A promise, broken

I found myself just randomly in Maricopa today.

 

Here's the story.

 

I work on an Indian Reservation south of Phoenix.  It is about 20 minutes from Maricopa, where we used to live.  I was supposed to have a meeting at 4:00 today.  Spencer was also scheduled to go home with Dorothy, our sitter, for a sleepover since he doesn't have school tomorrow.  My 4:00 meeting meant I would get home really late and delay the beginning of their fun sleepover.  So.  I decided to go to Maricopa during my lunch break so I could go to the bank and stop at the grocery store....both things I needed to do after work.

 

I stopped at the bank and then went to Fry's.  It was weird.  I used to do ALL of our grocery shopping there.  For three years I bought everything we ate there.  But when I walked in today I hadn't been there for four years and two months. 

 

All I needed to get was some bacon, but I had some extra time so I did some strolling, because the Fry's in Maricopa is the most awesome grocery store on the planet.  You can actually buy everything from cereal to a leather couch to a beautiful oil painting there.

 

I made a promise to myself last week that I would not buy a single new jar candle until I was done burning all of the ones I already have.  I managed to stay strong at Bath and Body Works AND Yankee Candle yesterday. 

 

Side note: Yankee Candle has a whole line of Thanksgiving candles out right now.  The scents include Turkey & Stuffing, Sweet Potato Pie and Cranberry Sauce.  And they smell exactly like what they say they do.  Exactly.  I could actually smell sage in the turkey one.  It was weird. 

Side note over.

 

Back to Fry's.  I'm strolling around and I walk by a little end cap of candles in mason jars with gingham bows.  CUUUUUUUTE!

 

I smelled them, walked away, walked back, walked away, walked back, plucked the Hazelnut Coffee one off the shelf and never looked back.

 

$1.49.  That's barely breaking the promise, right?

My 4:00 meeting got cancelled at 2:00 and my 2:00 meeting never showed, so I found myself with plenty of extra time after work.

 

My car, just on its own, drove to Kirklands.  It was strange.

 

I wanted to get this Halloween framed picture.  I have wanted it since July and I felt it was time.  I really intended to just buy this, but,

OH MY! 

 

Coffee and cream candle that smells exactly like coffee and cream, my favorite smell in the world?  Um, yes please. 

I plan on brewing a pot of coffee ice cream flavored coffee and burning both coffee candles at the same time so our heads can blow up in a coffee scented nirvana.

So, I broke a promise to myself, but the house smells delightful and you get a sneak peek #2.