#shoehammer

[wordsaredelicious]

Have you seen Going Postal, the BBC adaptation of Terry Pratchett? If not it's super fun imo and totally worth a couple hours of procrastinating and you might want to look into it :)

No, I haven’t, but now I know what I want to do over the semester break! Thank you for the recommendation. I’ll have to see about getting my hands on it.

[leighalanna]

Any thoughts you wanna share with the public on bananagrams?

I love Bananagrams, because it’s all of the good things about Scrabble, with an added advantage:

If you start to lose at Scrabble, you have to be in the process of losing for a really long time.  With Bananagrams, you barely even notice you’re losing until you’ve lost, and even if you do, you only have to be losing for like, ten minutes at a go, tops. 

Also, no one has ever threatened to punch me in the eye over Bananagrams like one nonsense relished​.  (I may have deserved it. Probably deserved it.)  

shoehammer

[navigatethestream]

Good news! If it's Naomi Klein you feel you have to unfollow, as you wrote in the tags, I'm pretty sure you don't have to for reason of her being author of that message, since Naomi Wolf and Naomi Klein are two different people.

Yeah I realized I meant Naomi wolf instead of Naomi Klein and changed it on my reblogged post

Either way I tend not to have too much faith in white feminists anymore

[leighalanna]

So while I'm super thrilled and happy with my adventures with perfume this winter, largely inspired by you, I now have to move (AGAIN, for the bajillionth time in way too short a span) and am wondering how to repack the one in a glass vial that was originally sealed with a thread. I'm using The Google and it's working well and I'm reading about how to decant, but since I know you just moved, if you have any perfume-moving tips of your own, feel free to share! It would be much appreciated!

this is also for sexapro20mg, who mentioned moving with perfume the other day. ( shoehammer, sorry for taking AGES to answer this, shit has been a little hectic around here.)

so, congratulate me, because I unpacked the box that had all my perfume in it the other day, so I can confirm that I have definitely successfully moved a medium sized collection without breaking a single one, or coating any of my belongings in sandalwood soup. 

the thing is, it’s actually really simple, since most perfume (unless you’ve got some incredibly fancy bespoke stuff) is made to be shipped all over the place – those glass bottles are usually very thick and very tough. (This is also because they’re meant to be at least somewhat drop-resistant – if you soak your bedroom floor with three ounces of Shalimar, the last thing you are ever going to want to spend money on again is Shalimar, despite it being one of the best things about being human end of story.)   I got a heavy duty cardboard box (about a buck fifty at home depot), and a roll of packing paper, and wrapped each bottle individually, and did my best to tetris them together – just like you would a box of mugs or glasses.  I also had some foam sheets lying around, so I layered a few in the bottom of the box, just for extra safety.  The big thing I was trying to avoid was glass clinking against glass (which is how you get chips), and the bottles being able to move inside the box (which is the only way they could really break, short of the box being dropped). so, for any empty spaces, I either put small, less fragile things between them, or filled with more packing paper (hey, it’s cheap and recyclable, no reason to be hesitant with it). Because the box was pretty full, I wasn’t too worried about things spilling or spraying, but I duct taped some stoppers and nozzles in place (lots of applicator nozzles also have a “lock” setting – you can twist them, and they won’t depress).