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Mar. 9th, 2016 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyI stayed up way too long yesterday, but I had stuff to do. Lost an hour to the Kindle and cat, then I called AG and got the ball rolling on new!Lea. I'm not sure how I lost another hour or so after that, but it was probably email and updating here and webcomic rollcall. Then I started my Fosters episode only to think, about halfway through, I should probably at least look at my brother's taxes since my mother has been hinting horribly the last week or so.
Which killed another two hours. Dude, I dunno all these answers and I couldn't figure out how he wound up owing so much until, after I finally threw in the towel and convinced Mums to do a lunch run, she told me that a) his job was being sued for not offering health insurance and b) he'd stopped having taxes taken out of his check. Why? Heck if I know. But I'd think that the former problem might mean maybe have someone semi qualified at least answer your questions? Maybe call our oldest cousin who does this for a living? The problem isn't necessarily with the state stuff, so it's kind of a universal question, y'know? I should remember to have Mom pass that along.
Anyway, the day slipped away as they do. And apparently by the time I fell asleep, I was so tired that I held an entire conversation with Widget and have no memory of it. So my dinner and I did not meet until recently. It's almost 6am, btw.
My Birchbox came yesterday and included was an eyeliner with no lid. So I was ticked. For ages, actually. Until this morning when I looked it up again and realized that it has a lid. That looks like a regular pencil, so what I was seeing was the lid. Duh. In general, though, I'm actually kind of excited about the contents of this box. May it work out better than last month's where the lipstick went everywhere on me (woe!), the nail polish chipped in record time (double woe!) and I don't think I tried anything else yet. I need to be better about that, but in my defense, the ick did prevent most things. I don't get people who put makeup on when they're sick. You're just contaminating perfectly good makeup. Why? I get weirded out enough when I realize that my chapstick is likely infected and thus it must get chucked, why would you go all in with eye makeup or something? Geez.
What else? Oh yeah. My Target order arrived and I'd completely forgotten about it (see what three days of work will do to a brain?) so huzzah! I gave up on my store EVER getting the TriCastleOn set, so when it went on sale again online, I snagged. Their free shipping didn't hurt. Must have all the Lizzies, you know. I'd say the same for Cerise but that SDCC exclusive killed that plan. So I also inadvertently have all the Hunters, too. :P
Hrmm. Oh! Scentsy side: I should really try out the Moonstone warmer I snagged for halfsies. I have tried both Whiteout and Snowberry and I have opinions.
Whiteout is definitely too light to use in a big room, so I'm going to try it in my vanity next. Or the downstairs bathroom, maybe. It never really took off in the living room. Snowberry is a little stronger but not in a big way, so we'll also give that one a whirl elsewhere. They can't all be super scented to the max. Sometimes you do want subtle. I'm trying to decide if I go with the onslaught of Spring and try something in that vein or if I stubbornly cling to it being winter and try the Toffee Butter Crunch. Decisions!
Oh, and I need new soap for the bathroom. Gimme a sale, B&BW. Gimme a sale. Not that I'd know what a good sale is on those since I tend to buy... whenever. But I ran through my Black Cherry Merlot and I need MORE.
Still dragging my feet on the newest Hannah book. I just have a lot of feelings about weird love triangle solutions, I guess.
If you've decided what the heck, might as well click, I should warn you there really are spoilers. But we are talking a cozy mystery series so... you probably only care a bit. Unless, like Mums and I, you're already invested in the characters.
Like so many other series, the Hannah books had a serious love triangle going on for much of the run. You have Hannah, our star, and then you had her suitors. Mike, the macho cop whose womanizing ways are a direct result of his first wife (and kid, I think?) being killed. If you're enough of an ass, people will forget that tragic backstory and just assume you kind of suck at this whole monogamy thing.
Which is fair enough since Hannah is also seeing Norman, the nerdy dentist. Norman, btw, is the underdog only to Hannah. While Mike's looks make Hannah swoon, Norman is the man she cries over thinking she's lost and whose opinion she actually values. Norman may not be exceptionally handsome, but he is pretty much perfect for Hannah.
