Finally, a Fluff Post.

[same_sky]

I've gotten so much done on my day off tomorrow. Why, I've already paid all the bills, balanced my checkbook, written a lot of insightful articles for Mosaic Minds, worked on my book, created a Christmas list, cleaned the house and the laundry is all caught up. I even went to the grocery store, and all without getting up a single time! Why, I've accomplished so much that I think I'll have to sit around doing nothing all day! No? Oh, well. It was worth a little fantasy trip there.. I really am going to try to get a few things done tomorrow because I had two whole days of sloth this weekend. That plan might fall to the wayside when I actually get up and have to get going on all those things I'm going to do, of course, but one can always dream...

Does anyone know how you find one of those hair stylists who will cluck at your head in despair, roll up their sleeves and proceed to give you the right hairstyle, no questions asked? They do it all the time on TV, but that has never once happened to me. I am so fed up with my hair, not least of all because I rue the day I touched it with a bottle of color. I hate it. I'm at the verge of giving up and just walking around like a Cosmo Don't for a year until I can chop it all off and start over. Bah!

I'm dreading the approaching cold weather. Every year at this time, my hands dry up like a desert. (Speaking of deserts, have I ever mentioned how badly that song gets on my nerves? "And I miss you--like the deserts miss the rain.."? Because it does. Alot. The desert doesn't miss the rain, lady! That's what being a desert is all about!) And because my hands dry up like miniature deserts, I spend the winter months slathering up with lotion. Guess what I've discovered lately? Lotion makes my hands break out! It's the sensitive skin/rash thing.. it usually avoids my hands, but lotion gives it a reason to come out of hiding, I guess. I've tried a few different kinds of lotion lately, but they've all done it so far. I guess i'll have to decide which is worse.. hands so dry they bleed, or somewhat moister hands that itch like crazy. What fun!

I've been sitting here fifteen minutes trying to think of a conclusion of some sort, but I guess it's just not going to happen tonight. M had the same problem the other night... perhaps there's a conclusionary flu going around our house. Or maybe I'm just a big dork for stretching this out into a conclusion of sorts. Either way.

Comments

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

Aloe vera, plain old aloe vera gel. It feels pretty tacky at first, but it gets absorbed and it's truly wonderful. If your face gets dry too, slap some gel on there. I've sworn by it for at least 25 years and at 54, my skin is still looking pretty darned good.

[samesky.livejournal.com]

I'll have to try that.. it's becoming a little more urgent now since they're beginning to crack. Thanks. :)

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

I have that problem too. The Wal-Mart imitation of Eucuerin body creme is the only thing that works for me (or the real Eucuerin, but at $12.00 a pop I'm too cheap for it). My nose is all dried out too and it's just so gross! I don't like winter at all. Bah.

I used to have a hairdresser like the one you are dreaming about. It was the Best Thing Ever. She was a friend of a friend's sister and cut hair in her bathroom. She would just go nuts and I'd always love my haircut. I miss her.

[samesky.livejournal.com]

You don't like winter and you moved to Kiruna? *grin* I'm definitely going to have to go shopping for lotion tonight.. maybe I'll see if the Eucuerin works.

I so wish I could find a hairdresser like that. This morning, I was dreaming of calling the one I always went to before I developed a distaste for appointments and begging her to fix my head, but I'm a little embarrassed by now, both of my hair and the fact that I haven't been there in a few years.

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

I never really disliked winter all that intensly till I moved to Kiruna *l*. Just a side note on the Eucerin. The lotion irritates my skin. It's the moisturizing cream in a tub that feels doesn't irritate anything for me.

[e11en.livejournal.com]

I have a hairdresser like that now. Only she became a "master stylist" and I can't afford to go as often as I should. So for three weeks or a month, my hair looks great. Then it starts to get too long for the cut and needing attention but I refuse to go back at the recommended intervals. I'm now delaying renewing my passport for want of a better haircut for a picture I'll have to live with for 10 years. It's a catch-22, the same amount of money for haircut and passport, but I can't do one without the other, doing one leaves me no money for the other. Sigh.

[stewlis.livejournal.com]

Mom used to put vaseline on Dad's hands when they cracked. Since he was a mechanic, that happened often. I would think plain vaseline wouldn't have much in it that would be irritating. Lubriderm makes a sensitive skin formula, too.