Stuff I Like

Hello and welcome! I hope your seat is comfy and you have a nice drink next to you. I’m writing to you early in the morning with my own warm cup of coffee. For an upper there is a silky-smooth quality to coffee that helps me get out of bed.

I finished watching Fallout last night. It was chief kiss amazing and tons of fun! No spoilers here, but if you haven’t seen it, jump onto evil Amazon daddy and watch it. Damn! The atmosphere is spot on! Did I reinstall Fallout 4? Yes, yes, I did. I love the franchise, well, all but the online one. I do have one complaint and it’s not even a real complaint. I’d never want it changed but after hours of gameplay, hanging out in a world where everything is dark and drab, it starts to get to me.

Because I have a three-year-old, I’ve jumped into cozy games. I finished Botany Manor, A Little to the Left, and Dordogne. I cried at the ending of Dordogne. It was an emotional journey. My kiddo loved the art and the opening music. Something about the story and the writing. Just thinking about it makes my eyes misty. It captures something so real about childhood.

Thinking about capturing things, I’ve been really into scents. I love them and they’re art! It’s a different type of medium but easily causes emotional responses! This all got started last year when a friend of mine, who is really into scents gave me some old testers.

What do I want to smell like? Well, I want an incense perfume that smells like a New Age shop. I want it to be mysterious, edgy, but nice. I knew, when looking up notes that I wanted to smell Purple Mantra by Room 1015. It does smell a tiny bit like a New Age shop but, well, you know how you hear of someone wanting to move to a cottage in the middle of the forest where she hangs herbs in her kitchen and may or may not have a cauldron? This is her scent. It’s heady, mysterious, herbal, and the person wearing this is someone you’re not going to make a deal with that you can’t cash. I’ll link it. The ascetics of this brand work for me and I want to try a lot more of their fragrances.

It isn’t a Springtime fragrance but those aren’t always for me. I like heavy fragrances. But there are acceptations. I love water notes and those work well in the Summer. I’ve been wearing a lot of Tocca’s Stella which is more of a summer scent because of the fruit and water note. It’s light, breezy, and juicy. A lot of the Tocca scents disappear on my skin, but not this one.

A fun writing exercise is that after I wear a fragrance for a while, I try to write what I smell on my skin and what imagery the scent invokes. That’s where I got witchy cottage from when wearing Purple Mantra.

Ha! I hope you’ve enjoyed the list of things I’ve been enjoying. I wouldn’t mind knowing what you’ve enjoyed lately.