Rainy Day

Really quiet here - as it's cold and rainy - listening to jazz on the radio.  Hunted around for freebies on the net, as I usually do....

Got some nice little things yesterday - even a ketchup pin from Heinz, which I think I will use for a card on which I say 'it's hard to ketch-up with you" ha!  Also ordered a free LCD heart today...

Read about Bumble & Bumble having hair powder in colors - which intrigued me.  I bought some tumeric a while ago to make my blonde shampoo more golden - and I added it to what I usually use for dry shampoo - scented dusting powder.  It came out blondish - and I think it even revived some of the color after I put it in and then brushed it out - The trouble with just plain dusting powder as dry shampoo is that it seems to darken your hair. Do you believe that the B&B hair powder is $34??

Of course, they have it for brunettes - and I couldn't think of what to put in to make the powder that DARK - but luckily I have dark blonde hair with strawberry highlights - so my concoction seems to work.  The texture of my hair is even nicer than usual - the tumeric?  I am SO allergic to chemicals that I have to get more and more clever about what to use to color my hair as the grey hairs creep in!

There were LOTS of magazines at www.mercurymags -which I ordered.  I have stacks of magazines at home - and am collecting the scent strips to make more potpourri...Need to take an armful of the magazines down to the laundry room here to share - and some to put in the waiting room of my therapist's office.

Joined a swap group yesterday that has book /media swaps monthly  or so - Boy, do I have lots of paperbacks of all sorts to recycle! I get them so cheaply - that it's not worth the postage to send them off to exchange them.  I put some in the swap area at the clubhouse at our marina - and when I finally get to the Sta. Monica Emeritus College site again, I will bring in a bag of paperbacks to swap there, too.   How DO people pay $8-9 for a paperback novel?  I read so quickly that I can get through one a night, practically. (I read them before bed...)

You are going to say "Go to the library, " I know! But the ones here are just inconvenient enough that I always manage to pile on library fines - and I misplace books - and so on.  I have made quite a contribution to the L.A. Public Library's exchequer over the years. It's actually cheaper to get used paperbacks!

(Just discovered that my Google toolbar actually has a spellchecker for online forms! So it will be easier for me to proof the blog and fewer typos, I trust...)

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All those magazines!

An old cover from the Town & Country magazine! (Just got a free one & you know, I read it cover to cover.)

Can you tell me how much tumeric you used, in the dusting powder?...Thanks

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