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Friday was my birthday! 49.
It was actually a pretty low-key day, but I got to sleep in (yesssss), and then went to one of my favorite local small businesses to give the owner a hug for the store's 25th birthday. Gargoyles. I bought the last three Hecate candles they had (almond, patchouli, frankincense, and myrrh), and one Baba Yaga candle (pine and patchouli). Yes, I totally own my witchy cliches.
If you ever visit Seattle and are even mildly fond of a spooky, witchy, possibly haunted decaying castle in a forest sort of aesthetic, you MUST visit Gargoyles. Wonderful art and sculptures, fantastic candles and incense, and just an all-around magical, soothing place. Well, if you find autumn leaves and flickering candles soothing, that is, which is kind of my ideal decor plan. But, alas, drifts of dried leaves on the floor are not compatible with cats or the Stroppy One's aesthetic, so I have to live it vicariously at the store.
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Today we went to a big gem/mineral/jewelry show at the Seattle Center. We saw many shiny things, but nothing that really called out to us. However, wandering around the show has made me want to find a REALLY BIG topaz pendant set in silver; one of the super-dark smokey topazes. While they're my birthstone, I've never really felt drawn to them until seeing some examples of the super-dark ones at this show. Which, we saw some nice ones, but none of them were quite the sort of thing that made both of us go "OMG YES THAT IS A THING THAT WE NEED". (Okay, "we" being me, but the Stroppy One gets veto rights over any expensive jewelry I covet. Someone needs to rein in my magpie instincts.)
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As of today, work is barely over four weeks out from the next big deadline. (The previous deadline was the slightly smaller tech preview version of a deadline.) Expect stress-fueled, sleep-deprived wittering from me.
It was actually a pretty low-key day, but I got to sleep in (yesssss), and then went to one of my favorite local small businesses to give the owner a hug for the store's 25th birthday. Gargoyles. I bought the last three Hecate candles they had (almond, patchouli, frankincense, and myrrh), and one Baba Yaga candle (pine and patchouli). Yes, I totally own my witchy cliches.
If you ever visit Seattle and are even mildly fond of a spooky, witchy, possibly haunted decaying castle in a forest sort of aesthetic, you MUST visit Gargoyles. Wonderful art and sculptures, fantastic candles and incense, and just an all-around magical, soothing place. Well, if you find autumn leaves and flickering candles soothing, that is, which is kind of my ideal decor plan. But, alas, drifts of dried leaves on the floor are not compatible with cats or the Stroppy One's aesthetic, so I have to live it vicariously at the store.
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Today we went to a big gem/mineral/jewelry show at the Seattle Center. We saw many shiny things, but nothing that really called out to us. However, wandering around the show has made me want to find a REALLY BIG topaz pendant set in silver; one of the super-dark smokey topazes. While they're my birthstone, I've never really felt drawn to them until seeing some examples of the super-dark ones at this show. Which, we saw some nice ones, but none of them were quite the sort of thing that made both of us go "OMG YES THAT IS A THING THAT WE NEED". (Okay, "we" being me, but the Stroppy One gets veto rights over any expensive jewelry I covet. Someone needs to rein in my magpie instincts.)
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As of today, work is barely over four weeks out from the next big deadline. (The previous deadline was the slightly smaller tech preview version of a deadline.) Expect stress-fueled, sleep-deprived wittering from me.
