BPAL: Good Omens

I finally went and looked at the BPAL Good Omens collection descriptions.

OMFG, I would like the Crowley one, but now I gotta get my WAR on:
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WAR
She finished the drink, hefted the sword over one shoulder, and looked around at the puzzled factions, who now encircled her completely. 'Sorry to run out on you, chaps,' she said. 'Would love to stay and get to know you better.'

The men in the room suddenly realized they didn't want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, but not up close.

And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.

Red ginger, black spices, patchouli, honeysuckle, and three blood-soaked red musks.
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Spicy scents are it. I suppose the Crowley one is meant for a man, but I have always preferred spicy and citrusy, which are traditionally male scents.

Coming attractions. Or possibly repellents.

Things to blog about today: Origins, Puffing Billy tourney, Ticket to Ride tourney, Mayfair news/rumors, Looneyness, seeing old friends, meeting cool people, and the whole ball of wax.

Waaaaaaaay too many address labels

Get on some charity mailing lists. They will send you address labels to try to get you to send them money. You will never want for return address labels again.

Except that 90% of them will say Mr & Mrs [Guy's Name] [Last Name]. Sigh.

So, make sure you are under your own name or they are enlightened charities that will put two names on their mailing lists.

At least I had the foresight to donate to a couple charities only in my name.

Pushing Your Buttons

Nothing ever changes in this world through hating the enemy. Nothing ever changes through aggression and hatred. So if it's pushing your buttons, whether it's Hitler or an abusive parent or an immoral war--Hitler was wrong, a parent who abuses a child is wrong--you have got to keep working with your own negativity, with those feelings that keep coming up inside you. We have also had the experience of seeing wrong being done when there is no confusion and no bewilderment and we just say, Stop it! No buttons have been pushed. It's just wrong, unaccompanied by righteous indignation. When I feel righteous indignation, I know that it has something to do with me. In order to be effective in stopping brutality on this planet you have to work with your own aggressions, with what has been triggered in you, so that you can communicate from the heart with the rapist, the abuser, the murderer.
-Pema Chödrön

So, don't get angry with me for flooding your friends page today, okay? 8^p