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Originally posted by wren:
...for those prone to letting their pots boil over.
Gather 3 or 4 glass or steelie marbles. Sterilize or wash well in hot soapy water. Pop them in your pot of whatever you plan on boiling over. When they start to rumble quickly you'll hear them and remember to check your pot. You can now buy little metal pucks that do exactly this (Pampered Gourmet).

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wren, as someone who's burned WAY too many pots, I thank you for that tip.
*rushing out to buy some of those suckers*

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Originally posted by jateke:
wren, as someone who's burned WAY too many pots, I thank you for that tip.
*rushing out to buy some of those suckers*

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Oops Jateke -- I gave you the wrong info. Those little manufactured pucks come from a company called the Pampered Chef, not gourmet. They have a catalogue and product is available at those Tupperware-style parties.

pamperedchef.com

Look for "Cooking, etc" then Boil Control in their product catalogue.

(No, I don't sell the product. Sorry for this shameless plug. I promise I won't rave about how great their other stuff is too. Hee.)

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Originally posted by wren:
[B] Um... Maybe it's just me... but um... does no one else find these things really very, um... wasteful.

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so i felt one coming on two weeks ago and did what she said to avoid getting an UTI. i was curious to see if it worked. aaaaand it did. i took just one tablet twice and drank tons of cranberry juice [lucky it's my fave.] and the next day i couldn't feel anything huge was amiss. there was still a smidge of discomfort so i did it again. the next day it was totally gone and i haven't had a problem since. just something harmless that you might want to try. drugs for UTIs are quite expensive with my insurance plan so i was relieved that i was saving myself the money.

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Originally posted by wheatgerm:
I have 32A boobs. I don't "enjoy" bras unless they're padded and make me look like I have something up there. And yes, I take them off as soon as I get home. There's nothing to hold up anyway.

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Originally posted by blazer:
can anyone recommend a good moisturizer for extremely sensitive skin? I tried the Oil of Olay facial cloths. They made my face feel like it was burned. That's how sensitive my skin is. With the heater on now, my face is becoming very dry but I'm scared to try anything else on it. Any suggestions??

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Originally posted by ChickenGrrl:
[b]Sleep on your back. I know this is a hard one, and one I still can't do (because old habits die hard, and I learned about this too late in life), but...[/B]

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Hate to nitpick, but your heart is actually centered in your chest. It's just not quite symmetrical, so the left side is a little larger. So if you lie on your left side, your right lung will be on top of it, and vice versa. So unless you sleep standing on your head, I doubt you'd have to worry about where your heart is.

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Originally posted by blazer:
can anyone recommend a good moisturizer for extremely sensitive skin? I tried the Oil of Olay facial cloths. They made my face feel like it was burned. That's how sensitive my skin is. With the heater on now, my face is becoming very dry but I'm scared to try anything else on it. Any suggestions??

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Clinique's got a really good one that I use, called Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion. It's the best thing that I have used, to date.

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Originally posted by hyddin:
Don't be afraid to dance. Take a look around you. Trust me, they look just as goofy as you do.

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Originally posted by lizr:

Go to Home Depot, buy a cheap plastic toolbox, buy a hammer, a couple of flat and phillips head screwdrivers, a wrench and a pair of pliers. By some nails in varying sizes. By duct tape and WD-40. You will now be able to fix all sorts of teeny things that go wrong. It will make your life much easier.

You can never go wrong buying a man a cordless drill for a present. Even if he already has three cordless drills he will get all excited and happy.[/B]

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lucky. you. mine are 36C (sure.. average) but i would love smaller. (stircrazy)

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Wanna swap? I reckon I could fill an A-cup bra and, if I'm honest, they're quite perky. The number of times I've thought of ditching the half-measures and just getting implants...

Now, see, you're all looking at me funny now. Stop looking funny. What? What? Micheal Jackson has had that much pointless cosmetic surgery he's now copyright of The Jim Henson Creature Workshop and is run entirely on animatronics yet no-one bats an eyelid. All I sayin' is... I'll just shut up.

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You can never go wrong buying a man a cordless drill for a present. Even if he already has three cordless drills he will get all excited and happy. (lizr)

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Last resort tip I gave to Bob when he was panicking to find a mother's day present: "Mother's day, Oil of Olay. Father's day, Drill". It would be a nice easy-to-remember poem if only 'drill' rhymed with 'day'.

However, anyone who gets me a drill as a present can expect to be first on the list of things to drill. And my mother once said that she would never buy a man a drill as an occasion present because (and I quote) "It would be like someone buying me an iron." I'm inclined to agree.

"Don't throw away those old tights! Simply cut off at the ankles and cut the gusset out and, hey presto! An ideal workout top!"

