After yoga the other night I went in to Safeway to pick up something and ended up wandering in the beauty product aisle. I have always loved the product aisle. Well, I love the grocery store in general but the product aisle is supreme. All of those neatly placed products screaming for your attention and promising one thing or another. I first started using Pantene when I was in 7th grade and have loved it ever since. The bottles were metallic pastel colors with the gold dome top and then a clear plastic dome over that. I felt so fancy and adult and the smell was divine.It’s completely different now and has lost that special thing. Maybe that’s because there are a hundred different kinds. Although I still stay loyal. I deviate every once in a while and blow a wad at the salon on product but I always return to Pantene. So after wandering around the product aisle I came home with some new finds. Well, new to me. I grabbed Dove Moisture Rich Color Shampoo and Conditioner, Oil of Olay Complete body wash and Oil of Olay Moisturinse in shower body lotion, which I’ve been dying to try being the product whore that I am. The shampoo is shampoo. I’m not noticing anything drastically different, although my hair does have that slight lift your hair gets when you switch up your shampoo routine, which I do occasionally to keep my hair guessing.  The Oil of Olay body wash has shea butter so it smells delish and is very moisturizing. Thumbs up. The Moisurinse stuff is cool. It’s lotiony, which is weird but cool and I did notice I felt softer after the shower. (which I promptly took after returning home from the store. Such a nerd. It’s the little things, people)  I’m in love with the smell. It smells like New West perfume which I wore my freshman year at KU and will forever remind me of tons of things. Certain scents just have such distinct associations. There is a scent and I cannot describe it or put my finger on what it is exactly but when I smell it I immediately think of Mrs. Hall’s house on Chadbourne street in Houston where I grew up. It’s weird the things you remember.  I have a very sensitive nose. It drives Peter crazy.  I have a very sensitive palette as well, which is why Peter suspects I’m a Super Taster. This concept is so hysterical and ridiculous to me but it does make me curious to find out.

Looking forward to a productive weekend. We have a few things on our to do list that we need to cross off. We also have a Halloween party at the Piersons that should be insane fun. And by insane I mean the kids will have a blast and I will spend the majority of the time wondering how Julianne deals with the chaos. She used to be a teacher so she has this whole plan of how things are going to go and there are crafts, and trick or treating and the like. I’m having anxiety and I’m not even hosting the thing!

Saw a rainbow today and almost crashed the car. It was the brightest one I’ve ever seen and I literally gasped.