Happy Monday...

I think I'm still recovering from my weekend!

Supposed to be...

It's supposed to be a rainy day, I'm going to go make coffee, and then I'm going to the Diz... Does life get any better???

Library Scented Perfume???

There is this new website called I Hate Perfume and they have some "unconventional" scents.  One of my personal favorites is called In The Library.  Here is the makers description:

I love books, particularly old ones. I cannot pass a second hand bookshop and rarely come away without at least one additional volume. I now have quite a collection!

Whenever I read, the start of the journey is always opening the book and breathing deeply. Don't you find there are few things more wonderful than the smell of a much-loved book? Newly printed books certainly smell very different from older ones. The ink is so crisp. I've also noticed that books from different periods & different countries also have very different smells. And then there are the scents of different bindings: leather is marvelous of course but I find a peculiar pleasure in musty worn clothbound books as well. Perhaps just a hint of mildew!

The main note in this scent was copied from one of my favorite books – I happened to find a signed first edition of this novel a few years ago in London. I was more than a little excited because there were only ever a hundred in the first place!

I don't know that I'd particularly want to smell like a book... but it would be great as  a room spray... and it might be interesting if a guy wore it!  Some of the other scents they have are 

"Smoke", "November", "The Beach", and "Memory of Kindness".  I'm a little intrigued...

Seriously...

Go see Slumdog Millionaire... I saw it on Wednesday and I am still thinking about it... I won't give up too much of the story, but it is amazing to see this guy's life... There were so many tragic things, yet so many humorous things... I can't say anything other than you HAVE to go see it... You will love it!

Post Secret...

I am currently obsessed with the blog Post Secret.  It's the place where people send in their secrets anonymously... I desperately wish  I was interesting enough to have a secret to send in!  Most of them are super depressing: but here are some of the ones I liked!

Think Positive...

... I'm trying to start this week off a little better than last...

Church Moments...

This Shelley and I truly laughing and not having to hold back!

No, I'm not talking about wonderful moments in church... I am talking about those moments when something funny happens and you CANNOT laugh b/c you are in church.  I'm talking about those moments when it takes everything you have just to not burst into laughter and disrupt everyone around you.  I had one of those today.  I mistakenly thought that our associate pastor had started praying, so I closed my eyes and was praying.  Right after I started "praying" my mom leaned over to whisper something to me.  I could not believe she was whispering during prayer, so I gave her a weird look and told her to be quiet.  It turns out that we were not in fact praying, we were supposed to be singing and it looked like I fell asleep!  In other situations this would not be funny, but because of the fact that we were supposed to be quiet my mom and I were trying so hard not to make and noise, but we were laughing so hard!  Here are a couple other "church moments"

• At a seminar for our church one night we were watching videos with different theorists and scientists.  My mom and I were getting bored, so we started playing pick or pass whenever someone new would come on the screen.  When it was my turn I got this CRAZY looking guy and she and I burst into laughter... we could not contain our laughter for this one.
• At camp one year there was this girl sitting in the row in front of me with her hair in a sorta messy ponytail.  The guy who was sitting next to me was trying to be nice, so he went to take a hair off her shirt.  Turns out the hair was attached and her head FLUNG back!  It took me almost an hour to calm down after that one.
• Another year at camp (this one is really bad) they were doing a final alter call.  There were lots of people up on this stage, but this one particular guy was in plain view and bent over.  I kid you not, his entire butt was hanging out.  That was probably the most inappropriate time I have ever laughed at church!

Come on, you know you have some... I can't be the only terrible person!