WHAT is that SMELL? And WHERE is it coming from!?!?!

Sometimes I wish I had some of the stuff that coroners wipe under their nose so they CAN'T smell the stink of dead bodies.

(After doing a little Internet research I found that all that stuff is...is VICKS Vapor Rub. Apparently most autopsy labs have an industrial sized container of it. Not too hard to get your hands on after all. But, who wants to smell THAT all day? I guess I would considering some of the alternatives!)

There are some pretty interesting smells that float around my work. I had a particularly hard time with smells my first trimester. Even slight changes in smell or even changes in the moisture in the air (going from inside to outside) would cause me to spew. So, strong overwhelming smells were unbearable. Thankfully it seems to have subsided. Still there are stenches that even those not sensitive to smells, can't stand. Am I right?

There is this really nice guy at work...and he used to sit by me...and he wore WAY too much cologne. It isn't even good smelling cologne. (It reminded me of Phyllis on the Office). I used to bring oranges to work and eat them for breakfast. I would save parts of the peel and leave them on my desk so that when overwhelming whiffs found my nostrils I could sniff a refreshingly good smelling orange peel. Toward the end of the day though the orange peels would dry out but, I found if I just ripped them in half, the sweet fresh orange smell was back.

There is a reesty stench on I-15 right around the Tahitian Noni building (building is on west side of the freeway). It smells like very strong fart...and it makes me want to puke every time I pass it. I have always assumed it's the Tahitian Noni building but, others have shared their theories with me...I still think it's Tahitian Noni.

Someone told me it was the fertilizer they use in those planting fields on the east side of the freeway. They told me that during the planting season and it did look like fresh fertilizer had just been applied to the fields. But, how do you explain that theory in the dead of winter?

Another person told me it is the stench of Utah Lake. I also believed that for awhile but, I don't think the wind is always blowing just right for the stench to always reach the freeway right at that point. Plus, I've smelled that lake and it DOES smell...but, it doesn't smell like fart!

So, what prompted this post? Two things....

First, it smelled like cat food at my work on Friday. GROSS!! I didn't know where it was coming from but, I'm not even close to the break room and it was still early in the morning, but maybe someone had tuna for breakfast? Or maybe someone had brought a tuna fish sandwich for lunch and they were just letting it chill in their pocket? Don't get me wrong I like tuna fish sandwiches but, I don't like an undetermined location of an unexplained stink!

Also...

Last Thursday I drove to work because I had a doctor's appointment in the middle of the day. When I left for my doctor's appointment our car smelled like cigarette smoke! I was like…what the?!?!!

I rolled down one of the windows. I thought someone at work was smoking by my car...but, would it get INTO my car?!?!

When I left that day…same smell.

When I drove to work Friday morning….same smell.

When I drove home on Friday….same smell.

When I got home Nathan just jumped in the car because we went to his nephew's birthday party. He got in the car was like…what the?!?!

I was like, "I KNOW!!! It smells like cigarette smoke in here and I don't know why!?!" We rolled the windows down to air it out.

Our neighbors across the street smoke outside all the time, even in the FREEZING cold! But, they smoke up by their front door so we didn't think it was their smoke wafting into our car? And why was it lingering!?!?!

We were racking our brains to try and figure out how our nice clean car which was never owned by a smoker could smell like cigarette smoke. We got an oil change at Jiffy Lube about two weeks ago and they recommended we get a new filter, so we did. I wasn't sure if it was an air filter so I asked Nathan if it was and maybe some genius smoked around the air filters. No luck...the filter they changed was in the engine. We could not figure it out!

Then after the b-day party, we got back in the car and before the door closed and before the light turned off…I saw something on the floor mat…..I was like, "OH MY GOSH!!!! FREAKING LITTER BUG SMOKERS!!!" There was a cigarette bud on the floor in our car!!! It must have gotten stuck to my shoe probably with snow!!! I was so mad…but SO glad to get that nasty smell out of the car. It was seriously driving us crazy!

Well, that's it. Smells bother me....but....not as bad as they bother my sister Julie. We call her "The Nose."

***Appologies - I know I used the word fart twice in this post. I tried to think of other ways to get the reesty stench described and even pondered upon using alternatives to the word (fluff - too innocent; gas - too nonspecific; break wind - again too innocent; boof - does everyone know that means fart?) I'm sorry....but it won't stop!***