Eastwood22

So, LFN instead of LFM?

I think that's what I'll do, LFM and DHEAS, maybe a touch of Focus on the backs of my hands just for me. I'm not one to phero my kids, but I did run a little line of Focus under the collar of his dress shirt. Thanks for the Reese character comparison! When people used to say, "Did anyone ever tell you..." they would say that I looked like Madonna. Like at least twice a week. At some point, it switched to Reese Witherspoon, but it's only once every few months, not all the time. I love Reese, Freeway was such a solid performance for such a young actress. According to cameras, I do have a pronounced chin like she does, and a bit of that Legally Blonde "oh wow, she's blonde and she's smart?!!" thing happening. The best is the sideways compliments/insults regarding being blonde and having smarts or any skills whatsover. Like inviting people over for dinner and having them confess they thought I'd be a bad cook, but the food is actually really good! Um, ... thanks? Big Little Lies was amazing, no idea how they'll get a second season out of that. The book ended a little more neatly.

Tomorrow morning, I have to be at my son's school for his "final exhibition," he's going to be dressed up and give a presentation on god-knows-what. (I'm not supposed to know.) Here's my situation: 1) I'll be there with my ex, whom is very easy to manage with EST, otherwise he can be a total prick. I like to occasionally remind him that he blew it. He know's he's a bit of a moron, but I wouldn't mind if he questioned his choices. 2) One of my kid's teachers happens to be someone that I have serious bad blood with. Lucky me, right? She's very smart, manipulative, used to write bondage books, and likes to rub in that she's very close with my kid's dad. It's a boy's school, I have zero doubt that she's a fantastic teacher, but I'm glad that there are no little girls at the school towards whom she could direct her cruelty. Bossing a bunch of 12 year old boys around and forcing them to reach new heights in their educations is perfect for her. I was wearing Liebchen w/ TH when she awkwardly crash hugged me multiple times. 3) I have zero female friends at the school. I thought I was making one, she texted me and asked if I wanted to take our boys to a local coffee shop. I told her that I didn't want to go to that one, as it's where the chick my husband was cheating on me for 4 years worked. I found out later that she knew and asked me to go there intentionally. Um, next! I've never even glanced her way again. 4) I believe that much of the staff thinks I'm not terribly interested in the school or my son's education. This is due to the fact that it is an all-boys school and my ex teaches one art elective there every week, so I assumed he had his finger on the pulse of admissions and whatnot. Turns out, no, it seems that in this family mom needs to manage everything, even when the kid's dad works at the school and socializes with the entire staff. Everyone on staff there thinks he's the bee's knee's, he can turn on the charm when he wants to, and looks like the world's most involved dad to them, when in the reality he's been with them at bedtime approximately 200 times in their entire lives, I did the other 4200 solo. Also, I know I've been the topic of discussion in the office because they had to discuss how to approach me on the fact that I wasn't packing my kid a lunch and sent me a sensitively worded email on how they knew feeding children was a personal family matter but bringing up his nutritional needs and how his energy falls later in the day because I don't feed him. He has ADHD and simply walks out without his packed lunch sometimes, I can't always drive it over, and he's told the school that I forgot to give him a lunch on those days. For the record, I don't actually withhold food from my kids or think feeding them is a personal choice. So, these are my needs- Something to keep me untouchable like LFM for the bitches, something like Open Windows for the teachers, EST and maybe some cops for him, and some DHEAS for me. Suggestions? I will be wearing a long fitted casual but slinky maxi dress, boobs apparent but tastefully restrained, sensible lower heels that would never impair my walking skills. My outfit is nonchalantly sexy, still respectable for 11am, with less tattoos than usual showing. Should I steer more LFM or TH or OW? If I go OW, more people will talk to me, so it will be more obvious whom I will not be talking to. Same with TH, right? But doesn't H&S soothe the bitches? I don't actually want to talk to any bitches, I want to shun/unshun/shun them, like Dwight from The Office. Except I'm not 12, even though at least one of them acted like a middle school mean girl. I'm thinking TH plus EST plus cops plus DHEAS, but that's a lot of stuff. I think what matters most is that I'm comfortable and composed, and able to get out of my own head and be present for my son. (My son who loves lavender.) What would you comfortable, composed, untouchable yet somehow approachable, funny popular vixens wear, phero-wise? Dom is not an option, there would be blood. I need to above stabbing people, both before noon and at school functions.

