12/1/08

the simple pleasures in life...

(namely: inflatable christmas yard-decor and scented deodorant)

inflatable christmas yard-decor:
so, i believe i've mentioned my neighbors before (the polish family next-door? with lots and lots of children, and an affinity for enthusiastically decorating for EVERY holiday?)

Well, last night (after returning from a lovely thanksgiving holiday at home in little Abingdon) I drove up to 448 Teece Ave....only to be greated by two GIANT inflatable nutcrackers, gobs of glowing-electrical-snowflakes, moving-lighted-reindeer, and a plethora of other lighted christmas parafanelia. *Please don't get me wrong: i don't ever wish to be "the family" with the giant inflatable snow-globe-yard-ornament. (you know the ones i'm talking about...that have little fake snow puffing around in them?) But, for some reason...seeing other people with overly-decorated homes just brings so much joy to my heart. Maybe it's because it makes me believe that they take as much pleasure in the Christmas season as i do....
But, ....after their inflatable witch for halloween, inflatable turkey for thanksgiving...the polish neighbors did NOT dissapoint...and have really done up that house incredibly....

scented deodorant:
i realize this is a bit personal...and you all probably don't really want to know about my deoderant-selection process...BUT, i can't help but enjoy picking out the new scent with the old one runs out. (like tonight...i had to make a semi-emergency-run to the grocery store down the street...for a little deoderant reinforcement). Luckily, Kuhn's has a MUCH smaller selection of deodorant scents than WalMart...but- it's still exciting to pick the new one. (you have to make sure to sniff every option- because you do NOT want to be stuck with some wretched scent that makes you reak of rotten baby-powder...or something awkward like that.)

so- after a few minutes of (attempted-discreet) deodorant-sniffing i went with an adventurous new smell: Dove's "GoFresh Grapefruit and Lemongrass"


yes. you can be jealous. :)

2 comments:

melissa said...

it wasn't that there were lots of happy couples to make me feel lonely, it was just that everyone was alone and it made me afraid of it. it was one of those..oh..oh..they're almost all happy!...oh wait...but it had a good message?

GLB said...

So my favorite deodorant is men's Old Spice...weird I know...but you should try it! - It smells so good! :)