Smells and how to wear your fragrance

Look we all want to smell good. Honestly I wish we did all smell good...mix in a shower once in a while...I gave my buddy a ride in my car a couple weeks back. Dude has a hard job and my car STILL smelled like him the next day. I say again, mix in a shower after work if your going out. While I'm confessing, I recently refered to a friend as "your dirty hippy wife," why? She was burning insence. Is she dirty? No. Is she a hippy? Nope, just modern, artsy and...dare I say it because I know she reads, one of the coolest people I spend time with. The point here is, yes burning insence is a hippy sorta thing to do...but it beats bad smells any day.

Now we reach the point of today. I own cologn, I like to smell good...I'm pretty sure my wife the english teacher will shread my usage of the phrase, "smell good," too bad she doesn't get to grade my blog. Off topic again...anyways, lets put this train back on the tracks. If you like to smell good, shower daily, wear a fragrance, good for you, you're taking a positive step...now, and this is to a small percentage...

DIAL IT DOWN! If I'm not in your intimate space (2-3 foot radius) I shouldn't be able to smell you. For the last 8 or 9 weeks I've been hitting the gym at 5:30am with a buddy. It's a solid time, people are there to work. Plus, it's a smaller group that shows up, perfect for work. Among this group is a lady, probably around my age, possibly up to 8 years older. She's in amazing shape, pretty, yes I noticed. THis girl shows up every morning in coordinated lululemon workout gear, hair done perfectly. Think she's rocking make up. Honestly, you don't need that extra sleep? That being said, I passed by her on my way to the rack to get some weights Wednesday, Was withing maybe 5 feet at the closest and was invaded by an overwhelming scent of vanilla. Perfume at the gym at 5:30...seriously? But then to have enough on that I can smell you from a distance...too far, too much, stop.

Let's also go over when to wear a fragrance. Everyday? Really? Is that who you want to be? Shower, deoderant,aftershave, moisturizer, done. This is a solid every day routine. If I have meetings I'll usually mix in a spritz or maybe 2 of fragrance, after I dress, shot into the air, and then I simply walk through the falling drops. Little bit gets on me, enough that I should have a little extra something, but not so much that you are overpowered by smell. Date night? Suiting up for a special occasion? Shower, deoderant, aftershave, moisturizer. Get dressed. Spritz down the back of your shirt, little to the forearms, then rub that into your neck and chest area. You wont stink, but come snuggle/dance time you can bet that shel'll be happy that you are plesently scented, no B.O. no overscented, axe body sprayed douche bags here, just classy clean smelling men. Step your game up.

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A Poem I came Across

Growing Old - a poem by Matthew Arnold


What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
The lustre of the eye?
Is it for beauty to forego her wreath?
Yes, but not for this alone.

Is it to feel our strength
Not our bloom only, but our strength decay?
Is it to feel each limb
Grow stiffer, every function less exact,
Each nerve more weakly strung?

Yes, this, and more! but not,
Ah, 'tis not what in youth we dreamed 'twould be!
'Tis not to have our life
Mellowed and softened as with sunset-glow,
A golden day's decline!

'Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fulness of the past,
The years that are no more!

It is to spend long days
And not once feel that we were ever young.
It is to add, immured
In the hot prison of the present, month
To month with weary pain.

It is to suffer this,
And feel but half, and feebly, what we feel:
Deep in our hidden heart
Festers the dull remembrance of a change,
But no emotion none.

It is last stage of all
When we are frozen up within, and quite
The phantom of ourselves,
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost
Which blamed the living man.

