cupcake_goth: (cupcake goth)
2010-11-18 06:03 pm

Thank you! And Steamcon!

Firstly, thank you, everyone, for the birthday wishes! To celebrate my birthday, I got up earlier than I am used to so I could feverishly hit "refresh" on a Ticketmaster page until the presale for the MCR Seattle date went live. Mmm, concert tickets. (And yes, thanks to intense planning between [livejournal.com profile] cass404 and myself, we are going to both the PDX and Seattle shows. Bow before our fangirling!)

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Steamcon!

Hey, are you going to be at Steamcon? So am I! Here's my itinerary:

Friday

Gothic Charm School: An Essential Guide For Goths And Those Who Love Them.
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Suite by Pool, Marriott

Steampunk or Not?
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Crystal A, Hilton

Autograph Session
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Authors Row, Hilton

Saturday

Tea Room and Fashion Show
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Subculture Etiquette
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Orcas A&B, Hilton

Meet Jillian Venters (interview with the Airship Ambassador)
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Suite by Pool, Marriott

Sunday

Fashion Show
11 AM

Lit vs. Lifestyle (with [livejournal.com profile] gailcarriger, eeee!)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Emerald B, Hilton

Steamgoth (with [livejournal.com profile] cmpriest, fear us!)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Emerald B, Hilton

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I am also considering Steamcon to be something of an unofficial birthday celebration weekend for me, so please come say hi!

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Now to get some dinner, then decide on what the heck I'm wearing this weekend.
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2009-11-18 11:03 am

Post-birthday stuff and things

Thank you for all the nice birthday wishes, everyone! They were very nice to read during my work day. My birthday finished up with dinner at Purple, which I adore. (I chose a "Sally Bowles" for my birthday cocktail, partially because I love St. Germain mixed with champagne, partially because I have a long history of people telling me I look like Liza Minnelli. I don't see it myself, but okay.) When we got home, the Stroppy One proved his devotion to me by agreeing to watch an episode from the True Blood S1 set he gave me instead of watching the new Star Trek movie. This is impressive because the Stroppy One is A Fan of Trek, and we've seen all of S1 True Blood. But I wanted to indulge in vampires, and he went along with it. Awww!

Today is a black lipstick day, just because. I'm wearing the MAC "midnight media" mattene lipstick over Urban Decay's "envious" lipliner, the combination of which gives me a deep black with cherry undertones. After reading the reviews of MAC's "black knight" creamsheen lipstick, I am not going to bother tracking down a tube. Instead, I will probably order a tube of NYX's black lipstick. Yes, I want more black lipstick. Embrace your gothy clichés, remember?

I started reading the new Morganville Vampires book (Fade Out) by Rachel Cain, and it's just as good as the rest of the series. Very minor spoiler )

I need to get back to editing documentation. But what I really want to do is toodle around the interwebs looking for Fluevog boots and browsing the Alchemy Gothic site for wildly over-the-top gothy accessories. But no. Focusing on the day job.

Again, thank you for the birthday wishes!

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2008-11-18 11:52 am

Stuff and things

(Hi LJ, welcome back.)

Thank you for all the birthday wishes, everyone! Yesterday (my actual birthday) was low-key and a perfect wrap-up to the extended birthday celebrations. So far, 40 feels no different from my 30s.

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BPAL just announced their anniversary scents. Yes, Candy Phoenix ("a dusky, yet effervescent mix of pomegranate and black currant candies, with a dusting of sugared pear and white apple") sounds interesting, but. BUT.

"2008's Resurrected scents are:

BEAVER'VERSARY
Cheesecake and cupcakes, yo! This is Beaver Moon 2005 resurrected!"


BEAVER MOON 2005, PEOPLE. ONE OF MY TWO TRUE SCENTS FROM BPAL. I need to figure out how much money I am willing to blow on my perfect perfume. Beaver Moon 2005 is the scent that when I wear it, people want to follow me around and huff my skin. When I go home tonight, I will check to see how many bottles I have currently, and then dither about how many more I need. (Yes, need.)