It's bright sunshine and 75 degrees today so we went a drivin' with the top down in Loo-See. Three and a half hours later, we're back. That car is a BLAST to drive! OMG! We put 200 miles on it today. We went north out to Saylorville Lake and drove above and below the dam, then we went way to the west to the Jordan Creek area, then south to SouthRidge Mall to Petco for dawg food, then to Indianola, Iowa, to the Walmart there.
A 33lb of Royal Canin German Shepherd food is $59.99 and fits divinely in the trunk. Mojo eats it too. (Weird cat.) Four Walmart sacks fit divinely too, along with my purse. There was even room to spare! I coulda bought 4 more bags!! When the top's down it doesn't take up any trunk space. Sweet!
I freaking love my car!!!!
These are Morning Glories. I do believe they are my favorite flower anymore. I buy a variety of different colors every year and they also self sow which is a bonus. They can kind of take over but I don't care. They are always multicolored too. Like brilliant starbursts. So pretty.
This year the blues thrived along with the pinks. Last year it was the deep purples and fuchias. The pinks are closed because they bloomed last night about 7 pm. They'll open up again tonight , I will have to get another pic. I let them sow anywhere too. They are a vine so they wrap around anything and everything. They've even climbed up from our wrought iron on the stoop, and attached to my wind chimes, and then the wind chime doesn't chime anymore! Which is not a bad thing if you're an insomniac like me. In the morning when I go to work they are all open and waving goodbye as I pull out of the drive. They are an easy flower to grow and germinate with no work. I just buy some seed packets and sprinkle the packets over some areas I want them to grow. No digging or covering the seeds is necessary.
I moved around the stuff hanging over my sink. It's better balanced now. I love my house. I have cat figurines in the birdcages, in a hanging light and along the windowsills. Can you see all the kitties? This is an eclectic mixture of suns, birdcages, butterflies, stars, cats, hanging tea light lanterns, a frog, spiders, and fish.
We're having Iowa Chops for supper with homemade potato salad. The potato salad has onion, celery, celery seed, dill weed and mustard in the sugared mayonnaise sauce. I normally don't use mustard in my potato salad but Jeff likes it in it.
Blind Pick~!
Velvet (BPAL)
In the vial: hazelnut? Nutty. Sunflower seeds.
On the hand: chocolate, that plastic chocolate that bpal is known for. I'm not getting anything else but plastic chocolate. Blech.
Not even worth describing. What's in this? Envelop yourself in the soft, sensual embrace of gentle sandalwood warmed by cocoa vanilla and a veil of deep myrrh.
Hopefully the sandalwood and myrrh will come out to play in a bit. But right now.....this is hideous.
The other day before work I made a blind grab into some vials I have yet to review and pulled this one out. I smelled it to make sure I would like it before wearing it blindly to work. I could tell it would be okay. So I put it on.
It was lemony in the vial. Nice and bright. It reminded me of Posset's Limoncello, and Naples Lemon.
It stayed lemony for about 20 minutes then smoothed out into a wickedly good sandalwood. All day I kept getting whiffs of this crazy great skin scent. Very unique.
Slighty spicy like carnations. Yellowy sweet sandalwood. As the day wore on I knew I needed a big bottle of this. Every hour the lemon smell faded more and the spicy sandalwood got headier and headier. So sexy of a scent.
What's in this? yellow sandalwood, bergamot, gum mastic, gum Arabic, lavender, lemongrass, angelica root, and anise.
OMG I got the sandalwood correct! The anise is the spice and the lemongrass was the lemon. I didn't do too bad. Love this oil. It'd be a great signature scent because there's no over the counter perfume that could match this. It's too different.
I very seldom talk about work here. I've made a reference to work once when I was put in a position to be the manager's assistant and I've spoken of 'coworkers' like twice.
Yesterday the biggest asshole I've ever worked with was fired. I knew he'd dig his own grave.
That's all I'm saying.
Between my husband in the background thinking I'm talking to him, Ava in the background thinking I am talking to her and the neighbor's dog.....OH! and one cat meow! ...Stark hasn't got a chance.....
My husband is PISSED OFF!
NAPA just lost a customer. We've been following Nascar for years....like over 35.
NAPA just released Michael Waltrip Racing from their sponsorship for doing what every other team on Nascar has been doing for years. Helping a teammate to make it in the chase. Bunch of shit. Jeff thinks Nascar is fixed anymore. I was disagreeing until he provided some good examples and now I have to tell ya......it's kind of looking that way. He thought it was a team sport so why would it be wrong for a teammate to help another teammate to get into the chase? Bunch of SHIT! Why are they fining now when teams have been doing it for years!!!!???
I've been toying with the names below since I posted. I was liking Rojo until a coworker said it's pronounced Ro-ho and not Ro Joe, and that it's kind of a boy's name. She has the El Salvadorian husband. Bah.
Then I started liking Mika. But it still didn't feel right.
So today I asked a creative gal at work and the first name out of her mouth was Lucy. I was floored because I had a cat named Loo-C until about a year ago. Then she says, "you know, red hair and it's red (my car), and I love Lucy!" Meaning SHE loves Lucy. So I told her I had a cat named that and also a chicken once. My dad bought 6 chicks for eggs, two died, so I named the remaining four Charlotte, Gertrude, Elvira and Lucy. I used to dress Elvira in clothes and carry her around the neighborhood. Yeah, I was a weird kid. LOL
It's PERFECT! I HAVE THE NAME FOR MY CAR!!
So now I am debating whether to spell it differently.
Like Loo-See, Lou-C, Lou-See, Lucie, or just Lucy. I don't want to spell it the way I spelled my cat's name.
Luciata. Lucy combined with Miata.
I'm liking Loo-See for short. It's kind of like 'take a looksee'.
I am needing a name for my new car. (Oh, and Jeff can drive it. I thought he wouldn't be able to. Drats!! Just kidding) I had to show him how to get in. He was trying to swing his legs in but he's just too tall and big. I showed him how to stand above it and 'drop' his legs in. Top has to be down, of course. Stupid me. Just kidding again. He drove it today to the store. Me's thinkin' he likes it. Uh huh. Drats! Just kidding. Or am I??????
Okay, I want a cute, feminine, Spanish, Japanese, or fiery name (because of the red flame color). Here's some contenders:
Rojo --means red in Spanish (plus I have a cat named Mojo-so there's a slight connection), I'm leaning toward this name.
Mia
Mai
Blaze
Honoo- Means flame in Japanese
Fire
Bernee
Caliente -Cali for short
Whip
Redcat
Meeohmyoh or Miomyo
Zelda
Mika -Japanese- means beautiful fragrance- a tribute to the oils I review
Mikki
Tora- Japanese for tiger
Chītā -Japanese for cheetah
So HELP! Give me some ideas and suggestions. I'm open to anything. I asked a message board for help when I was naming Stark. The poster said Stark meant strong in German, plus I was reading The Game of Thrones at the time and one of the main characters' last name was Stark, so it was absolutely perfect for him. It just fit so perfect. So I know I can get a name here too. Help!! I will know it when I see it. Just like Stark. Thanks!
