saturday (on the cusp of week 7) we went down to our local starbucks to hang out with nobody for no good reason other than that’s what we sometimes do. and like they sometimes do, they had some free samples just sort of hanging out. they had two cupcakes and we immediately went for the dark chocolate looking ones.

which were oh-so-tasty i could have eaten 5 of them.

a bit later (when our crowd hand grown to 4, one of which worked there and does not know about the spore, although really, he should, and i feel bad that he doesn’t yet), ryan brought over the yellow-looking ones. i inquired what they were (they looked lemon-poppyseed like), and was told they were “the best damn vanilla cupcakes ever.”

i took one whiff and almost gagged. yes, they were vanilla. so very, very vanilla. they also smelled like the inside of a play-dough container. they needed to get the hell away from me. i played it off as best i could, with knowing glances to the folks that might understand, that i just wasn’t in the mood for vanilla and wasn’t that odd.

that night we went to our local favorite sushi restaurant (i behaved, don’t worry), and could not get over the smell of fish. if you’ve never been to a sushi restaurant, you might think, “well, duh, there’s raw fish everywhere”, but no. good sushi restaurants (and good sushi for that matter), do not smell fishy. if they do, go somewhere else. i spent the evening just not breathing deeply. last night we made some tilapia and i could barely handle the smell/taste again. sadly, i think fish is off the menu for a while.

spinach may be a possible new development. i have these really tasty spinach pancake things that i’ve bought that are pre-cooked and healthy and i zapped on this morning for a mid-morning snack thing and the smell of spinach was very, very strong in a way that it usually isn’t.