Woohoo, I'm getting organized

[cjsmith]

Yesterday was productive. I feel so accomplished!

• Did good stuff at work -- not lots-n-lots, but good.
• At home, got almost all the way through the kitchen cleanup. YAY! Only thing left now is to wash a big pile of Tupperware.
• Cleaned up my festering pile of crud in the living room - stuff I'd just put down there, over the past weeks, and never put away. Now it's put away. That room looks MUCH better.
• Did my workout, woohoo! Used my weight routine as a heart warmup, sorta. Learned that jogging is GREAT for "interval training" - the one where I have to get my heart rate way up for three intervals of seven minutes apiece. (I learned on Saturday that jogging SUCKS for the one where I have to have my heart rate down at 136. Hello? What kind of exercise IS that, anyway?)
• Started a fire and put on nice music so that it'd be relaxing and pleasant for Rob to come home to.
• Showered, of course, which made my skin so dry it itched, of course. I gotta learn how to adjust to two showers in a day. I am NOT made for that.
• Organized a HUGE mess of financial papers. For the first time ever, I have my different brokerage accounts in different folders, sorted properly, arranged chronologically, folders labeled. (I am not sure I will ever forgive this company for creating two extra brokerage accounts for me. I HAD one already. Who needs more than one? Who needs THREE?) Now to go through and figure out what I should do with all that stuff. The word DIVEST is reverberating in my head. Too bad I didn't do that a year and a half ago.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I itch after showers, too. What you need is someone to help with lotion.

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Ever since I moved to California, my hands and feet are really dry. Showering a lot doesn't help matters, either. But the climate is drier here than in NY, and the water is harder so skin has a lot of changes to cope with. I've been using Vaseline Intense Care Advanced Formula on my hands and feet daily, esp. after showering.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I itch at the thought of Vaseline Intensive Care.

Lubriderm for Sensitive Skin works best for me, and has the least offensive smell of any cream I've tried so far, with the exception (perhaps) of Mango Body Butter, which I adore, but can't use daily.

But the most important thing is the rubber-onner.

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

I never used Lubriderm or Mango Body Butter. In terms of...absorption and greasy residue, how do they compare? I like lotion that sinks into the skin relatively easily and doesn't leave behind the experience of "I need to grab a towel to turn the door knob".

Rubber-onner? Does that mean Lubridern and Mango Body Butter are latex compatible? ;-)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Lubriderm is, in my experience, less slick than Vaseline Intensive Care.

Mango Body Butter is a lot more slick. I only use it right before bed, or before "lying around time," so it can get slurped in. And if I use it more than once a week, I get back zits. But my back is really, really dry (dry skin and eczema are a family thing) so that once a week makes my back happy.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

The perfect solution! :-)

[kimatha.livejournal.com]

Liquid shower soaps are better than bar soaps - much less drying. Or you could really spoil your skin and use a moisturizing shampoo instead of soap...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I already do the moisturizing shampoo trick. I don't feel as clean, but I probably AM as clean, and the dryness is almost to a bearable level.

Except the last really good moisturizing shampoo I fell in love with, well, I turned out to be allergic to it. Grump!! Haven't found anything NEARLY as good (for hair or skin) since. Grump, grump, grump.