Okay, so, in some ways this should be obvious, but at the same time, DW does list only certain URL-related codes that can be put in the footer. So this possibility may not occur to some people, and thus I share. Because I care.

Personally, I do like to go from LJ to DW, or vice-verse, and see the comments on the x-post on the other site.

I don't like the new site, whichever it is, loading in the same tab, meaning I have to backtrack to get back to my FList and the spot where I was. Yes, it's a minor thing. Yes, it's only an irritant. It's not going to ruin my day, it just annoys me.

It's also totally avoidable, because you can, in fact, set the x-post footer code to have the link open in a new tab/window. (At least you can with that which shows up on the non-DW sites; I'm not sure yet how to make the link(s) from DW itself do so, because I've yet to find a place that lets you modify how they appear. If you know the page one can go to in order to modify the x-post links that appear on DW posts, do let me know?)

It's easy, but it's not 100% clear to everyone what html coding is allowed in the x-post footer box and what html code is not. So I made a tiny tutorial (very tiny) explaining what to modify and how so the links open in new tabs or windows.

Except DW won't post it properly; the page keeps messing up. I'm not sure if it's DW as a whole, or just my layout, so I posted it on LJ.

And now I link you to said post with the itty-bitty tutorial: Go Here For The Itty-Bitty X-Post Footer Tutorial.

And, as I said in the post on LJ: To be absolutely crystal clear: I'm not asking anyone to do this. I'm not complaining about anyone who doesn't; like I said, going to a post on LJ from DW and then having to go back, or--wow, what an idea--holding the command button when I click on the link to force it to open in a new tab? Totally workable.

But since this IS a possibility, and I know someone who wasn't sure what code would or would not work in the x-post footer on DW, I thought I'd mention that this does, in fact, work.

I edited this into the bottom of my review, but to make sure anyone who wants to take advantage of this sees it, I'm making it its own post as well.

I bought both the medium bottle and the small bottle of this shampoo. And it takes very, very little of the shampoo to wash my hair, which is about 6 inches below shoulder length. Maybe more.

So here's what I'm offering: if you would like to try a sample, I can pour enough for, like, 2-3 washes into a container and mail it to you. (Depending on your hair length, it might be more like 1-2, or 3-4, washes, obviously.)

Cost wise...argh. Normally, I'd just say shipping, but since this is 50% fair trade honey, the price is sorta a factor. But I don't want to, like, take advantage of anyone. Let's say $0.75 plus s/h? If that seems unreasonable and you really want to try it, just let me know. We'll work something out.

Fair Trade Honey Shampoo by Lush
Prices: 3.3 fl. oz - $9.95 US | 8.8 fl. oz - $19.95 US | 16.9 fl. oz - $29.95 US

From the site: Over half of this shampoo consists of Fair Trade honey, which is beautifully moisturizing and gives hair shine and luster. All that honey has allowed us to make this one preservative-free, too! While 50% is honey, 20% is linseed mucilage, which has a lovely texture and is moisturizing and conditioning. Fair Trade Honey is suitable for almost everyone, but with all these moisturizing ingredients, it is specifically lovely on hair in need of moisture.

Features:
- Hard water? No problem! This shampoo softens and cleanses in a perfect balance for hard water areas, where calcium build-up can be harsh on your hair.
- Preservative-free! All that honey allows us to make this one preservative free. What an excellent invention! Use it fresh!
- Fairly Traded Honey: We're working with a supplier in Zambia at the moment, but we'll need so much honey that we may also buy from other Fair Trade suppliers around the world, too.

