Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness
of the atmosphere. Henry David Thoreau
Fried Chicken. Mmmm. is there any other smell that wakes up all of your
senses? Whenever I pop into the grocery store and they are frying up chicken, I
have to stop. I close my eyes and savor the moment. Life is good. So very
good. Then my next thought is almost always, they should make perfume of
this stuff. Then my rational thinking kicks in. If it were a perfume, it would
be too accessible, a little weird and probably some animals would be harmed in
the testing of the perfume. Perhaps it's my southern upbringing which makes
me feel this way. I'm not sure, but I will just keep on savoring these
fleeting moments of odoriferous harmony and be happy.
Peppermint and cadavers. I know the two don't really go together, but they do
for me now. Thanks to a fellow classmate. On our school trip to the cadaver
lab another student brought along peppermint oil to chase away the smell of the
corpses. Everyone was putting it on under their noses. The whole room reeked of
peppermint oil and juice bombs, as the lab director would call them. Christmas
has been forever changed.
A peppermint brownie=I see dead people.
Speaking of Christmas, Santa put Axe body wash, deodorant, and body spray in
all 3 boys stockings. He likes to promote hygiene and boys seem to like it. My 7
year old loves it. A lot. He swims in it. When he comes out of the bathroom your
mouth starts watering from the assault on your nose. The aroma is so
overwhelming you can actually taste it. It's horrible and he, I should say we,
have learned the lesson; less is more.
While I am not a huge coffee drinker I love the smell of coffee on my
husbands breath. Especially on a Sunday morning. He always wakes up early, I
sleep in. He drinks his coffee and relaxes then an hour later, he comes back to
bed. He snuggles up to me kissing my neck and I smell the wonderful aroma of
coffee on is breath. Then I know it's time for my morning breakfast.