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Thank you Terralina (and BlogHerCon)

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I’m a Lubriderm fragrance free sort of woman.

For years and years, a large bottle of Lubriderm could be found wherever I was – wherever I spent the most time. Next to the chair I rocked my babies. Next to my side of the bed. Next to my computer. It’s the only skincare thing I really use and the only product (besides Aveda Rosemary Mint shampoo) that I’m really loyal to.

But, I’m also practical and thrifty.

So when my big bottle of Lubriderm was empty, a few weeks before we moved, I didn’t replace it. We had a ton of travel sized bottles of various types of lotion – picked up at a drugstore while on a trip, because I forgot to bring a small travel sized bottle with us or carried home from a hotel. I figured I’d just use those until we moved.

I’ve been digging through the drawers in the bathroom, pulling out a new mini bottle of some relatively non-offensive smelling lotion and just making do with those. And it’s been fine. A pain in the ass to dig around to find a new bottle every few days but I’m thrifty and I should use this stuff instead of wasting it.

I’ve dug into the pockets of all of our suitcases, searching for lost and hidden bottles of lotion and I was pretty sure the only thing left was lotion I will not use – the Aveda Rosemary Mint lotion and the Holiday Inn Garden Botanika version of Mint lotion. I do not like either one of those. They burn. Oh, and also Avon Silicone Glove that my ex MIL gave to TW. I hate that stuff. It makes me feel like I have, well, a silicone glove on whichever part of my body I use that stuff. I am not into gloves. Or silicone.

The other day, I was desperate for lotion. It’s cold and dry here and my entire body feels cold and dry. So I went back to the bathroom and searched and searched and searched and I hit paydirt.

terralina-002.jpgTerralina Body Lotion – small travel size, a bit of BlogHer Con swag from 07, I believe. Thank BlogHer. Thank Gina. Thank God. I totally needed that. And, I like it.

The only question I have about it is this… is it supposed to be a little bit yellowy creamy color or is that what happens when you use really old body lotion product? Whatever. I don’t care. Terralina has saved my life this week.

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Best Recipes of 2008

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When Alanna published her round up of best recipes of 2008 I thought it would be fun for ME to do this… even though I’m totally NOT a foodie and I rarely cook. I can’t give you a super complete list of my faves because I don’t think TW has blogged them all (because they weren’t all “retro”) but she’s probably blogged enough of them that I can post a decent sized list.

So here we go, in no particular order:

1) Baked Butternut Macaroni (this is from Elaine Magee’s Food Synergy cookbook)

2) Explosively Good Chicken – this is more of a fave of the kids than me, but it resembles Chicken Adobo so I do like it quite a bit.

3) Polenta Lasagna with Bechamel thank you Crescent Dragonwagon.

Slimmer pickins’ from the blog than I originally thought. Darn. Oh well. I remembered three dishes – and that’s pretty good, for me. Maybe next year I can come up with five.

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I have the day off…

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I have tomorrow off. It’s a vacation day. I have a very long list of things that I must get done. I usually post my to do lists some place more private. But tonight, I thought I’d post them here. It’s been awhile since I shared my list weirdness with the worls.

1) Untangle the extension cord from the snow thrower.
2) Drive to the Navy base for food, gas, and stuff (must get AAs!)
3) Wrap gifts.
4) Box gifts.
5) Go to post office and mail gifts (and pick up our mail since the mailman and construction workers are conspiring to keep our mail from being delivered.)
6) Work on futures. A lot of futures.
7) Some contracts.
8) A podcast and a transcript.
9) Laundry. (TW did it!)
10) Finish cleaning the kitchen. Yes I’ve put this off all week and now it must be done – completely. (TW did it!)
11) Sweep, mop, dust.
12) Pre-blog, pre-blog, pre-blog and pre-blog again. (If I don’t pre-blog, I can’t get my BlogHer assignments done. Maybe you’ve noticed that?)
13) Rent a truck.
14) Consider renting a car.
15) Call my father. I MUST CALL MY FATHER. (He’s not blind, which is good. Crazy, but not blind.)
16) Find someplace to put the boxes the Christmas decorations were in before they drive me more insane than I already am.
17) Find the blow up air mattress.

Hmmm. Only 17 items. I thought I’d be closer to 25. I’m probably forgetting something. Yes, some of the things on the list are work related. I think I’d rather do them tomorrow, than do them over the weekend not that I don’t have work stuff to do over the weekend.

How many will I finish? How many of these things will never get done?

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