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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

I hated the name Freedom Tower.

Freedom Tower Loses Its Name

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.

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.)

I once took all my mother's old saved fancy soaps. I didn't have to buy soap for about two years. Now I can't use anything with plant ingrediants (I only use Ivory soap), so I only buy yummy smelling soaps to put in plastic bins with my yarn.

I had to tape over the overflow thingie to make my bathwater deep enough.

I like hot baths - they're a good way of helping me get to sleep when I have insomnia.

cereal:

Julie - our police precinct used to have a noise complaint line, check online, otherwise I would call the precint direct #, NOT 911.

Unless the door's locked, I'd just go inside.

Shir, really? into a neighbor's place? No way, no how - 1) illegal, yes? 2) I'd fear violence.