Except that her heart doesn't always race when she sees him, I guess. Which is where things get sticky. You see, for awhile the balance worked. Norman and Mike were friendly enough and you'd just assume that they both really liked Hannah and were somehow, kinda okay with them both dating her even though realistically this triangle would never work. (Even if you go with the whole Hannah doesn't sleep with either of them except in the most literal of ways, and that's only in emergencies where they literally fall asleep in the same room.)
Awhile back, another suitor was briefly brought in and at the time he was kinda hyped as this First Love thing. Ross appears for one book and then disappears almost immediately in the following book even though there was a set-up for him to be more.
And had the author actually followed through and had Ross be a presence on page, even if it was just in phone calls or a mention of a letter or email or SOMETHING, I might buy the whole deus-EX-machina of Ross reappearing and sweeping Hannah off her feet in record time. We're told all over the place that Hannah kept in serious touch and that he kept in touch with her family after his ONE appearance but it was literally never mentioned prior to this. You know what was mentioned?
Hannah realizing how much she actually loved Norman, how the thought of him not being in her life tore her to pieces. That was mentioned and shown repeatedly.
But no, Ross sweeps into Hannah's life once more, asks her to marry him and she says yes. She's in luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuv.
Which, again, I could have bought back when he first appeared if they'd kept him around in any form. They did not, so this rings totally hollow and I don't like it. Hell, all his best ideas in this book so far have either been Norman's or things that throw red flags up for Hannah. Why are you marrying him again?
So I can't figure out if we're actually supposed to distrust him (Mike and Norman both make comments that Hannah reads as simple jealousy) like the men in Hannah's life do, or if we're supposed to handwave this stuff away. Is it going to be a marriage that implodes or is this supposed to be the happily ever after? I need to know.
And if it IS happily ever after for Hannah, I need someone fantastic for Norman. Mike can sit on it and rotate because he's been an ass for most of the series at this point, but Norman's had some incredibly shitty luck and I need my cat loving dude to get some sunshine in his life ASAP.
Annnnnnnd hours later, I've cleaned out the vanity area and set up Moonstone. Stupidly pretty!
Which killed another two hours. Dude, I dunno all these answers and I couldn't figure out how he wound up owing so much until, after I finally threw in the towel and convinced Mums to do a lunch run, she told me that a) his job was being sued for not offering health insurance and b) he'd stopped having taxes taken out of his check. Why? Heck if I know. But I'd think that the former problem might mean maybe have someone semi qualified at least answer your questions? Maybe call our oldest cousin who does this for a living? The problem isn't necessarily with the state stuff, so it's kind of a universal question, y'know? I should remember to have Mom pass that along.
Anyway, the day slipped away as they do. And apparently by the time I fell asleep, I was so tired that I held an entire conversation with Widget and have no memory of it. So my dinner and I did not meet until recently. It's almost 6am, btw.
My Birchbox came yesterday and included was an eyeliner with no lid. So I was ticked. For ages, actually. Until this morning when I looked it up again and realized that it has a lid. That looks like a regular pencil, so what I was seeing was the lid. Duh. In general, though, I'm actually kind of excited about the contents of this box. May it work out better than last month's where the lipstick went everywhere on me (woe!), the nail polish chipped in record time (double woe!) and I don't think I tried anything else yet. I need to be better about that, but in my defense, the ick did prevent most things. I don't get people who put makeup on when they're sick. You're just contaminating perfectly good makeup. Why? I get weirded out enough when I realize that my chapstick is likely infected and thus it must get chucked, why would you go all in with eye makeup or something? Geez.
What else? Oh yeah. My Target order arrived and I'd completely forgotten about it (see what three days of work will do to a brain?) so huzzah! I gave up on my store EVER getting the TriCastleOn set, so when it went on sale again online, I snagged. Their free shipping didn't hurt. Must have all the Lizzies, you know. I'd say the same for Cerise but that SDCC exclusive killed that plan. So I also inadvertently have all the Hunters, too. :P
Hrmm. Oh! Scentsy side: I should really try out the Moonstone warmer I snagged for halfsies. I have tried both Whiteout and Snowberry and I have opinions.
