Why Bath and Body Works is heaven.

I love candles. Like so freaking much!! Not only are the useful for seeing things (right now the AC is out at my house so my room is REALLY hot and my two lamps are extremely roasting so I've got some candles lit to help see. Now you'd think that fire would be hotter than lamps? Well not little fires!! I win), but they also smell great! When you get the right ones...

So in my local mall (the good one, not the crappy empty one) the Bath and Body Works is pretty much beast. Not only does it exist, but it exists in a location right across from Auntie Anne's pretzels where my friend works and he gives me free pretzels, slushies and such. What is better than spending a day smelling candles and getting free pretzels?? Nothing that's what!

Back in the day (it was probably middle school), I was in the mall with some of my bff's and they said "Let's go to Bath and Body Works." I had never been before but I had some spray or lotion from there so I pretended like I knew what I was doing (they're very judgmental in B&BW). We probably put every kind of lotion on our hands smelling them and deciding what our favorites were. There might have been a spritz of perfume or two going around as well. There was some crazy stuff happening.

Now, if you've ever put lots of different kinds of lotions on your hands you know that after the second or third scent, it begins to just blend together into stinky-ness. Imagine Sweet Pea, Warm Brown Sugar, and Moonlit Path mixed together (if you can't, go to B&BW and do some sent-chemistry experiments with their sample lotions). Well after we defiled our little hands with the stench of death, not buying anything, and probably making a mess of their store, we decided that doing cartwheels right outside the store on the linoleum floor.

Recap: Lots of lotion on our hands, cartwheels, linoleum floor. I'll let you put the pieces together.

Well now-a-days I use those little paper things to spray the scent on so I can avoid slippery and smelly hands. Much smarter, you look like you know what you're doing and the people who work there are a lot nicer because you're not getting lotion on everything.

I was recently at the Hagerstown Outlets (in Hagerstown) with a friend and we stopped into the good ol' Shower and Skeleton Job. Now this was the middle of summer so they had some fall candles on sale. Apparently they forgot some in the back and the had to get them out soon as possible to bring in the new summery flavors.

Or they were just being mean... that's the theory I'm going with because they put these AWESOME fall smells out, but they're all the small candles and they only have a few of each. And they only had one of the best smelling candle ever. Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin. It's just so darn great!!! The small candles were 2 for $10 and individually they cost $9.50 so basically you're getting a candle for 50 cents. But since there was only one of the awesome-ness that is Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin I decided to be big baby and declared that no other candle could stand up to it!

Well maybe it wasn't that dramatic, but I was pretty determined to get another. I dug through the shelves,  I insisted that my friend help me, I even went and asked the lady working if they had any more. She looked at me like I was crazy, but still tried to be nice. She informed me that I was going to have to wait like three whole months to buy this awesome candle. So I did.

And I walked in the store last week and there it was. In all it's large, three-wick glory. Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin. Ohmygoodnessgracious and its 2 for $20!! Well since they were so big I didn't buy two of the same. I got Caramel Apple which is also epic. It smells so good you don't even have to light it. Just open the freaking lid and INSTANT AWESOME.

So go and support your local Bath and Body Works. Go. Go now.