(I did this back on February 15 during my sort-of-a-blog-break. I'd had these mostly empty bottles of lotion sitting around forever. I finally bought the small shampoo bottle on February 10th, and then THAT sat around for a while. Finally, I put the task on my List of Things to Do and just did it. It took 10 minutes.)
Pump lotion is so convenient. Except when the lotion gets too low for the pump to work. And dang it this stuff is too expensive to just toss! So what do you do?
Firstly, you get some really good kitchen shears & cut the bottle in half.
See?
Then you scoop the lotion into a funnel (note my third hand there - a handy bottle from under the sink).
Mush the lotion down through the funnel into the bottle (I got the little shampoo bottle in the make-up aisle at the grocery store) & there you go!
My friend Jayne
posted this
vlog (video blog post) last week & I thought it looked like too much fun to miss. Of course, Jayne with her Georgia accent was more fun than mine will be. I still have a twinge of a
southern accent, but it’s mostly gone now. I remember when I was a child
visiting my aunt & uncle in West Virginia (this was the trip where I
learned that North Carolina fought for the south – devastating to me! Why were
we call North Carolina if we were
rebels?) the local kids loved to ask me to say things like “rice” and “pocket
book.” Apparently I sounded pretty southern then. Perhaps I lost my accent
while giving speeches in high school. Or maybe it was in Zambia where I was
trying especially hard to articulate. Whatever, the following vlog is going to
be pretty boring with my mostly Ohio accent now.
Answer these questions:
•What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
•What is the bug that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?
•What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
•What do you call gym shoes?
•What do you say to address a group of people?
•What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely
long legs?
•What do you call your grandparents?
•What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the
supermarket?
•What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
•What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
And here is the vlog:
So, I’d like to challenge my readers from other countries to
do this – it would be a lot more
interesting for those of us on this side of the pond!
Dr. M just listened to the video & the last word got cut off - I'm not going to edit it, so I'll just say that the word is "remote."
When I see myself,
the way I think I truly am,
I see pink barrettes
rabbit teeth
and crooked glasses.
On the cusp of adolescence –
just before I became my Mom’s
grammar police.
Awkward,
and already a “woman”
according to one standard of measure.
This is the person who
looks back when I stand
before the mirror.
I spent years with
disdain in my heart, but
today I am compassionate
toward that precious girl
who liked math instead of boys
and wanted to be left alone
with her books.
