the_oracle

I had plans for my weekend and only accomplished about half of them, but I'm oddly fine with that for the most part. I'd originally planned to clean the cat box, clean my room, dig out the books for the Nostalgia Re-Readathon which we've extended our timeframe and book list for this year, put up the orange lights around the TV, change the wreath on the front door (really meant to do this Sept. 1st but time slipped away from me), and make a dent in the new season of Wednesday. Oh, and finish my nail polish swatches, including the two new LA Colors polishes I picked up on Saturday.

I did manage to do the cat box, dig out the books, change the wreath (and even made it slightly more secure), and make the dent in Wednesday. Huzzah! The only thing I'm bummed about NOT doing is the orange lights because I wanted them up for my Wednesday viewing but the rain on Sunday meant the back yard area is/was still a flashflood nightmare of mud and trying to get out the back door when Widget hasn't moved the chairs is questionable at best. So I made do with the green lights I leave up year round for some reason. I should text Widget and ask him to bring in the tote with the lights when he gets home sometime this week. Uh, the room didn't get done because fuck it, I didn't feel like it, the swatching didn't get done (yet) because again, fuck it, but I did finally do one of my LibraryThing reviews I'd meant to do months ago.

Speaking of LT, they're having their 20th Anniversary celebration, so there's a treasure hunt if that's your thing. Huzzah! I keep forgetting about certain aspects of the site, like being able to see how tall your stack of books would be if you could stack it all on top of each other.


I would take a picture of this next gripe but given the hour and the lighting in here right now, there's no point. Perhaps when it's brighter outside I'll trek out there and you can see why I'm disappointed in one of my LA Colors choices. I finally got around to picking up two of their polishes on Saturday because I was in Walmart getting Worcestershire sauce (yes, it needs a capital) and then I picked up some Utz white chedder popcorn because holy fuck, I haven't had that in years (it was a disappointment but did I still eat both bags? Yes, yes I did.) and then I wandered the Halloween aisles, breathing in the scent of cheaply made plastic things in colors that give me a much needed serotonin boost even if they aren't actually cheap these days. I got to the end and looked across at the makeup section and saw Halloween displays there, so naturally I had to look. I wandered over and then found an LA Colors display with one of their Metal line, promising a Metal finish. I'm here stupidly expecting it to be a chrome kind of thing, or at least the foil metallic and uh, it's whatever's between the foil metallic and a shimmer, where the shimmer doesn't quite glide into one another to look actually metallic. Which I would be okay with except the bottle for Glacier is a deeper, but still bright, blue. So I'm expecting a deep blue chrome metallic and I get like, a mid blue shimmer thing. It's weird and I'm disappointed. Like it's not a bad formula but it's not what I wanted. I might give it another chance later in the year when I'm not fixing a nail that popped right before work.

The other color was Culture, which is a purple and yes I did just complain about having too many purples and yes I did just add another and it's just as fucking glorious as the bottle promised. Maybe don't do opaque bottles, LA C, so I can see the actual color? Do whatever the fuck you like with the caps but maybe the bottles could stand to be just regular glass.

I'm mostly enjoying Wednesday, but I'm not a super fan of ( Spoilers, duh. )