sigh ... today is the kind of day that gives Mondays a bad name. I managed to knock over an entire veinte latte (I'd taken the lid off, of course) and it went all over everything, dripped into my purse. And I'm very much afraid I've done somethig serious to one or more of my teeth - I've suddenly become extremely sensitive to cold. If it's not better tomorrow, it's off to the dentist.

I did not know that LL Bean has a Bootmobile.

Sigh. I am completely unshocked to find that a major reference database I've been using for the past 5 months under the assumption that it was, well, accurate or something, is... not. Everything from mid-2010 through now is accurate, everything from before then is crazyland. This involves case discussion dates for upwards of 2000 patients. I can only presume that, even though it's been maintained in some half-assed fashion since 2004, nobody had ever bothered to use it until I came in August. Add (incorrect) dates to it, yes; use it, no. What the fuck, people?

Jobs! Puppies! Taxidermy vampire ducklings!

All very good things.

Do people here have deliberate face care routines?

Yep, after much trial and "Oooh, shiny new product!" dithering. Jojoba oil to remove makeup, hyaluronic acid serum under my eyes [link] , layered with Weleda Skin Food, and then Weleda Wild Rose night cream on the rest of my face and neck.

Daytime is Weleda Skin Food under my eyes, and usually Neutrogena SPF 100.

I thought my skin had matured, but when I went back to Neutrogena from Mario Badescu for financial reasons, it turns out not so much. So now I'm enslaved. Nothing I've used of theirs resulted in me break out, but I'm pretty solidly set with their seaweed line and buttermilk moisturiser. They give samples with online orders, so I play around, but what I have gives me the clearest and softest skin I've had since puberty.

How is cold cream used? Is it a daytime moisturiser?

Thomas Jane took back his hooking confession? Pfft.

There's a shoe repair place near Polgara that's had a bootmobile for forever. It's smaller.

Oh my lord, I am so sleepy. Not sure how I'm going to make it through another three and a half hours of work.

Re: skincare, I've become fairly loyal to St. Ives scrub (during my morning shower) and a Neutrogena moisturizer, the full name of which I can't remember, that I can never find in stores and have to order from Amazon. It's the only moisturizer I've found that doesn't make my skin feel greasy or make me break out. At night, I just wash my face with water and pat dry. I don't usually wear makeup, so I don't have to use any kind of makeup remover or cleanser at the end of the day.

msbelle, WOOT for the awesome job news!!!

Excellent, msbelle!

Well, I can drive now. There's still something definitely off with my eye, but it isn't screaming pain, just like I've got a wad of something gooey in my eye and a bit of a halo. Like a quarter of one. And my eyeball isn't bright pink anymore (really brings out the green in 'em.)

And I have new goggles now, so I can go swimming later. But I'm going to rest my eyes now, because I'm sure driving in the fog and rain didn't help any.

I've been using Oil of Olay (SPF...15?) moisturizer for the past while, and like it well enough, but may switch to some fancy Clinique stuff. I keep thinking I should use eye cream, and not bothering. The problem is, I feel like my nighttime routine has gotten so complicated I'm too lazy to do all of it every night--sometimes I'm TIRED!

I've been trying to use the Olay fake-Clarisonic and it seems to work fairly well (I get flakey otherwise) but sometimes I'm too lazy and just use a makeup wipe.

I've always used cold cream to remove makeup, specifically my mascara, although the Ponds dry skin cream does a pretty good job of removing makeup as well as moisturizing. I'm trying to finish up a jar of cold cream my sister gave me, but otherwise I'd just stick with the dry skin cream. And that I discovered its ability to remove makeup in college - one of the guys involved in a play hadn't removed his stage makeup before coming back to the dorm and he was desperate to get the stuff off his face - soap and water wasn't doing very well - so he tried my skin cream and it worked very well.

I need a cheaper makeup remover. All I use it for is taking off the adhesive from the bandages from the IV. Total waste of Clinique, but it's the most effective thing I have in the house right now.

Cloth shoes, rainy day. Good looking out, ita !.

I'm glad the nice guy at Fry's tested my optical audio cable so I didn't run the risk of having to buy, open, test, and return. And, thankfully, my cable was bad, so I'm going to assume my TV and audio bar work just fine. Whoot! Least pricey link in the chain.