Saturday, February 21, 2009

Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Cleaning Gel Disks



I received these disks for free through a BzzAgent promotion for the Scrubbing Bubbles shower cleaner. I just put one in the toilet yesterday, and I have to say, I can't speak to the cleaning aspect yet, but our bathroom smells really good, way better than usual. Not like it usually smells bad (well, sometimes, you know, of course it does) but it actually smells really good, fresh and clean.

Will keep you posted...

Ronzoni Healthy Harvest Whole Wheat Noodles



So you know how you're supposed to be eating stuff that is whole wheat, blah blah blah? Yeah, and you know how most of the time in the pasta/noodle category, that means you are eating gross, pasty, blahness? Well, not with these noodles. We like egg noodles. A lot. During the winter, especially. With stroganoff, with chicken or beef, with stew, just with butter or butter and peas...MMmmmmmmmm.

I grabbed a bag of the Ronzoni Whole Wheat Noodles, and, well, just based the choice on the "Whole Wheat" thing...they could be a wash with regular egg noodles, actually, from a health perspective...BUT my point is, they were tasty, and even Michael, who usually shies away from the wheat-y stuff, couldn't really differentiate them from our regular egg noodles.

Thumbs way up.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Sally Hansen Cuticle Massage Cream



I would post a picture of my winter hands, to do a "before and after" comparison, but I don't want you to have nightmares. Suffice to say that my cuticles get repulsive this time of year, and the skin around my nails gets so hangnail-y and gross, that I try to just avoid using my hands in public for about 4 months of the year.

But now I have some hope!

I picked up the Sally Hansen Cuticle Massage Cream (because my cuticle oils weren't doing much for me) and really like it. It has a great apricot scent, and a little dab goes a long way. Massage it onto your cuticles and dry fingertip areas and you'll notice an improvement right away - more so than I have ssen with other lotions and stuff.

Go, give it a whirl. I think it was around $5 at Target. Go for it!

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Make Your Own Chewing Gum Kit



Picked this little number up today for a fun afternoon project.

If you come across it, don't pick it up.
Walk away. Briskly.

Char and I would have been okay with the effort exerted to roll the gum/corn syrup base in sugar to make the gum. Okay with rolling the quickly hardening gum. Okay with cutting it into pieces and wrapping each piece in foil. Because won't that be fun?

It isn't fun. Because it tasted like...grossness. It just tasted like grossness. hard to chew, and definitely NOT tasty.

Kit was $12 at Garfield Park Conservatory. We worked on it for about 45 minutes. Blech. Don't do it.