Oy vey, has it really been four days since I last posted? I'm sorry about that, my friends. I've been in class learning to get all agile when it comes to software development process (I guess that Ralphie's dad would call it "a-geel-lay") so I've not had time to post much. Had the boys over to my pad on Friday night for a guys' night - hit the pool, hit the Plucker's, and then got down to watchin' some District B13 and then some Super Troopers.
Anyway, on to the new stuff for which this entry is titled. I may not have mentioned here that my new apartment is kind of a cellular black hole - my reception seems to be quite spotty here in the West End and I've dropped quite a few calls. So, after class on Friday, I got a solution in mind and headed to the Sprint store to pick myself up a new bluetooth headset for my Centro. I figured that it would be helpful in the car of course, but I could also put the phone in a place in my apartment with better reception and then roam around all bluetoothy so's not to drop some calls. I had a headset that my folks got me a few years ago for my birthday, but the battery life was pretty dismal and I couldn't keep the earpiece tight in my ear. So's I went out and got me a nice Plantronics Discovery 925, which has some silicon earbuds to keep it snug in my ear and has noise-reducing feedback so that I can get better sound in noisy environments. So far it's working out pretty good, so I think it was worth the cost.
The second purchase was more of a vanity purchase with no practical benefit (other than attracting the attention of a certain someone). I decided that it was time to go cologne shopping as it's not something I've done in a long, long time. Just as an example, the last cologne I actually bought was Drakkar and Curve. Yeah. It's been that long. I started asking around to some of my lady friends to find out what the hot fragrance is these days - what really gets their olfactory senses at full attention. It seems that the big winners were Dolce & Gabbana's "Light Blue" and Armani's "Aqua de Gio" (or however the heck you spell it). Soooooo....I high-tailed it over to Macy's after my drum lesson to drop some coin on some new smell-good. Man, cologne sure has gotten expensive these days...but I figured that it smells good enough that I probably won't have to do this for another few years because the stuff I got isn't too overpowering and it seems to work pretty well with my body chemistry. While I don't expect it to make women go rabid and start tearing my clothes off in elevators (it's not Axe, after all), I do hope that it serves to accent my natural pheromones rather than clash with them.
Only time will tell.
And that, my friends, is what is new in my world. New sounds and new (hopefully good) smells. Now we'll see how good this stuff really is once the bill shows up. I'd better strap in.
acqua di gio is heaven in a bottle.
if i sit really close to you at home team this week, well, now you'll know why.
i'll try to control myself.
What's wrong with Hai Karate and Old Spice, and maybe some English Leather (but only during the holidays)? Ok, I guess that WOULD make you smell like your old study hall teacher.
BTW, my stepsons use Axe, and report no elevator hijinks have occurred. Hmmmm....
Yeah, the Axe marketing time is a bunch of dirty, rotten, stinking liars. Same company that did the TAG body spray ads too, I think. So far I've gotten a much more favorable response to the D&G or the Acqua Di Gio. Here's to hoping that I have an elevator incident in the near future...
what about aqua velva? musk? if you spent over $5, then you got jipped. there's only one smell that will give you that "elevator incident" you're looking for, and it hasn't developed into a cologne. it's that fresh money smell. :D
I had a 6th grade teacher that used to keep English Leather in his desk just to terrorize the girls with. It smelled horrible.
As for the fresh money smell, I rub a $20 on the normal cologne spray spots but as yet haven't gotten the aforementioned elevator incident. I don't think that you can separate the smell from the visual stimulus. Maybe if I just walked around with $20s and $50s hanging out of my pockets...
But I don't want to get jumped by dudes, so that's out too. Guess I'll have to stick with the cologne and take whatever comes my way.