Blink blink. I'm supposed to be napping next to a river in an eco-village near Ubud right now, behind my 3 story house made entirely out of bamboo. The sweet ladies who've prepared my lunch and have my young coconut juice chilling are both concerned for my welfare and anxious for my return. The kids that are "missing" are ones that came here on their own. A lot of minors come to the border unaccompanied, especially from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, because of the gangs (and that thing about not wanting to get murdered). A lot of those kids have "sponsors" in the US, I don't think they're actually "lost," they just don't want to be found, or they've moved on from their sponsors home and the sponsors aren't going to tell anyone where they are since going home could mean death. The Cheeto and his crumbs have proposed separation at the border as a way to stop immigration, but if death were my other likely choice, I'd risk it. There are now about 700 children being held in shelters separately from their parents since those dickless scabs put themselves in charge. The ACLU is currently filing a lawsuit to stop these at-the-border family separations.

Semantics. I probably won't "need" all three. Except maybe I do! And here's why.... I spiked Lady V's Pussycat with cops, because I put stickers on top of all my bottles with the name, and it said "Sweet Pussy," so what choice did I have? I could make half of Lisa's into a spray, perhaps, since it seems a little lighter, and keep all of the CCC in it's bottle. So, it's kinda sorta almost like a genuine "need." I was committed to the itty concept this time around, but I wore my sniffle of Spark in the Dark today for testing purposes and it reminds me of something someone in my ex's family wore, maybe his MIL, so it's not for me. Please reserve for me, if still available, 1 Lisa's Creamy Ylang. I'm tempted for Coco Chrissy's, but I'm having a bad musk day, I think I should pass this time around, because I know there are some FB's in my future from the new releases.

Awesome, all good info. I will try them both at home, no hurry, everything else is working really well. And DHEAS is a true magic potion for me on so many levels! Stacy and Bella, you ladies sure are nice.

Mara, is the difference between Lisa's Ylang and the NR CCC the aja?

Lainey, in USD every trial set I've bought has been between $32 and $39, except the full set of pherotines which was like 22 or 24 trials and $79, so it must be the exchange rate that's throwing you off. I'd happily pay more, though, in exchange for a CA passport!

Yes! I did find him at the Not An Asshole Store! But I assure you he can be quite a handful, or at least he was in the beginning. Now he's pretty much always on his very best behavior: And he's so good with my kids! He's good with my ex, too. They're not each others most favorite people, but my man's good at making most anyone comfortable, and I overheard him telling my ex that I'm going to be fostering kittens and soon we'd have 10 cats. As hard as I know he probably tries, there's nothing for my ex to dislike about him. As far as Audacious goes, it sounds like maybe it's not for me. I know that DOM is absolutely not for me, at least not in my current occupation. Maybe if I take a job as a professional window smasher or riot instigator. I have Leather, but I'm very cautious. I didn't get a DOM or Leather vibe from Audacious though, I thought maybe it was more like LACE? I am naturally a little (or a lot) spacey, and I do have Tantalize but not sure about Lace as I can come across as ditzy already. I can be loud if I feel like I'm "on," I like to tell jokes and I have to occasionally pull myself back from dominating conversations and/or taking center stage in social events, because I know it can be obnoxious. That's why people like me on the OW, TH, and H&S. I still need to test Lace at home a bit. I think Audacious might also be in the "home use only" category. SWS is good for work, also Focus (as you know,) but my work IS social and I am often the center of attention, as teaching can be like playing "Simon says" and I am Simon. But those two help me act more like a grown up than a little kid yelling "look at me!" Lumina turns me up, but in a good way. DHEAS is ALWAYS my jam. I have a bottle of DHEAS and still my spray bottle of Topper is almost gone. I'm grateful for the little pherotines, I have Audacious and Leather (plus at least 8 others) so I can play with them and not be bummed if they don't suit me, as opposed to having an amazing smelling perfume that I can't use. You're making me want to go play with stuff, but between Drive By Fruiting with OW this morning and SWS before teaching earlier, I am already covered. Just wondering, would you use Audacious for pre-sex/sexy time, or just social?

He is the best. Today I made 2 cakes for my daughter's end of the year picnic, he helped me frost them and organized and carried everything. Now we're at sushi and he's taking me bowling, again. I'm the luckiest girl in the world.

I just got my shipping notice for the new release trials! Did anyone else get their notice yet?

I feel so lucky. Today I was feeling a sense of gratitude for my man, and wanted to do something nice for him, so suggested I call a sitter and we go out for a bit. He suggested bowling and watching the Incredibles with my kids, and bought us all unlimited summer bowling passes.

Some days the only person whom I can amuse is myself, but I think my jokes are hysterical. "Cowabunga" made me think "stoner dude," so I was thinking ocean, weed, and Hawaiian Tropics suntan lotion.

