the curse of discontinuation

i made a quick trip to bath and body works today. i needed to replenish my smelly smellies.

i'm a creature of habit. so when i find something i like that works for me, i stick with it... a while ago i discovered this magnificent fragrance called midnight pomegranate (m.p.). so delightful! i bought everything that day; the body wash, body cream and the fragrance mist. and when i run, out i buy more. it is irreplaceable. i was very content using m.p. all the time. that is, until one day i was walking by and saw a big poster for something new - enchanted orchid (e.o.). oo la la. intrigued, i gravitated over to sample a little spritz. it was glorious! so of course i bought the whole line. so now, i had two fabulous fragrances to alternate between. and when either one would run out, i would go back and buy more... until the devil forces that be decided to discontinue one... grrrrr...

this phenomenon seems to happen to my mother as well; finding something she likes that she decides to stick with (like a shade of lipstick) only to find out one day that it has been discontinued! it must be a curse on us. she has since resorted to buying stock piles of her favorite shade(s). i don't do that. but i suppose i can understand why she does it. i mean, eventually you're gonna have to face it... you wont be able to buy it anymore even after your stock pile runs out. but i guess it buys you a little more time to enjoy it. whatever.

so, one day my e.o. runs out at home and i go to buy some more only to find out it has been discontinued! now i'm there wandering around the store mad, sad and irritated; looking for just one more bottle of something in that fragrance. just one more - nothing. eventually a lady that works there comes over and tries her best to help me find a replacement. she started talking about all these other new fragrances and bla bla bla. she spritzes a few things... i don't like any of them. but then. finally. she spritzes this fragrance called butterfly flower (b.f.). it's nice - not as glorious as e.o. but it will be okay. so i buy it - the whole line - and i go home. it quickly won my heart, and nose, and became another favorite of mine alongside the reigning champ, m.p..

but alas. the curse continues. i have been out of b.f. for a about two weeks now. and today i decided to go and buy some more. but wouldn't you know it, b.f. has been discontinued - go figure! again, i find myself mad, sad and irritated. (sigh) truthfully, i want to be done with bath and body works all together. it's expensive to keep buying, you know? you know - the only reason i started buying body products from bath and body works was because, back when i used to use normal store products, at the end of the day when i would come home i apparently smelled like, what my husband described as, 1000 sweaty black men. i don't really know what that means. but that is what he would say and i didn't like it when he would say it. not because of what he said, but it was the way he would say it. he would say it with such disgust. i didn't want to disgust the man i loved. the man that i came home to at the end of every day. i mean, would you?

so, i'm stuck buying bath and body work products for now and dealing with discontinuations. oh well. there are worse things out there i could be dealing with, right?

.............jfk............