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girlofpreyThings I have learned about myself from my perfume journey:
Lockdown life continues to be lockdown life. I go very rapidly from "I'm fine in my house all the time" to "I just want tO GO TO A SWAMP AND SEE AN ALLIGATOR". I have not yet had a period, and my symptoms seem to be subsiding? Idk. It's hard to know what's hormones and what's just living a completely different lifestyle.
I'm still not talking to the dog. Maybe tomorrow. I have a bunch of video games I want to play, but also slightly capricious reasons for not wanting to play any of them. When I first wished for time at home (not knowing all that was going to happen), one of the things I really wanted was time to finally play The Division 2. But the Division series is about rebuilding America after a pandemic has swept through killing most of the population. So it also feels like a game you might not want to play at a time like this. Likewise, a game site advised against playing A Plague Tale: Innocence right now. There's a new Borderlands 3 expansion that came out last Thursday, but I feel kind of bad about the fact I never completed the main game, or the Handsome Jack expansion that came out at Christmas. And also I don't want to rush through either of those endings as though I don't care, just to get to the new expansion. I think collectibles are really killing that game for me, much as I like them individually. I think they really ruin the pace. And I got Nioh 2, but it is a Soulslike, and I don't know if I really want to play a massively hardcore game right now, even if it does have character creation and neon spirit animals. So I'm playing Animal Crossing. I have five villagers now, and I like most of them, but also resent having to pull up all the wildness of the island to colonise it and move them in. I might be the only person who likes the island weeds. Except for the fact they destroy items. I so far only have two new types of fruit (apple and coconut), despite going to Mystery Tour islands all the time. I don't like trading in living things even in games, so I feel like I'm going to fall behind the game economy by not selling the bugs and fish I catch. And bunny day sucks, but everyone else has already covered that, and Nintendo have mitigated it, thank god. Meanwhile the sakura blossom items are beautiful, but I can barely find any recipes despite playing all the time, and the event finishes on Friday.
What I would really like is for The Sims 4 to drop a new expansion. Some new adventures in that would be ideal right now, and they haven't really anything except one tiny stuff pack since last November. But people have made the point that they never release anything in April because it's the beginning of their tax year, and they don't tell us about anything they're releasing really until just a few days before it comes out sometimes, and today they released a blog post of their 'content roadmap', which literally just says we'll get an expansion pack (large), a stuff pack (small), and a game pack (medium) sometime in the next six months. Grand.
Also, I've been looking up ways to watch 'The Mermaid', a Chinese romantic-fantasy-comedy (based on that website I linked to last post), and have apparently discovered a whole genre of mermaid horror I didn't know about, so I'll probably get into that shortly. In an attempt to make sure I can pay for that, and all the other things I want, before my next payday, I finally dipped into online banking last night. I went to see how easy it would be to make an online transfer to my mother for rent, and Barclays want to send a card reader to my home, to authorise transfers with. ?. Don't know what that means. Mum doesn't seem to have to do it when she's transferring money. But it seemed to be the only option Barclays was giving me. So I guess I'll get a card reader. Sent to my home. So I can manage my finances during these restricted, troubled times.
- If you put rose in anything, I'll probably like it.
- I might hate jasmine? But then sometimes I'll get a perfume that is mainly jasmine that I really like, so I don't know. There might be many forms of jasmine.
- Money means almost nothing to me.
- You can go very quickly from smelling the eau de toilettes in Marks and Spencer's to browsing Tom Ford's private blend.
- The literal difference between cologne and perfume.
- Oakmoss is dangerous, maybe? And it makes perfumiers very upset.
- I don't know what chypre is and maybe I never will. It's not even a smell. But I feel like if I smelled even one example of it, I would have a better idea.
- Perfume sellers that won't send out samples of their ONLINE ONLY FRAGRANCE are the literal devil, but also I understand why they do it, I guess. My favourites are the people who are like "we will sell you a £150 discovery set, made up of five tiny bottles and a £140 voucher for one of the bigger bottles. You must buy a bigger bottle at the end. Or just leave us with £140. Whichever."
