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Addictions

22:08 / 24.09.04

After 7 months of trying to deny it, I will finally admit that I have an addiction. My family and friends are aware of it, my fiance dislikes greatly that I can phone him and rave for hours about the new level of this addiction. Because of this, I will only plan on living in places with either a store to supply me or a darn good mail service so I can continue my habit without any interruptions. I must only take jobs that can allow me to use on a daily basis. A dire situation indeed, but what can I say...I love Lush.

Yes, Lush is my addiction...the soaps, bath bombs, bubble bars...heaven in my bathroom. Scoff if you must but there are definative plus sides to being addicted to yummy smelling products...

A) No hangover
B) Totally legal
C) I smell so good
D) There are many ways that I can get the hook-up
E) If I hate one of my "experiances", I can pass it to someone who does like it and get a new one in exchange.
F) I may have to hide some things from my fiance so he cant truly discover the depth of this addiction but I know that he loves some of the Lush stuff more than I do!

Is this an addiction? For me, yes...I look forward to new products coming out and struggle to moderate my buying. I have spent more than a few hours looking at the website and chatting in forums about products and experinences, I have engaged the sales clerk on the phone for 20 mins whilst I asked her about items in a store to see if it was worth my while to drive 3 hours to a store so I could actually hold and feel the products, I seriously consider paying HUGE shipping charges from other countries so that I can have one or two items that I have heard others rave about.

Thats my addiction...somewhat healthier than some but still

Brigade du jour

22:27 / 24.09.04

Fucking pastry. Um, wait ... not fucking pastry, just fuckin' pastry. It's so fattening but soooooo tasty.

Goodness Gracious Meme

01:03 / 25.09.04

Halloumi.

I've been eating it at least 3x a week for months, spending my last pennies on it, stealing grannies purses to buy it....*

*2 out of 3 are true. The third I'm dreading, as it's likely to come to pass.

01:08 / 25.09.04

That should have read ...there is a shop here in Seattle which sells things that can almost qualify as fucking pastries... Oops

02:44 / 25.09.04

In the words of the immortal Robert Palmer (together with cartoon duck backing band) I'm addicted to love.

And Milk Slices. Their creamy honey and milk goodness calls to me on a subliminal level and sees me helpless to their siren lure whenever I stand in front of the fridge section in my local Spar. "Eat us!" they cry, and like a fool I give in to their demands, gorging myself on sugary delight until I feel ever so slightly ill. I bow my head in shame at this addiction, being totally outside the mainstream acceptance of Prozac and Valium. But they do so much more for me than either of those two chemical alternatives...so much more that I cannot even bear to entertain the vaguest notion about a world where milk slices are not available in their red and white metallic sheathes, to be ripped open in a giddy moment of abandon and devoured in a frenzied orgy of decadence. A world without milk slices is a world without joy, without satisfaction, without creamy, white goodness sandwiched between wafer-thin cake-like slabs, their slightly bitter taste in direct opposition to the sweet creamy filling they hold back in their rectangular grasp.

03:23 / 25.09.04

The local ice cream shop has cake batter flavored ice cream. I fear I am well and truly doomed.

05:42 / 25.09.04

Scampi Fries. Best when held in mouthful of cherry coke and sucked.

06:18 / 25.09.04

Heres my new one. Dagoba organic vegan chocalate bars. 59% cacoa content, i like the lime macadamia not variety. /Me (leans head back and drools like homer simpson.

I have to force myself to only eat one once a week, cuz i crave it at the end of every day.

unheimlich manoeuvre

09:46 / 25.09.04

i wish i was addicted to something nice and over-the-counter.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

20:25 / 27.09.04

I am horridly addicted to Diet Pepsi now, after years of not giving much of a damn either way. It just can't make it through the day without it.

And there are no 12 step groups to help me. Bastards.

20:33 / 27.09.04

Cola is weird that way. I can go years without a Coke and barely think of it, but if I do have one - just one - I'll want one the next day and the next and soon I'm drinking a 20oz at every lunchtime and have to wean myself off the stuff.