Lou Lou's Green Chamomile

I decided to do a review and not a bpal today. So I pulled out my ammo box of Other Etailers and found this one by Lou Lou.


Green Chamomile

Clear in the vial. Greeeeeen in the vial too. Smelling that is. So far I know I love this. It's a clean smell, soapy like after a shower. Pointed and vibrant. Like walking into a meadow and cutting fresh flowers. Then cutting the stems and leaves from the flowers, and mincing them into little pieces. Fresh, earthy, spritely and pungent.
This has waft too. On the back of my hand I can smell it without even bringing my hand to my nose. This is so fresh!! WOW 
I wish I would have found this before she discontinued this scent.  This scent is so far from my normal love of deep earthy scents.
What's in this? Green Chamomile is a blend of chamomile tea infused coconut oil (carrier oil), chamomile tea, Roman chamomile essential oil, green grass, and green amber.

I just ordered from Lou Lou (aka Damonkitty) on Etsy. I ordered Clara, Nicolette, Bubblegum on my Boot, Gum on my Other Boot, Sweet Darkness and Willie.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/damonkitty?ref=l2-shopheader-name


I LOVE ETSY!! I will do reviews when I receive them.

This Green Chamomile is freaking heavenly. I'm serious. I'm going to covet this vial.

I am making a White Trash Cake. Most people call it a Poke Cake but the internet friend that told me about it called it white trash cake. Here's the recipe.

http://allrecipes.com/personalrecipe/63961281/coconutless-white-poke-cake/detail.aspx


Most poke cakes also have coconut and Jeff hates coconut so mine is coconutless. LOL
Between the Green Chamomile oil and the white cake, I'm in Heaven today!!

I LOVE SNOW-saved post from Thursday--and the blizzard went kapooey

But there's a limit. And I've hit mine this year. We keep getting snowstorm after snowstorm. It's freaking crazy. Left work today at 1:00 because it was snowing so bad and now it's let up. Sigh. We're to have a blizzard tonight. OMG!

"Blizzard Warning remains in effect until 6 am CST Friday...

short term trends...periods of heavy snow are expected across much of the warning area with snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour. Local thundersnow will occur which will enhance rates even more.

Storm total snow/ice accumulations...a widespread band of 4 to 8 inches of snow is anticipated. Isolated higher amounts will be possible in areas that see enhanced rates due to thundersnow.

Winds/visibility...northwesterly winds will continue to increase...with sustained winds of 25 to 35 mph likely along with gusts of 50 mph by late afternoon. This will produce whiteout conditions...especially in rural areas with life- threatening blizzard conditions.

Impacts...the band of wet and heavy snow will stick to trees and power lines potentially causing damage once winds increase. Very low visibility and intense snowfall rates are likely to quickly cover roads and make travel hazardous to impossible at times. Precautionary/preparedness actions... A Blizzard Warning means severe winter weather conditions are expected or occurring. Falling and blowing snow with strong winds and poor visibilities are likely. This will lead to whiteout conditions...making travel extremely dangerous. Do not travel. If you must travel...have a winter survival kit with you. If you get stranded...stay with your vehicle."
One night about 3 weeks ago after work the roads were so bad that people couldn't even get home. The roads were too slippery and Iowans KNOW how to drive in snow. It was bad.  My husband came to my work (he works about 7 blocks away) at 5:00 and we waited until 6PM to go home. I even left the truck at work. Crazy winter. Our back yard is a pond. Arg! Stark plows through it then comes in and gets everything all wet. I LOVE my pleather couch at times like this. LOL Actually he doesn't get on the couch too often. Ava's the couch hawg. In fact when I get home after work she is always on it. I feel if you can't allow your dog on the couch, then why have a dog? My dogs are my kids. In fact I think I like them better than I would my kids. LOL

I have a stupid tick in my left eye's eyelid and it's driving me crazy........Bah!

Snowplow just went by. Also have crows in the yard because I tossed out corn on the cob, bird food and wheat bread slices.

