* it's the website for my famous little pup and his famous little siblings! check in often to see how the wee pooches are doing, and maybe buy a calendar!
* when i first moved to LA, me and lu lived in an amazing shopping neighborhood. there were a lot of things about that neighborhood that sucked, like the traffic and being a million miles away from every freeway and the lack of like-minded people living nearby (at least none we found.) but there was a LOT that was great about it, and it really was the perfect neighborhood for us to live in when we first got there. it was really centrally located, so not being near freeways wasn't that big a deal, though lu was dating a guy who lived in pasadena, so that sucked for both of them. it was a manageable driving distance from UCLA. there were a lot of tasty restaurants within walking distance, including the best coffee i have ever had. (seriously. it's amazing and so intense. if coffee is pot, this coffee is totally hash.)it was a couple of blocks away from the beverly center, which is a giant mammoth of a mall. and, aside from the bev, there was really, really, really good shopping on 3rd. really good.
among the stores on 3rd that i'd haunt, like a little starving, fashion conscious student ghost, there were several that seemed to sell only candles and soap and stuff. that doesn't seem like a very appealing mix to me in my head, since i don't burn candles much, and i don't just buy bars of soap on impulse, but there was a candle in one of those stores that was the yummiest smelling thing i had ever found in the entire world. i would visit the candle, and smell it, before wandering on to keep browsing because it was ridiculously expensive (for me, for a candle.)
but i couldn't get it out of my head. it had a smokey, almost creamy smell. it came in a gorgeous deep red smoked glass container, with a cool picture on it in relief, with an elephant and some words in french which i was eventually able to figure out was the name of the company and some reference to tea, which made sense. turns out the scent of the tea was earl grey tea. YUM. so, when i got my student loan disbursement one quarter, i splurged and bought it.
oh man, how delicious our apartment smelled, which was quite a feat, since our apartment was not a naturally tasty smelling place since we lived across the hallway from a huge open garbage pit thingie that bred cockroaches. so maybe the smell was more smokey earl grey tea mixed with hot garbage. but still, that's better than just hot garbage.
and, as happens with many things we love and use accordingly, eventually there was only a thin little layer of was on the bottom. despite trying to ration my usage to stave off this eventuality, it happened. so i decided the enjoyment was worth the cost, especially since shannon liked the smell of it, too, and shannon hates scented everything! see? it was a GOOD BUY!
but, alas, the store i'd bought it from had closed. and all google searches for the company came up with nothing. and i am not going to pretend i didn't seriously despair.
that was a few years ago. i have come to a place of peace about the loss. i barely ever think about how tasty that candle was. so imagine my positive DELIGHT when i found a reference to the french tea house that makes the candle in this week's GOOP newsletter from gwyneth paltrow! and, searching the website, I FOUND MY CANDLE!!!! and they have more candles that are probably totally yummy, too!!
a sobering check on the exchange rate from euro to dollar shows me that a single candle off this website is $57. >gulp.< but man, i really want it.
* people, compassionate fascism says absolutely not to fundamentalism of all kinds. so, behead your wives and bomb abortion clinics while you still can because your days are numbered. (obviously obama's social spending and just the beginning of the rebuilding of the welfare state, which is laying the groundwork for government taking over every aspect of our lives, which will be the perfect time for compassionate fascism.)
* i'm concerned about what happens 'when shit goes down' and so is the onion.
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I too have a special, delicious smelling candle from my college years! It's also ridiculously expensive (although not quite as much as yours, maybe around $30, but still a ridiculous amount for a candle) and I get one every few years just because I love it so much and it brings me so much happiness and makes my house smell so nice. Mine is "red currant" and it comes in this fancy box and has a little string tied around the glass with a little bead on it. I try to make people buy it for me for special occasions so then I don't have to feel so guilty. I found it at a store in the castro the other day for half off but unfortunately I didn't have my wallet with me. Sad day...
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