What are you thinking about? Part III

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Jiro said:
Aveeno's weak. Already have strong stuff from dermatologist. winter's still brutal. 2 more months...
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Sorry to hear that Aveeno did not work for you. Does your strong stuff helps?
I am using strong stuff as well because I have eczema on my elbows. What fun!
 
Sosie said:
Sorry to hear that Aveeno did not work for you. Does your strong stuff helps?
I am using strong stuff as well because I have eczema on my elbows. What fun!
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Have you tried pawpaw cream? My nieces used to have some eczema and pawpaw cream worked wonder on theirs. Now they're not afflicted with eczema anymore.
 
Sosie said:
Sorry to hear that Aveeno did not work for you. Does your strong stuff helps?
I am using strong stuff as well because I have eczema on my elbows. What fun!
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yea it works but it can't be used long-term. only couple weeks since it's very strong. it contains steroid substance.
 
I am thinking that it's appalling that there are easter eggs and easter marshmallows in supermarket. Too darn early.
 
Miss-Delectable said:
Have you tried pawpaw cream? My nieces used to have some eczema and pawpaw cream worked wonder on theirs. Now they're not afflicted with eczema anymore.
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I don't think we have Pawpaw cream here in USA, only in Australia. I got the prescription cream from the dermatologist, not OTC.
It's interesting about the Pawpaw cream, tho, Miss-Delectable. :ty:
 
Miss-Delectable said:
I am thinking that it's appalling that there are easter eggs and easter marshmallows in supermarket. Too darn early.
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Already! :eek3: Wow!

Here's a humorous story I wrote on my blog related to this which I wrote at Easter 2005.

(Translation for our U.S. readers :P : trolley - cart
lollies - candy
garbage - trash
Mum - Mom

FYI, I use voice because my children are all hearing. They are beginning to learn and use AUSLAN and ASL now.)


All Things Bright and Beautiful

Every so often it will come up in current affairs or the news about the battle that mothers have with the confectionery aisle and their kids. From day one, kids are known to like bright and colourful things, from the mobile hanging from the ceiling, the clown rattle, the multi-coloured lego blocks, to wrapping paper on birthday gifts.

Have you noticed from as young as 3, children can 'smell' out chocolate and lollies from a mile away?! If it so happens that she has small change, our 18 year old daughter, more often that not, will sneak a bar of chocolate in with the grocery items I had listed for her to buy. She has 'secret' hiding places for her precious chocolate - a 'must-have' for any teenage girl so they say. Our 5 year old will hunt down the chocolate or lollies hidden in unthinkable and seemingly unreachable places, yet find them she will.

You go to great pains to avoid the confectionery aisle when doing your usual grocery shopping, only to turn the corner and find chocolate eggs 'blinking' out at you in front of the baked beans and canned veges; or you would be strolling down the aisle furthest from the chocolates and party goods, only to glance back and see the dreaded hypo-energetic, sugar-loaded culprit grasped firmly in your preschooler's hands, a big beam on her face forming into a wide 'pleeese' accompanied with a huge 'who can resist this smile' smile.

By this stage, you are tired from an hour or so of pushing a heavy shopping trolley up and down the aisles, sometimes back-tracking because you just can't seem to remember which aisle the garbage bags are in, or whether it is at this end of the aisle or the other end. (Supermarket signs on each end only read half of the aisle, if you haven't already noticed).

Your toddler is growing tired of sitting in a hard metal seat getting swamped under an overflow of grocery items that can't quite fit into the trolley basket and is attempting to climb out into your arms for a cuddle. Your preschooler has been standing on the wheel-brim at the front of the trolley, going from getting down then up again, then down again, meanwhile you are concentrating hard on not 'running her over'; or she is sprinting across the aisle grabbing things off the shelves and placing them in your trolley and within moments you are putting it back as you continue on - trying to get the shopping over and done with, a constant drone coming from your lips "Don't touch that, put it back, we don't need it, leave it alone - NO! "

Your focus tunes back onto your child's beaming, pleading, conniving face, you have a decision to make, if you cave in to the pleading, melt to that irresistable smile and say that she can have the chocolate eggs, ensuring you a fairly non-eventful exit through the checkout, while you have a vision of guilt before you at your child's next dentist visit "Don't give her chocolate and lollies" he says with a look that makes you feel as if you are the only mother in the whole world who would do such a thing!

