Hnggggghhhhhhhh!
Blameless drops tomorrow, and while I’ve spent the last month or so avidly awaiting its publication and intending to get it in paperback (so it can sit on the shelf next to the other two, because I love it so much I must have it in physical form) – now I find I can’t decide between paper and Kindle! GAH!
If I go with Kindle, I’ll get it instantly tomorrow, and it’ll probably be in a more durable format. (Maybe. Ebooks are tricksy like that.)
If I go with paper, I’ll get it in two days (sweet, sweet Amazon Prime), and it’ll be in a pretty durable format that can sit on the shelf with Soulless and Changeless.
What to do, what to do!
FOTD: Underground Moon
I’m home sick today – getting used to a new prescription, feeling pretty cruddy and flu-y. (And sweaty and gross, blecch.) So, you’re reaping the, uh, benefits? In that I have plenty of time to sit on my ass and slowly edit photos? In between drinking a shit ton of water and hitting up the ibuprofen bottle. And napping. And trying to stop sweating. Jesus, how am I this sweaty inside, in the ac, without a fever? Grody.
Anyway, here’s another look I did last week, not exactly sure when, but I know all the products since I left them in my makeup bag. 
I wanted to use some of the Hi-Fi Labyrinth Collection. I was really impressed with the eyeshadows and the lip glaze – they are amazing, and super sparkly (as you’ll see). But I wish I’d paired Crystal Moon with something more contrasty, I think. Or maybe just applied Down in the Underground with a heavier hand?
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FOTDs: Whoops!
This is what happens when you don’t post your makeup looks for more than ten days, while you’re busy having nutball mood swings and crying hysterically: you forget when you wore the looks, and some of what you used in them. (I can joke about it because it’s passed, and my meds are tweaked, and everything’s looking way up. The turning point was actually kind of ironic – but that’s a whole ‘nother post.) Anyhoodles! Here are two makeup looks I’ve worn recently, but am not entirely sure of the products used. (And obviously I stripped the color out of my hair between the two.)
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Swatch Sunday, 08/29/10: Meow Cosmetics Friday the 13th Collection
As per usual, the bottom half of each swatch is over Too Faced Shadow Insurance. Except I noticed while swatching that it smells a little funny, so I think it’s time for either another tube of TFSI or a different primer. I’m thinking maybe Detrivore’s or Concrete’s – they seem to be pretty popular, and work well. Anyway, onto the swatches:
left to right: 13, accident, bad luck, broken mirror, cursed
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left to right: fate, misfortune, paranormal, skeptic, spell
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left to right: supernatural, trepidation, unlucky
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I loooooove these shades and can’t wait to wear them! (I also got samples of the Guilty and Simple Pleasures collections.) You should check out Meow Cosmetics.
aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhh
fuck this week. just fuck it.
i apologize for not commenting on y’all’s blogs lately. i don’t really have an excuse other than i’m an asshole and kind of horribly anxious and depressed at the moment. getting back into therapy, and next thursday cannot come fast enough. if i disappear down a rabbit hole between now and then, well, that’s why.
Book Meme Day 30
Day 30 – What book are you reading right now?
Oh noes! Last day of the book meme. 
It was so much fun.
I am currently reading Stieg Larsson’s The Girl who Played with Fire (I am actually loving the Millennium trilogy, and particularly Lisbeth Salander), P. D. James’s Shroud for a Nightingale, and Stan Rice’s Singing Yet (and it’s becoming obvious that I need a Stan Rice related tattoo). There are a couple other books that have bookmarks in them, or have recently been put on my nightstand, or pulled off the to-read bookshelf next to my side of the bed – but really those are just flirtations. I’ll get to them in earnest later. What I’m reading in earnest right now are the Larsson, James, and Rice.
Crafty goodness?
Back in the day, this was a knitting blog. And then as I branched out craftwise, it was a crafting blog. And then I started kind of putting all sorts of things up, and it was a personal blog, I guess. And then my makeup obsession hit, and here we are.
I’ve been meaning to be more diligent about tracking my crafty endeavors, here and on Ravelry and/or Craftster. I’ve even considered putting up tutes here, but wasn’t sure if people would be into it (plus there are already so many great tutes, I don’t know what I’d add to them – maybe it’d be better just to share the great tutes I’ve found and followed). I know Heather’s interested in learning to knit and/or crochet – what about the rest of you? Are you interested in crafts-type stuff? And if so, what crafts-related stuff would you like to see here? (Just projects? Or tutes? Or book recommendations?)
HOLY. CRAP.
And this is just in time, since I’ve been meaning to change the bedsheets for…um….ahem…about a month now. (What, we only have two sets of fitted sheets for that fucker. It’s huge, and sets of nice sheets ain’t exactly cheap.)
(OMG I hate you why won’t you embed properly I don’t have time for this shit. Just click on the link.)
Book Meme Day 29
Day 29 – Saddest character death OR best/most satisfying character death (or both!)
I definitely cried during The Subtle Knife when Lee Scoresby and Hester died. Um, cried pretty hard, actually. The precise phrase might be “hysterical sobbing.”
Book Meme Day 28
Day 28 – First favorite book or series obsession
Francesca Lia Block’s Dangerous Angels series, in 7th grade. My best friend in 7th grade, Roxanne, was a really smart girl who would have been in the advanced level classes – if she hadn’t flat-out refused to read the books on our English class reading lists. (Which included Lord of the Flies and The Scarlet Letter and shit like that.) She’d already read them, hadn’t particularly liked them, and didn’t see the point to reading them again. Unfortunately for her, she actually voiced this opinion, instead of gliding through English with an easy A – and got stuck in the “LD” classes (“learning disability” – I don’t know what they’re called these days). But that turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because the LD teacher diagnosed Roxanne as a “reluctant teen reader.” No, seriously, that was the official term. And the upshot was, that Roxanne got to read books most of us didn’t, and that were by far so much better than what we read in “regular” or “advanced” English. Which is how Roxanne came to read Francesca Lia Block (because Weetzie Bat was on a list of books “for reluctant teen readers”), and how I came to read FLB: Roxanne pulled me aside in homeroom one day and told me I HAD to chuck what I was reading for English class (since I’d read it before anyway) and read Weetzie Bat immediately. And that was the beginning of a beautiful relationship. (Between me and FLB’s books, since I went to a different school for 8th grade and high school, and fell out of touch with Roxanne.)
Roxanne also was responsible for introducing me to the Dragonlance novels, which prepped me for the playing D&D, Cyberpunk, CyberGeneration, Shadowrun, and White Wolf in 8th grade. Good stuff.
