Well not quite yet, but I am kicking off October with a 5 day reprieve, to which the current forecast is predicting rain, rain, and more rain for 4 of those 5 days. Sigh.

Interesting day though, filled with Yankee Candles and pizza, two of my very favorite things in the world.

The pizza came as a result of our new supervisor sucking up to us in the vain hope that showering us with free food would get us to look the other way while he’s prancing around in his office in his Superman undies, but also for catching up on some work and like, stuff.

I had to do THE RUN this week, so I went out to grab an unmarked car from fleet, only… there was no car.

“There’s no car left at all? ALL of them were signed out??”

“Yep, and there’s one missing too.”

“….what do you mean it’s missing?”

“It’s just, gone. Nobody knows where it is.”

“Dude what am I supposed to do? I need a car.”

“Can’t you walk?”

I muttered something about his mother, then walked out again. I ended up taking my car, placed an official decal on my dash, and basically had a ball breaking as many moving violations as I could while I did the run. You haven’t quite lived until you’ve jumped the curb outside some official government building and parked on the grass just so you can be right next to the door. I swear this is how it should always be.

Just don’t drive really fast or you might upset the security guards when they come running out half scared that you were about to kamikaze the building in an attempted terrorist attack. Have to remember that for next time.

Since I was already out and about I decided to take a slight detour to say, the mall, and spent about 30 minutes or so sniffing Yankee candles, before deciding on some fall harvest candles that should keep me sufficiently ensconced in the scents of Autumn until Thanksgiving.

Speaking of harvest, I’m planning to go out as far east as I can possibly muster this Sunday (easily a 4 hour drive), so I can watch the harvest moon unobstructed as it rises from the east. I should be surrounded by ocean then so it should make for some snap-worthy scenery, but, meh. I always plan things like this and then I start getting depressed because I’m going out alone and as such I’m never able to share these tender moments with someone sporting bouncy boom-booms.

In any event, it will probably rain anyway, so instead I’ll likely veg out in front of the computer and immerse myself in Nancy Drew game playing. Either way, a good way to spend a nice, extended weekend if you ask me.

Tags: autumn, government, harvest moon, Nancy Drew, October, pizza, reprieve, yankee candles
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A while back I bought a whole bunch of Yankee Candle votives to see which scents I liked the best.  After giving over 30 candles a sniffy loo, I came up with this list of favorites:

• Christmas Cookie – The perfect pastry scent.  Definitely don’t use this if you’re on a low carb diet though. 
• Balsam and Cedar – The best forest-type scent I’ve found so far.  I love these earthy, woodsy scents!
• Fireside – I had high hopes for this one but for some reason the votive didn’t give off a strong aroma.  It’s supposed to give off the scent of a burning log fire, a scent I’ve always enjoyed.   This is one scent I don’t want to give up on, so I’m getting a bigger jar to see if that makes a difference.
• Frosted Pumpkin – LOVE LOVE LOVE
• Blueberry Scone – Great aroma, but I liked the Frost Pumpkin scent way better.
• Holly Berry – This one surprised me, as I didn’t expect it to smell good, but it gave off such a sweet yet woodsy enough aroma that it made my top 10 list.
• Sparkling Angel – Another pleasant surprise, this one giving a very pleasant wintry, yet outdoorsy scent.
• Mistletoe – The first Yankee Candle scent I ever tried, and it was love at first smell.  I definitely need a jar of this, along with a real mistletoe and a hot babe for next Christmas. 
• Autumn Leaves – Hands down my favorite scent ever, and not just because autumn is my favorite season, but because it does such a superb job of capturing the scents of dried autumn leaves, combined with that forest, outdoorsy aroma.  I love it so much I use the car freshener version of it as well to keep my car smelling delightfully like fall all year round. 

There’s still a few more scents I haven’t tried yet that I’d like to get my hands on:

• Sparkling Pine
• Silver Bells
• Sparkling Snow
• Red Berry and Cedar
• Red Apple Wreath
• Mountain Lake
• Seaside Holiday

About the only thing that annoys me about Yankee Candles is that they keep dropping their coffee scents.  I wanted to order Hazelnut Coffee but they discontinued it before I had a chance.  Dweebs.

Does anyone else know of a candle that delivers an awesome fresh coffee scent?  And don’t say get a coffee maker cause I’ll just slap you one.  I’m not gonna be brewing coffee at 11 o clock at night, but I might still want to get a whiff of that “Just Got Back From The Coffee Market in Seattle” aroma ya know? 

Tags: aromas, autumn, car freshener, Christmas, coffee, earth, fire, mistletoe, scents, seattle, yankee candles
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