Okay, the weather has officially gone insane. Last week it was nearly 100° one day, and in the 90°s two other days, tomorrow the highs are going to be only in the upper 40°s and then tomorrow night it's supposed to snow! Mother of God!

I have already started wearing sandals and wifebeaters this season, I cannot bear to go back to shoes and coats, it's like a hideous punishment. Admittedly, the super-hotness wasn't so much my bag, but when I said that I wanted it to cool off, I didn't mean that I wanted a fucking blizzard.

I mean, I was getting ready to paint my nails, and a surer sign of warm weather is there none. No point in painting them now. not with snow and coldness and hidden toesies. Bugger.

So yesterday I had my Sunday bath on Saturday, just to mix things up. And no, for the easily confused, it's not that I bathe once a week, it's that I take a bath once a week, the other days I shower.

Here are the products that I used, in my effort to Use Stuff Up:

Bubble Bath: Island Thymes Fig Leaf and Cassis Foaming Milk Bath. Love this stuff, love it love it. Island Thymes stuff I get at this really chi-chi store on Broadway near Fish's Eddy that sells ridiculously expensive sheets and things. I look so out of place there, I expect to be asked to hurry up or I'll scare away the real customers, but in addition to the sheets, they also sell the bath stuff, and thus I cannot be hurried. I've had this bubble bath for probably two years or more, but yesterday I used it up! Woo-hoo!!

Facial Cleanser: Estee Lauder Splash Away Foaming Cleanser. I have a big tube of this that I bought to get a free gift once, but I also have the little sample that is so old that the packaging is blue and white rather than green and gold. This is vintage facial cleanser, baby! Didn't use it up, of course, because the smaller the tube, the more it is like a Tardis inside.

Masque: Origins Clear Improvement Active Charcoal Mask. I have had this forever, I don't even know the last time I went to Origins. I should go, as they are at Macy's and I have a $25 gift certificate burning a hole in my pocket, but I shan't, I will be strong. At least until I need shampoo and conditioner, because their stuff is just fab. Anyway, this masque is great, it pull the impurities out of your pores with the magical power of charcoal, and also it's black, so you look like you are in a minstrel show.

Hair Deep Conditioner: Lush H'Suan Wen Hua Hair Treat. This stuff is okay, I am not over the moon about it, but it's okay. Of course, it was best before last September and I only started using it this February, so that could have something to do with it. I miss the Henna Hair Wax from the Body Shop so.

Foot Scrub: Body Shop Lemongrass Deodorizing Foot Polish. I have all of this great Lemongrass foot stuff and I never use it, so I thought I'd scrub my feet a little. Funny how you can't tickle yourself no matter how you try, you can dig your fingers into your own ribs until the cows come home and ask you what the hell you are up to, you will never feel a thing, but a little scrubby on the feet and I'm trying to run away from myself.

Bath Gel: Sea Critters Orange Slice Shower Gel. This was the stuff with the water hedgehog in it that Donald got me for Christmas, and I used it to shave my legs with. It is extremely entertaining! I don't have nearly enough bath stuff with toys inside.

Shampoo: Aussie Moist Shampoo. I think I got this free or something, I certainly don't remember buying it, and the fact that I have oily hair would preclude my buying shampoo for dry hair, but I find that when I do a deep conditioner and then follow it with a shampoo for oily hair, my hair get confused and seizes up, so I thought I'd try the dry hair shampoo. It seemed to work okay.

Conditioner: Forever in Bloom Conditioning Milk. This is the best conditioner in the whole wide world. I got a small one when I was in Glasgow, then made Melissa buy me the huge vat when she went to Canada. I have this freaky hair that gets curlier the longer that I grow it, and I like it that way so I don't brush or comb it so that it will stay curly, but also the longer it gets, the more some parts of it just become snarl-bunnies, particularly the hanks of hair growing from my temples, so the key is to get the tangles out without getting the curls out, and this stuff and the Origins Knot Free conditioner are the only ones that really do the trick.

Body Scrub: H2O+ Spa Mint Ice Body Scrub. I got this and the product below in San Francisco right before the start of my no-buying year, ho ho ho, in a set with the mint shampoo and conditioner, both of which are long gone, but I don't exfoliate that much, so I still have plenty of this. It's great, though, I should slough off the dead skin more often.

Body Wash: H2O+ Spa Mint Ice Body Wash. I thought that rather than using the soap, I'd go with the matching scent to the scrub. I love mint bodywash, but I really haven't used it much, and thus was not aware of the really quite strong reaction that one gets after applying it to some of the more delicate portions of one's anatomy. At first you don't feel anything, then you go , "O my," and then your eyes are watering. It's like taking an Altoid, only not so much orally. I can safely say that I have never been quite so minty fresh. I believe that even my uterus can boast of the minty fresh.

Hand cream: Island Thymes Lemongrass & Limeleaf Nourishing Body Lotion which I see is no longer being produced, but which I love so much that it breaks my heart. This one, this one I don't want to use up. I don't use hand cream constantly, but I should as I have noticed that my paws are getting extremely wrinkly. Some days I look down and I think I'm being body-snatched by a 70 year old. And I can't even say that I looked down and there was my mother's hands, because other than a little veiny-ness her hands aren't the least bit elderly. Tiresome woman, I'm not supposed to be aging faster than she is, for crying out loud!

Products used up: 1 (well, two, actually because I opened up a new bar of soap this week)
Products just that much closer to being used up: 10

So yesterday I took my laptop in to Gateway again. I swear, I've only had it for what, three years, and it's been in the shop five times. Always get the extended warranty, that's the lesson learned here.

Anyway, my DVD player isn't so much working anymore as, well, not working. At least 50% of the DVDs that I put in it get flagged as not actually existing. "Please put in a DVD" it says. "There's a DVD in it already, you picky bastard!" I say back, but to no avail.

I brought DVDs with me to demonstrate, working and non-working ones, but the repair guy demurred. If I get a goddamn phone call saying that they cannot replicate the problem, I'm going to go back there and shove the DVDs up their collective asses, which might not replicate the problem, but will instead create a whole bright, shiny, new, not to mention painful, one, for them at any rate. But that's unlikely, as it is happening so often now that it's a nightmare of frustration to try to watch anything these days.

Last night on SNL they opened with a Robert Blake sketch. I am already on record as not thinking that this is funny at all, the fact that he has been arrested doesn't change my feelings on the matter. Guilty or innocent, totally not funny.

However, the sketch wasn't making fun of what happened, but instead making fun of the media's sheer glee in the story. "Hooray! Hooray! Celebrity murder! Possibly another OJ! Media circus, media circus!" and that was actually pretty funny.

I'm so glad that I don't watch Leno much anymore, because I don't think I could stand it.

Lenten entries missed:

Elizabeth totally needs to update her archives, since it looks as though she has not written since January, but if you go backwards from the current link, you'll see that she has. In fact, she bought a violin, got shit on at work, and lauded her wonderfully charming bank.

She's on break now, but you can catch her now and again at her blog.

Today's horoscope:
Life offers you an exciting opportunity for spiritual growth. You can strengthen your faith, optimism and trust.

One year ago today:
Now, I'm as calm about not rehearsing as you can get, but since we open in a week and a half, I really think that it is time to start, so I'm glad we didn't miss each other.

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