Tea Rose and Tea Rose Amber

I believe in the power of smell to soothe and relax your soul. I love taking a shower with my "evening soap"- nothing deodorant or antibacterial to dry my skin out, maybe a nice peppermint or body wash and a hair rinse with cinnamon and cloves essential oil mixed with water. I really think that those sweet smells send me to bed with good thoughts and feelings in my head. Perfume wise, I have always been kinda wishy washy, until I rediscovered an old childhood favorite- Tea Rose.

I was looking for a mother's day present for my mom. I picked the Obama blend coffee she loves already and was looking for something else. I was cruising the net and found Tea Rose. Memories flooded my head, I remember this on my mom's vanity and trying it on. I remember it gave me a headache, but it smelled so good, I always stole a spritz or two anyway.

I put two bottles in my cart online, one for me and one for my mother. When I gave it to her, she said 'Tea Rose, I love Tea Rose!' I have worn the perfume everyday since it arrived. When my bottle got halfway finished, I searched for more. I went to the place I got my original shipment from and was disappointed to find that they raised the price by three or four bucks. So I searched on and found that there were other types of Tea Rose: Amber, Mesk, and Jasmine. Jasmine sadly was discontinued or I would have ordered five bottles on the spot, even thought I didn't know what it would smell like. After searching a little more, I found the Amber, Mesk and Tea Rose for ridiculously low prices and ordered two of each to keep me going for another year.

When they arrived, I tried the Mesk and Amber on one arm to see how it would wear on me. The Mesk faded, but had a light airy smell, but the Amber reminded me of just plain sexiness that morphed as time went on. One moment it smelled like patchoulli, another it smelled like good ol' fresh in the morning soap, but it blended so well with the Tea Rose. So now. i wear a layer of Tea Rose and top it with Amber.

When I go out, I get a lot of comments on how good it smells. I tell them that it is Tea Rose, but then wonder if I should give that secret away.

*** I am on my last bottle of Tea Rose Amber, so I just bought 4 boxes for myself for my birthday! ***

UPDATE:

My Tea Rose Amber luck ran out.
My lil ol heart is broken.
My source for the perfume is out of stock. I found another source and ordered 6 (!) boxes. A couple of days later, my money was returned to me because they didn't run out, but they sure did raise the price from $6 a bottle to $22 from the time I ordered it to the time I got my refund!

Rotten, shiesty crap man!

So, if anyone sees a bottle of Tea Rose Amber online for under $10, shoot me a comment please!

Microsoft One Note

This is the shiznit.





I like to collect information. When I was in school, I loved research projects and spent hours finding and gathering information. Back in the day, finding information involved digging through card catalogs and microfiche drawers, but I did with glee. I am seriously dating myself. When I was 15, I spent a Saturday afternoon at the Public Library looking at microfische for a project and loved it. My copy card always needed refilling and I had a big folder full of my research topic of the moment. One Note is a info gatherer's dream come true. It replaces my research folder of my school years. If you have a tablet pc, it will make you cream your jeans.





One Note is a way to gather information and put it in 'Notebooks' that you can organize just like your class binders. I have a notebook for my work projects, my life projects, sorority projects and just general research stuff. Within each notebook are subject tabs that have individual 'pages', so my work notebook is divided into sections like: meetings, notes, calendars, to do lists and whatever deserves it's own section. Each section then has pages of thier own.





When I am online, I like to select information that I find and copy it to a One Note page. The info is then put into my notes, along with a hyperlink from the site the info was taken from. You can then type notes anywhere on the screen. I used to bookmark everything on Internet Explorer, but I find this more useful since I can add notes to the link also. Right now I am using it to find a new laptop and a new bean bag cushion. I know I am a nerd, but I don't care. Laugh if you want. Buying the right cushion is a biiiiiiiiig deal.





For project management, it is also good because, I still use Word to make documents to support my project, but I can also put those files in One Note in sections that are easily visible and won't get lost in all the documents that a project can create.





You can also insert audio and video into the pages. My sister was very excited at this prospect. She has a webcam and mic on her laptop and figures that she can record her meetings via One Note and type notes on the same 'page' where she is recording the meeting.
If you have a tablet PC, the world is yours. You can write those notes as opposed to typing. it has handwriting recognition software on it so you can convert those notes into text. The only problem I have with this is that it does not always recognize what I write, and I write pretty clearly, so if you have messy handwriting, this might not work for you. But imagine sitting in a class or a meeting and writing your notes on your tablet pc while recording the it in One Note.

How cool.