- or say NO and have a whinge-ing, non-cooperative, sullen child (God forbid if she throws a tantrum!) whom you need to keep in check with one eye and hand, whilst unloading the groceries onto the conveyor belt with the other hand and with the other remaining eye on the checkout operator making sure he doesn't double-scan an item, furthermore you are most likely cradling a tired, cranky, lead-heavy toddler on your hip at the same time.

If you do so much as get to the checkout counter without the unleasing of little people's emotions, beware your preschooler is smart - there's the chocolate and lollies display at the checkout right within her reach beckoning her to just try her hand at sneaking it out without Mum noticing. (The times I have had to return the 'stolen goods' or worse still fork out the cost of a half-eaten chocolate with the remainder smeared over face, hands and clothing)....and all this with just the first trolley-load of groceries. I have to brave it out at least one more time round and through the checkout again before I'm finished with my usual grocery shop for the family.

Mind you, I can get more in one trolley with the older kids (making it only 2 trolleys at most) but if I do, all of them have to come along. I then have SEVEN vying for my attention all at the same time 'helping' me shop with 'we need this and that' and a certainty of a 'panic attack' when I see the price tally running considerably higher than I budgeted due to items added to the trolley I hadn't counted on.

If my eldest daughter goes solo with the grocery shopping - close encounters of the chocolate kind!

The battle of the 'Confectionery War' is lost for yet another time.

Confectionery marketers and supermarket managers - have a heart! Let chocolates be what they are meant to be - an 'occasion'al treat and give us Mums a break - make them less enticing - no more 'Bright and Beautiful'. PLEEEESE!!!! (accompanied by a 'who can resist this smile' smile).

Copyright 2005-2011 (BecLak)
 
Jiro said:
yea it works but it can't be used long-term. only couple weeks since it's very strong. it contains steroid substance.
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Right, it's only short-term.

I apply once or twice a day as needed only during winter.
 
I am thinking that it is 3 am where I am and six beers and 2 drinks later I an inehbriated and damn wide awake and damn it I will smell like smoke in the mornign
 
I am thinking about the upheaval we will have here at home in the next week or so. Hubby's work hours are finally changing again. Tues, Thur, Fri and Sat 2pm to 1am. Sun 3pm to 1 am. Mon and Wed off for his A/C Tech class.
 
Am thinking about how "quiet" it is here this Saturday AM...the boys are out, since 9AM, making videos (skateboarding & football)...making interviews, etc. They come home with some of the funniest videos (or to them they are)....even stuffing their pants with pillows and doing crazy stunts like banging into trees....sometimes I'd give anything to have a little, dainty, sweet little girl!
They'll be home later, showing me their scapes, cuts and bruises....and proud of them, they are!
 
Miss-Delectable said:
I am thinking that it's appalling that there are easter eggs and easter marshmallows in supermarket. Too darn early.
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Already? Damn. Since when did Easter mean Peeps and Cadbury Eggs? Last I knew it was a bloody gruesome death for the sins of the universe on the cross. Individual sacrifice for all.
 
I am very serious!! I notice my feeling hurt to myself I dont' know what is happeend supportive, I hope be you encourage to me. who tell exactly I wonder I am bit hurt to ex girlfriend, she is very convince, I report. I can't images I am shocked I am very worried!
 
For some reason I have been feeling down in the dumps for the past couple days and there's no apparent reason why. Tonight I am going out with a friend to her church. It's an Open and Affirming church from what I gather and they have a Saturday night service that is geared towards the 20-somethings group. Hopefully going out will cheer me up.
 
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Updated -- Never mind. On LJ and dA -- it's solved. OK, I just feel better after said something. =)
 
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I think I want to take a cooking class! I want to learn how to make new, unique things. Now where to sign up for one?
 
I was headache worst I am not sure exactly tough! I know patient
 
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