Ingredients: (Note: Natural Ingredients shown in italics, Safe Synthetics are Underlined)
Sunflower Lecithin (Lecithin) , Fairly Traded Honey , Linseed Mucilage (Linum usitatissimum) , Sodium Laureth Sulfate , Cocamide DEA , Lauryl Betaine , Geranium Oil (Pelargonium graveolens) , Beeswax Absolute , Neroli Oil (Citrus Aurantium amara) , Rose Absolute (Rosa damascena) , Bergamot Oil (Citrus Aurantium bergamia) , *Citral , *Geraniol , Citronellol , *Limonene , *Linalool , *Benzyl Salicylate , *Eugenol , Benzyl Benzoate , *Farnesol , Hydroxycitronellol , Fragrance

I just tried this for the first time today. My love is such that I have to review it on the Lush site and on my blogs both.

So first, I'll put in the basic info I did for the Lush site (hair type, pros, cons, etc) so you know where I'm coming from. I'll put in some more detail here, since I can.

Hair Type: Straight Hair | Dry Hair | Tends Towards Some Frizz | Generally Washed in Hard Water
Pros: Improves Hair Health | Gentle | Great Smell | Moisturizing | Adds Shine | Cleans Thoroughly | Lathers Well | Rinses Easily
Cons: I honestly couldn't think of any, though it's a little higher in cost than I generally like. ($30 US for the largest size bottle, that being 16.9 fl. oz.) That said, I'd rather have a shampoo that works and doesn't give me a headache and pay maybe $5 more than thrills me than pay $25 for something that gives me a headache all the time. Plus, I save money by buying this as I don't need a conditioner nor a detangler with it.
Best Uses: I'm not including this one, because frankly, I think there are too many to list.
Describe Yourself: Beauty Conscious (Well, somewhat. I like to look nice and neat. I'm not obsessive.
When you survey your stash, you label this product: Life-Saver

So, that's that. Now the review!

Review of Lush's Fair Trade Honey Shampoo
I have extremely sensitive skin, so I buy all of my products from Lush. Since I started to do so, I have not had rashes or a breakout even once.

The only problem I've had is finding a shampoo. I'm extremely scent-sensitive, so once I find products that work on my hair type (thick, tends towards dry, and washed in hard water) I have to sort through them to find one that has a scent I can tolerate.

This? Has not been easy. For several years, my only option has been to use Snow Fairy on my hair, which means buying 4-5 of the largest size bottles at Christmas...and spending a fair amount of cash at once. I wasn't happy with the situation, but I didn't have any other options.

Now I do! (I will still buy some Snow Fairy, as I adore it, but 1 or 2 bottles is all I'll be purchasing instead of enough for a year.) I was nervous in buying this, given that I did not have a way to smell it (I'm away from home for a few months, and there's no store nearby). But I didn't see anything in the ingredients that stood out as likely to irritate me, so I gave it a go.

Thank heavens I did! Fair Trade Honey Shampoo (after this, I'll just call it Honey Shampoo) is a godsend. Even used with the soft water I have at my current residence, it both lathered up and rinsed out easily. The scent is delicious--honey, of course, dominates, but it has elements of something minty and something else that I can only describe as fresh and green. The latter two elements keep the honey from being overpowering.

I was thrilled to feel how soft my hair was after I rinsed all of the Honey Shampoo out; I didn't even bother with a conditioner, and I'm not going to ever bother with one when using Honey Shampoo! I simply rinsed again with cool water. My brush went through my hair as if I'd deep-conditioned it. As it dries, my hair not only feels silky to the touch, but it also has less frizz to it than it has with other shampoos (used WITH conditioners and other products).

I'll still buy Snow Fairy at Christmas, yes, because I love the smell and it IS nice on my hair--with a conditioner. But Fair Trade Honey Shampoo is my new default, and quite possibly tied with Sakura (a bath bomb) for Overall Favorite Lush Product.

I will note that I have not tested it with actual hard water yet, though I will when I return to my home in June. Given how it's interacted with soft water, though, I'm really not worried in the slightest.

ETA: I meant to put this and forgot: I bought both the medium bottle and the small bottle of this shampoo.  If you would like to try a sample, I can pour enough for, like, 2-3 washes into a container and mail it to you.  Let's say $0.75 plus s/h?  If that seems unreasonable and you really want to try it, just let me know.  We'll work something out.

