A while back, Sommer posted about the real stuff she uses in her stories. It got me thinking about the stuff I use from real life in my stories. Definitely not my sex life - that's all imagination *sigh*. One thing I do take from real life is a lipstick I used to wear. They don't make it any more and the whole idea of it no longer being available fascinates me much more than the product itself.

They put on makeup and carefully applied their favourite lipstick, Dusky Rose, from the Starlet collection at Coles. The Dusky Rose lipstick was one of their most treasured possessions because immediately after Lola and Emily discovered just how perfect this lipstick was, and how becoming to the fair complexions of their perfect skin, the bastards at Coles decided to discontinue it. Searches through racks of makeup at neighbourhood supermarkets proved fruitless but still, years later, when shopping in an unfamiliar Coles, they would scour the racks looking for it in case one remaining tube was still lingering, forgotten, somewhere in the world.

No photos because it's long gone.

In other, completely different news, I'm going to Japan in November. I'm about 300 shades of excited about this. My entire life, I've wanted to travel to Japan. Everything about Japan fascinates (well except the tea ceremony) and I'm going to explode with the excitement of it all. Did you know there is a department store in Tokyo that has a whole floor devoted to robots?
I'm sure there will be porn bought as well. Really kinky Japanese porn. Hoot! Might have to check about bringing that home through customs.