I though this would be appropriate considering it is Thanksgiving, which happens to be my favorite holiday of the year. The smell of good food can be extremely distracting for myself, especially when I am hungry. For instance, I am currently trying as hard as I can to one, not eat until dinner and two, write this blog post. The problem is that my wonderful mother is downstairs baking away, which is producing all sorts of great aromas. We always do Thanksgiving at my grandparent’s house so all the turkey and stuff is over there, but my mom is in charge of desert so we have all kinds of pies getting baked up in here. Our whole house smells like apple pie! How’s a hungry 22-year old supposed to get anything done when our house smells like the inside of a bakery?

Another example of this happens at my office. There is a subway underneath our building. You might be thinking, “so what, a Subway…” which is perfectly reasonable if you have never either worked in a Subway, or worked/lived directly above a Subway. What most people don’t know is that every morning they bake their bread fresh, on the spot. Every single morning our office smells like amazing, freshly baked bread. Typically, I only have time to eat an apple/banana/hard boiled egg on my way out the door. So I am usually still fairly hungry when I get to work. Trying to get work done in the morning is a serious struggle when all I can think about is inhaling a delicious Subway sandwich.