Hours and miles

I've spent many hours watching our mother cats nurse their babies. Me and my husband have had lots of litters. Something I noticed was that after about 10 minutes of nursing, the kittens' ears (all of them) would bob front and back really fast, then they'd all (the kittens) fall asleep instantly.
I observed that one time a kitten didn't start nursing the same time as the others. It had been sleeping then woke up and started nursing. The other kittens had been sucking for a while. When all their ears started twitching, even the kitten that hadn't been nursing for long, it's ears twitched too, and they all fell asleep. I feel the mother cat's body emitted something in her milk that did this. I've never been able to prove it.
Another thing I noticed was that each kitten had it's own nipple. It wouldn't suck off of another nipple, only it's designated nipple.
One time at the Iowa State Fair we went to the pig barn to see the baby pigs. I was allowed to pick the babies up. There wasn't many people around since it was later in the day. I asked the young man that was watching them if he owned the pigs. Yes, they were their farm pigs. I also asked him if he knew the difference between each baby pig. He did. I asked him if each baby pig only suckled from one specific nipple. He said yes. I think he was somewhat mystified that I would ask that and shocked too. Like how did I know that? I explained to him that our house cats' litters were the same way. I asked him if they all feel asleep at the same time after nursing for a bit and if their ears wiggled. He didn't know, hadn't noticed. I wonder if he went home after that and watched to see if that happened. I hope he did and that I'm not just cray cray.

Here's another melancholy song I've stumbled across.

"Someway, baby, it's part of me, apart from me."
You're laying waste to Halloween
You fucked it friend,
It's on it's head,
It struck the street
You're in Milwaukee, off your feet

... and at once I knew I was not magnificent
Strayed above the highway aisle
(Jagged vacance, thick with ice)
I could see for miles, miles, miles

3rd and Lake it burnt away, the hallway
Was where we learned to celebrate
Automatic bought the years you'd talk for me
That night you played me 'Lip Parade'
Not the needle, nor the thread, the lost decree
Saying nothing, that's enough for me

... and at once I knew I was not magnificent
Hulled far from the highway aisle
(Jagged, vacance, thick with ice)
I could see for miles, miles, miles

Christmas night,
It clutched the light,
The hallow bright
Above my brother,
I and tangled spines
We smoked the screen to make
It what it was to be
Now to know it in my memory:

... and at once I knew I was not magnificent
High above the highway aisle
(Jagged vacance, thick with ice)
I could see for miles, miles, miles.

A saved post from Sunday...

Today we went shopping (if you can call it that) at Goodwill and flea markets. I was looking for several things.....Halloween and Christmas stuff that I can decorate my wreaths, books (preferably science fiction or horror because Anna at work gets me other genres like drama, history etc.), jewelry,  anything unique, any thing that called to me, anything I just had to have. We also hit the dollar store and I stocked up on green, purple, valentine and filler floral bushes.  Filler florals are flowers that are small and fill in between the bigger flowers on my wreaths. Fillers are key to a nice, full  looking wreath.

I'M ON VACATION!!

At home I am currently reading 'The Face' by Dean Koonz. Hellish book and I normally don't feel that with his books.
At work I am reading the last in the 4 book series called Hyperion, The fall of Hyperion, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion by one of my all time favorite authors Dan Simmons. I started out reading his horror books that were mesmerizing. I tried to read his 'Ilium' but couldn't get past the second page. Sorry Dan. I've also started it twice. Couldn't read it. I wanted to and still want to but. I. don't. know.... lol. It's a bit......different. Let me get Wiki:
Ilium is a science fiction novel by Dan Simmons, the first part of the Ilium/Olympos cycle, concerning the re-creation of the events in the Iliad on an alternate Earth and Mars. These events are set in motion by beings who have taken on the roles of the Greek gods. Like Simmons' earlier series, the Hyperion Cantos, the novel is a form of "literary science fiction" which relies heavily on intertextuality, in this case with Homer and Shakespeare, as well as periodic references to Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (or In Search of Lost Time) and Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle. In July 2004, Ilium received a Locus Award for best science fiction novel of 2004.^[1]

Stark's snoring. He's on the couch! Normally he doesn't do that because Ava hogs the couch during the day.  He's crashed and snoring.

I need to clean.

I want a maid.

Jeff says I would clean before a maid got here and they wouldn't have anything to do.

Uh. No.

Well.....maybe......

A bit.

Yeah I would.

But then I'd get 'used' to the maid and I'd leave her all kinds of shit. She'd hate me.

I can't have a maid hating me. That's only in the movies isn't it?

Not if I tipped her good. And made her laugh. LOL

Laughter. The universal language. I truly believe that.

