After the second shower

I know there are people with bigger problems in this world, but isn’t it awful when you use a body lotion that five minutes later starts to smell like caca? Eww, eww! It happened to me today. After cleaning and organizing my little house I went and took one of those relaxing showers, put a massage in my hair, scrubbed and ex-foliated my skin, you know… the whole enchilada. I came out of the shower and proceeded to put a body lotion from Avon someone had given to me a few months ago. A few minutes later… Bleak! What is that smell? — To the shower again to take that ugly lotion off and then I decided to use a little sample of a Estée Lauder Body Lotion they gave me at Sears. When I’m rich, I’ll get the big bottle, he he!

Non-expensive things are usually expensive, if you know what I mean. They go bad, you have to throw them away and spend extra money. Not that I’m pooping Avon, in fact I love it (the hair massage I used is Advanced Techniques, good!), but those creams they have in big bottles for sale over the holidays… Mmm… I have my doubts — I hope the Avon ladies out there won’t take offence from my words! Anyway, no biggie. Now I’m smelling like Pleasures and waiting for the hubby because we’re going to see “Daddy Day Care” before they stop showing it at theatres. Then it’ll be “Bruce Almighty” when Patrice comes back from his trip, because we’re in the mood for lost of comedies.

My list of things to do is almost all crossed out — Just need to mail a card for Tara and clean the bathroom counter, but I’ll do that tomorrow. My biorhythm is up in all senses (intellectual, physical and emotional); no wonder I’m accomplishing so much! I just wish these levels of energy stayed like this always.

Bird Love

Bird books are not only useful for those of us who like to learn about them, they also make wonderful coffee table books. My passion for the winged creatures has brought me to have quite a few really beautiful books about them; from a Guide to the Birds of Colombia, to Shorebirds. Then there is All the Birds or North America (gift from Patrice when we first met) and the Birdwatcher’s Pocket Guide (gift from Paul, one of my oldest and dearest online friends). I’m currently lusting over Les Oiseaux du Québec et des Maritimes.

But on my coffee table I have the Encyclopedia of Birds (also a gift from the hubby) and Le Peuple Migrateur — Two photographic wonders I miss my old birdwatching days, but hopefully now in the summer things will change; I’ve spotted some really beautiful birds here, that we usually see in Colombia when they migrate during the winter. Absolutely gorgeous. Ornithology: Definitely my thing.

For more birdy books: Buteo Books Oh boy! — I better don’t go through that catalogue now.

This or That # 15

Oh! I had left this entry on Draft. Here’s my This or That for today.

1. Silence or do you like background sound? I usually like sound.
2. Bathe/shower in morning or evening? Morning shower, evening bath
3. Sleeping in complete darkness, or with a nightlight on? Little light on. Plugin.
4. Lay out clothes the night before, or grab them in the morning? Grab what’s around.
5. Hang up/fold clothes neatly, or just toss them wherever? Errr… wherever.
6. Work out at a gym, or at home on your own? On my own. I’m too shy for gyms.
7. Talk on the phone, or via IM/e-mail? No preference, but internet is more usual.
8. Are you usually on time, or late? Always on time! Like my dad.
9. Spendthrift or frugal? What or what? Darn… Dictionary. I try frugal.

10. Thought-Provoking Question of the Week: You work with someone who is not in the habit of bathing regularly. The smell seems to be getting worse and worse! Would you: 1. try to do something about it, or 2. try to grin and bear it? If you said 1, what would you do? It has happened to me but I don’t have the guts to tell the person that he really smells sometimes, so I just bear it… and try to protect my nose.

Patrice’s response: I call Dubya and tell him the smelly person is a terrorist — Problem solved!

Kill the ads!

Spyware, annoying ads, things I didn’t ask for to be installed in my PC — Let me tell you how much I hate them: THIS MUCH! Thank God there are cool people out there to give me advice when things like this happen to me. I got Ad-Aware from Lavasoft and there are now 49 creepy creatures quarantined, and guess… Gator is there. One single program, one little freeware, and then they started crawling all over, ugh! So much for free, huh?

I’ve been told this Ad-Aware really works, so I’m hoping the madness will be over soon. Tell me about your creepy experiences with stupid people who create all these stupid things to make your internet experience a NOT so nice one. Suggestions? No more freeware for me, darn it!

I’m reading, sure!

RSS Feeds are a wonderful thing. Newsreaders are even better because they allow you to be up to date with the blogs of people who use these RSS Feeds. The only problem is that I’ve become so dependant of my newsreader that I’m neglecting some of the blogs in my list and now I’m starting to feel guilty. So much goodness I’m missing for being RSS-addicted.

First it was the problem with reading only blogs who pinged to weblogs.com or Blogrolling and now this. I’ve tried cutting my blogroll, but then I go and think “I really like this blog, I don’t want to take it off”; and then… I have about 100 listed, go figure! Not to mention that I have two private blogrolls for Spanish and geeky stuff. Oh well… in a perfect world…

If you don’t know what the heck I’m talking about with those RSS Feeds, check this link. Quite useful! [Via Scripting News -- My new addiction].