Because I feel like it. Six things that have made me happy today!

1. Superdrug's Moroccan shower gel. It actually smells of desert sand and warm stone and sweet spices, and if I close my eyes and sniff I am instantly mentally teleported to somewhere that's all red and golden and sunlight and silk and sand, and it is absolutely delicious. I need to go and find out what else they do in the same range.

2. Koi is currently playing W.A.S.P.'s The Headless Children album, which I haven't heard in some time and had forgotten how much I unreservedly love. It was the first W.A.S.P. album I ever bought, on battered vinyl fished out of a discount box in one of teenage!Rath's local record stores; I had no idea what to expect from it, but I was grabbed by the sinister barbed wire and flame-wreathed skull on the cover, so. Turned out to be one of the best purchases I ever made, and pretty much set my taste in W.A.S.P. albums for the rest of time. I'll always love them best when they sound like they did here, perfectly balanced between feral rock'n'roll and a viciously sharp awareness of the world around them, dripping blood and spitting fire to disguse the lifetime's worth of pain and hunger that you can hear lurking somewhere just beneath the surface of those shredding jet-black riffs and screaming leads. I know the world of metal will be arguing about the respective merits of W.A.S.P.'s different aspects until the end of all things, but for me, they were fucking perfect right here. ♥

3. I have an epic heap of spiritual-creative inspiration, thanks to Koi telling me stuff about the Slaaneshi cult that lives on one of its headworlds. I now want to do vast amounts of embroidery. And I will, as well, if Koi draws me the pictures I need so I can turn them into patterns...

4. I am also struggling to stop giggling, on account of said headworld also containing a lot of folk tales that Koi has been telling me. Some of them filthier than others:

"I'll cut off your head!"

"I haven't got a head!"

"Then I'll cut off your arms!"

"I haven't got any arms!"

"Then what have you got?"

"KNOBS!"

...you want an explanation? You'll have to wait till I stop laughing. ^_^

5. These little guys, who have taken over my life since I got them on account of being so cute I literally can hardly bring myself to put them down. I am wrapped around their little furry fingers, seriously, I tell you. ♥ And we have all kinds of plans up our sleeves... well, my sleeves, anyway, since, y'know, neither of them have any...

6. I have pink rhinestones on my trousers. No, really, I ACTUALLY DO.

Okay, okay, that's enough. Time to work... *scrams*

Love,
Rath

I'm bored of To Do lists. So, since I feel the need of a morale boost, here instead is a Done List for this weekend!

( Achievement under here. )

And tomorrow's list of things I am going to do (as opposed to "should" do, I'm sick of giving myself orders):

( Going To Do list! )

That ought to do it...

Laters,
The Navigator

ZOMG, Slaanesh loves me, seriously. You guys will not believe this...

A couple of years ago, I got a custom scent made for me by S'Amuser perfumers in Cambridge. It was basically perfect on me, the only scent ever to be so - all vanilla and amber and molten gold, and I adored it. Unfortunately, being all-natural, it eventually died on me... and S'Amuser closed down a while back. I thought I'd never have it again.

I managed to find their email address, back in June, and sent them an email. The email bounced, or seemed to. I figured they'd gone out of business and that was going to be the end of it. Much quiet mourning ensued.

Only tonight I just got an email from someone at the company, apologising for her mailbox having mislaid some of her mail! And she has all the supplies! And she's willing to make me up a custom batch just because I was dedicated enough to chase them down! I can have my perfume again!

You all have no idea how happy this makes me. ^_^

Laters,
The Navigator

Thank you Wacken and Iceland, for the solid month of heavy-duty exercise and not a lot of food by comparison;

Thank you Whitby, for the constant supply of hills, steps and indeed Steps;

Thank you food poisoning, even, I guess, because I sure didn't eat much for the last week;

...I FIT BACK INTO MY VELVET JEANS! AND MY LEATHER JEANS! WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO! I don't need to buy more trousers after all! And when I do they might even be size twelve!

