vocabulary improvement at the bath and body works...

i'll admit it: i still haven't gotten over the need for a bottle of the bath and body works lotion now and then. after a long month of ever-more crackly skin since my last bottle ran out, i caved and went shopping.

and was shocked and horrified to find that they now have a fancy-schmancy $20 line of lotion. ok, so they give you a free tomato face-wash if you buy it, but still... tomato?!? and i always thought $9 was a touch excessive, but it's oh-so-yummy-smelling and addictive... also disappointing, they've got the traditional stuff down to only six or seven scents, thus eliminating most of my favorites.

i ended up deciding i was sick of cucumber melon and rasberry... and that the "coconut lime verbena" didn't smell as much like sunscreen as i thought at first sniff. so i bought it.

then i got home and thought for a bit... ok, coconut, fine. lime, fine. but what the hell is verbena?!?

thank you, dictionary.com:

ver·be·na n. Any of various New World plants of the genus Verbena, especially one of several species cultivated for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers. Also called vervain. Any of several similar plants, such as the lemon verbena.

still not sure what that adds to the flavor-title, except possibly giving the lime more power to overcome the sunscreen-scentedness?

hooked...

it was an effort to stop the eyes-rolling auto-reaction to any and all mention of comic books. all in the name of good-girlfriendliness... after all, i was the one who recommended reading michael chabon's kavalier and clay, which resparked the old obsession. some non-comics-obsessed friends had recommended the sandman series by neil gaiman, and i really liked his and terry pratchett's novel good omens... so i bought a copy of the first graphic novel installment.

oops. started it wednesday, almost finished now. i think i might have to buy myself another...