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[riverdresses] finds that maybe very little, at least to her slightly cosseted eyes, is as lovely as her seven-mile candyfloss sky world is at post-rain . . . autumnal sunset. It's a night for hot tea, a viewing of Withnail & I, & writing. A double-looped scarf & jumper set for her mind. what makes up YOUR mind's double-looped scarf & jumper sets? She's curious!

I wrote that through the late afternoon to the early evening on my Twitter & realised that it would be a lovely thing to include in the third issue of my zine, riverdresses.

Basically, I want to know, as I said, what comforts you on cold days?

What makes up your happiest moments?

If you could, what would be the ideal things for your ideal autumnal/springy/summery/wintry days & nights?

In the darkest nights, on the coldest, stormiest days, what makes up the ideal scarf & jumper (sweater, for you non-Brits reading this!) set for your mind?

I would adore as many submissions as I could get - submit more than once if you like! - & if I get quite a few, I'll move this idea into the fourth issue of riverdresses, or make it a regular feature, possibly. Just leave me your preferred moniker/nom de plume/name so I can add it in properly!

Also, feel free to spread this around to anyone else you think would like to add something! The more, the merrier! (& I confess, I'm just dying to know some of your responses! I'll be sharing my own as well, so don't think I'll just be sitting & watching you all!)

xoxo
Betsy

(p.s. you totally don't have to answer all of them like that - have fun & be creative, darlings!)

I think we've been in here a bit too long. I feel curious

Verdict on the codeine-laced cough syrup: Shit is STILL damn tasty. Makes me a bit sluggish an hour later though & makes my mouth feel odd after I take it. But I think I'm taking it right & it's still yummy.

Aside from my adventures with controlled substances, I had a rather interesting morning. It started out with me seeing a fellow who bore quite a resemblance to Peter Davison (when he was the Doctor, mind you!) playing cello in the subway station when I was on my way out. I did a teeeny bit of a double take when I walked by him & then, in true mouse fashion, I scurried off in the perpetual shyness & fright I suddenly get overcome by when surrounded by nice looking members of the opposite sex. (of course, that happens when I'm around nice looking members of the same sex too, but there's a one percent chance I won't flee like a butterfly in the wind.)

O, sigh. Lovely creatures who are also street musicians . . . I am easily smitten by such, you know!

The second interesting part of my morning came whilst I was sitting in Union Square. I met a very nice girl who, quite unexpectedly, said she liked my bag & began a nice conversation with me. She was very friendly & she was quite nice to talk to. She said my name was cool & she told me she'd met a girl named Tuesday on Sunday. (hee! I said, 'well, I'm Sunday on Tuesday!')I invited her to sit with me & we talked for a bit until she had to go, as she was meeting a jewelry maker later. (she makes jewelry herself, though she didn't have any of her pieces on today) I gave her my number & she said she'd call me sometime.

Well, how about that? Sunday Aeryn made a friend, quite possibly!

(& aww, she said I had a really pretty smile! I never think I do - too many teeth, omg, but awwww!)

& I found this by way of

verav, entered & I KNOW

alli_everyday will like it!

Free Handbag Contest!

I don't think I'll win, but o, I just couldn't resist! I love a pretty handbag, don't you?

O, one last thing. I started working on riverdresses again - it has the beginnings of an intro now! Now I need to not be lazy & indecisive & start working on the actual content of it.

I think we've been in here a bit too long. I feel sleepy
listening to Amy Winehouse ♦ Me & Mr Jones (Fuckery)

First off:

monkeyman, I got your package! ::tackleglomps:: Thank you SO SO much for my lovely ornament & all of those lovely sweetheart candies! (I love them, I will not lie!) & I was quite enamored of the wrapping - you remembered my love for all things cherry print! I had to open it really carefully so I could save it, you know. But OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH! ::glomp::

♥♥♥

Um. Folkies, loves, snugglebears & fangirls.

Guess who has a birthday coming up in . . . eight days?

Why yes, it's the Betsyshaped thing! Yes, my nineteenth birthday is coming up next month on the sixth. Meow, another year, another age, but teehee, I'm not so anxious about it anymore. ~~Mostly because I'm getting a new phone that I'm really excited about, buuuuut . . .~~ Whee, one year closer to being twenty! ~~Gah, I'm so old.~~

But yes indeed! I can has birthday next month! ::bounces about::

♥♥♥

O.my.god. you won't believe what I managed to make myself do today. I went up to Anubis Warpus to get a couple of zines, one of which I'm sending to

monkeyman & one I've been wanting to read for a couple of weeks. Since I found out that they do sell zines, I've been wanting to ask how they take them, but I've been a little too shy/intimidated to do so. But when I was in there, a couple of guys came in & one of them was dropping off his zine. I hung around for a bit & then when I went to pay, I finally just asked how they took zines. Surprisingly, it was easier than I thought & I wound up giving the nice fellow behind the counter three copies of my second issue.

I'M BEING SOLD IN A REAL BRICK&MORTAR STORE HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO.

PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY BUY MY ZINES IN A REAL SHOP.