And now I don't even have to go to the laundrette in my pyjamas, how d'you like THEM apples...

Laters,
Rath

PS Hail Slaanesh. ^_^

Writing! I'm going to take it as a good omen that I was feeling creative enough to dash this off. ^_^

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( Possible futures. )

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Laters,
Rath

"Universe," said I, waving a hand from the depths of a half-proofread treatise on analytical theory, "everything sucks. I'm feeling bitter and resentful and nothing looks fun. Cheer me up!"

"No problem," replied the universe, riffling through its box of LPs (which, as we all know, is of infinite dimensions and contains every song ever written in all possible realities). "Here, you might try this."

"^_^!"

"Also, for the record, Gödel's incompleteness theorems are exactly the kind of kneecap-shot theoretical result you love. Go look it up."

"^____^!!!"

"You're welcome. ^_^"

There we go, all better now. Who says there's no benevolent Providence? ^_^

Laters,
Rath

I just got a spam with the subject line "For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide". I... yep, it's definitely Monday.

( Random update. Cut for length (work, weekend, and general stuff). )

And (lj)lonescorpion just left me an email with hints on how to do the fourth mission in DoW, so I think that's my evening sorted, then!

So. How/what/who is everyone else doing today? ^_^

Laters,
Rath

For special entertainment of my darling (lj)yvesilena and also because I think it was doing me good. Since I've missed a couple of weeks these aren't all from today, but here are six things that have made me happy today or at least recently:

1) W40K! I've been reading a bunch of Black Library stuff and found a couple of fantastic Chaos stories; it's soooo nice to see various members of the Traitor Legions being written as real characters rather than just one-dimensional bad guys. The bloodshed, the camaraderie, the exhilaration, the altered but definitely still real codes of honour and brotherhood - and, yes, the pain of being caught between worlds and between oaths for all time, and having to handle it by any means that lets you (figuratively) sleep at night. This is the stuff I want to read, and wish people had started writing a lot earlier. Not just a bunch of grinning arseholes with axes any more - these are Chaos Champions. *nods* ♥

2) Discovering just now that actor/wrestler Kevin Nash, of whom I'm something of a fan, is apparently going to be let out of hospital tomorrow and should basically be okay! Given that two days ago the reports were that he might have anything up to MRSA (*shudders*), I am SO relieved to hear this. Fingers crossed that nothing else goes wrong for him! *sends fanhugs*

3) Getting the next session done on my epic Ghost Rider tattoo! For the record, it looks amazing. And my brain is apparently permanently rewired, at this point, to accept a certain type of "pain" as being An Okay Thing, because I no longer seem to feel any animal urge to pull away from the needle at all. Also, the afterburn (for those who aren't inked, it feels kinda like a graze or a bad sunburn) seems to now register as an actively pleasurable sensation, which is fantastic because it means that the outer curve of my left arm, from shoulder to elbow, is now one solid wall of ohhellyeah whenever it gets knocked or I stretch too far. Niiiiice. ^_^

4) I have my ticket for Lordi in February! Nuff said. ^____^

5) Finding a very, very cool photo of one of my favourite wrestlers showing off his car. Behold, Edge in a black '69 Camaro! (Man, if I hadn't fancied him already... *g*)

6) Getting my "we sent you money" slip from GW, meaning that I can afford to live and fight another day AND go to see my mum and dad next weekend! This gives me much joy as I do miss them, and home, really a lot.

So yeah. Not everything is perfect at the moment, but I'd rather post about the stuff that is than the stuff that isn't. I know which I'd rather read back over six months from now, anyway. ^_^

How is everyone else?

Laters,
Rath

PS, Oh, and one more cool thing that didn't fit in the list: Scan from somewhere in Marvel Secret Invasion. There's having God on your side... and then there's being the Avengers. *loves this page*