FOR SALE:
- Glogg Shower Gel, Unopened: This is the 3.3 fl oz size. It's still sealed. Price: $12 US.
- Glogg Shower Gel, ~1/7 used: This is the 3.3 fl oz size. Price: $8 US.
- Snowcake Perfume, Unopened: Not only is this unopened, it still is in the plastic wrap, though the gold twist-tie has been lost. Size: e30g. Price: $40 US.

I'm willing to negotiate on prices. Tracking provided for free. Shipping anywhere in the world possible, but you pay for it. Insurance is up to you, and at your expense.

And I need to remember that always, but it's easy to now.

My friend Madb lives in Seattle. She is going to fly out to Pittsburgh to spend the entire month of July with me while I do uber-treatment.

She offered this, out of the goodness of her heart. To take time from her home and come help me.

I do not know many people who would do that. I know fewer who would work so hard to make it actually happen.

The fact that I can say I know "fewer," instead of, "I don't know ANY other," is another sign that I am blessed and I am lucky, both.

There's a lot of rotten things in my life right now. My adrenal gland is basically tapped out. That means I'm physically weak and exhausted all the time, and medicines only help so much.

But there are good things, too, and mostly, they're people. And I thank God for each of them. And for each of you.

I've been (and am on) steroids for my head, which are finally (if slowly) starting to help. I'm also doing heavy -duty treatment for my various infections this summer, which is painful already. And it's just week one.

I'm not looking forward to any of this, except the end.

I don't know how it will affect my being online, but my knees seem to be the most painful part. So once my head is better, I think I'll be on much more. My amnesia is finally improving, too.

I'm grateful for all of you. Every last one. There are people not in my life any longer, but to be honest, I'm not sure I WANT any of them on my flist or in my life now. That said, for many of them, I'm grateful for the blessings they brought to my life while they were part of it.

And for those I'm just glad are gone, well, I still learned things -if the hard way -due to their presence. Like that someone can seem kind and still be poisonous, or that I don't have to go out of my way to make someone feel better when I know I didn't do anything wrong. I apologized far too often and when I should not have when I was younger, because I hated seeing others hurt.

I still hate seeing it. But I have enough respect for myself now to be able to review my actions, judge them, and accept that if there is truly nothing to apologize for, the best I can say is, "I'm sorry you feel that way, but I can't apologize for what I never said or did. "

I even reached the point where I was (am) able to say, "I care about you, but you owe ME an apology, and I don't want to associate with someone who would say that to me unjustly and not consider his/her actions or words when I say I'm offended. "

Sound simple? Yeah, but it took me a lot of work to get to this point. I joke about how being raised Catholic and attending Catholic schools made me great at guilt, but it's true, too. Being able to reach the place where I don't automatically think I'm in the wrong took a long time. I'm proud of it.

I'm also proud of a ton of the people I know, here and elsewhere. Some of them have amazed me in things they've done or ways they've grown. Batya, Mylia, Alex, Debi, Madb, Beth, Sara, Tanya, Michelle, Gavin-man, I've got to stop for the sake of my hands, but please don't think that because you're not included by name means you're not one of the people I'm thinking on. So many of you have done so much. I mean, in matters of personal growth, and in things you've done for others.

Money is so tight right now, especially with the increased treatments, that I can't buy gifts for people any longer. School costs rrequire huge loans on top of that, and I doubt my parents will ever be able to retire. I'm going to have to sell most of my things, as energy allows. But if I could, I would. I admire many of you, and value all of you.

Please remember that.

I have to take a medical withdrawal from my courses.

My remaining courses, anyway.

Because my spine is pretty messed up. I'm twitching now every time I'm told, "You do realize you're lucky not to be paralyzed or have broken your neck, right?"