OH! We also went to an Asian grocery store. I needed pho staples.          hehe 

Srirachi, hoison, pho noodles and fresh thai chilies. They smelled hot! yeah! We ordered from the Vietnamese restaurant  again last night. I didn't get any cilantro but that didn't bother me. As long as I get thai basil nothing else matters. Their pork and shrimp spring rolls are our number one in flavor. The pork is browned. There's bean sprouts, shrimp, cooked pork, bean thread or rice sticks and lettuce.

I get the medium size pho and it's enough for two meals.

I'M ON VACATION!!

I'm going to eat it tomorrow

I just started 'Dumb and Dumber' that I dvr'ed. One of the few 'dumb' movies I can handle. Jeff and Jim pull off dumb super convincingly in this. To be able to pull off dumb means you've been there....

I didn't watch it. Instead I went down to the basement and made a Halloween wreath. It turned out really good.

Halloween wreath

My latest creation, Turned out great!!

Chastity--not what you think

I think Cher is full of crap in this interview. In the beginning she says' she 'knew' that Chastity was a lesbian, then a bit later she says she is the only one that didn't know. Throughout the interview she's saying what's politically correct, what she thinks people want to hear. Watch Chaz. I feel he just sits there thinking, "What the eff are you talking about!" while Cher talks. Cher also keeps saying, "and...and....and....and"  Irritating. I like Cher too.


Speaking of chastity.....let's go in the opposite direction and review Common Jezebel from bpal.

For some reason it kind of reminds me of maple syrup. Yeah, I know, that's so weird.
Apricot, lemon sugar, coconut, red currant, and vetiver. It's mostly vetiver, which I don't seem to have a problem with like some people do. It IS an intense smell that you either like or don't like. It has to be the lemon sugar, currant and apricot blending with the vetiver that is giving me that maple syrup smell. Please DON'T buy Common Jezebel thinking it will smell like maple syrup....because I'm sure it won't to you!! And you better have a deep love of vetiver also, before trying it, for sure.

Okay, on to another review.


Blind pick too!

Defututa WTF?



Light yellow in color. This is a smoooooooooth smell. Sandalwood? with a couple florals. Kind of smells like wax too. This is unique, have never smelled a bpal like this one yet. I get honey or amber. Golden. It's so innocent and subtle. I almost want to say a mint but it's super faint. This is like walking in the sun. I may have to compare this to Sundew. That one's golden too.
What's in this? Olive blossom, honey, smoky vanilla, cinnamon, jasmine, sandalwood, and champaca flower.

Well I wasn't too far off. The cinnamon is the mint I got. Honey-check! Sandalwood-check! I am super surprised I didn't get rose for the jasmine....bwahahahahahaha!!

I think there's beeswax in this somewhere.
The cinnamon's gotten stronger. A lovely scent, but not a big bottle winner. I'll have to see what it smells like in a few hours.    

It's snowing again. They said 70% chance and only one inch. So far it looks to be about 3 inches and I kinda think that's 100%, don't you?

Ava's been out laying in it again. Never seen a dog that love's snow like she does. She'll lay out there for hours before wanting in. Stark.....he's in within 4 minutes. He's such a wimp.  

Hmph!

Back when I was hot and a size 6 we went to the Knoxville sprint cars races. As we were climbing the stairs to get to a top row of seats a guy two seats from the aisle acted like he was stretching and touched my ass. It pissed me off that when I told my husband he didn't do anything or even confront the guy.

Iowa has the most rude drivers....and I'm one of them.

I can remind my husband once a day (I'm not a nag) to turn lights off but he never does. So I have to move around the house flipping light switches off.

I was wearing animal print before it was cool.

Having a DVR has made me spoiled when I watch a TV show live. I keep wanting to fast forward through the commercials. Now I just DVR the show so I can FF through the commercials. I say FF as fuff fuff. I fuff fuff through the commercials.

My first speeding ticket was 12-8-1980, the day John Lennon was shot. I was going 19 miles over the speed limit. Hey, what can I say....I had a 400 engine in my 1972 Galaxie 500!!!  My second and last one was 2-24-1981, the day my niece was due. I was the one going into the labor room with my sister. Her husband was 'sceered'. She ended up showing up on 2-28-1981--the niece that is. Her great grandfather's birthday and I'd also been up for 24 hours by the time she arrived. Nothing like looking up your sister's vagina to see the head crown. Oh yeah....then, when my niece pushed through and the poo dropped to the floor onto the drop cloth, I peered at it and said, 'What's that?" As I said that, it dawned on me what it was. Talk about awkward. My sister didn't realize it though.....she was too busy whimpering because I was a horrible lamaze coach. I was too busy watching.