I AM SO VERY PLEASED WITH MYSELF RIGHT NOW.

♥♥♥

Tonight's been a nice night. I washed my hair, painted my toesies up nicely & am about to straighten my hair out, all while watching Stargate SG-1. (yes, I'm studying Vala's hairstyles while drooling over her & Cameron. O, GOOD NIGHT. ::licks Vala & Cam:: DUDE, THAT ACCENT. ME.OW.)

& speaking of hair & Vala Mal Doran, this morning I was talking to my mummycat & we got on the topic of Amy Winehouse & her AWESOME hair. Now, i don't listen to Amy Winehouse (yet), but I've heard some of Back to Black on

yasolo's iPod & I think her hair & tattoos are FUCKING AWESOME. So I asked Mother if she thought she could try giving me either Amy Winehouse or Aeryn Sun hair for my birthday. Then I brought up how similar I thought Amy Winehouse looked to Claudia Black & showed her a couple of pictures. She agreed!

(& in the same vein, I've always felt that Amanda Tapping looked a bit like Liz Phair, but that could totally just be me.)

Going to play with Vala!piggytails tomorrow - I kind of failed at them today. I blame my lack of visual aids, my hair in general & the timeframe I was working in. Also need to pay a visit to my stylist soon to get the bleached bits of my bangs chopped off.

Watching Bounty now & meeeeeep, I am so in love with this ep & Vala's hair in it! She's got PERFECT Gal hair, as agreed upon by both myself &

lost_little_nat.

~~OMG I NEED SOME CAM/VALA NOW.~~

♥♥♥

Okay folks. Perfect Riverdress, am I right?

Yes it has no back. BUT. It's almost the exact colour of her Miranda dress & if I remember right, she DID wear a backless dress toward the end of Serenity. Hmm.

Okay, off to straighten my hair! ::flies away::

I think we've been in here a bit too long. I feel bouncy
listening to mmm, Cameron's pretty voice

I did it! I finally did it! I completed issue two of riverdresses! After almost six months, it's done! & yes, as we speak, I'm typing up more articles for issue three, which has its front & back cover already made. I AM WIN, GO MEEEEEEE.

Ahem. So, for my newer friends, let me do a quick bit of explanaiton: I do a perzine called riverdresses. I've had one issue out & am now ready to put out my second issue, so I thought I'd drop a line here at good ol'

lost_her_sway to see if anyone was interested in buying or trading something for a copy!

Here are the specifics:

♥ Eighteen pages in black & white

♥ a piece on how much fun I had going to Serenity last June which featured here as well

♥ It's a dollar for trade, two dollars if one is outside the U.S., or I'll take a pretty mixtape or a pretty set of stickers if you'd rather send me something like that! Just mention in the comments that you'd prefer to trade & we can talk.

♥ This is the big note: As of right now, I only have fifteen issues printed. If I run out, I will make more, but it won't be until sometime next month - I'll mention here if I run out, but you can still request copies, but it'll some time before you receive it.

I'm screening comments on this post so if you are interested, you can leave me your mailing address, or you can send it to absinthe.ophelia@gmail.com. Just make sure you mention your LJ name if you send me an e-mail please! I'm also leaving this post open in case anyone on my flist has people on their flist that might be interested in this.

Also? Kathleen Hanna with Le Tigre = fucking awesome.

I think we've been in here a bit too long. I feel jubilant
listening to Le Tigre ♦ My Art

::sighs irritably::

No, it STILL isn't fixed & I could SCREAM from lack of laptop at my place.

But, I'm breaking my personal taboo of updating from somewhere that isn't the library because I have something really wonderful that I'd love to share with those of you that would be interested!

So, if you ever look at the sidebar on my LJ, you may notice that I mentioned that I have a zine called Riverdresses. (& if you don't know what a zine is - here's the shiny Wikipedia entry for it - the first paragraph is what's important here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zines)

So, I've just finished my first issue of it, & I thought I would ask here if anyone would be interested in either buying a copy or trading something for it. Here's the vital stuff about it.

♥ it costs a dollar, nothing more. But if YOU have a zine, or would rather trade me a mix CD or something along those lines, mention that in your comment & I'll be more than pleased to discuss it with you.

♥ it's not a fanzine, before anyone asks. But naturally, I talked a bit about River in it!

♥ If you are interested but don't want to send me the dollar, then mention that in the comments & if you want, we can trade. I really just need stickers & lots of them - Hello Kitty & her friends are the best! - or mixed CDs or burned ones - feel free to ask me what I'm looking for when it comes to that in your comment as well.

So, here's the rest: I'm screening the comments here, so you can leave me a mailing address if you're interested. If you're still not cool with the idea of commenting with your address, then send it to absinthe.ophelia@gmail.com but make sure you mention your LJ name, so I know who's interested!

Also, I'm leaving this post open, in case you know of anyone who might be interested in buying/trading with me.

& YES, I AM STILL MISSING YOU ALL TERRIBLY. ::CLINGS::

I think we've been in here a bit too long. I feel working
where are you? the apple store, where else?

.you must be mad, or else you wouldn't have come here

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