Yes, I know, but YOU DO NOT NEED TO TELL IT TO ME OVER AND OVER AGAIN, PEOPLE.

Phone calls are really good. As I have nothing to do that I'm ALLOWED to do atm.

I'm not allowed to do anything. 10 minutes on the computer, no writing, little TV, and I've gone through all the books I have. And kindle is limited like computer.

Please, if you don't mind lending a book via mail, email me? I'm losing my mind, and I'll pay shipping both ways.

I'm interested in starting a book club. There would be one condition each book would have to pass to be considered for reading: the Kindle edition must cost under $5 US.

The first two books could be The Mongoliad: Book One, plus the side-quest novel Shield Maiden, both part of the Foreworld Saga. Both Kindle versions include the gorgeous maps and glossaries of the print collector's edition, but The Mongoliad cost $3, Shield Maiden costs $2.

The rate of reading would be decided on by the club/comm, and I'll keep a list of books that qualify, price-wise, on a comm page. Members also vote on the books to be read; I'm just making a suggestion with these two.

Of course, you don't HAVE to buy the Kindle edition. But by choosing books with inexpensive Kindle versions, 1) hopefully we'll find some hidden gems, and 2) it's affordable to everyone.

I saved dozens of titles before writing this, and many were under one dollar in price.

So.

Interested, say, "Arrr!" (I got sick of "aye".)

(I'm not allowed to do much but read for two weeks, so. Read with me!)

I officially have a concussion.

Not Happy about this. But I get two weeks I'm forbidden to do cognitive thinking. AKA schoolwork.

I plan to watch a lot of anime and TV.

*breathes* So here it is.

Last Wed, I fell down a hill at university, due to a previously unmarked (for 30+ years) safety hazard.

I landed hard on the road.

I probably had a concussion and didn't realize it, because I was so focussed on the pain from hitting the road I didn't think I might have hit my head during the fall.

My spine, right hip and knee and leg, back, and vision are all messed up to varying extents. I have to see a neurologist. RIght now, I'm at least having one kind of therapy due to it.

I'm legally blind in my left eye, I found out today--20/200 vision--without glasses, despite having near perfect vision.

I can't move without pain.

I need to see a neurologist tomorrow; I had CAT scans already, and thankfully there were no blood clots on the results.

But there are things wrong with my vision like double vision and I keep throwing up and I'm so light sensitive and just.

Things are bad.

And we're trying to get the school to pay at least some for my therapy, and they are "meeting" about it, but no answer yet. I'm kinda angry there, because it's SUCH AN OBVIOUS HAZARD that they kept for over THREE DECADES.

Anyway.

I need you guys right now. Even if you just give me a periodic email. I really do. Talk to me about Avengers or Star Trek or Adventure Time or Doctor Who. Or anything. Please,

I've had to go from 17 credits to 6 to make time for my therapy that'll be needed and to do it and to rest and I'm just--please.

I have no friends here, and my social interaction has been cut in about a third.

I can't afford, emotionally, to feel isolated or too lonely now. There's too much I have to handle and do and get through whether it's painful or hard or expensive or something I like or not.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. | Emmet Fox

I just find out today that upon finishing the first of last semester's incomplete courses, I gained the last credits needed to finally be a junior.

And just. You cannot know, unless you've been through struggles of your own in a similar way, what this means to me.

It took eight years to get this far, but I refuse to need another eight to graduate. My one advisor who made the realization was delighted for me.

Oh, be happy for me! I'm literally lame today, my right leg hurts so much, so please, some of you-any or many or all of you-when you read this?

Put on a song that brings you joy and dance around your room in your bare feet. I want to do much, and I can't, so please, dance for me.

Junior.

Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder, did NOT go blind because of scarlet fever, despite what Laura wrote in her books.

That said, in much more recent and world-relevant news, Pope Benedict XVI has resigned as of one hour before this posting, citing weakening health that he believes makes him incapable of properly serving as Bishop of Rome.

