Whoever Dances is One with the Universe

You guys I do not want to brag but since I so rarely feel this way I think it is okay to say: I look fucking amazing to-day.

I am wearing rainbow striped socks in gorgeous rich autumn colours, and I found a bracelet that is the actual match to the necklace mhari bought me the first time I visited here--I think they are actually supposed to be a set, which is crazy, because I got the bracelet last week at a random thrift store. It is blue and sparkly and has glass butterflies and flowers and an identical chain and clasp and colour to the necklace. SO COOL. I had to buy it, even though it was a little pricey, because it was so awesome to have a bracelet that went with that necklace! And I am wearing the blue and silver earrings that mhari made me.

And I have on a black lace-edged tank top with a black button-down men's shirt, only the shirt has pinstripes sewn into it with sparkly black thread. And my skirt is from Coldwater Creek, only I got it at the same thrift store where I found my bracelet for only seven dollars! Which is more than I'd pay for a skirt, usually (I prefer under five), but it was so beautiful and the original price tag said 118 dollars, so I didn't feel that bad. It is deep rich brown with alternate panels of gauze taffeta and silk, and the panels are embroidered with flowers and vines in thread, copper ribbon, copper sequins, copper beads, copper-brown silk, and the occasional flower-shaped copper charm. It is so gorgeous. And it floats when I spin around.

And it happens that just the shape of everything I am wearing actually makes my body look all right, and my hair is super cute to-day, and my skin is relatively clear for once, and I feel really, really pretty. And this is after I had ice cream with Mama! So that's really good for me, I'm really delighted, actually.

Also, you should know that I am researching sex with octopodes (a la the Dream of the Fisherman's Wife and others) for an actual school project. If you know me very well, then you know that makes my life just about perfect right now.

edit post scriptum: a girl on my hall just came and invited me over for cake! :D :D :D

Aaron linked me to this amazing game, which will suck your soul in hardcore. Luckily, it plays pretty quickly--there are only about sixteen levels. And it's a lot of fun!

The herb shop here is doing Facebook trivia where they post their number and a question about an herb and if you call in first with the right answer you win the plant. I just won an oregano. :D

Finals are over and done with and I go home to-morrow, thank God. It is past time and I am more than ready. This morning Steph and I walked into town and went thrift store shopping, which I really shouldn't have done but she was super stressed out and needed a break, so that was more important. She got four very cute dresses, and I got a skirt and a jean halter dress that I will never wear because I'm not pretty enough. Then we stopped at the organic cafe and got smoothies, because she said she wanted to spend money on me. >_> We went with her service dog, who is a darling.

We re-homed Mabon, because a friend of Mama's has a bigger home for him and it's not close to the road so she can let him be an outdoor cat, which is what he really wants. Meanwhile, I have kittens waiting for me, because a barn cat had them in our barn. So yay! Kittens!

And on Wednesday I got to mhari! That is the best of all.

Now I am going to see if anyone will indulge me in watching Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus.

SO I'm a little overdue for a picspam. Assortment from Easter to present, including such exciting topics as: Our New Horse, The Quaker; My Hair; Hiro the Kitty; Baby Animals; Soujin in a Refrigerator. I knew you were hooked.

( I wasn't kidding about the refrigerator thing )

This is my seventh day of posting about good things, but I'm actually not feeling too good right now; I'm having sort of a down period, just very cold and lonely-sad kinds of things. So! I'm going to make a small list of what is good.

-Jol is not only still alive, a little over a week after hatching, she is also HUGE. All her wing feathers are in. Crazy!

-I got a compliment on a fic from scarfman, the genius behind the totally insane webcomic Arthur King of Time and Space, which is nerdy and puntastic and awesome.

-I switched off from taking handfuls of ibuprofen and advil to taking a couple tablets of aspirin, and it actually cures my headache (I say headache because I literally have had this thing for about a week or two now, and it can be subdued for a couple of hours at a time but it invariably comes back and lo it is evil), yay! :D My blood is probably about the same consistency as water by now, so that's good.

-Only five days until I get to stay with mhari! I am so excited and I can't wait.

-Mama is making me skirts! the first one is about a little lower than my knees, and made of sky blue silk with white sequined flowers and embroidery, and it'll be loose and swirly. The second one is smoke-blue suede with silver lace and it will have a bunched train and two tiers. The patterns were on sale for six dollars altogether, down from forty altogether, and the material was on sale too. The suede was down from fourteen to two and a half dollars a yard! I am excited about this, too. I love skirts and the materials and patterns for these are so pretty it's crazy.

-The turkeys let me pick them up and hug them, especially the ladies. Eeee huggy turkeys. ♥

So! We are going to ignore yesterday's whining; I only get one whine a month, and I have done it. Now we'll get on to constructive stuff and no self-pity.

I went clothes shopping to-day! This was mostly because Mum said, "You're going to Boston! People in Boston dress nice! You need new clothes!". So I got three new tops and a really gorgeous brown skirt with beading. The tops all look really cute on me, and I am feeling confident enough to say that. Cute! One is pink and layery and has big watercolourish flowers, and one is black and sparkly and gives me actual cleavage without making me want to cover myself in eight other layers to hide it, and the third one is white and diaphanous and so light I can't even tell it's long-sleeved when I wear it. So I have great new clothes to wear! I won't embarrass Manon's family! :D And they were all on clearance (not Manon's family, the clothes. naturally.), but the saleslady was incredibly nice to me. Mum gave me a budget, and she made sure I kept in it, and made me try everything on and show her, and picked me out only things from the clearance racks. And then when we totalled up I was one dollar under my maximum, and she said, "Ooh, I bet your mom would like it if you were more under," and she had me put something back, so I was twenty-two dollars under instead. And I did pick the most expensive thing to put back. It was a very, very fine black and white plaid on a sort of sexy librarian shirt; it had little bows on the sleeves and a collar and was very form-fitting. And I have discovered that feeling bodily comfortable makes clothes shopping fun. I liked it! I didn't have hysterics! There was no crying!

And then I went to Hallmark and got sandal-shaped sour gummi candy for Waen, which she loves (sandal-shaped!), and some glitter and things for me, and a new bracelet to replace the one I gave away. It is teeny little coloured stones braided together with silver wire, and it has a tiny heart charm on the clasp. So pretty!

And Mum and I had lunch together at my favourite place and then we came home and I scraped the entire woodshed and I have blisters everywhere but I don't care. It was a really good day.

To-morrow I work at the library, and Saturday I'm going to Chelsey's graduation party. She was my partner all through bowling class, and I really like her, so I'm looking forward to this. I got her a nice present! And wrapt it pretty! So I'm happy. Plus I've got part of the next chapter of Catechism written in my head, so I can get right to work on that, maybe to-night.

:D