Friday!

The weekend took forever to get here! Ah well, I'll enjoy it!

We met up with Fluffaderm and Gospog for dinner last night at their lovely abode. Damn, they have the coolest looking basement I've ever seen! I bow to their geekiness! It was nice to hang out with them, meet their awesome pets (oh my God, I wanted to take Huggy Bear home), finally see their home, and geek about all things gaming, star wars and home renovation. I made a WW dessert for us all and boy was it good! The recipe (we had it with light cool whip):

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I'm working a 1/2 day today (flex time) so I'm going to head to Harvard Square to pick up some of the honey mask from Lush, some bathroom houseware stuff from Urban Outfitters (for our downstairs bathroom - we're going with a French/Can Can Girl theme based on a print we picked up) and then I'll head home to work in the yard for a bit, weather willing. I *heart* free time. I have a new gardening dilema, does anyone have a good ground cover that's low on maintanence? Our front yard is tiny, has no grass (previous owners riped it out), and its so weedy that mulching it isn't working out too well.

Totally unrelated, I've been pondering cancelling my subscription to our local paper http://www.dailynewstribune.com/ given their poor writing skills, the delivery problems I keep having, and saving some cash. I've been reading online in the meantime and I'm not sure yet what I want to do. It seems to take me less time to read the hard copy, and there is some state/national news that isn't covered on the website. Of course, anything really important I'd hear on NPR or catch in the Sunday Globe anyway. Hrm. I don't like supporting an organization that I think is the suck, but at the same time I want to get local news. I'll figure it out when my next bill comes.

Lush

I love one of the Lush masks, and after using it for a couple of months and then not using it for almost a month, I saw how much good it was doing for me. Since the stuff has to be kept in the fridge and only lasts about 3 weeks, I needed to head out and get more.

Each trip I've made to Lush I've picked up my mask and one other item to try. I usually tend to find one product I like and stick with it. This will be the case with certain things, but there are other products I've wanted to try and replace - my bar soap is one of them. I don't like frouffy gels, and hated normal glycerine soaps because they didn't seem to clean so well, and left a bit of a film behind. As such, I was using Dial soap for the longest time, but not too excited about it. Brian hates it (he thinks its slimy) and I'm not nuts about the company that makes it. That and all of the chemicals and all that stuff. Today I tried one of the Lush bars: http://usa.lush.com/cgi-bin/lushdb/079?expand=Soap:upd=y . After mowing the lawn and weeding for an hour and getting completely covered with dirt and sweat, it was a true test for the thing and thus far, I'm liking it. Its gets a good lather (unlike other glycerine soaps), smells SO good (lime and lavender) and has a slight exfoliating thing going on without being abrasive.

So another point for Lush! Thus far I'm using their brazened honey mask, charcoal face soap, this new body bar soap, and Brian has been using one of their shampoo bars (meant for dandruff prone people, and he really likes it too). Pretty neat!