T minus one more day until the opening of INCEPTION. T minus two days until I attempt to go see it. My mother will be coming down for Peace's birthday and she will attempt to babysit.
Here is an e-mail I wrote to my mother today:
I'm sorry to be a prick about this, but when you come here to visit, could you please not wear any perfumes or body lotions or any other scents of yours? I have found that I am very sensitive to this, so it would just be helpful if I didn't have to experience it. Thank you.
Isn't this just incredibly pretentious and high-maintenance of me, asking somebody to alter their lifestyle because I don't like to be around it?
But, seriously, it really is one of the biggest pet peeves for me. I can't stand it when people smell like stuff. I can't stand Glade Plug-Ins. I can't stand when people hold my baby and then my baby comes back smelling like something atrocious. Ugh.
So, that's it for today kids. (It is also T minus two days until Peace's first birthday. Very exciting.)
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I can't stand it either, and had to ask my mother in law the very same when she was a baby. The glade plug-ins & all. Since then, she's really come around to the natural, crunchy side. Hooray for speaking our minds!
Of course, I still haven't gathered up the courage to ask our neighbors to tone down the glade plug ins & gallons of fabric softener they use. When I walk up to our front door, I can't even smell the flowers in our garden for the cloying artificialness spewing out of their dryer vent (we live in a condo). I'm not sure I'm really within my rights to say anything in that case. So, I deal. Ugh.
I've read that artificial scents can be very damaging to your body! So, FWIW, you did the right thing.
Finally! Someone else who agrees that Glad plug-ins are even worse than the Glade ones. And don't even get me started about their sandwich and trash bags!
Ummm, yeah. With you on that one. I actually get migraines from strong smells, not that my mother cares, she either says "You've never told me that before" or "huh. yeah right" like I'm just trying to be a P.I.T.A. for no reason at all. My MIL stinks her house up with scented candles, almost everytime we go over there, though I think she's finally started to take the hint because I immediately ask her for ibuprofren (which she doesn't ever have) and when she asks why I need it, I always say "strong artificial smells give me headaches". I once worked with a lady who would go hoarse around certain perfumes! So I guess I don't have it too terribly bad...
Right there with you. Only it's my MIL and we've found we have to be specific. No perfume or scents was not enough. Now it is no body lotions, no body sprays, nothing that has a picture of a flower on it, etc.
I agree that one of the worst things is my baby smelling like someone else's perfume! Yuck!
I hope your Mom understands and is considerate.
I couldn't agree with you more. I absolutely hate it when you get your baby handed back to you smelling like perfume. And for me, I get physically ill from perfumes. And yet, my mother 'forgets' all the time. Why do people like to stink so strongly of perfume? I just don't get it.
Ha ha ha, anonymous. I'm adding the correction now. Also glade to see that other people agree with me on this whole topic.
I really like your blog (and don't tell anyone else we know with a blog) but I don't usually really like blogs about people's lives, but your blog is clever and open and vulnerable and the pictures are a treat for the eyes.
Anonymous - Thanks. That's kind of you. Now please tell the other 300 million Americans I'm trying to get to read my blog...
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