Well, here it is Saturday, and I’m not sure where the hell the day went.
I got up early to go to Walmart to get a few home items. I was successful in finding things I needed to complete a crafty project. I brought my tape measure and everything into the store to measure what I needed. But good God, did the total sale price add up. It makes me sick how much things are to buy.
I then went to the local grocery store to get my edible stuff. I usually go on Sunday mornings, but I thought I’d get this chore done this morning since I was already up and around.
I then ended up waiting till the shopping mall in my town opened and headed out there to go look at a piece of jewelry I have wanted to buy myself for over a year now. I still didn’t buy it, but it was nice to look at it and hope that someday I will buy it for myself when I think I finally deserve it.
I then went to Ulta and looked at fragrances. I used to always wear perfume. I used to always be told how good I smelled. Total strangers would stop me and tell me how good I smelled, along with friends, family and coworkers. Sometime during when my PCOS got worse, when I was 28-29, my body chemistry changed and I stopped wearing perfumes because the scents would get warped with my skin chemistry. This was when my hormones got whacked. Since those years, I couldn’t ever find a perfume that I liked on my skin. Which, really made me sad. I really like perfume, and I like wearing it. Don’t get me wrong, I am a clean person, and I mostly now just smell like laundry and soap smell from my clothes and body wash. But I really miss having that extra, soft smell to make ME feel good.
So the other day I got an Ulta catalog in the mail, and inside was one of those fold out cologne sample cards. It was for a his/hers cologne/perfume. I was intrigued when I smelled the cologne side after smelling the perfume side and gagging at the flowery smell. Does my skin chemistry now mimic and could house a cologne scent, that wasn’t so overly powerful in the man smell department?
I was intrigued. The cologne, Acqua di Giò by Armani, was one I had smelled on men for decades. I have always marveled at how clean and fresh it smells, which is my favorite type of scent. Clean and fresh. Could this cologne settle good on my own skin as a woman? How weird would that be? Would anyone notice? We all wear scents differently…and me being a woman… maybe it wouldn’t be noticeable that it is a man’s cologne.
So I went into the store and marched over to the cologne like I knew exactly what I was doing, and took one of the sample strips and squirted it with cologne. *Sniff* I liked what I smelled. I ended up giving a spritz on the inside of my wrist when an Ulta consultant came up to me and said that the cologne is actually very popular with women to wear too. I was even more intrigued. I walked around the store for awhile looking at nail polishes and sniffed my wrist and the paper strip often. I ended up leaving the store with the smallest bottle, but still at $48. I’m not proud I spent that much on ME wanting to smell good, when I know I already smell fine, but I wanted something special for me to enjoy.
I got home and opened the package and sniffed again. I was pleased. I have noticed, that even after I took a shower and I applied it fresh again to my skin, that it does not smell like it is on a man. It takes on a different smell on my own skin, and it does not remind me of an overwhelming “man smell”. I do believe I finally found what I was looking for in a new scent to wear. Who would have thought?
When I got home from Ulta, I stripped my bed sheets and began to wash them as I mopped the kitchen floor and did other household chores. I noticed I started having abdominal cramps and believed that my PCOS cyster period was about to begin, and after my shower later, it did. I can’t complain, having this happen on my weekend is perfect. I don’t have to sit in agony at work in total pain for at least the first 2 days of this one. It is much easier to be in sweats and scrawled out in the recliner enduring the pain.
I also discovered this morning when I went to Walmart to get new, cheap shirts to work out in, that I am down another shirt size. Technically, I could go down another size, but I don’t like to wear too tight of shirts. Anyway, I can’t express how much that made me happy. Last week, I had dropped another pound, and I was ecstatic. But to drop a size in clothing…is even better.
Tomorrow, I plan on getting up early again and working on my federal income taxes. This year I haven’t been as quick to file, and I’ve been lazy about it and dreading it. But I must begin work on them tomorrow.
I really need to give myself a vacation soon. I really enjoy my time off at home.
