Or how to cut 13 brownies in a pan. Ah, back in the day.

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Fortunately, she'll be able to afford a driver.

[link]

Its about the new safety recommendations for car seats, etc. Among other things they're telling us:

The government recommends that parents have any infant up to 20 pounds ride in a rear-facing child seat and any toddler weighing 20 to 40 pounds ride in a child seat with a harness. The government says a child heavier than 40 pounds but not yet 4 feet 9 inches tall should be in a booster seat.

All children are advised to ride in the back seat until age 13.

Why do they give a size recommendation for the one and an age for the other? It makes no sense. I was taller at 12 than any number of Buffistas who drive are now. My suspicion is that they don't want to give a size for that very reason.

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Lush just broke my heart.

You will recognize the scent of the Honey Bee Bath Bomb from the ultra mouth watering Honey I Washed The Kids soap and Ma Bar Bubble Bar Slice. So if you like to smell of honey mixed with caramelized sugar mixed with a drop or two of sweet orange and bergamot essential oils, then you will want these for your bath. The scent is only one of its attractions. Honey is beautifully calming for your skin, so we took this as a sign and added soothing Aloe Vera and Moroccan Rhassoul mud to help troubled skin feel better. This is one Honey Bee you must actively encourage to get closer to your body.

Nowhere here does it say gardenia.

Is this what people with peanut allergies used to feel like before we had been labeling? Never knowing if there were stealth peanut fragments that were going to make you swell up and pray for a nearby hospital.

Except that I just don't like gardenia. Otherwise? Exactly like the peanut thing.

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I *love* the honey bee bomb! I'm a honey ho.

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Cass, are you all itchy-baby?

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I love their honey soap and have loads of other honeyed bath products. Honey smells goooooooood.

It's just ... I loathe the gardenia. It's not an actual allergy, just a petulant dislike.

Happily though, it faded pretty well and I am getting more of the honey and toffee vibe now. It's obviously one of those bombs that I should drop and leave the room for ten minutes before soaking.

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I'm a honey ho.

I keep hearing this in the cereal bird voice. Instead of being kookoo for cocoa puffs? Ho-ey for honey.

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[link] I NEED THIS. I also need to be a size 6, but hey. A girl can dream.

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Hil does math for glamor and the fast life now, I remember when she did it to figure out how much she had to drink.

Laughing here. Hey, would it be wrong to make up business cards that list my job title as "idiot savant"?

My employer (Russell) got mentioned in Fortune magazine's list of the top 100 employers. Isn't that nice? And now they're installing TVs all over the office, which sounds great, but apparently they have their own channel of Russell-related news, called Russell TV. (I would love it if it's just a series of interviews with guys named Russell.) There are ads for it all around the office, including in every cubicle of the men's room. (And over the urinal, since apparently they believe none of us can aim that high.) I take a relief stop and find myself confronted with a sign announcing "You'll never see TV the same way again." After I mutter "What I do in here is my own business", I start wondering how to Photoshop a new sign saying "Smile! You're on Russell TV!"

The interesting thing is, I have my entire section behind me on this.

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t tacklehugs billytea

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