So I found this lovely website called Cheddar X, in which there are questions posted weekly by our dairy friend. I thought I would give it a go on two of them:

1. What are your top three favorite smells?

A full Indian curry dinner, complete with naan bread-the smell of garlic, coriander, and naan make me want to weep with joy. I also love the smell of lilacs and fresh cut grass in the summer time and I enjoy the scent of rubbing alcohol (which may be a factor in my periodic slides into hypochondria). Strange, but true.

2. What scents on men/women do you find most attractive? And what scents to you absolutely despise?

I love it when you go up to a guy in a bar or a pub and start chatting, and he has beer/cigarette breath. Seriously, that's a big turn on. And the male line of face lotions from The Body Shop get me hotter than hell, so those are a plus. I hate it when, sometimes at work, I have to walk up to a guy and ask him something, only to notice that he has that I-Just-Threw-My-Tie-and-Shirt-On, I-Did-Not-Bathe-Today smell. That bitter funk smell, pure rankness. That puts me right off.

A friend and I had an sms dialog yesterday (aka text messaging). He asked what I had been doing all weekend, since I have been off work since last Wednesday with some vacation time, and home alone. I replied that I have been doing this and that. After our dialog, I sat down and tried to think about what I have actually achieved with my time. Ostensibly, my time alone has been to write on my novel a bit. Unfortunately, due to the heat and me being otherwise engaged with numerous activities, I have not gotten far. A summary of my activities:

- Watched all four of the "Lethal Weapon films", since I couldn't find anything else on TV.
- Watched "Pride and Prejudice", with that fabulous dish Colin Firth.
- Sunbathed. A lot.
- Finished off three bottles of chardonnay (but not in one sitting. At least I am still several steps away from being an inductee into AA).
- Had some "self-relations", to quote our friend Frank McCourt. OK, not some. A lot.
- Watered the garden. I did not do this often enough, but then again I find it mind-numbingly dull, so who can blame me?
- Drank, in total, 22 cups of coffee.

Maybe I am better off going back to work.

-H

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