Departing Scents

[pshaw_raven]

So I've gotten most of my Christmas shopping out of the way, and I can see some incoming things on my USPS page. I haven't decorated or anything but I'm considering putting up popcorn and cranberry strings, peanut butter and seed sticks, and other stuff like that out for the wildlife. But then it might be a toss-up as to whether the fresh cranberries go on a string for the birds or go into my face. Or into a batch of white chocolate almond bark, THEN into my face.

As I mentioned previously, I deleted my old Facebook account, then opened a new, very limited one for access to a fitness group I'd joined. I also use it mainly to keep in touch with my mom and sister since they have that and Instagram and that's pretty much it. Mom has the flu, which at her age ain't good. I also saw that someone I'm connected with on there is feeling a bit bitter that I've ghosted them. So why they're still connected to me on FB I don't know but anyway. This person texted me in early 2018 and I didn't hear the notification. I didn't SEE the text until a few weeks later. Not wanting to admit I never check my messages I hoped she'd text again and I could blow off or explain my previous derping out. She didn't. It's been over a year and a half and I never could work up the fortitude to contact her, and now it seems too late, so that's that.

I'm sometimes amazed that I have as many friends as I do, given who I am, as a person.

But anyway, it also reminded me to delete my LinkedIn account. I'm not sure why I even had one, but it's gone now.

This week's project is disposing of essential oils. Kitty left a bunch of perfume oils and such that I never got rid of, and now I'm looking into how to get rid of them properly. I'm not looking forward to having to decant every single little-bitty fucking glass bottle but the oils are a hazardous material, and the glass can be recycled. I doubt it'll take more than an hour from start to finish, it's just dragging everything outside to work on it. I may even wait until Friday, so as soon as I'm done, I can take the oil to the dump, along with some other piddly hazmat items we tend to save up until we need to go. Right now I have a camp stove sized propane bottle and a couple of lithium-ion batteries, but I think there are some old tires in the garage that can go, too.

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[we_are_spc]

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OKay, now I wish we were closer. (And more into perfume oils, we're just getting started) because I'd so totally paypal you for all of that. xd

That said, decanting that shit is tedius, I can see why you're not looking forward to that.

Also Merry giftmas/Yulemas, whatever you want to call it. xd

-Trausio~

[pshaw_raven]

I don't think I could in good conscience send you these. The "youngest" oil is about seven or eight years old, and some are more like twelve to fifteen, so they're becoming unstable and the scents are changing, or have disappeared. Not that I'm a great judge, but even if I were still into collecting, these would only be interesting for the bottles and labels.

And thanks, happy yule/etc to you all!

[we_are_spc]

*grimaces* ,.... er, yeah. Dump that shit.

Thank you! :)

-T~

[expandranon]

You've bought Christmas presents! I've gotten as far as buying a box of cards over a week ago and setting it on my desk with the intention of doing just 2 or 3 a day and getting them all done bit by bit. It remains stubbornly sealed, alas, and I'm starting to think it'll be sitting there sealed on the 25th. Sorry about that.

[pshaw_raven]

Holiday shopping is pretty easy when you get everyone Amazon gift cards, LOL. But last week I started thinking, isn't there something I'm supposed to be doing? Like a holiday coming up or something? *scratches head*

[expandranon]

I've known it's coming, but it's just one of those things I feel daunted by. I suppose it was easier when I had a large handful of internet friends to trade cards with along with my parents, sisters, and two sets of aunts and uncles. Now my sisters' kids have kids and all live in different places. There are more people than I can keep track of to mail out to.