"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

[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.