1.  I have a crappy memory.  I make lists for everything: groceries, bills paid, assignments to do, things to do while on vacation.  I just don't have a good memory.  But I do remember the very first Bath and Body Works lotion that I ever bought.  I was in the 7th grade.  The scent was Pineapple Mango.  It was the beginning of my love affair with overpriced, overscented lotions, cream, and shower gel.  I don't buy much Bath and Body works because I have found other products that I like better (for example, the Margarita shower gel and salt scrub by Phiolsophy smells sooo amazing, it will make you thirsty.  It is the reason why I wanted to try margaritas.  Until that shower gel, I was anti-tequila but the Philosophy product smelled soo good.  You will be tempted to taste it.  Anyway, I digress!)  I still like to walk through the store and look at all of the new scents they are selling - and I always have to ask someone if Happy Daisy will be back anytime soon (Happy Daisy is my all time favorite scent they have ever had.)  So yesterday, parker and I were walking around the mall and as I walked by the Bath and Body Works store, there was this awesome smell, beckoning me to come in.  So I go in, ask if Happy Daisy will be out for the spring (no) and then I ask her what is the smell that I could smell as I walked by.  I assumed it was just a combination of all the smells - and not just a particular one.  She told me it's a candle and this essential oil burner thing they have at the counter.  The smell: PINEAPPLE MANGO!!!!!!  And for just a second, as i stood there with the candle up to my nose, I felt young and careful.  Just for a second.  Parker started grabbing things off the shelf - that quickly brought me back to reality.  There might be a chance for Happy Daisy to come back.  And if it does - I will be buying a lifetime supply of it.

2.  Recipes - I have some ones that I have made but haven't had time to add into my blog.  Chicken Tikka Masala,  Basmati Rice Pilaf, and Slow-cooked Roast Beef.  But - I gotta lay off the cooking for a little bit.  Even with me going to the gym 3-4 times a week, I still GAINED EIGHT POUNDS LAST MONTH!  And I attribute that to all of the rich cooking that I have been doing.  Or maybe I will just make less rich recipes?  I'm not sure.  I am addicted to this new cookbook.  One day, while waiting for Stewart at the busstop, I flipped through it and flagged all of the recipes that I wanted to make.  It's all goodness.

3.  Music - I don't usually buy an entire album.  Of anything.  EXCEPT soundtracks.  (I have blogged before about my weird love of soundtracks.)  Now with iTunes, I can just buy whatever songs I like.  Occasionally I will buy an entire album but it has to be from someone that is on my trusted music list (U2, Marron 5, Carrie Underwood, Vanessa Carlton, Michelle Branch/the Wreckers, Matchbox 20, The Frey, Snow Patrol, Lily Allen, James Morrison, and John Mayer.)  So I was flipping through the cd case that I have in the car and I pulled out a "mixed-tape" that I had labeled at 07-17-08.    It was good music and it reminded me of really good songs that I had forgotten about.  But it also automaticly made me think of summer and warmth and the beach.  There wasn't anything summer specific about the music, and then it dawned on me.  That was a playlist that I made in July!  Somehow just hearing the music made me think of summer and warm thought - probably because I listened to it a TON during the July of 2008.  Funny how the mind works like that.