Happy Pi Day!!!
agape,
nfnpn
I got up early to go to Walmart to get a few home items. I was successful in finding things I needed to complete a crafty project. I brought my tape measure and everything into the store to measure what I needed. But good God, did the total sale price add up. It makes me sick how much things are to buy.
I then went to the local grocery store to get my edible stuff. I usually go on Sunday mornings, but I thought I’d get this chore done this morning since I was already up and around.
I then ended up waiting till the shopping mall in my town opened and headed out there to go look at a piece of jewelry I have wanted to buy myself for over a year now. I still didn’t buy it, but it was nice to look at it and hope that someday I will buy it for myself when I think I finally deserve it.
I then went to Ulta and looked at fragrances. I used to always wear perfume. I used to always be told how good I smelled. Total strangers would stop me and tell me how good I smelled, along with friends, family and coworkers. Sometime during when my PCOS got worse, when I was 28-29, my body chemistry changed and I stopped wearing perfumes because the scents would get warped with my skin chemistry. This was when my hormones got whacked. Since those years, I couldn’t ever find a perfume that I liked on my skin. Which, really made me sad. I really like perfume, and I like wearing it. Don’t get me wrong, I am a clean person, and I mostly now just smell like laundry and soap smell from my clothes and body wash. But I really miss having that extra, soft smell to make ME feel good.
So the other day I got an Ulta catalog in the mail, and inside was one of those fold out cologne sample cards. It was for a his/hers cologne/perfume. I was intrigued when I smelled the cologne side after smelling the perfume side and gagging at the flowery smell. Does my skin chemistry now mimic and could house a cologne scent, that wasn’t so overly powerful in the man smell department?
I was intrigued. The cologne, Acqua di Giò by Armani, was one I had smelled on men for decades. I have always marveled at how clean and fresh it smells, which is my favorite type of scent. Clean and fresh. Could this cologne settle good on my own skin as a woman? How weird would that be? Would anyone notice? We all wear scents differently…and me being a woman… maybe it wouldn’t be noticeable that it is a man’s cologne.
So I went into the store and marched over to the cologne like I knew exactly what I was doing, and took one of the sample strips and squirted it with cologne. *Sniff* I liked what I smelled. I ended up giving a spritz on the inside of my wrist when an Ulta consultant came up to me and said that the cologne is actually very popular with women to wear too. I was even more intrigued. I walked around the store for awhile looking at nail polishes and sniffed my wrist and the paper strip often. I ended up leaving the store with the smallest bottle, but still at $48. I’m not proud I spent that much on ME wanting to smell good, when I know I already smell fine, but I wanted something special for me to enjoy.
I got home and opened the package and sniffed again. I was pleased. I have noticed, that even after I took a shower and I applied it fresh again to my skin, that it does not smell like it is on a man. It takes on a different smell on my own skin, and it does not remind me of an overwhelming “man smell”. I do believe I finally found what I was looking for in a new scent to wear. Who would have thought?
When I got home from Ulta, I stripped my bed sheets and began to wash them as I mopped the kitchen floor and did other household chores. I noticed I started having abdominal cramps and believed that my PCOS cyster period was about to begin, and after my shower later, it did. I can’t complain, having this happen on my weekend is perfect. I don’t have to sit in agony at work in total pain for at least the first 2 days of this one. It is much easier to be in sweats and scrawled out in the recliner enduring the pain.
I also discovered this morning when I went to Walmart to get new, cheap shirts to work out in, that I am down another shirt size. Technically, I could go down another size, but I don’t like to wear too tight of shirts. Anyway, I can’t express how much that made me happy. Last week, I had dropped another pound, and I was ecstatic. But to drop a size in clothing…is even better.
Tomorrow, I plan on getting up early again and working on my federal income taxes. This year I haven’t been as quick to file, and I’ve been lazy about it and dreading it. But I must begin work on them tomorrow.
I really need to give myself a vacation soon. I really enjoy my time off at home.
Happy Pi Day!!!
agape,
nfnpn