I'm excited for the CCC, also, as ylang ylang has always been one of my favorites, and the only flower I can wear straight up, and I haven't yet had he pleasure of it mixed with cocoa butter and coconut. (Except maybe Lady V's SLPC?) Just last night I was worrying about my supply of Odalisque, this makes me feel less concerned. I am very excited about Deliciae! It's my perfect concoction. Will this also be available virgin? I cannot remember my PP hits/misses. Oh,, and I did so bad with my guesses on notes! Like shamefully bad. My favorite on how far I was off was Cowabunga, I guessed coconut, cannabis, and seaweed.

Forum is acting weird... I was trying to quote you on being laid back and him preferring a more Dom vibe, I'm naturally all "my way or the highway," even though I try so hard not to be an ass, so my man prefers the touchy feely H&S and TH blends on me, and wears PM and an undisclosed amount of Teddy BB.

Yup, same exact thing. He's on vacation and I've had to text him about a ballet recital and a final school project and some other fucking thing. And I love that DOM works for you like EST works for me.

Holy wow, what madness is this Femme Fatale? This has been in my collection for a while, it must've been in shock when I tried it last. Like in shock that someone parted with it! I cannot stop huffing glimpses of it's beauty as the heat lifts it off me. So lovely! And so glad I was drawn to it today!

I hadn't realized that I had reviewed this back in February, but I now see it made me hungry. I grabbed it today to test audacious for an outdoor end-of-the-school year water gun fight type of party, but I didn't want to talk to anyone, I just wanted to sit in the shade, so that's exactly what I did. Bella, I've got the opposite thing going as far as this scent. I AM a fruity peaches girl, and a buttercream girl, just still not sure what audacious does for me. All I can tell you is that it doesn't compel me to grab a super-soaker and chase children around in the hot sun. Maybe that's the point? I was like, "I'm sitting here and listening to music in the shade and we leave when I say we leave." The point being I looked good and smelled good, and I hope to get one more wearing out of this trial. It's definitely a "me" type of scent, to the point that I didn't need to sniff check myself or think about it, now I just need to do more Audacious research.

I wonder if Mara used both? Stacy did call it sultry. Or maybe that was from the oud and bakhoor? I'm glad that I don't love them all, it's hard enough to choose as it is. There are a few flowers that are just too intense for me. But it's kind of like being a vegetarian and looking at an overwhelmingly extensive menu, it's nice to have things a bit narrowed down.

Wisteria is NOT my friend. I sampled it today, was instantly overwheled with its flower intensity, but had faith that it would mellow into something wearable. It wasn't a scent memory that was rubbing me the wrong way, but I imagine that if this were flowering nearby it would nonchalantly insert itself into every interaction. All I got out of it was a headache. Ironically, by the time I was done teaching this am, it was something soft and would have otherwise been intriguing if the wisteria hadn't already kicked my ass. Who gets their ass handed to them by a pretty little flower? Me.

I'm realizing, as I decide to buckle down and test a few from Feb and April I never even touched, that Blue Moon and Island Rain are not in my phero samples box, and neither are Frisky B, Super Happy FTime, or Wild Cherry, but the rest made it. I did open the package while packing for a camping trip, so brought them, so I'm guessing they're all together. (I briefly tested Frisky, Happy and Wild on that trip.) So the good news is that I'm not JUST being lazy with my testing. I suppose it's also good news that I'm organized enough to know when trials are missing! I'll get back to work on Spring, at least.

I might be mostly excited about these new releases because ordering the trials gives me an excuse to order some Mystic Dewdrop! Or Paradisi, or Ohana, or more Liebchen, or 2018 PCMP, or deal with this obsession with Winter in the Tropics that's never left me, even though it's so not a "me" scent. And I still haven't even tried Goddess of the Blue Moon or Island Rain! Or Laloo or Fluffy! And what about Cuddle Bunny?!!! Times are hard.

Good timing, summer releases are about to happen! Lots of forum changes, cosmetic and whatnot, it will take a minute to get used to but you'll get used to it soon enough. Here's a link on the current Forum Upgrade if you're curious. Feb and April releases had some really lovely hits, too.

Oooooohhhh! So exciting! I can't hazard too many guesses as to their scents, other than the two more obvious ones (Coco Cocoa and Ambrosia), but I feel like Iskandar and Leisha could be complimentary. The Iskandar label is a stunner, really they all are. The Padma label is also rather striking, look at her face! An air of self-satisfaction, dignity, and composure, but she has a secret! It's all she can do to keep it in. If she was any less of a lady, she'd spill the beans. I don't know how she does it!

Wow! Who's that girl who wrote that stuff? Six hours after putting it on earlier tonight, I'm huffing my wrist and I've firmly decided that I need some more Mystic Dewdrop. Whatever it's faded down to on me is intoxicating. The teak is the star now, but with a hint of honeysuckle and Maile chaser. I can still get the coconut if I'm looking. Sending an invoice request after the weekend!