Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
I’ve seen John Smith around… he’s everywhere track and field … and sports … happens to go. John is a former world record holder in the quarter mile. He’s successful and so is his family…. but he is… well… a “Bruin”. I ran into John at the annual Southern California Trojan Track Banquet where one of his relatives was accepting a prestigious award.
We both got a laugh at the fact that two former Bruin Track Captains were at a Trojan event.
Fight on!
Roger Freberg
It is certainly true that one will notice an attractive and enticing smell long before we become aware of it’s origin?
As a young boy, I certainly was warned shortly before elderly female relatives grabbed my cheeks and planted an unwanted kiss apon me! Their ‘flowery’ essence spoke to me… run!… only my legs were a little bit too slow!
We know what we like … but how do folks find and put together those wonderful variations found in perfumes that tickle our memories so that we remember who we were with and where we were when we first enjoyed it?
A book came out last year and maybe you saw it… but I doubt it, unless you were combing the biology section of your local book store. It is the story of Perfume. It is entitled:
“the Secret of Scent” by Luca Turin
I won’t promise you that it will answer every question… but the author has a wonderful sense of humor that will make the technical and artistic aspects of perfume development understandable in an appreciably short time.
So, what do I like?
Michael Kors “Hawaii” — review
Caron’s Infini
Caron’s Bellodgia
Estee Lauder Intuition
Estee Lauder Pleasures
YSL Opium
I do recommend the book… it may not help you pick the ‘perfect’ gift… or maybe it will… but at least you will actually enjoy the process So instead of handing a bottle to your hun and saying…’ ah… it smells nice’… maybe you might say like the author:
“What ‘Nombre Noir’ said was ‘flower.’ But the way it said it was an epipthany. The flower at the core of the ‘Nombre Noir’ was halfway between a rose and a violet…(with) almost saintly background of cigar box cedar notes…”
Enjoy your discoveries.
Roger Freberg
Okay, boys and girls, I know this isn’t going to sound too Politically Correct… but outside of folks named Osama, who’s gonna buy this stuff?
Believe it or not this is what is ‘haute coulture’ on the London Fashion scene. Want more pics? Now, I know a few women who might actually look good in this sort of thing… names starting with Hillary or Dixie Chics… but this is the sort of thing that sets the old time machine back to the times when three women sold for one cow.
Well, I guess we all get to thank this month’s Weenie Award winner as described by Yahoo: “A model wears an outfit by Fashion East designer Louise Golden during her catwalk show at London Fashion Week in London, Monday Feb. 12, 2007.”
You can read more about Fashion East and their ‘young designers’ here. However, real Islamic fashions can be found elsewhere.
I just might go for this sort of thing if it was marketed better… maybe, if we were told that this is cold weather gear… but then, the bare legs say another thing.
Roger Freberg
Actually, I designed this meal to actually tease my fellow dieters Karen and Laura.
Laura is on a Jenny Craig 1200 Calorie plan and Karen is on a 1700 Calorie plan now that they are ‘successful dieters’… when you succeed, they drop your calorie intake as you approach your goal. I think they do this to help you along… good idea.
In any event, they protest loudly that I … on a 2300 calorie plan … can actually lose weight… and they protest even louder as it means I get an ‘extra’ meal. I combined my dinner (chili) and my extra meal (turkey burger) into a fine combo meal! Along with the ‘free foods’ of Zuccini and baby onions ( seasoned with Susie Q)… it was…. WONDERFUL!
It does look kinda wonderful doesn’t it? Makes you forget you are actually on a diet.
Roger Freberg
Remembering any anniversary, guys, isn’t all that tough… if you make it a game.
The ‘prize’ ( you choose) goes to the one who remembers first. I always thought it was unmistakeably romantic of the Germans to have an anniversary for 400 months of marital bliss… very cool.
Happy 413th month anniversary, Hun. Thanks for keeping it fun.
Roger