holy flashback.

you know that moment when you smell a scent you either haven't smelled in a while or maybe reminds you of something very specific? like the smell of your parent's house, which never changes and you almost forget it until you go home for a visit and it's like BAM! HELLLOOOOOO!!!!

well. i had an old familiar scent, which i clearly hadn't been in the same room with in a while, come and whack me across the head yesterday and i can't stop carrying it around in my hand sniffing it. while grocery shopping (which i hate more than anything on earth), i walked past the candle aisle and since i have major A.D.D. for things colorful and scented, of course i had to stand there for longer than necessary and ponder how long it would take to burn the mason jar candles out just so i could be left with the mason jar. which i have a sincere fondness for.

i felt like Michael J. Fox for a minute. one sniff and i went racing back to 2001 and into my manhattan apartment at 230 W. 79th Street. at the time, i never realized that i was surrounded morning noon and night by the smell of eucalyptus, but oh-holy-hi-nice-to-meet-you i know it now! one sniff of this "odor eliminating & air freshening soy candle" and i could tell you exactly what i was wearing, what song was playing on the radio station, what i'd had for lunch.

so i bought every last one they had. and at $free.99, it didn't set me back much. but now i can't put the damn thing down because all i want to do is smell it. i can't even bring myself to light it. i just want to sniff the cold dry wax. weird. okay enough about all that.

but you can't tell me you don't know what i'm talking ahout.

p.s. i can't find a photo of the eucalyptus flavor, but you might want to go browse your local selection because who knows...your memory might just be wrapped up in wax, glass, and cardboard too.