Spring is springy, and also, has now sprung.: seanan

Spring is springy, and also, has now sprung.

Friday, I was wearing my trench coat, running the space heater, and shivering a lot. Saturday, I walked to the store in my trench coat, and damn near overheated. Yesterday, I wandered around without a coat for the majority of the day, and even ran the air conditioner a bit in the evening. This morning, I put on my denim jacket.

We have had the changing of the coats. Spring has officially sprung.

I find that perfume is also a good indicator of the spring, as all the women on my morning commute begin competing with the newly-blooming flowers by attempting to smother me to death with their artificially floral scents. I like perfume as much as the next girl—my ungodly-large collection of bottles of BPAL testifies to that—but there's a difference between "wearing perfume" and "committing an act of chemical warfare." When I'm breathing through my mouth and turning green, you have crossed that line.

(My latest scent from the BPAL collection, by the way: Giant Squid. The description says it's "cannabis blossom, tonka bean, tobacco, frankincense, galangal, juniper berry, lantana, spiky aloe, green and white teas, and salty sea spray." I just like being able to answer "what's that perfume you're wearing?" with "RELEASE THE KRAKEN!" Sometimes I am a simple soul.)

The cats are responding to the spring by attempting to lose their winter coats in one fell swoop, resulting in hairballs of epic proportions springing up on my bedroom rug. Seriously, I brush Alice every day, and I still scraped an entire third cat's-worth of hair off the rug Saturday morning. I dread to think what may happen when I go to Australia for two weeks, since Alice is less willing to let Mom use the feline seam-ripper (ie, "the mat-catching brush") on her flanks and hindquarters. I'm going to come home to a house consisting of nothing but hair.

Amy arrived from Wisconsin yesterday, and brought a cheese hat for my sister-in-law. The world is occasionally very strange, as my mother's insistence on prancing about San Francisco International Airport with a giant wedge of cheese on her head clearly illustrates.

Happy spring!

bearhand

May 3 2010, 14:58:05 UTC 7 years ago

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Do you have a "cat" attachment accessory for your vacuum cleaner? It's one of those hand held hosey thingies. I've found that cats are much more tolerant of that than trying to run them over with the regular vacuum cleaner.

seanan_mcguire

May 3 2010, 15:11:20 UTC 7 years ago

The cats hate and fear the vacuum. The cat attachment won't even make it into the room where they are.

slothman

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ravenclawed

May 3 2010, 15:22:28 UTC 7 years ago

I just like being able to answer "what's that perfume you're wearing?" with "RELEASE THE KRAKEN!"

I can so see you doing that. LOL

I thought of you yesterday -- the Answer B!tch at E! Online received a question about an upcoming movie called Human Centipede. I have no intention of seeing it (just what I know of the concept is nightmare-inducing), but I wondered if this is your kind of movie. It sounds like something SyFy would do.

May 4 2010, 17:00:36 UTC 7 years ago

I...don't know, really. It sounds disturbing as all hell. I like cheese more than I like gore for the sake of gore.

vixyish

May 3 2010, 15:43:53 UTC 7 years ago

I love your mom!

Also HI AMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

sweetmusic_27

May 3 2010, 17:46:17 UTC 7 years ago

HIIIIIII! *biggrins* Goin' to 'Stoph's today, so I'm going to make him play me some of y'all's awesomeness. *hug*

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May 4 2010, 17:02:04 UTC 7 years ago

Perfume is an accent, not a fashion statement.

And yes, Piranha 3D is going to rule so hard.

kippurbird

May 3 2010, 16:17:49 UTC 7 years ago

I'm not calling it Spring just yet. At least down here in LA. It's sometimes AC in the day and heater in the night and the next day heater during the day and AC at night. I guess we're still leveling out?

May 4 2010, 17:02:37 UTC 7 years ago

Spring is twitchy.

qnofhrt

May 3 2010, 16:30:45 UTC 7 years ago

there's a difference between "wearing perfume" and "committing an act of chemical warfare."

Nice perfume, must you marinate in it?

May 4 2010, 17:02:47 UTC 7 years ago

It doesn't even improve the flavor!

ladymondegreen

May 3 2010, 16:53:29 UTC 7 years ago

It was warmer in New York than it was in California. I guess I shouldn't be surprised by that, but ...

Apparently the cheese-hat thing is contagious. I had someone ask for one last week, because they know I'm going to Wisconsin.

May 3 2010, 17:48:04 UTC 7 years ago

XD Ahh, Wisconsin! We have cheeseheads, minicheeseheads, cheese cowboy hats, cheese baseball caps, and, I think, cheese top hats. I'll take you to Sacred Feather (the hat shop downtown) and we'll set you up.

markbernstein

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phoenixsansfyr

May 3 2010, 17:03:25 UTC 7 years ago

Trade you, I have two Maine Coons and they're shedding all over the house (and my medic pants, and my medic shirt, and the bed, and...). The Siamese, by comparison, is barely shedding that I've noticed. She's making up for it by eating the pepper plant and vomiting occasionally instead. Oh, cat ownership?

May 4 2010, 17:03:47 UTC 7 years ago

Both my girls are shedding like there's some sort of Olympic medal to be earned. The Siamese is especially impressive, as she's the shorthair and is thus more surprising.

theashgirl

May 3 2010, 18:08:50 UTC 7 years ago

This is why I love BPAL. Okay, two reasons, both the awesome names, and the fact that it does not attack your neighbors when you wear it. I swear, alcohol-based perfumes need to be outlawed. They have too much throw, and they make my eyes water, and I'm not allergic to them.

Also, all of your stories about your mother's strangeness make me miss my mom. I am getting her two books and a knitted octopus for Mother's Day. :D

May 4 2010, 17:04:02 UTC 7 years ago

Good Mother's Day choices!

angel_vixen

May 3 2010, 19:06:13 UTC 7 years ago

I just like being able to answer "what's that perfume you're wearing?" with "RELEASE THE KRAKEN!" Sometimes I am a simple soul.

This makes my day so utterly and totally.

AngelVixen :-)

May 4 2010, 17:04:37 UTC 7 years ago

Today, I'm wearing Bad Luck Woman Blues!

mac_arthur_park

May 3 2010, 20:56:08 UTC 7 years ago

I just wanted to wave "hello" and mention that I added you. A dear friend of mine sent me 'Rosemary and Rue' as a winter solstice gift (and, thanks to the mysterious ways of Amazon.com, it showed up....last week) and I *really* am enjoying it. I look forward to reading more of your work.

May 4 2010, 17:05:08 UTC 7 years ago

Hi! Welcome! Also, yay! Happy TiVo'd Winter Solstice (it's on a delay)!

KKKRRRAKKKEN

May 3 2010, 22:00:57 UTC 7 years ago

Just a question, when you're day dreaming about shouting "Release the KRAKEN!", are you shouting it in a Scottish accent?

When I shout it, I'm really cracking my Ks and rolling my Rs.

Re: KKKRRRAKKKEN

May 4 2010, 17:19:39 UTC 7 years ago

It depends on my mood, really.

keristor

May 4 2010, 11:39:17 UTC 7 years ago

Just think, with all the hair you can build another cat! ("You can build a feline from the hair you find at home!" with apologies to Frank Hayes.)

There are a number of shops into which I can't go because of massive amounts of perfume (for some reason they tend to put the perfume counter right at the entrance). I'm not even asthmatic and I die with that much in the air! You are more subtle (that's not something I say often *g*), at least when I've seen you.

May 4 2010, 17:20:00 UTC 7 years ago

I try to be non-offensive to those around me. Scent-wise, anyway.

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