Also: I ate food off an actual stick found on the ground for the first (and last) time in my life.
Ryan and Allie invited Roomie and I over for a little smores action last night. Now, as you may remember, I just recently tried smores for the first time in my life. Even though I didn’t like them the first time around and I am not exactly open to the idea of eating things off dirty sticks, I do like Ryan and Allie so I decided to travel the great 3/4 of a mile between our houses.
As I got ready to leave, I started putting on all my winter warmies (scarf, gloves, etc.) and remembered that both of my heavy coats were at the dry cleaners. I was already running late, so I just decided to ask Ryan if I could use a blanket to wrap up in. After all, you probably remember that Ryan has a certain $4.98 Target blanket that he recently wanted me to experience for myself. I figured I’d just use that, especially since he actually has two of the blankets.
I THOUGHT WRONG.
Ryan would not give me that blanket to take outside. That $4.98 Target blanket. He just would not do it. At first I thought he was joking but then I realized he was serious: he didn’t want to take a chance on it catching on fire or getting dirty because, after all, it must have been made with the finest quality materials seeing as it was so expensive.
Instead he gave me one of his jackets which is where the problem I want to present to you today occurred.
Here’s my concern: when I put on the jacket, I said “Wait, I can’t smell anything!” To which Allie replied “I KNOW! He doesn’t wear cologne!” Because we’re just like that, all one mindedness when it comes to knowing that when you put on a guy’s jacket, it should smell like cologne. It’s just, like, a rule of life.
Case in point: a mere two weeks ago, Roomie and I went to Sephora while we were in a Real Mall Unlike The Fake One In Our Itty Bitty Town. We were surrounded by every girl product you could imagine from mascara to make-up brushes, but where did we head? Why, straight to the men’s cologne section where we proceeded to smell them all while picking out which ones we want our future husbands to wear.
Last night’s experience, however, has caused me no small amount of sadness over the last 12 hours as I’ve wondered if (gasp!) there is a chance that my future husband won’t wear cologne. I mean, that’s the whole reason I was going to get married in the first place.
It’s not like I want to spend the rest of my life standing in Sephora picking out cologne for a pretend husband, you know.
hmmm… maybe you don’t understand how that blanket would have smelled after sitting in front of a fire for a couple hours. now i could take the risk of washing it afterwards, but that has the potential of ruining the current comfort level of the amazing (albeit cheap) blanket!
oh, and why waste money on cologne when you can just buy axe deoderant and kill two birds w/ one stone? i think it was the axe effect that got me allie…
My boyfriend/future husband doesn’t wear cologne, but since I’m not much of a girly-girl, I hadn’t thought about it until I read this post. Now that I think about it, I DO love the smell of cologne. Maybe I need to look into that… he’s going to wish I didn’t read your blog.
Brandon wears cologne…
AB, all I know is that whatever cologne my future husband will smell amazing! A friend (B. Atkins) told me that the scent of our future husbands will improve our immune system bc they are that perfect for us! Crazy huh?
My husband uses an Axe shower gel and deodorant and I LOVE IT. Cologne is totally unnecessary with all that Axe goodness.
Interesting. I don’t care for men’s cologne. They ususally wear too much of it – and even if they don’t colognes and perfumes tend to hit aural notes that hit me right between the eyes.
I usually like the scent – but not worth it if it gives you an instant headache.
In college there was a boy in my spanish class who wore … Eternity for Men – all the girls around us would tell him how great he smelled and I just wished he would go sit on the other side of the room or out in the hall. I hated it because my head hurt the whole semester.
Don’t forget…just because you pick out a cologne you like, doesn’t mean it will smell good when mixed w/ your hubs’ natural body oils.
I hate my Mom’s perfume out of the bottle, but on her it was fabulous.
I love that Ryan commented! Although personally I like the smoky fire smell…
My husband doesn’t wear cologne (except once in a blue moon) and he has his own smell which is better!
My only disappointment with my husband is he does NOT wear cologne. Ever. But then again, the guy I dated before him was a total loser and he did. So I’m okay with my husband’s lack of muskiness. (‘Sides, he smells good anyway!!
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Yea. I have to agree with Ryan, the axe-effect is pretty potent. I think it’s a toss up between the red axe bottle and whatever that cologne is, Blue or Black or some dark and mysterious shade like that. They are both tittilating (there’s a new word for you to shake your pretty curls at, A.B.
My husband of 24+ years doesn’t wear cologne, but he smells yummy!
Don’t worry, Future Hubby will smell yummy too!
AB, my hubby never wears cologne, but he smells yummy. It’s some inherent manly yumminess that I just can’t describe. If your future hubby is a no-cologne kind of guy, you’ll STILL like how he smells. Promise.
Okay, this is going to sound really weird. My honey wears cologne along with Degree deodorant. When I run out of my Degree for Women, I resort to wearing his. At first I wasn’t thrilled to have to use it, however frequently throughout the day I kept getting whiffs of him and I so enjoyed it. His familiar scent made me think of him and made me look forward to seeing him at the end of the day. I thought about wearing his cologne everyday, however I knew that eventually it would become “my” smell which would make it no fun. I do enjoy “forgetting” to purchase my own deodorant occasionally, though.
Happy smellin’ out your future man.
I know just how Allie feels!! My husband does not wear cologne. I still regularly try to force it on him for my smelling pleasure, but I think he has had the same bottle for the 6 years we have been dating/married!!
My husband wears cologne for special occasions, such as dates with me or the induction of our babies.
But normally, he just smells like his very strong Old Spice deodorant. And that’s fine with me. Manly without being overpowering.