Lockdown life continues to be lockdown life. I go very rapidly from "I'm fine in my house all the time" to "I just want tO GO TO A SWAMP AND SEE AN ALLIGATOR". I have not yet had a period, and my symptoms seem to be subsiding? Idk. It's hard to know what's hormones and what's just living a completely different lifestyle.
I'm still not talking to the dog. Maybe tomorrow. I have a bunch of video games I want to play, but also slightly capricious reasons for not wanting to play any of them. When I first wished for time at home (not knowing all that was going to happen), one of the things I really wanted was time to finally play The Division 2. But the Division series is about rebuilding America after a pandemic has swept through killing most of the population. So it also feels like a game you might not want to play at a time like this. Likewise, a game site advised against playing A Plague Tale: Innocence right now. There's a new Borderlands 3 expansion that came out last Thursday, but I feel kind of bad about the fact I never completed the main game, or the Handsome Jack expansion that came out at Christmas. And also I don't want to rush through either of those endings as though I don't care, just to get to the new expansion. I think collectibles are really killing that game for me, much as I like them individually. I think they really ruin the pace. And I got Nioh 2, but it is a Soulslike, and I don't know if I really want to play a massively hardcore game right now, even if it does have character creation and neon spirit animals. So I'm playing Animal Crossing. I have five villagers now, and I like most of them, but also resent having to pull up all the wildness of the island to colonise it and move them in. I might be the only person who likes the island weeds. Except for the fact they destroy items. I so far only have two new types of fruit (apple and coconut), despite going to Mystery Tour islands all the time. I don't like trading in living things even in games, so I feel like I'm going to fall behind the game economy by not selling the bugs and fish I catch. And bunny day sucks, but everyone else has already covered that, and Nintendo have mitigated it, thank god. Meanwhile the sakura blossom items are beautiful, but I can barely find any recipes despite playing all the time, and the event finishes on Friday.
What I would really like is for The Sims 4 to drop a new expansion. Some new adventures in that would be ideal right now, and they haven't really anything except one tiny stuff pack since last November. But people have made the point that they never release anything in April because it's the beginning of their tax year, and they don't tell us about anything they're releasing really until just a few days before it comes out sometimes, and today they released a blog post of their 'content roadmap', which literally just says we'll get an expansion pack (large), a stuff pack (small), and a game pack (medium) sometime in the next six months. Grand.
Also, I've been looking up ways to watch 'The Mermaid', a Chinese romantic-fantasy-comedy (based on that website I linked to last post), and have apparently discovered a whole genre of mermaid horror I didn't know about, so I'll probably get into that shortly. In an attempt to make sure I can pay for that, and all the other things I want, before my next payday, I finally dipped into online banking last night. I went to see how easy it would be to make an online transfer to my mother for rent, and Barclays want to send a card reader to my home, to authorise transfers with. ?. Don't know what that means. Mum doesn't seem to have to do it when she's transferring money. But it seemed to be the only option Barclays was giving me. So I guess I'll get a card reader. Sent to my home. So I can manage my finances during these restricted, troubled times.
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Date: 2020-04-07 06:53 pm (UTC)I am kind of the same way when it comes to lockdown life.
I hope that you and the dog can get back on to good terms soon! I can definitely understand what you mean about playing games right now and having to be in a certain mood/mindset for certain titles.
Hm, and that is interesting that there is a whole genre of mermaid horror. Hopefully the online banking goes well for you! ♥
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Date: 2020-04-08 01:33 pm (UTC)I was looking up 'The Mermaid', and I got a lot of Little Mermaid-related results, and then just a bunch of horror films. Terrible things happening to mermaids. Mermaids doing terrible things. I guess people are afraid of the water, and so it's A Thing.
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