I. Am. Totally. Seriously. Laugh? I came that close to throwing up.

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Originally posted by ConfusionTheWaitress:

"Don't throw away those old tights! Simply cut off at the ankles and cut the gusset out and, hey presto! An ideal workout top!"

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After I graduated college, I had a few jobs as a Web Designer. There was always a Web Master above me who had been doing this since birth. I felt so out of my league. Whenever I would do something good and the boss would compliment me, I would always proceed with, "Oh, it was nothing.", or "It was easy."

I couldn't figure out why I never got any respect. I finally realized nobody was going to respect my abilities until I could myself. Own your accomplishments. After all, they are yours.

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I have to admit that I've done this for dance...low-budget dance costume, and plenty of room for originality. (winddance)

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Originally posted by blazer:
can anyone recommend a good moisturizer for extremely sensitive skin?

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Blazer, you sound just like me I have very sensitive skin too and after trying almost everything out there I recommend Kiehl's facial mosturizer. Their number is (800)543-4571 for a catalog of their products.

Also the Nivea Visage nourishing creme is nice, good for wind burned cheeks!

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Originally posted by ConfusionTheWaitress:
Best girl tip I ever saw was while reading the 'Top Tips' section of Chat or Take A Break in a dentist's waiting room:

"Don't throw away those old tights! Simply cut off at the ankles and cut the gusset out and, hey presto! An ideal workout top!"

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Oh my GOD! I can't believe you wrote that, I've done that before in dance class. It was a great way to smash my boobs at the time (under a leotard). But as a workout top? Can you imagine some lady in a pair of old panty hose walking around the gym? Yeeeech!

Purchasing this one simple power tool caused me to build an 8' long oak dining room table with an inlayed tiled top. No lie, and it's fecking AWESOME! It caused me to build a couple of oak plank benches to go with the table. It caused me, after tiling the table top, to lay tile in front of my woodstove. It caused me to completely re-do my kitchen, including the floor. It caused me WANT to learn how to do things that women don't normally learn how to do growing up. In fact, I'm in the process right now of building new cabinet doors for my kitchen because of this one simple purchase which opened a whole new world for me.

Since then, I've ventured into total MAN land. I've bought a 10" compound mitre saw (EEK!), a jig saw, a scroll saw, a circular saw, a welder, a cutting torch, a 14" jack saw for cutting pipe, a belt sander, a palm sander, and all sorts of little weird shit. Levels, carpenter's pencils, straight edges, etc. I WANT a router, a table saw, a mountable grinder (heh!), a worm drive circular saw, yadda, yadda, yadda. This shit gives you the power to MAKE things you would normally buy!

Best advice I can give you? If you can, TAKE SHOP. Learn about woodworking, plumbing, electricity, etc. These things are priceless. I wish I had. Jeebus. Anybody can cook or sew. All you have to do is read the recipe/pattern. Woodworking, plumbing and electrical shit doesn't come with a recipe/pattern.

Visine applied to a cotton ball or Q-tip, applied to a particularly angry red throbbing zit, WILL take the red out. (Or it does for me anyway.)

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Originally posted by Allison:

Girls, just love yourselves, ok? If some guy makes you feel bad about your body or your period or your emotions or anything -don't just kick him to the curb, kick his ass.

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SO DAMN TRUE!

Don't forget to always be a Junior Riot Grrl!!!!!!

Have at least one day where you don't wash your hair or your face (a weekend day--or the whole weekend!), especially in the winter. Yes, I'm saying save a couple hundred gallons of H20 and don't take a shower. Revel in your natural oils (this might not work in the summer), and low grade sexy funk. Your skin actually feels better for it (again, this is a winter-time thing, maybe. My skin is dry dry DRY right now.)

Noxzema is nice to wash your face with, when you do decide to bathe again. That zingy scent, that blue jar, that groovy consistency--that non-soap cleanser of your youth!! And, it soothes sunburned skin, too.

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Originally posted by Bee Charmer:
[B]It caused me WANT to learn how to do things that women don't normally learn how to do growing up. B]

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That is sooo awesome, Bee! You go, girl.

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Originally posted by blazer:
can anyone recommend a good moisturizer for extremely sensitive skin? I tried the Oil of Olay facial cloths. They made my face feel like it was burned. That's how sensitive my skin is. With the heater on now, my face is becoming very dry but I'm scared to try anything else on it. Any suggestions??

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Originally posted by ConfusionTheWaitress:
I went shopping with my little sister today and told her the tip and, it turns out, that she does it too. But then she does study dance at University. So maybe it's just a dance thing. I dunno, though. Something about it just said 'Eeew!' to me.

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Yeah but you cut off the ewww crotch part.