I'm Tired

 

Today was the day that Jake was supposed to have a large fatty tumor removed but it was a no go due to something coming up in his preoperative blood work. So the anxiety shifted because he had a more in depth blood test and the vet is waiting on the results. So at this point, everything relating to Jake and his fatty tumor has to wait and I hate waiting for results.

I have a shade more than 3 days before my last vacation of the year starts and I can't wait. I have four books that I want to get through and hopefully burn 2 more candles while on vacation. It will be great to wear whatever I want perfume wise without listening to people complain and just do things more of on my own time table. I will still be broke on this vacation but I have a small windfall coming soon.

At this point, a friend and I are making plans for Candle Day and are going to go pretty early so we can get it out of the way and hopefully avoid most of the craziness. He wants to get a certain candle for his mother and I want to stock up as much as I can on 3 scents but I have about 6 weeks to scrape up more cash.

With all that is going on with Jake and all the crap going on in the world, I'm plain worn out. It will be a shit storm, no matter who wins the election and there will probably going to be a 2nd lock down. I am wondering as well how the holidays are going to work out, especially there is going to be a 2nd lock down

More Accidents

 

Yesterday was a little bit of a panicky day. I was getting ready for work yesterday, somehow my little mini of L'Air du Desert Morocain got knocked over onto some tile and broke. Well, the corner broke and some of the perfume came out. I managed to save most of it and I spent hours trying to find what little I had of decanting supplies to salvage the rest of it. I found the last 3ml empty decant after I ordered 4 5ml travel sprays off of Amazon. Eventually I was going to condense some other decants in the interests of space. I have so many decants of LADDM and I am going to move those into one of those 5ml decants. But when I was transferring that mini to the empty decant, what was probably 1 or 2 ml went all over my hand. As much as I adore LADDM, it was too much, even when I washed my hands. So I spent all of last night and most of the morning in way too much LADDM. I think that I am going to give LADDM a huge rest for a little bit. I hate it when things like this happen. I have had it happen to a bottle of vintage Bal a Versailles and Mitsouko and managed to save a fair chunk of both. I missed out on grabbing a bottle of Une Rose Vermeille and I am a little bummed about that but things didn't pan out the way that I hoped

Bath and Body Works is really starting to drop their winter/Christmas offerings. I don't give a crap about their body products anymore, I just find them to be overpriced for what they really are. What I really go for is their candles. I was excited when they finally brought out the Winter candles along with the Fresh Balsam. It seemed like it was either yesterday or the day before they finally brought out the Evergreen candles. I love the Fresh Balsam and Evergreen during winter. The Frozen Lake is nice enough but I don't consider that one to really be a wintry type of candle. When Candle Day hits, I will stock up on the Winter, Evergreen and Fresh Balsam. Well, we shall see how much cash I can stockpile for Candle Day, namely in the form of gift cards since it seems like I get most of my candles around Candle Day and shortly after Christmas.

Amazon Prime Day and Other Things

 Amazon Prime Day has come and gone and it was a let down. Not because I couldn't buy much of anything at all but the deals were pretty lousy in my opinion. One would think that with Covid and people being low of funds, the deals would be a little better. I was hoping that some of the books that were on my wish list would have some kind of really good discount but nope. I did manage to score one book that was within my budget but since when do I read trashy romance novels or the whatever low grade books? But the things on my wish list will have to wait. My parents went on a little bender for house things and a couple plant things. My mother got some kind of vacuum thing to vacuum under her bed and to vacuum the stairs. I have been trying to fix the attachment for one of the vacuums to get the carpeted stairs, the thing won't work no matter what I do. So yeah, the stairs leading upstairs are pretty gross with dog hair and whatever dirt that can't be seen. I will probably be using that Saturday.

I've noticed that Sephora has been bombing my email account trying to get me to buy stuff. Okay, Sephora, you are to the point of way too expensive. I can only afford to shop at your physical store once a year, if I can actually get to a store. Or if I am shopping online, I will do twice a year. But even then, I am not spending a lot and usually it's either your spring sale of you have given me a coupon if I have spend a certain amount. We shall see what my financial state looks like when the coupon you sent me is active. Maybe I will get that Coco Mademoiselle lotion or that travel spray. 

I have no idea on what is the problem with the postal service around here. Every month my dogs get a Barkbox and I've noticed that Barkbox seems to be shipping their stuff a couple days earlier but the box seems to be arriving at my doorstep later and later. It's not Barkbox's fault but something is going on with the postal service. So Barkbox said that if the box doesn't arrive by the 26th, to contact them to make it right. But I do think that Barkbox needs to reassess their relationship with the post office.

Amouage Honour Woman Extrait Review

 

Amazon Prime Day ends today and I am still not seeing anything that I need for a good price. No good book deals, well, on the books that I want to get. But my parents had a field day with getting all kinds of things. I decided to get only 1 book on my wish list.

My dog's vet appointment is tomorrow and as far as I can tell, I do think that I will be OK financially but only tomorrow will tell. I don't think that the appointment in itself will be too bad but the medication he is on is where I am kind of worried. The medication is more of an expected expense but a vet visit is not exactly. But to have both the medication and a vet visit in the same week seems to be a little much. I shall see what the final bill is for both of them tomorrow. My local pharmacy always seems to get a little salty when I use GoodRx but I don't care.

Now off to the review but in many ways it's not really a review. It's been a few years since I had Amouage Honour on skin. I remember enjoying it on skin but not much else. It's supposed to be more of a gardenia type thing. Nope it's more of an aquatic tuberose type of thing, not really a gardenia thing. I have never been a fan of anything tuberose dominant. In extrait form, it's nothing but aquatic tuberose to my nose with not a whole lot going on development wise. I think that I was eager to get and like Honour in the beginning and did like the EDP but I will have to dig out a decant of the EDP to see. I think that I was more enamored with the concept of Madam Butterfly, the white bottle and the word gardenia. The extrait is not for me and my bank account is happy with that.

Shalimar and Books

 I haven't really done a ton of reading this year. With Covid, instead of having more time to read, I somehow have less time to read. I have either 3 or 4 books on my Kindle that I haven't even read. Hopefully I can find some kind of time to read them. A while back, I took a quiz for a $3 gift card for Amazon and now they send me the code to redeem the stupid credit. Funny thing is that even though I have books to read, I want a few more books. You see that my Chase account has these offers where if you spend some money at certain stores/websites, you get some kind of credit to your bank account. The catch is that you must use it before certain dates. I am sorely tempted and most books that I want are more than $5. What was it, my last post I blogged that I really have to watch the spending and no frivolous spending? I do have a couple that I am want to get and with the $3 and some cash back, I will keep it really cheap and limit myself to one book but keep it under $5 or less.

I am still trying to finish decants and bottles as well as candles at this point and I was looking for things that I haven't worn in a while. Yes, I want to try new things but can't afford to fall in love with anything at this point and wore some Shalimar Ode a la Vanille Madagascar last night and this morning. I like the original Shalimar but I adore the Ode a la Vanilles, especially the Madagascar one. For the longest time, all that seemed to be available was the Mexique one and it I did stumble across the Madagascar, it was and still is more cash that I am willing to part with. What sucks about the Ode a la Vanilles is that they were limited edition. Nothing can aggravate me more than limited editions and flankers. Flankers don't always smell good and nothing can sell out faster than a limited edition. I hope that the perfume gods send a message to Guerlain that they should release the Ode a la Vanilles again. I would love a bottle or two of the Madagascar one, especially if the price is right.