Fun Size: Mixed Bag, or Random Facts

1. I found my first grey hair a few days ago, glinting evilly in the bathroom mirror. Then I lost it later. I figure I pulled it out when I brushed my hair. Yeah... I'm not even thirty yet.
   
2. I accidentally found out who won the most recent season of Australia's Next Top Model - the one I'm in the middle of watching - from Yahoo's damn Australian homepage.
3. I went to the dentist this week for the first time in about 4 years and I have a little cavity in one tooth. This is probably no big deal for most people but I've always had good teeth; the last cavity I had was in a baby tooth. Serves me right for neglecting them, I guess. I'm sure it has nothing to do with my excessive consumption of all manner of sugary, fizzy, sticky and/or chewy delights.

Sweet scents.

This post is totally stolen from Gwen. Actually I posted some of it as a comment to her post.

But I liked the idea so much I thought it was worth expanding on. Smell is such an important sense. I read somewhere that the smell receptors in the brain are located close to some bits that have something to do with memory, so smell is actually the most powerful sense in terms of evoking memories, which makes sense if you've ever experienced that thing where you smell a certain scent and it just absolutely transports you somewhere else. And I don't mean in that Mickey-Mouse-traveling-on-a-wisp-of-pie-steam way.

Here are some of my favorite smells:

• Crayola crayons - I could sit there and smell a pack of those babies all day

• Frying bacon, which has nearly caused me to faint while walking past a breakfast café

• Frying onions

• Frying mushrooms

• ... okay, pretty much anything frying

• Coffee (even though I hate the taste)

• Cigar smoke (I don't know, I just like it. Any other things you smoke smell horrible and awful)

• Bonfires, especially in the country, also wood-stove fires

• Eucalyptus leaves

• The beach. That sea air smell that stays on your skin.

• Babies heads (I heard that babies heads give off a natural tranquilizer... Breathe deep. I'm just sayin'.)

• YSL Baby Doll perfume in the pink gem-shaped bottle. It smells like lollies and flowers. It's kind of my signature... I wear that, or Chanel No. 5 if I'm being fancy.


Many of y'all gave your favorite smells list on Gwen's post, so I want to hear your stories about a smell totally evoking a different time & place. Oh yeah and keep it clean you guys!!!

Analyze This. I Dare You.

I was visiting Australia, on my way to have dinner with two friends. At the bus stop, there was a young woman, a kindly old lady and a skeevy young dude. The old lady leered and creepily presented the younger lady with an uncooked hot dog from her purse.

When I arrived at the restaurant, I told my friends about this, but even though it had just happened, I already changed parts of the story (this is something I do frequently. I call it enhancement).

Then I was at the beach. Suddenly a giant white tube started coming up out of the ocean. It turned into a Chinese dragon, similar to Falkor from The Neverending Story, except not as furry. It looked like it was made of plastic. It began to speak and told us that was an alien god and that it would tell us the meaning of life. The words began to form on a giant tablet rising out of the ocean...

And then I woke up.

booooooooooo.

ever been so hungry you thought you might vomit? no? just me then.

i feel like i eat all the time and yet somehow my tummy is always grumbling. and when i say i eat all the time i mean it - i have a mid morning snack and an afternoon snack as well as the usual 3 meals. i sometimes even need a snack as soon as I get home from work, even though i make dinner right away.

back in college i had the metabolism of a freaking hummingbird and i was skinny as hell. i still feel hungry all the time, and i don't feel like i'm eating more than before, but i have a round little belly where there was no such thing before. back in the day, all i had to do was lay off the mayonnaise for a couple of months and the weight would start dropping off. these days, things are not the same.

it's gotten worse in the last couple of years as i slide down the slippery slope to thirty, my metabolism slowing down and my early-onset old-lady attributes (deafness, forgetfulness, crotchetiness) increasing exponentially.

bloody hell.

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I've named this blog after my biggest vices (that's right, I live a terribly dangerous life).

Welcome to my world; I hope you will enjoy learning about the crazy way in which my mind works!