you know yer a homo when

[starfrosting]

Sorry for all the posts guys it's the only way I'm getting through packing.

So, anyway, you know you're a homo when you decide to pack light and that includes:
-a surfeit of clean white undershirts
-too many buttondowns considering
-a dop kit with the following:
*pocketknife
*tea tree hair tonic
*oat tincture
*damiana tincture (both for anti-anxiety powers)
*skinny dip bath stuff
*hairbrush, just in case
*creme de la merde
*hair balm
*fig hand cream (the almond one is in yr bookbag)
*burt's bees little samples of marshmallowy moisturizer + shit
*cologne
*mini tabasco (didn't know where else to put it)
*rosemary hand balm (sensing a theme?)
*nail clippers
*nail buffer
*bronner's
*tweezers
*plus run o' the mill stuff like toothbrush etc

I figure I can get a razor while I'm there.
I'm just in awe of how, hmm, high maintenance is the wrong word, but how fucking fussy I am when it comes down to what I want to take with me. "Oh no, I couldn't just take the almond! What if I want to smell like figs?" Seriously. You can see where me and butchness run up against each other.

Still, I will not bring capitalism and schizophrenia no matter how many illusions I maintain of this being the perfect time to dig right in. And I will leave everything leather that is not my harness at home, because I am packing light.

Comments

[darkhaligh.livejournal.com]

oh yeah damiana! that was on my packing list for break. herbs are a wonderful glorious thing. especially when you suffer from anxiety and/or seasonal depression (among many other things that they are great for). hurray!

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

hurray! I haven't tried this method consistently really ever, after finding that tension tamer + rescue remedy wasn't really doing the trick. once a few years ago I made a damiana tincture that worked rather well.
it's funny cos damiana can also be good for making people feel sexy/sexual (probably part of the whole easing anxiety thing?) and so it's marketed as this 'libido booster for menopausal women,' at least on the bottle I have. teehee.
have you used it consistently, and if so how has it been working?

[phlat.livejournal.com]

it's the parasympathetic/sympathetic nervous system thing, right?

one gets you agitated and causes blood vessels to constrict and makes you anxious and have headaches.

the other gets you aroused and causes blood vessels to engorge and makes you relaxed and have soreness in your nether regions the next day.

i just don't remember which is which.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

oh wow I never knew about that.
engorgement is so much better. damn.

[de-cryptic.livejournal.com]

hey you, you are super-cute, and i cannot believe that you use creme de la mere, seriously! Isn't that the JLo stuff? Really, I am just being jealous because right now I possess only two kinds of hand-cream, oh wait, maybe three, oh well, definitely not as much and not enough... :)
On another note, I wanted to call you tonight, but when I read your note on hating the phone I decided not to add more anxiety to the already existing chunk. I kinda hate the phone, too, by the way.
Pack light, but take things that may make you feel good, even though they are silly. Also, don't do anxiety Olicim, as this will be the best adventure ever, I think. I am so very excited for you... And I like your hair-cut, and I don't like facial hair, so...;)

[quarterling.livejournal.com]

I would leave, like, 3/4ths of your faggoty hair and skin creme shite, and bring the leather. Isn't Ireland supposed to have great weather for skin? And you never know who there will be to beat up on...;)

Do what you want, though. I guess I'm butcher than you! Ha! Ha! Ha!!

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

oh, honey, so much butcher. Ha.
I'm not even bringing bandanas. So if I top anyone over there it's gonna be mad d.i.y, that's for sure.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

Aw, purr grr aww...sorry, I'm making silly noises. No I really do not like the phone either, plus I'm all kindsa exhausted now anyway (oh how simply *demanding* it was to pack one bag, hehe). I packed lightly in terms of basic useful shit cos I figure that I can pick up over there, but I packed just enough of small comforts as you can tell. (Plus books, my g-d, I have no restraint. Dorothy Allison for the plane plus a witchy book for my soul plus D&G for my soul/head plus Diane DiPrima for poetry plus Bergson, but the Bergson is for school so it's alright, right?)
Any cok cok something stronger than sevgiler, and I will (yes? yes) see you this spring/summer. Mwah!

ps-damn lj won't let me use cedilles. so, no accents on the c's. dommage.

[luna-virgo.livejournal.com]

You can see where me and butchness run up against each other.

My butch ex used to have three times as much hair product in the bathroom as I did (and my hair is waist-length and dyed). She had an Inner Fag, for sure.