Sitting in my Cube at work, the sweet smell of the Generic cheap brand of coffee wafts over the divider into My nostrals- now I hate the bitter taste of strait black coffee but add a little Irish cream(virgin) and a nice dolap of sugar, and I'm in heaven.

This drives me nuts because I'm LDS and part of church doctrine is a code of health called the Word of Wisdom. Granted the word of wisdom is full of all kinds of practical things that are helpfull in living a healthy. For example, Smokeing is prohibited, alchohol is taboo, and addictive substances all together are a no-no. it also gives the Generic recomendation to eat your veggies, and dont gourd yourself on too much meat.

It really is the kind of thing that any wise mother would tell her kids. Don't get me wrong, I am all for wise choices in regard to health, but when it comes to breathing in that coffee, My tastebudds pirk up, the saliva starts to flow and I am stuck.

To drink the tar colored nector, or not to drink. I am tortured with this question all the time, and because I am a strong willed person, and because I belive the word of wisdom to be inspiration from On High, i choose not to drink, but that doesnt stopp my from enjoying cheap knock-offs
like Postum, or Mocha flavord Icecreams, or one of my favorites, Coffee flavored Jelly Belly's, Mmmmm.

I know what you all are thinking, poor Obviologist, you really have a hard life, and you're right, I dont know how I make it from day to day living without the one I love.
My only real comfort is that I just keep telling myself that its a choice between a few minutes of Heaven hear on earth or I can wait till the day when I can drink Celestialized coffee guilt free, and hey why not wait cause its just gonna be better on the other side(right)!

You Fill Up My Senses . . . . . .

I was sitting here thinking about all the kitschy sentimental things I could say about spring, and a lot comes to mind. Oh the birth of new life, the rejuvenate of old dead things, you know the typical. But what I really want is to say something original that hasn't been said about this refreshing time of year. Unfortunately I don't see much original, so I will just stick with the Usual.

I love walking across campus and smelling the daisy's or the Blossoms on whatever kind of tree that is in the photograph. Being able to breath DEEPLY, and feel all the Rushing of air that is soo cleansing and refreshing, without all the Freezing cold holding its Tight grip on my throat.

strangely, I love the smell of Exhaust from cars in the spring, as the weather warms up, and you can have your windows down there is a stronger, more pangent smell that tells me that summer is on its way, and will soon make me not so cold.

More than all of that, I love the rain, love to watch the rain, walk in it, and bask in that totally enveloping smell that drives me crazy with excitement. I have never felt more clean and more refreshed than after a powerful soaking rain, that leaves me chilled but happy as a puppy in a mud puddle.

in a world that is full of synthetic, generic reality, to be able to walk out into something that is new and fresh and completely natural, I just want to sing John Denver "You fill up my senses. . . . Like mountains in spring time, Like a walk in the Rain" John Denver always was a Musician after my own heart, and I cant think of a better line than that to hold My feelings on the season.