Mmmm, good smells

I smell like karma and lust, y'all. Or at least what the Lush company thinks they smell like, which is pretty damn good. I got the solid perfume version of these when my sister and I went on our little excursion last weekend during the one tiny window of feeling decent that I had. The tubes basically work the way lip balm does, except you push up instead of twisting up, and you smear them on your skin instead of your lips.

I liked both of these scents individually, but put together they are heavenly! Main scents in each that I can discern are:

Karma - Patchouli and lavender (there are other good hippie-smelling scents here but I can't pick them out)

Lust - Jasmine (lots and lots of jasmine!), sandalwood and rose

Mmmmmm. Smeared together on your skin they make you smell like a tropical garden. Lust may not be for everyone, as you have to really like jasmine in order for it to not overwhelm you, but I love it.

See? Kind of like Chapstick. The atomisers are more expensive.

Patrick loves it too. ;)

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Weekend pictures

Thank you all for your getting-well wishes! My back actually feels better. It was pretty awful Friday and most of Saturday, but after liberal application of heat and meds it started getting better. It only hurts now if I clench my muscles really tightly, and it's no longer painful to walk around or bend down, get up, whatever. So glad! That was just horrid. I felt incredibly old.


On another note: just a few snaps I took around the yard while it wasn't raining. This is before Patrick mowed, so it looks less overgrown now, but you get the idea. The hydrangea looks much better after we ripped the Satan Weed off of it. The rose is just out front, and it's that deep, gorgeous magenta when it blooms. The little blue spruce is our Christmas tree! It's doing very well, and all those really blue parts are new growth, about 2-3" on each small part. The maple is the little one we pulled out of a ditch last year and planted in our yard, hoping it would root. It appears to have done so, and we're so pleased about it. 

Now with 100% less Satan Weed!

These always make my eyes happy.

Christmas in July! This is a happy tree.

Doing very well after being yanked unceremoniously from a ditch.
It's about 1 1/2' tall, although you can't really see it here.

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