See, it isn't relax to me. Too spicy. But soothing in that it is a scent I relly like that doesn't end up annoying the shit out of me. Unlike my salon's Aveda. Apparently I got some product on my brush saturday ( I had to wash my hair sat night in the sink.) Got a whiff of it today and was overwhelmed. Nice smell, just too much, too overpowering.

Aveda stuff tends to be really sage-y. And strongly so. Conveniently I like it but I can imagine it is horrible if you won't. It's a little bit of the desert in the rain smell, which is maybe wet creosote in my mind.

I like the spiciness of lavender as well. I am glad it is relatively popular because it lacks the annoying for me as well. Most florals or sweet fruity smells just ping me wrong.

eta: eh, but fennel is apparently icking me and it's prevalent in my dinner.

I missed the screen cap in Boxed. Must go fix that now.

I think it is the rosemary and mint that does me in with Aveda. I like it for a little bit and then whoa. Sage also is a comfort scent (though wet creosote is more!)

I'm surprised because Jensen Ackles was a beautiful child on Days of Our Lives.

Now see, I remember him a bit too, and I thought he looked plastic. Like Ken doll plastic. Or, if Ken had a twit younger cousin like Barbie had Midge.

Pretty, yeah, but. I am very hard on plastic-Americans. I'm just relieved he grew up into something human-looking (to say nothing of teh hott), and also developed a personality that seemed to be totally lacking in the past.

See me trash former child/teen stars one by one! Tina Majorino is a Kewpie doll!!

So, I just watched last night's Without A Trace, and it was all about resonances in Viv's life, but what about Martin?

I was wondering the same thing. When they first showed up the scene and Martin was there, I was expecting some acknowledgement of or reference to his aunt. Instead, he was remarkably chipper as they tracked down the woman dying of cancer.

Oh fuck. Apparently my cousin's husband left her a while ago for another woman, in addition to other shit that is mildly veiled. Cousin has a teenage son. Aunt & uncle very close to cousin's MIL. Basically,both the inlaws helped raise the kid. I saw them all together not a little more than a year ago, no clue. Hell, last time I saw my grandmother alive was at their wedding. Shit.

I'm just relieved he grew up into something human-looking (to say nothing of teh hott), and also developed a personality that seemed to be totally lacking in the past.

I've never seen him in anything but SPN (and a minor role in a Marilyn Monroe TV movie, with Poppy Montgomery as Norma Jean, in which Ackles played a strangely effete guy, and was seriously smoking hot as a kind of slashy decadent boozer). I think he's got just enough of a rough edge to balance the surreal pretty, because that's not really my type.

I can't take my eyes off him when he's onscreen either. He's just ... guh.

I read recently that Native Americans smoked tobacco medicinally, because a small amount actually helped relieve uncomfortable respiratory problems, and that it was the Europeans who took it to extremes (and who got so easily addicted, because they hadn't had generations to get used to tobacco use -- sort of a reverse of the situation with the high rate of alcoholism among Native Americans).

So Joe Camel is karmic payback for firewater?

Sage also is a comfort scent (though wet creosote is more!)