I knew it was possible, technically speaking, for a pope to resign, but I don't think it has ever actually been DONE before! (Also, I'm thinking of JP II, who served until his last breath, add once again-well. I won't start on my Benedict rant again, especially not with him ill, but…I just don't feel there is any way he measures up to his immediate predecessor.)

We live in interesting times.

I've made many of you icons over the years, as well as put up general icon posts. And I have loved doing so!

But I have 246 slots I can fill here at DW, and I'm overwhelemed. So I was hoping that if you're someone who has either had icons made for you specifically by me or has enjoyed icons I've put up in general posts that you might make me a few--just a few--so I could upload them here.

And I like using things my friends make, anyway.

I need to crash and burn. I'm hoping for 8 hours of sleep--maybe 9--before I have to get up and get back to work.

But the wonderful news is that--I had incompletes in all four courses from last semester, due to being ill with something the ER could no identify, despite three trips to visit them and one ambulance ride. Since they couldn't identify it, they also could not help me. So it lasted literally two months.

That left me 10 days of "break" to work on in completes without also having new schoolwork to deal with.

One I finished before classes started; two I knew I could and would finish.

The fourth, Chaucer, I had no idea how to make the time for, which drove me mad has I had done a great dael of work on it only to lose what I'd written.

Today the provost made one of the extremely rare exceptions for me and allowed me a second exception, due to extraordinary circumstances. Not only an extension, but a bloody long one--until May.

I am not letting it hang over my head until May, mind. But I was more than a bit stressed until I got the news this afternoon, which made it hard to focus. And once I got the news, I was relaxed for the first time since, oh, Christmas, I think.

It did not lend itself to finishing everything I had wanted to, so. The morning, which I prefer to spend with tea and my cat and just letting my joints warm up, will be sacrificed to the gods of Literature and Calculus.

But! The 12th will be here soon, and then I will have the third and final volume of The Chemical Garden trilogy! And then I can write my rather irate review of said trilogy.

I look forward to this. The thought warms my heart, in a way. Because no one should accidentally read those books; this review will be a Warning. (I kinda hate giving money to read the third book, but I was able to read the first and second volumes for free, so I thought it was...reasonable. It still did not make me happy.)

It looks like I'm making a post about the serious issues The Chemical Garden trilogy has rather soon. The third comes out Tuesday, which I pre-ordered on my Kindle, so I'll wait to read the entirety and then write the review up, but there is simply no way the third book can solve the problems that are shown in the first two, especially as the problems are in so many areas. (I had the chance the read the first two for free, though, so I thought it right to pay for the third, despite not liking the idea of my money going towards the books.)

And this is not like Twilight, where it's a guilty pleasure but many who enjoy it admit to it having faults.

This has serious problems in so many errors that--well, the review will be...very, very long. And I am not one to censor what anyone reads--my parents never censored what I read as a child or teen, and if I am blessed to ever have a child, I plan to do the same--but this is one trilogy that, while technically YA Lit, is not in any way appropriate for actual young adults. Or most of them, anyway.

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I do think I finally have time to bring Golden Age Lucy into the bar. Well, soon, at any rate.

And Spock, of course.

It will be...fascinating.

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I realized I had 350...points, or whatever they're called here, so I paid the 15 bucks for a year's premium paid account.

Now I have 246 empty icon slots, so I suppose I will be iconning again, now.

The more I think on this, the more I think it is likely a good thing.

I have tons others, but these are the ones I'm inclined towards choosing from:

- The Avengers: Cracktastic humor fic, with Scarlet Witch having joined the team and Thor being very confused a) about mutants and b) about how he is portrayed in And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer. Tony teases him mercilessly. Thor actually ends up a rock star and doing the new guy in the wacky Old Spice commercials. Still very confused the entire time.

