random roundup thursday

including your favorite smells!

A few things:

• Have y’all watched Rivals yet? I loved it. Dramatic, fun, set in the 80s, and everyone is very hot. I watched it on Hulu.

  

• I asked you for your favorite smells, here’s some of the answers:

  • Petrichor

  • Gasoline

  • Cooking onions/garlic (this one showed up so many times!)

  • Fresh waffle cones

  • Blown out birthday candles

  • Tomatoes on the vine

  • Cinnamon

  • Hot bread (this person grew up next to a bread factory!)

  • Your mom

  • Pine trees

  • Salt water

  • Waffles or pancakes cooking downstairs on a Saturday morning (as a kid, and now)

  • Campfire

  • Your pet’s belly/fur/toes/general self

  • The post office

  • Lavender

  • Your partner

  • Lilacs (a very popular one!)

  • Chicken and dumplings in a crockpot

  • Roasting peanuts (this person grew up next to a Jif factory!)

  • Your baby blanket

  • Freshly torn herbs

  • Your grandparents’ house/kitchen/basement

  • Coffee

  • Vanilla

  • A particular horse pasture in the dusty summer hills of Northern California

  • Crisp morning air

  • Your baby

  • New books

  • When kids or dogs come in from playing and they smell like outside

  • Crayons

  • Wood shavings

  • Blooming jasmine

  • Laundry in the dryer (particularly wafting out of somewhere when you’re on a walk)

  • How the air smells on a perfect sunny fall day with the leaves

  • Almond

  • Honeysuckle

  • Snow

  • Buttered popcorn

  • Blooming citrus flowers

  • Grass fields on a summer evening

  • Melting butter

  • Fresh cut eucalyptus

  • Wet pavement

  • Rosin in a violin case

  • French fry trucks

  • Christmas tree

  • Hot paper right off the top of the printer

  • The hallway of a hotel with an indoor pool

  • Freshly baked croissants (chocolate, almond, and regular)

  • The old Bath & Body Works peppermint lotion set

  • Discount tire store

  • Clean sheets after they have cooled

  • Faint scent of Hawaiian Tropic Sunscreen on a towel

  • The garage of the Target on N. Broadway in Chicago. No other Target garages - just that one.

• I’m on Bluesky now - follow me if you are too.

• Someone asked for my Nuuly code - here it is.

• I won the family award today, for the 36 hour labor I started one year ago!

  

• Here’s my boy and I, matching <3

  

xoxo,

your favorite becca