we'd watched our entire combined collection of videotapes, we resorted to recreational experimentation. *g* One of the roommates and I were into magic and herbs and stuff, and we read that nutmeg could get you high, and so we grated some up and smoked it!

As I recall, it tasted like burned hotdogs and along with a massive headache, gave me intense paranoia; I refused to come out of my room the next morning because I was CONVINCED my dad was eating breakfast with my roomies. Hee!

You should *totally* do this meme, girl.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ducks/]

Been suspended from high school for drinking on school property

At our school they were giving out the booze. Mind you, as servers I don't think we were really supposed to be drinking it.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

ahahahah! I would never have been suspended if this awful girl hadn't TURNED US IN. What a cow!

[callmesandy.livejournal.com]

Totally unrelated - but in cap_it there's been two posts of Futurama caps. Big and pretty. It made me think of you.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

whoo-hoo! I will have to check them out; that spate of icon-making is shortly in the future! Thank you, honey.

[karabou.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I'm only sorry it didn't take up the whole page.. I draw so smaaall sometimes. Feel free to cut off the edges!

9. Shaved a strip of skin off my knee

*SCREAMS*

[ihearthings-ii.livejournal.com]

yeah, that was my first reaction too. ouch.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Your pictures are so pretty and soft-looking, I just keep stroking my fingertips along them. Such wistful, gentle colours! And Scott and Alex are so PRETTY! And the Bruno & Boots one is too adorable for words! I love seeing them for real, thank you so much for sending them!

As for the shaving mishap--I was in a rush one morning and I had gym that day, and one thing led to another. It hurt and it was awkward and I made up a stupid story about scraping my knee on the car door, but the WORST part was taking that strip of skin out of the razor. WAAAAAAAUGGGHHHHHHHH!!!

[lilysaid.livejournal.com]

oooh, I love De Sade. One of the first BPAL scents I tried, and I couldn't stop sniffing myself, either.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

It's unbelievably nice! I fiddled with my hair so much that first day I wore it, people must've thought I was vain as hell. *g*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_jules_/]

I was a pumpkin for Hallowe'en when I was six. I have the pho-tos to prove it. Also, tragically, I've been to a sewage treatment plant. It was a grade four field trip that was supposed to be to a water purification plant, because we were studying the magic school bus book about water purification, but there was some kind of awful misunderstanding that resulted in a sewage treatment plant and dozens of vomiting children.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Also, tragically, I've been to a sewage treatment plant

ahahahaah! Dude, for *real*. I hated my Grade 7 teacher SO MUCH; he would forfeit our class trips to go skating and to the pool, giving them away to the other classes--and the one time he took us on a trip, it was to the fucking SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. And they showed us enormous vats of sewage and the scum floating on top and said, "that there's what we make MAKEUP out of!!" and we were all disturbed for the rest of the week!

[ihearthings-ii.livejournal.com]

1. Worn a pumpkin costume and danced to country-and-western music

nope, but I once wore the costume of the mascot of this toystore I worked in. it was similar to this one... (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v303/CJ_ii/3c.gif)

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

That thing is SCARY! Was it awful? Did children attack you? It looks like it would be really hot in there, man.

[ihearthings-ii.livejournal.com]

so friggin' hot! I wore boxers and a tank underthere, and I was soaked when I got out. and it was heavy too.
and dude, the kids. *shudders*

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

The godawful kids! My pumpkin costume was huge and heavy, and the eyepiece was in the stem and it came down about mid-thigh and I had to wear green tights with it. And then my hands just barely stuck out the sides with gloves on, which meant I had practically no mobility. And the damned children kept trying to look up my pumpkin! It was so terrible!

[ihearthings-ii.livejournal.com]

ahahaha your icon. yes *exactly* like that.
green tights you say? damn. who invented kids anyway?

[glendaglamazon.livejournal.com]

2. Been suspended from high school for drinking on school property

Damn! I almost did that. I got suspended from school, and then went and drank right next to school property. So close.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

ahahahah! So what did you actually get suspended for, then, if not the drinking? I'm curious!

[glendaglamazon.livejournal.com]

Cutting school. Because the way to cure kids of not being in school when they're supposed to is to not let them be in school when they're supposed to.

[indirajames.livejournal.com]

What sort of effect did the nutmeg have when smoked?

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

It gave me a headache and made me paranoid as hell. Plus it tasted like burned hotdogs. I really don't recommend it unless you're DESPERATE, man. *g*

[glendaglamazon.livejournal.com]

Besides, just eating nutmeg will make you hallucinate, so there's no need to burn it. (Don't eat too much, though, and make sure it's fresh.)

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

How d'you eat it? Do you grate it and sprinkle it on something? I can't imagine chewing one of the nuts. *shudder*

[indirajames.livejournal.com]

I've heard that some people actually eat the powder. Some druggies have no finesse, I swear.