Whiteout is definitely too light to use in a big room, so I'm going to try it in my vanity next. Or the downstairs bathroom, maybe. It never really took off in the living room. Snowberry is a little stronger but not in a big way, so we'll also give that one a whirl elsewhere. They can't all be super scented to the max. Sometimes you do want subtle. I'm trying to decide if I go with the onslaught of Spring and try something in that vein or if I stubbornly cling to it being winter and try the Toffee Butter Crunch. Decisions!
Oh, and I need new soap for the bathroom. Gimme a sale, B&BW. Gimme a sale. Not that I'd know what a good sale is on those since I tend to buy... whenever. But I ran through my Black Cherry Merlot and I need MORE.
Still dragging my feet on the newest Hannah book. I just have a lot of feelings about weird love triangle solutions, I guess.
If you've decided what the heck, might as well click, I should warn you there really are spoilers. But we are talking a cozy mystery series so... you probably only care a bit. Unless, like Mums and I, you're already invested in the characters.
Like so many other series, the Hannah books had a serious love triangle going on for much of the run. You have Hannah, our star, and then you had her suitors. Mike, the macho cop whose womanizing ways are a direct result of his first wife (and kid, I think?) being killed. If you're enough of an ass, people will forget that tragic backstory and just assume you kind of suck at this whole monogamy thing.
Which is fair enough since Hannah is also seeing Norman, the nerdy dentist. Norman, btw, is the underdog only to Hannah. While Mike's looks make Hannah swoon, Norman is the man she cries over thinking she's lost and whose opinion she actually values. Norman may not be exceptionally handsome, but he is pretty much perfect for Hannah.
Except that her heart doesn't always race when she sees him, I guess. Which is where things get sticky. You see, for awhile the balance worked. Norman and Mike were friendly enough and you'd just assume that they both really liked Hannah and were somehow, kinda okay with them both dating her even though realistically this triangle would never work. (Even if you go with the whole Hannah doesn't sleep with either of them except in the most literal of ways, and that's only in emergencies where they literally fall asleep in the same room.)
Awhile back, another suitor was briefly brought in and at the time he was kinda hyped as this First Love thing. Ross appears for one book and then disappears almost immediately in the following book even though there was a set-up for him to be more.
And had the author actually followed through and had Ross be a presence on page, even if it was just in phone calls or a mention of a letter or email or SOMETHING, I might buy the whole deus-EX-machina of Ross reappearing and sweeping Hannah off her feet in record time. We're told all over the place that Hannah kept in serious touch and that he kept in touch with her family after his ONE appearance but it was literally never mentioned prior to this. You know what was mentioned?
Hannah realizing how much she actually loved Norman, how the thought of him not being in her life tore her to pieces. That was mentioned and shown repeatedly.
But no, Ross sweeps into Hannah's life once more, asks her to marry him and she says yes. She's in luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuv.
Which, again, I could have bought back when he first appeared if they'd kept him around in any form. They did not, so this rings totally hollow and I don't like it. Hell, all his best ideas in this book so far have either been Norman's or things that throw red flags up for Hannah. Why are you marrying him again?
So I can't figure out if we're actually supposed to distrust him (Mike and Norman both make comments that Hannah reads as simple jealousy) like the men in Hannah's life do, or if we're supposed to handwave this stuff away. Is it going to be a marriage that implodes or is this supposed to be the happily ever after? I need to know.
And if it IS happily ever after for Hannah, I need someone fantastic for Norman. Mike can sit on it and rotate because he's been an ass for most of the series at this point, but Norman's had some incredibly shitty luck and I need my cat loving dude to get some sunshine in his life ASAP.
Annnnnnnd hours later, I've cleaned out the vanity area and set up Moonstone. Stupidly pretty!