When you wake up it's a new morning, sun is shining it's a new morning.

So only I can commit to Blogging everyday for the month of November and slack off on the first two!!

I was thinking tonight at work, isn't it weird how a smell can bring you back to a memory? A customer was wearing this scent that smelled like Strawberry Shortcake (the doll) and it brought me back!  This led to me thinking of other scents or memories that I connect to people.

I was about four years old and walking home from Coney Island Beach and we were passing this bakery I think, but I can still smell the cookies like it was yesterday. I don't know why that day is imprinted in my head, why that scent is such a strong memory...I mean it was just cookies. I don't even remember who I was with, maybe my cousin? But I can still see me walking along a brick wall like it was a balance beam and the smell of those cookies.

The smell of rain always reminds me of my father because I had been dancing in the rain and drinking raindrops just before I was told of his death at 6 years old. It's why I love to walk in the rain, I always pictured it was him hugging me while I was growing up.

Pine sol is my comfort scent. It is the scent I smelled most growing up.  If I came home from school and I smelled Pine Sol, I knew my mother was having a good day and she was always in a good mood after cleaning! I love to clean with it and when my house smells like it, it puts me in a great mood.  Along with my pomegranate sparkle Febreze (AKA Purple Pie man scent LOL). I love this new scent and unfortunately I cannot find it anywhere!!! I am on a mission to find it, it makes me very happy.

I can think of memories that I held onto for no apparent reason. For instance, A girl Laura in the 2nd grade or 3rd grade had a Halloween party. It was the first time I heard "Start me Up" by the Stones.  I can remember the ice cream man giving me a ring when I was four that had the two masks for Theater of Pain on it, and I loved the symbol for some reason and it was WAY before Motley Crue haha.The song "Let your love flow" by the Bellamy brothers always gives me goosebumps and makes my eyes well up with tears and its hard for me to sing and I don't know why.  I remember listening to it as a child in the car driving somewhere, just not sure where. The song Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty makes me cry and makes me sad instantly and I don't know why that is either!  I just think it is so interesting to sit and think about what memories your brain stores and throws out at you at the strangest times.  Have you ever just sat and wondered what scents, songs or foods bring you back to a place that you just don't understand the significance?

I wonder what I will remember about these days?