- 2009 Trek: Spock/Kirk, in which Spock discovers (after having bonded with Kirk) that he has been named guardian of a Vulcan child whose parents did not survive Vulcan's destruction. Hard choices all around. Worse, it's a girl. "No one in their right mind should let me be ANY sort of parental figure to a girl, Spock! Do you know how many fathers literally pointed phasers or actual, working shotguns at me?!" "I would prefer not to. Jim. My bondmate." "...I'm not getting any tonight, am I?" "It seems you are not always illogical after all." "Fuck." "No. Not fuck, Jim." "*headdesk*"

- 2009 Trek: Always-a-girl!Kirk and Spock meet pre-Academy as teens. Sequel to a fic by 13Empress on LJ and I am so sorry I forgot your DW username. Fic is outlined in parts, but only some are written. (If you'd like to read the fic it's a sequel to, go here and then read the top four posts. Though the last part is the top post, and the first one is the fourth, as it was posted first. ...You didn't need me to tell you that, but whatever.)

ETA: Oh. Yeah. I owe desert_vixen an au where Callie explodes instead of Iola, and it eventually leads to OTP Frank/Nancy awesomeness. ...look, I'm on a high from discovering Her Interactive is putting serious Nancy/Frank moments in recent games. Don't judge me. I was wishing for that forever. This means my other wish, of adult mysteries with Nancy and Frank actually truly together, will come true! ...leave me my delusions. *sulks*

* My mother keeps calling me, "Kitten". I swear she's figured out a way, even blind, to read comics. Just to pain me. (I don't much feel like reading comics myself these days, mind. But.)

I'm going to go through and re-add people all at once. But in going through the first three pages, I found 09 mistakes, and I have 09 pages to go through.

So please, if you want to be refriended, just ask. EVen if I meant to defriend, I'm delighted to know someone wants to be refriended.

And this will also likely help me catch more mistakes, as I did this cut from last Nov until now, and over--I just counted--120 LJ accounts were defriended.

So. Your help is appreciated.

I freaking adore this show.

And it's ten times better when you're running a fever and giggly from it.

I need to post the fanfic I wrote a while back with some Sandman...it's not exactly a crossover. It's more like shadows of the Endless appear in the fic. Except inverted.

...I'll shut up and just post it when I find the final, mmkay?

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. | John Fowles

God, I'm lonely. I wish I had a friend here. I quite literally have been too busy between my health, physical therapy, and my course work to join a club or whatever it is people do to socialize. (I don't understand what the obsession with getting me to join a club is. I hate clubs. In general. And none here interest me. But Disability Services is convinced that will answer all of my problems and suddenly I will be skipping through fields with friends.

Right.)

This weekend, I have to:

- redo six sections of Calculus my cat destroyed
- go through the lectures from 8 Calculus classes and make sure my notes are acceptable
- write a paper for my YA Lit course
- interview three teens for my YA Lit Course
- Finish one of my in completes (specifically, for my course on The Novel)
- do a great deal of back work for EL 150, which I have some done but also had some eaten by my MacBook
- Find out how to transfer two programs to the new MacBook my school is giving me, since this one is FUBARED, as I did not buy those programs from the Mac App Store
- Finish an essay for a third incomplete course
- try to do the exercises for my damaged knee and hip
- get my temperature back into double, instead of triple, digits
- get rid of nausea
- get rid of a migraine
- try to sleep more than four hours at a time
- get at least one of my computer programs working for Monday's 6 PM class

...Honestly, all I want is for you, my online friends, to email or IM me, if I don't pass out before I get online. I want to complain about the YA Trilogy The Chemical Garden and how very fucked up and wrong it is. I want to see who's watch what, and what I should be watching. I want to glee over The Avengers and the idea of Thor being confronted with a copy of And Another Thing (Eoin Colfer's 6th H2G2 book) where the Thor in the book is crackstastic. I want--

I miss you all. I want my friends. That's all.

I should get back to work.