[glendaglamazon.livejournal.com]

I think one would have to have concrete teeth to actually eat a nutmeg.

Next time you have rampant insomnia, try this: Put a teaspoon of nutmeg in a mug of milk with honey to taste and microwave until hot. Make sure you're actually consuming the nutmeg (it is a bit gritty). Sleep comes soon. This quantity won't actually make you hallucinate, but you will certainly understand the powers of the spice.

Also, if one is pregnant and intending to remain so, one should NOT consume this beverage, or any large quantities of nutmeg.

[superpana.livejournal.com]

Oh man: banana peels, catnip, black tea. Random green herbs growing in the yard.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Hee! I think we came to the consensus that the mint teas were the nicest to smoke, the fruit teas made us queasy, and the lemon tea hurt like a bitch!

What was catnip like? Did it do anything?

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've visited a sewage plant before! :)

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

On purpose? Or were you dragged there kicking and screaming? *g*

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

School trip, yo. All of us were desperate to miss a day of school for the trip, but it turned out really boring. Been made to visit an incinerator as well.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

An incinerator! What exactly is that? It's not like a *crematorium*, is it? Because that would just be creepy.

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

That's funny, because the all girls' school I went to? Our "brother" school was located right next to one of our biggest crematoriums. But no, incinerator plant where they burned rubbish. Which is still pretty gross.

[chrismm.livejournal.com]

#5: Yeah, in grade school. Ack. We had one teacher with a taste for breaking meter sticks over kids' backs (not the skinny, 1/4 inch thick cheap ones, but the heavy duty, 3/4 inch thick science class jobs). She was evil.

#9: Dude. Not my knee, but my shin bone. Yow! *shudders at the memory*

#10: *is jealous* So cool.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

We had one teacher with a taste for breaking meter sticks over kids' backs

Mine liked to beat you with your OWN ruler, to add insult to injury. All it took was once with the heavy wooden type with the metal strip at the top before you came back to class with a thin plastic ruler; she broke tons of them on us, and then she'd go get her own wooden one. Le sigh!

[worldwouldend.livejournal.com]

So, 1. Do you mean at the same time? Because I am afraid you will have me beat if you do indeed mean at the same time.

In other news, I've done 5, 6, and 9, but I really wish I'd done 7, 8, and 10 instead! Fresh brown sugar! Freshly burned sugar cane! You have a way with words and foods.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

When I lived in Trinidad, I went on a school trip to a sugar refinery and they showed us how they spun the raw molasses-y sugar mix in a centrifugal basket, and all the molasses dripped out and left soft, delicious brown sugar in the basket and they let us taste it and it was like *heaven*, man. As for the sugar cane, our house was built on plantation land (with a sugar cane factory down the road) and so after they burned the fields my dad would go cut us some stalks. mmmmmmm.

So, 1. Do you mean at the same time?

ahahahaahh, yes! I was working at a produce place then, and it was Thanksgiving and there was a show going on outside where this little country-western band played music and a girl in a pumpkin costume danced to it. And then she was sick one day and they wanted one of us cashiers to stand in for her, and I thought it couldn't possibly be worse than doing the register. BUT IT WAS. *g*

[edie22.livejournal.com]

i did #5. I never received any hacks, but I heard the tales, saw the paddles, etc.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

They kept the paddles around! That's just creepy. Mine used to hit us with rulers, except for one teacher who had a special leather strap for the lickings. Feh.

[edie22.livejournal.com]

yeah, the principal kept them hung in his office. I was there all the time because i was one of the good kids, but sitll they were there.

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

re: #1- BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Is there video of this? Pictures at least? Maybe Lori could draw what it was like?

re: #3- My sister and I tried smoking banana peels once because of the Dead Milkmen song. I don't think they were dried out enough, though, because they just kind smoldered and stunk up the kitchen.

re: #9- UGH.

[robanybody.livejournal.com]

4. Kissed a nun (on the cheek, perverts!)

Ahahaha! I have done that as well, but only because I had to when leaving boarding school.

I'm glad you got the card. <3

[meinnim.livejournal.com]

10. Jumped off a "pirate ship" into the Caribbean Sea

Did you sing 'Yo-ho yo-ho, a pirate's life for me' beforehand? I would have done that. *g*

I'm green with envy that you've been to the Carribbean, been on a pirate ship and jumped off the said ship.

[virgulesmith.livejournal.com]

I slipped a bit and shaved a strip of skin from the side of my knee. The worst part was the moment when I had to disentangle.

[(Anonymous)]

::huggles::

[i-naiad.livejournal.com]

I've done number 6 - couldn't get the smell out of my nose for the rest of the day.