The episiotomy sounded like a very thick rubber band being cut with scissors.

I never had children.

Not sure if it was because of the psycho mother we had or that sound.

Actually it's because I didn't use to like babies. Now they're okay. But I still don't want one. I love kids though. Kids like me too but I usually end up saying something wrong since I've never had any.

Like the time I was a grocery checker and this mom was going through my line with a toddler in the cart seat. She'd bought some eggs. The store I worked for made us open the carton and make sure there weren't any broken ones. So as I was opening and checking them I said, "Look at the balls your Mom bought!" The Mom says, "No! Don't say that!!" Hmph. Foot in my mouth again.

Then there's the time I gave my 2 year old niece a candy cane and she proceeded to get it all over herself. Oops. I didn't know!! I didn't know!! Bah!

I also cuss around kids. I know. The f word is like an adjective to me. Oops again.

I think I need to get high.

Sigh.

Quesadillas

I am making quesadillas from leftover roasted chicken tonight. I've never made a meal of quesadillas before but last night I roasted a chicken and had half of it left so I pinterested leftover chicken recipes and found that wonderful new blog off to the right there called Sweetbites >>>

I think I've only made quesadillas once.

So this will be interesting.

I will be using a lot of the ingredients the blog recommends. Jeff's all excited. Anything enveloped in cheese and fried floats his boat.

This winter has been crazy with snow and winds! We got another small 'blizzard' yesterday. I decided to go in at 9:00 so I could miss the idiots on the road. I normally don't do that.

We're going to New Orleans again!!! In May!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!


I wore Silver Violets to work today. It's a Posset oil. It's decidedly different.

Imagine the first violets of spring poking their heads up above a thin covering of snow and sparkling with a silvery light. Silver Violets is sweet but refreshing and welcome at any time of the year. Particularly reviving in the heat of summer months. Though violet scents are rather rare anymore, their popularity is enjoying a new vogue. I am particularly proud of this interpretation of this charming blossom. A very popular scent.


I liked it. Definitely different than most perfumes. Most of Posset's 'Silver' line are. Kind of icy musk with a floral.

Our cat Winnie is in the last stages of renal failure too. I love her but can't wait for her to pass. She's an anywhere pottier. ARG! I think she has a few months left though. Bah!

OMG I love this song I found!!!

OMG!

We have a Vietnamese restaurant in our neighborhood!! I knew it but yet I didn't. I've lived in this neighborhood for 50 of my 51 years so I don't really pay that much attention to the buildings along the streets.
I'd seen a few years ago that a Chinese food restaurant moved in but never went to it. Since then it sold and now it's a Vietnamese/Thai restaurant. I noticed their sign like a week ago. Yeah I know. I'm effing clueless right?  I ordered take out on Tuesday and the pho was

AWESOME!!!!!

 

OMG!! and that was TAKE OUT!!! I am so stoked!!! I can WALK there this summer!!! To hell with the husband he can fend for himself if he doesn't want their food. Bahahahahaha!!!!!

 

I may think about getting a part time job there so I can get to know them and get into that kitchen and learn how to cook Vietnamese!! Jeff will say, "If you see their kitchen, you will never eat there again." BETCHA!!! Can I take bets here? Is that against the law? 

 

Watching the American Idol tryouts. Best part of the show. Thank heavens Myriah and Nicki aren't on it, that was painful to watch. I expected Myriah to be more professional than that but she fell into ghetto mode along with Nicki. Yikes.

 

Ellen's going for the Broncos to win this weekend at the Superbowl-- just like me!!! I like horses better than birds, so there.    you.     go.

 

 Yesterday I wore Love Potions's Sun Catcher to work. Lovely.
 

 http://www.lovepotionperfume.com/perfumerie/potion/SunCatcher/


Juicy citrus segments - Oranges, Grapefruits and Lemons - delicately arranged over a bed of Daisies and Dandelions, and a touch of earthy Musk.

It was like smelling sunflowers all day. Very uplifting and pretty.