LKH Lashouts

Eragon hath arrived. I'm torn. On the one hand, the worm (wyrm?) aspect doesn't bother me like I feared it would. Huzzah! On the other hand? The face... ehhhhhhh. But it's not so much the face as it is the fact that the way she's made, the head looks down. Like all the time.

BUT everyone who says she's super soft is absolutely right. And I do get a kick out of using her front paws to wash her face like a cat. :p Also, carrying her around like a puppet/evil kingpin's pet is decidedly fun.

I do wonder if Mums is going to invoke her right of dragons and claim her. I waffled on just flat out keeping her for Mums for Mother's Day but wasn't sure how the wyrm end would go over with her. We shall see since Mum did light up when I mentioned that I thought she'd just steal my new baby. "I can do that?" Yes, ma'am.



I would like my period to stop now. Like, forever. Pack it in, boys, we're done for the rest of forever!

Ugh. Much as I love getting to be home, I loathe having to leave work early due to period shenanigans. Booooooo. I should've known the weekend wasn't all mother nature had in store for me, particularly once I woke up to my brain feeling like someone took an icecream scoop to my head. ;_;



Since I'm trying to keep at least some of my schedule on track, I'm sitting here trying to decide if I want to partake in the ILNP retirement sale or not. I do find it a little funny that as soon as people started getting really vocal about the things they liked most about the brand, we've had two examples going against those very things.
1) ILNP's pretty anti FOMO and until just recently they didn't seem to do *anything* that was limited edition. Every other brand gets hit with FOMO accusations (some deserve it more than others) and people would point to ILNP as the one brand that didn't ever do LE drops... and then they did a LE sticker drop for their first collection this year. It was just the one thing but still made me side-eye them just a smidge.

2) Their catalog/selection is HUGE. They almost never get rid of their polishes. Like it's years and years between retirements to the point that some people don't even realize they EVER do. Sooooooooo... naturally they're retiring 73 shades right now. :P

To be fair, a good chunk of them do seem to the the scattered holo variants of their multichromes, which makes sense since you can just get the non-holo versions and put holo over them if you want. Hell, I'm hardpressed to remember any of the H versions that people recommend over their non-H counterparts. I know Eclipse especially is one where the general consensus is get the non-holo version. (Got sidetracked on my swatch hunt and yeah, nearly every time someone asks whether they should get the holo version or not, everyone says non-holo for sure.)


Other collections seem to be going, or being culled, but I get the feeling it's a case of them having other variations that are still available, or ones that simply never sold well. It has been interesting seeing reviews on the retiring polishes that are a few years old (and still on the front page so probably why they're getting the axe) about how this is someone's favorite polish and they'll be heartbroken if it's ever discontinued.

Alas, they also seem to be gutting their multichrome flakie toppers and that's what's got my attention. Since there are only so many multichrome shifts to be found in the polish world, I'm trying not to dupe any in the same order (or any that are close enough) but I also really don't want to look back and think "shit! why didn't I grab ___?" Especially since apparently flakie polishes are about to be harder to source? Black flakies have been going out of stock at the suppliers which means the polishes made with them are being discontinued and this breaks my little Halloween loving heart. I wonder if the same reason is behind the culling here, or if they're getting ahead of it because it is going to happen at some point? I also noticed that some of the other polishes that are disappearing have flakies mixed in. *dons tinfoil hat*

Anyway, there are also a lot of pretty teals that keep calling my name but I am TRYING to be good here.

Huh. This is dangerous info to have, but it seems there's a 10% off code and I have nearly $20 in points I could use. *plots*


eta:
I went ahead and made my order. I've been plotting for about a week (the sale ends/the polishes get yoinked this Friday) and decided fuck it, with the point redemption, I'd go ahead and buy most of the multichrome flakies.

I went ahead and picked up:
Supernova, Kaleidoscope, Electric Carnival, Neon Rosebud, Open Fields, Mayfield, and Glory from the flakies.

This means I opted out of *checks list* Paradox (H), Ferris Wheel, & Brilliance. I figured Brilliance and Open Fields were probably close enough and I liked Open Fields more, even if it doesn't have as much shiftiness. Kinda ditto to Ferris Wheel, but I figured I'd use that one even less. I waffled on Paradox (H) the longest but it seemed pretty similar to Mayfield. Did I really *need* the others? Enh, probably not, but I wanted Supernova as a backup for one of my Holo Tacos and I'm very fond of wearing flakies in one coat on their own so I'm pretty excited.

I also picked up Time in a Bottle because my use of points dipped me under free shipping and it was close enough that I could either pay shipping or grab another bottle of polish and pay like, three bucks. The teals, the teals were calling!

Seriously though, at least half these retiring polishes have flakies of some sort, and that's just based off memory and not necessarily including the holo flakies in the ones not explicitly labeled H.

My order has also already shipped, or at least been given a shipping label.

Remind me that I'd rather not go through another CB preorder direct from them again unless I absolutely fucking have to. Doing the initial preorder was fab and easy. Trying to pay for the goddamn thing took TWO FUCKING HOURS.

Look, at this point I'm used to the company treating the US like redheaded stepchildren. It's not fine but I expect it. Given how checked out they seem by this side of the pond, I've likewise been a little checked out on what's going on with them, but given that the "please pay us" link came from the UK side, I'm assuming my memory of the US warehouse basically being converted to being just that is correct. So why the FUCK would you wait until the end of your business day (in the UK, not the US) to send out the preorder links? After 40 minutes of losing my goddamn mind, I tried emailing them back to ask for help because I couldn't give them my money for love or, well, money. Yeah, I still haven't heard anything at all from them. Imagine the absolute JOY I felt when I got the "hey, Eragon is ready for EVERYONE!" email. Like if I hadn't managed to somehow broker a deal with a devil (professional courtesy?) and gotten one of my 137 attempts to finally work, I'd be so beyond fucking pissed that instead of dealing with the orders in limbo, they were actively courting new orders instead.

Actually, no, I am obviously pissed at this. I loathe when companies do shit like having a launch outside of what would be considered normal hours and then when things go sideways, as they frequently do on launches, too bad, so sad, not normal hours. Well, who chose to do things outside normal fucking hours?