Hi, friends!
I hope your day is going well. I got a coworker obsessed with extra butter flavored microwave popcorn.
I just can’t, I can’t. I have a major smell grossout factor with buttered popcorn. I know it’s a perfectly normal tasty thing for the vast majority of folks, but I’m fighting a gag reflex sometimes.
Anyways, I hope they get over this soon. I’d prefer burnt popcorn smell to buttered popcorn smell.
How about y’all? Any unexpected smells that just make your brain upset?
My wife has no sense of smell. When she thinks she spots mold in the shower she will spray bleach spray & just leave it with windows closed. I’ll walk in & almost pass out from the smell. I get that burning smell just thinking about it.
Oooh, boy! That closed-in bleach scent is a killer. I used to use bleach to clean the bathroom, and throw some in with the towels and sheets. And then, we discovered that the smell of bleach is one of O-H’s seizure triggers. I haven’t used it in years, and I still had a sudden scent-memory of that stink when I read what you wrote!
I hate when I get used to a smell and then come home and am like holy shit that’s strong. I had a springtail problem a few weeks ago and was hitting all the drains with white vinegar and I would stop noticing the vinegar small pretty quickly. Until I left the house and returned and was like what the fuck is the vinegar jug leaking? Oh, nope, that’s not the case.
Microwave popcorn is a bit annoying to me, but burnt microwave popcorn is just horrible.
Asparagus, I can’t get past the smell to eat it. 🤢
I don’t care for popcorn. I want to like it, I always think I’m going to like, but I’m disappointed every time. It doesn’t matter how it’s made or what’s on it.
I can’t deal with cigarette smoke anymore. I used to smoke, and it didn’t bother me then, but now… just a whiff and I want to gag. I’ve had to step out of line at the store because of the stale smoke smell hovering around another customer, I’m so sensitive to it, now. It drives O-H crazy… but he finally quit smoking about 2 years ago because I wouldn’t (couldn’t, honestly) kiss him if he smoked! Weed smoke scent isn’t quite as awful as cigarettes, but it’s still pretty gross.
I’m sensitive to a lot of strong smells, actually. Car exhaust, gasoline, chlorine, ammonia… I will get a headache and/or stomachache nearly immediately.
String chemical smells give me migraines.
I’m allergic to cigarettes & sneeze like crazy when I smell smoke. My sister was a smoker & I tortured her by putting exploding devices & joke things to try to make her stop. I can still smell smoke in old buildings that haven’t had smokers in 20 years.
I don’t know shit about weed, but what blows my mind is when I’m on the highway with my windows up and all the cars around me have their windows up and I can still smell weed. Like how much are they smoking for it to be that strong???
TMI Hippy incense makes me shit my pants. The smell that accosts you when you walk by a tie-dyed skirt and crystal selling cultural appropriation store. It might be the potent combo of too many different incense and scented candles and home made soaps that totally liquefies my insides. Side note, I have no idea how those shops survive. Oddly, I’m fine with regular incense sticks.
Along the same lines & a favorite among Seattle hippies is Patchouli oil which is awful & does NOT cover your BO!!!!
Back when I was in grade school, the frankincense used in mass would make me lightheaded and woozy and sometimes I’d just keel over during weekly school mass. I used to worry god hated me and that’s why I got sick at church, because I was like 8. Then I got older and was like fuck this shit.
One not mentioned above*, that hits *my* gag reflex like a freight train, is “Hazelnut-flavored” coffees & creamers.
*ESPECIALLY* if I smell it before breakfast!
It’s bad enough, that I have had to ask *all* my roommates since somewhere around 2007-or-so, to *please* not use it, if I’m at home….
Funny thing, is that I adore actual hazelnuts, Nutella, Kinder *EVERYTHING,* and pretty much *any* Hazelnut/Chocolate combo I’ve ever had (Hazelnut Kit-Kats are dissapoint though, because there wasn’t enough Hazelnut flavor to be noticeable!😉😆🤣)…
But Hazelnut in coffee almost makes me hork, the *Instant* i smell that stench!🤣🤣🤣
Hazelnut coffee does not smell like anything with hazelnuts though, so I understand why your brain is fine with other hazelnut stuff.
