ION, recycling problems: what do I do with (a) mostly-unused shampoo and conditioner I used until I decided I didn't like them, and (b) the basically (but not totally) empty foundation bottle?

smonster already said, but I will add that hair conditioner is a great substitute for shaving cream.

Your not-quite-totally empty foundation bottle can go in the recycling (assuming it has an appropriate number for your local program). For the other stuff, if you don't mind the scent you could go the Flylady "soap is soap" route and use it to clean your toilet. You could also offer it up to friends who might want to try it. And really, it's not the end of the world to put it in the recycling bin if it's not empty. The rinsing thing is largely to keep away pests that would make people go "eww" and not recycle.

Awesome, thank you! The shampoo/conditioner is now-ancient drugstore stuff, so I'll just dump it. Possibly in the toilet and/or tub, for cleaning purposes.

smonster already said, but I will add that hair conditioner is a great substitute for shaving cream.

Oh! Yes! Actually, I use shampoo for shaving now. Works way better than any shaving cream, gel, or oil I ever used before.

smonster already said, but I will add that hair conditioner is a great substitute for shaving cream.

Also an excellent idea! I am so glad I asked.

In some good news--the forecast is for 64 degrees and sunny next tuesday.

Choose Your Own Adventure: A Day at the Office

This is, by a wide margin, the funniest thing you will see on the Internet today. The great cartoonist Caldwell Tanner has made a Choose Your Own Adventure Novel for those of you who dream of the excitement of office life. The Boss wants his document yesterday. Why haven’t you printed it? There are thirty pages and six possible endings to this story. See if you can survive.

was Limbaugh doing a show this morning about a college student saying she needed $1000/year for contraception and then going on a really illogical argument about that meaning she's have sex 1000 times? It heard that convo on a local station trying to get a traffic report and almost flipped out. They were saying that condoms cost a buck each, so for her contraception to be costing $1000 a year it meant that she was having sex 1000 times a year. WTF? condoms? really? not the most common contraception used by women.

If I had a dollar for every guy I've heard speculate that the reason menstrual cycles are 28 days long is because in the old days women needed moonlight to leave the cave and "do it" at night....I would be a significantly wealthier woman that I am today.

...I don't even understand what this could possibly mean. (Am I better off not knowing? Probably.)

Ye gods, I am not looking forward to driving five hours through tomorrow's projected severe weather/tornadoes. UGH, they make me so nervous.

That Choose Your Own Adventure is awesome, but Jilli should beware -- I just ended up dead from spiders.

Huh. I defeated the day. Cool.