LAunch Man

ABBOTSFORD FINALLY HAS MEN'S SHOPPING!!! LAunch Man clothing on Pauline st in Abbotsford is amazing. Dustin the owner was friendly, we talked a good 20 minutes about brands he had, brands he was bringing, and brands who wouldn't come (FREEKING BAND OF OUTSIDERS COME TO CANADA ALREADY!!!) You know what I'll just link to an article by a pro who will write better then I will.

http://fraservalleypulse.com/blog/launch-man-in-abbotsford/

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Two Full Weeks off

Wow I havn't blogged in forever. It's been a great little while and a frustrating little while. My 85 year old gramma was all set to move into an assisted living facility which she needs...then her and my Mom decide she's fine and can stay in her house...after having me drive to Maple Ridge to look at an amazing place for her. Now the whole reason she was moving was for late night security when she's sick. She'll have a call button and someone who can ensure she gets to the hospital, ensures she's getting meals ect. Whe healthy she's fine, but she still panics about if something happened in the night she's on her own in an apartment. I get that it's a big decision but when it comes to my cousin and I having to run out to Maple Ridge to take care of her when she's at her worst that's a lot. I love my Mom but she's 5 hours away and doesnt have to deal with this stuff. So now nothing changes, we wait for the inevitablility that she ends up in hospital AGAIN, ends up scared and depressed AGAIN, and we end up solving nothing AGAIN. Oh there is the promise that she might be moving to the great white north in the next while so I guess that's something...but not much because she's on a waiting list. I just deal with this.

On the good side, we had an amazing long weekend in Tofino, visited friends, ate some amazing food (sorry meal plan) and discovered "The Dark and Stormy" Here's the recipe:

Rocks Glass
Ice
2oz Spiced Rum
1 slice of fresh Ginger
1 Wedge of Lemon (I actually prefer Orange)
Fill the glass with Ginger Beer (Not Canada Dry, not Schweps, real Ginger Beer, I recommend The Great Jamacian Ginger Beer Company)

Let's see what else is going on, I finally got my GTI...apparently if you really want something, wait until it's 10 years old and then find one...if you still actually want one, luckily I did.

Too much freeking Rain...it's almost June, where's summer? I lothe it when people complain about the weather which I just did...deal with it.

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Why Converse Chuck Taylors are just too easy

First let me be clear, LADIES THESE RULES DON'T APPLY TO YOU> I don't know how you make yourselves so beautiful, I won't even pretend to, all I know is you work way harder then we do and it's fantastic, thank you.

Ok, back to the subject at hand. Chucks are amazing, a classic shoe that I love, but honestly, they are EVERYWHERE. Goths, punks, trendsters, hipsters, teens, try hard 45 year old dads. I get it, Chucks are a great look that are almost impossible to mess up. But isn't that the point?

Style isn't about playing it safe. It's important to have "Go to" items, pique polo's are basically my uniform from May through Sept, but sometimes you just have to try harder. I recently had a conversation with a girl I know who is about to graduation High School. I mentioned that I don't think skinny jeans should be for guys. She disagreed and started listing a bunch of guys we both know who, "would look good in skinny jeans and converse." Serioulsy, not even calling them Chucks, just "Skinny jeans and Converse." Maybe I'm wrong but that seriously bugged me.

I love low top Chucks, really want to pick up a grey pair this summer. But, they arn't the only great sneaker out there. People you just need to try harder, I just got an AMAZING pair of canvas sneakers that look almost like bowling shoes. Saw them on a clearance rack by accident while I was looking for something totally different. Bought them, love them, have gotten TONS of compliments on them. Are they as trendy as chucks? No...honestly they arn't even half as comfortable as chucks, but people actually noticed them as opposed to when I wear my blue chucks around.

Summary of this rediculous post, Chucks are amazing, but wear something else once in a while so you don't just blend in.

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Ok That's not totally true

So in the last while I've been really focused on getting my finances in a better place. Inside of another week or two that will be DONE!!! We are also looking into selling our townhouse and moving into a real honest to goodness house. It's in the works right now, Broker is getting us preapproved, and we're going to start meeting with realetors pretty quick to get our place sold...or maybe we'll find out we arn't ready quite yet. Who knows, I'm interested to find out though.

This also inpacts the ability to have a second kid...not sure we can do both at the same time, so do we have a second kid first, and then wait until he's 1 and Sheena's back at work to move, or do we do it now and wait 1 more year...maybe 2 to have a second kid. Not sure. Praying and planning right now.

Totally Lame

I'm still alive, just nothing I really want to post right now.