I also really don’t like artificial nut smells like almond, hazelnut and walnut extracts. There’s an uncanny valley quality that’s like watching bad CGI animation.
Unrelated to *anything* tonight, but because y’all NEED to see this sweet, goofy-looking girl named Bella…
She’s the dog version of Johnny Cash’s “One Piece at a Time”, and SHE IS ADORABLE!!!😉😆😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💝
They also have Mother Hubbard, another… sneak attack of a dog! The Halloween Costumes basically build themselves, with that sweet girl!🤣🤣🤣💗💗💗💗💝
Grogu, Yoda, Yaddle, Dobby, Gizmo, Spike….
There are *so* many awesome Halloween costumes you could make her, and she’d be a helluva Christmas Elf, for Santa pics too!!!!😉😄🤣💖💫
And NGL, Sawyer is pretty much *exactly* the sort of sweet Lab pup I’ve been hoping to find–he has the cute whiskers like Lil did, nice big floppy ears, and he’s got a good non-pointy (Bench/British) lab face😉😁💖
This link *should* have both Sawyer’s pic, and the first picture i have of Lily as a wee pup–she was 11-12 weeks old at the time, fairly similar to *his* current age (just a few weeks younger);
https://photos.app.goo.gl/D27QEgfap6iQCG5x6
Too cute!
The Witcher update and spoilers S3E2 @brianlsplinter I think I’ll keep watching an episode per night. E2’s monster was their version of a human centipede which had me laughing (tho it’s gross that it was only made up of young women). Unfortunately with the gang split up, we don’t get as much comradery and banter. The writers are really forcing relationships in a failed attempt to give some characters depth and value. The dude who fucked his mother in Marco Polo is in love with the head mistress of the mages? The “sex” scene with the King’s right hand man and woman was so unnecessary… who even are those people? Lol I guess I shouldn’t have skipped the recap. The episode didn’t end on a big cliffhanger but Geralt was spooked and that’s out of character for him. Colour me intrigued.
A bit of bright, in a world which is sometimes pretty bleak;
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/summer-saved-in-small-minnesota-town-thanks-to-community-support/
One of the tiny rural towns an hour west of the Twin Cities had a pool which apparently had so much Mineral buildup, that it was cutting kids’ feet, and got shut down by the state…
Silver Lake is a town with less than 900 people… so they don’t really have the funds to get something like that remedied by themselves… let alone remedied *quickly* as a city.
So, one of the local guys who works in construction did what community-minded small-towners do–he reached out, did some research, and called folks into action.
They got the pool sanded & scrubbed down well enough, that it was ready to refill last weekend.
Thing is–apparently Silver Lake’s water is like some of the wells in *my* hometown–incredibly rusty… filling the pool with Silver Lake’s rusty water would’ve meant *weeks* of waiting, until the water chemistry levels were safe for swimming.
So Silver Lake’s Fire Chief called in that *magical* thing i yammer on & on about so much–Mutual Aide😉😁💖💫
They got water from folks in surrounding towns, via the town’s fire tanker (tankers?), and were able to refill the pool last weekend!🥳🥳🥳
The chemicals *should* have the cleaner water balanced to open by the end of *this* week!🤗🤗🤗
The city does need to get the pool liner fully fixed after this summer, and the repairs & ongoing upkeep are gonna cost about 110K, so they started a Go Fund Me, to be able to get that done;
https://www.gofundme.com/f/necessary-pool-liner-repairs?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer
teenage girls…especially indoors…where theres no escaping the cloud of perfume….tho somewhat impressively even outdoors they somehow manage to get the smell to linger after passing by…
not that teenage boys are much better with the ever present wall of axe/lynx whatever its called over there….but its a considerably less sweet smell and doesnt bother me as much as whatever the girls like to coat themselves in