Comfort scent

[annwfyn]

So, yesterday was a bad day. College was mildly vexing, and I got home to British Gas trauma (they are threatening to send the baliffs round to disconnect my electricity supply, despite my having a direct debit set up. Apparently there’s a problem with my account and the system won’t accept payment on it. Things may be sorted now. I am having doubts)

I found myself wanting something comforting about me. In the absence of comfort food, I went for comfort scent. It turns out that when I’m in a lousy mood and want a scent around me which is the equivalent of a big fluffy jumper, I wear Creepy.

The odd thing is that I wasn’t a big fan of Creepy when I first tested it. It was nice, but not really the kind of perfume I thought I’d wear. Yet it seems that when I’m in a certain kind of pathetic mood, I like having the smell of apples and butterscotch about me.

And that’s something new I’ve learned about myself.

In other BPAL news, I received my latest collection of goodies from ebay. I am now promising myself that I won't buy any more random ebay imps. I'll swap the ones I've got, and I think I would happily participate in any group orders directly from the lab, so I can try out some specific scents that I think I might like, but I won't grab things randomly for a while.

Comments

[reindeerflotila.livejournal.com]

Utility bills should be renamed Futility bills.


I really, really despair of our services I really do.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

I do at times. I was reduced to tears by British Gas yesterday. I mean, how can you sort out a problem with your bill when they WON'T TAKE YOUR MONEY? I just kinda feel like I'm stuck in this no-win situation.

*sighs*

Curse them! Curse them all!

[reindeerflotila.livejournal.com]

I had this problem with the Water Futility bill.

We got one. I paid it

we got another one with a demand for payment, this time with our names on it. Hurrah, I call up. Tell them I paid it. They Say i di not. Months and several phone calls establish that when we moved in, the bill that was there addressed to the occupier, with a demand for payment, and an account number, that I paid...was in fact, not a proper account and I should not have paid it.

I ended up having to pay twice, or get court proceedings started off.

Apparantly the upshot is I "should have known" not to pay a demand for payment, using a bill that their automated system accepted happily, that they cannot trace payments made to.

-_-

[silver-blue.livejournal.com]

Has this BPAL thing become the adult female equivalent of the old football sticker books I used to get as a kid. What with "swapsies" and all. :)

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Yes. Pretty much ;)

[commlal.livejournal.com]

Only better :D

[commlal.livejournal.com]

I do the same thing with aromatherapy oils, mixing blends to suit my mood. I'm busting to try some BPAL, because I have a fantastic sence of smell (to compensate for the shonky hearing and sight) I love smelly things.

I have the same "Big comfy Jumper" perfume which is Keep It Fluffy from N2BB in Covent Garden.

[slappersire.livejournal.com]

I sympathise and agree with the 'no more random BPAL buying'. I just checked my bank statement.

Whoops.

No more. Swapsies though...

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

I shall put up more lists of swapsies at some point. My testing has rather slid to a stop, due to Jeremiah requesting that I slow down and try and let him get used to a couple of perfumes on me.

Apparently me not smelling like Sally, and occasionally having more than one perfume floating around me was very disconcerting.

[slappersire.livejournal.com]

Yes, we had a nasty BBQ incident where I had Alex sniffing one wrist, Jim on the other and someone else (I forget who) sniffing an elbow.

I decided things had gone too far at that point.

(Saying that, there's something to be said for layering perfumes.... I'm trying the ones that fade too quickly in combo with others atm, kinda interesting in a geeky way)

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...interesting.

I wonder how Bliss, which is pure chocolate, would work with some of the fruitier scents?

(I think jez may hunt you down and kill you if I start getting totally out of hand again!)

[slappersire.livejournal.com]

I'm not afraid of Jez, I know where he lives....

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Velvet appears to be my comfort perfume.

I can't keep it off my wrists.

I may need to buy a proper bottle :(

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Yay! I sent someone a good thing.

*looks smug*

nasty companies

[mangochutney04.livejournal.com]

heya,
just to say i'm having the same trouble with the Royal Mail right now. I *paid* £15 for a three month mail redirection at Putney Post Office with a debit card in a chip and pin machine. The money has left our account. Despite this, and lots of complaining phonecalls and letters, Royal Mail are only redirecting our mail for one month and want us to pay a further £7 for the privilege because they claim we haven't paid. But THEY HAVE MY MONEY! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

So I know how you feel - sends sympathy hugs xx

Re: nasty companies

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

It is just SO frustrating!

*sighs*

Oh well. I'll just relax now and wait for the next obnoxious letter to arrive. Sympathies for your Royal Mail irritation.

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

My comfort scent seems to be molasses; it reminds me of when we had pet goats as a child, and there were lots of molasses int heir food.

I wonder if there's a molasses-like BPAL...