What's your favorite Christmas smell?
Christmas tree smell. Every year. For use it's usually a balsam fir. Sometimes, in years back it was a white spruce.
Also the smell of cloves reminds me of Christmas season particularly, and clove-flavoured hard candies we would have at Xmas.
What's your least favorite Christmas scent?
Smell of vegetables boiling on the stove. It's not just the smell, but the steamy, close feeling in the kitchen when all burner's are go, and my mom is stressing out.
This year, it's going to be me stressing over all those boiling pots!
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Good article, but dang, I am too tired today to even wade into the comments.
Also the smell of cloves reminds me of Christmas season particularly, and clove-flavoured hard candies we would have at Xmas.
Nice! I've never had clove candy. Is that a Canadian thing? It sounds like the sort of thing Ple would eat. Or object to strenuously but she'd have an opinion, by gum.
Favorite is the smell of the Christmas tree, for sure. Putting up the Christmas tree while listening to Christmas music and drinking hot cocoa, trying to untangle the lights while keeping the cats from pouncing on them, unwrapping the ornaments and remembering where each one came from, that's probably the ritual I love best. And then you get a pretty tree with sparkly lights on it in your living room, and if someone has gotten home before you in the evening then you can see it through the windows when you come home at night.
Least favorite? Hmm... maybe the recycled airplane air, because I always seem to be flying somewhere over Christmas these days.
Heh! Somebody on AV Club tried to imagine how the Grinch narration would have sounded if Bela Lugosi had done it instead of Boris Karloff:
"Ahl zeh 'oos dahn in 'Oowill vid dehr noise, noise, NOISE!"
gaming, nerds and male privilege.
I could write a manifesto in how often I got mansplained in Firefly fandom like I had no idea what I was talking about.
gaming, nerds and male privilege.
Man, I am so thankful for my comic book store, where I cannot imagine that scene happening at all. The manager is a woman, and there are women on the staff, and there are plenty of female customers. I know that's not the norm, though.
Nice! I've never had clove candy.
Clove is the best flavor of Necco wafer!
Some people tried to explain to me that there were as many female genre and/or nerds as male. And then they treated me like I was mansplaining. It was really surreal. Just because LJ is full of female slash fans...no, it's still a man's world, in terms of numbers and volume of yelling. It's getting better, but there isn't parity yet.
