I Scents that There are Many Smells for the Holiday

I don't know if marketing has changed, or if I am more aware of them, or if I just want to enhance and create a sense of Christmas in and around me, but this year especially, i have found numerous fir and pine smells in different applications for the house to keep me comforted around the holidays. ( whew, that was one drawn out sentence, that almost says nothing)
anyway, starting two years ago, I found some Suave seasonal shampoo with the scent of Garland and Fir. It is amazing. I thought it would be a coveted item so I bought 12 sets of shampoo and conditioner. Then Suave discontinued it. I am not sure why, maybe no one but me liked it. But I still have about 5 sets left and break one out every year. Just got this set out a few weeks ago. It really does make you think of Christmas wreaths and trees.
This year, I have found more. Caldrea has this wonderful White Spruce in various forms. I got the White Spruce dishwashing liquid, which has a very strong but unique and true pine scent-not Pinesol-y. I am mixing it with my regular hand dish soap. I highly recommend their hand wash too.

Next, I found at Restoration Hardware, some Winter Pine hand soap and lotion together in a wire holder. It is nice, the smell is grand, but I would not recommend it. Stick with the Caldrea for hand lotion and hand wash. I couldn't find a link to it, so no more info.

I have also been scouting around for essential oils to mix to try my own hand at making the perfect holiday scent. Mountain Rose seems to be the most complete, courteous and prompt company for these oils. I bought a bunch, such as white fir, pine, bayberry, pumpkin spice, and more. I will be trying my hand at small candlemaking as well. Getting into the spirit, yeah!

I Like The Winter Weather

oh yeah, we just got our first Winter snowfall. not much, but i will take what we can get.
it is gorgeous out though.

Well, at least you know I stretched.

As many of you know, I ran the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving Day. I ran my best time too, of 36:34. But what you might not know is that they have a photo company that takes pics of runners participating in the race. Well, every year, my bib number is either obstructed, so I have to sift through 50 pages of pictures to try and find me, OR there are just no pictures of said runner. Well, this year, they got me. But only stretching. Kinda funny. I guess I shouldn't expect them to be able to capture all 10,000 participants individually, so maybe I will consider myself lucky. Yes, that is what I will do. Happy Holidays.

Window Washer's Nightmare-Denver, USA

Yesterday my friend Kelley caught this on tape across from her builing.
Here is also her account of what she saw:

"The wind caught a couple of window washers in the building across from
me a little bit ago. Their basket started blowing and crashing into the
building across the street. I'm on the 18th floor. So they were blowing
around pretty high.

It was aweful. I just got interviewed by 9News too. They wanted to hear
how horrific it was to watch. Apparently the guys were on their way to
the roof b/c of the wind...they were just too late. That thing was
swinging like mad.

The basket continued to hit the building and bust through windows right at people's desks. Papers got sucked out of the building. Glass went crashing down and broke windshields of cards on the street. Super scary. Both guys were rescued
by the fire fighters through a window.
Yeah...they were really impressed with the image quality b/c my little
Cannon is 5 Megapix and I was holding still ; )"
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Here's her video on 9 news. They bought it from her. And MSNBC called too.
It'll be on the national news tonight:
View her video


Someone also submitted video to 9News. Theirs is much longer and show
the drop and more slamming against the building:
This is from the ground