Cereal: My friend Jim has a very informative post up at Making Light on Traumatic Brain Injury that could save your life or a loved one's:
Kaylee: Can I? Zoe: Sure. He's out, though. Kaylee: He did this for me, once.
'Safe'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Mar 27, 2009 3:46:13 am PDT #12549 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Theodosia - Mar 27, 2009 3:47:48 am PDT #12550 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Ginger, I'm looking at furnace replacement, and my system is set up for forced hot water anyway. Is there any point into looking at combined units that will do both?
Emily - Mar 27, 2009 3:48:03 am PDT #12551 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Two bits of news from Emily-land:
My best friend is moving to San Francisco. Yes, now. Yes, AFTER I LEFT. Total fail.
And I'm about to go for a two-hour meeting to brainstorm (no shit) how we can better use our time to help our students. I think we get no points for the obvious answer. Wish me stormy brains!
Jessica - Mar 27, 2009 3:53:39 am PDT #12552 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So I took yesterday off (sick, left my bed only to play Wii Tennis) and this morning I find out that three people in my department were laid off.
Today I plan to look very, very, very busy. All day.
Strix - Mar 27, 2009 3:55:02 am PDT #12553 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I also really like Nutrogena's sesame oil in the water. Soooo soothing.
I go through tons of this in the winter! In baths, yes (and I have a lovely, long, deep tub from the 20's and a hot water heater apparently fired by Hell, because the water is always fiery and plentiful.) I can get my shoulders covered! My mom and dad's bath tub when I was growing up...meh. It was like sitting in a puddle.
I also make do-it-yourself salt scrub with the oil and sea salt.
Noah and Grace are TWO? You're not serious?! Really!? That's...crazy. Happy birthday to them!
Theodosia - Mar 27, 2009 4:02:33 am PDT #12554 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Yeah, baths for me as a kid were puddle baths, so aside from hot tubs, I've never much gotten into the habit.
However, when I did try those lovely Lush bath bombs... the intense fragrance breathed in the steam gave me headaches from Hell.
No emoticon could possibly be awful enough to convey how unhappy I am about that.
Jessica - Mar 27, 2009 4:06:27 am PDT #12555 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I stayed in a house in England once with an enourmous claw-foor iron bathtub. It was wonderful. I could actually sit in it with water up to my shoulders and my legs fully extended, and the water stayed hot for ages. I think I spent more that trip on Lush bath bombs than on the plane ticket.
Strix - Mar 27, 2009 4:07:47 am PDT #12556 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I love a hot tub. My girlfriend's and I ususually go away on some little weekend trip once a year; last time, we got a cabin in the middle of the Ozarks, very in the middle of nowhere, and there was a huge hot tub on the back deck, overlooking these gorgeous autumn hills. We spent most of the weekend in and out of that thing, running around merrily naked, clutching wine bottles and gossiping.
There was also a beautiful stone lined steam shower in that joint. There were 9 of us, so we all piled into the beds and couches and some slept on air matresses, so it was very reasonable, price-wise. Bought our own groceries, cooked big dinners, brought tons of wine...it was great.
tommyrot - Mar 27, 2009 4:12:33 am PDT #12557 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I hated the name Freedom Tower.
Freedom is so passe at Ground Zero.
Once hailed as a beacon of rebirth in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the Freedom Tower's patriotic name has been swapped out for the more marketable One World Trade Center, officials at the Port Authority conceded today.
Sparky1 - Mar 27, 2009 4:15:54 am PDT #12558 of 30000
Librarian Warlord
Happy Birthday Grace and Noah! It's unpossible you're two years old!
I'm not a bath person, either. I get bored. (Don't suggest I take a book in with me. You're talking to a librarian who knows what book mold is, and does. Not going to risk introducing it to my shelves.)