All those eating moldy rice in a tube shall love you and despair, Sean. Also? Go you, man! Scampi is yum.

Lee, you are shameless in the tat thing. I like that about you.

whay kind of oatmeal are we talking about? Like, just oatmeal tossed in a bath? One problem is that the pipes are turned off (because they freeze) for the bathtub. Not an insurmountable problem, but hard to finesse when the husband is asleep. I'll wake his ass up if I can't get some relief soon though.

I want to say milk and oatmeal. I know Aveeno carries one specifically.

ohla people.

Welcome back to the vw bug

we had chinese new year at the library - and tomorrow I get to run around watching sorytimes...

DH's job has been very hard hitting with the offer improveing dramaticly.But some of the promises are lies by the nature of the job. Matt's Big!Boss was even willing to talk to me about past problems with the company. I think a freak snow storm in the bay area would be a good idea.

Everything seems to indicate the Aveeno is the shiznit. Also baking soda.

Also, it looks like a thin layer of over the counter 1% hydrocortizone cream helps too, but don't use it a bunch.

aha... I don't think I'm going out tonight but I'll pick some up in my travels tomorrow...thanks for the tip!

Good luck with it, and hoping for relief for you.

thanks... I am just desperately hoping I'll get myself so tired I can crawl into bed without freaking about the discomfort.

I don't know why it's hard for me to even consider going out after we've gone to bed. It just seems wrong somehow!

All those eating moldy rice in a tube shall love you and despair, Sean. Also? Go you, man! Scampi is yum.

It was deelish.

I coarsely chopped about 9 cloves of garlic, sliced up three scallions, and chopped up maybe three tablespoons worth of fresh flat leaf parsley. I also finely chopped up a large tomato and juiced three lemons.

After starting the linguini cooking, I melted some butter in a pan and began sauteing (sp?) the garlic, scallions and parsley. Once the garlic was brown, I threw in the lemon juice and tomato, and turned up the heat just a bit.

When the liquid was boiling, I threw in the shrimp (about a half pound of uncooked, cleaned, tail-off shrimp, rinsed and dried).

I let the shrimp cook for about three minutes or so, basically until they were pink on both sides (S said I may have cooked them, like, thirty seconds too long), then threw in some chopped fresh basil and fresh ground black pepper.

I served the shrimp and sauce over the linguini, and served it with steamed asparagus drizzled with lemon juice and sprinkled with fresh ground black pepper.