February 1, 2008

I was due to work this afternoon, but the weather was so bad I gave myself a snow day.  It would have been dangerous to try and get to work, so instead I am enjoying an afternoon by the fire, in front of the tv.

Yesterday, I finally got paid - phew.  It was absolutely my own fault for not putting in my weekly time sheets for, erm, 10 weeks.  At last I have some money.  I promptly tried to get rid of some of said money and ordered some new moisturiser.  Yes, I’m still trying to find a moisturiser.  So far, the one I hate the least is Dr Hauschka’s Moisturising Day Cream but I’m sure there must be something better.  Against my better judgement I tried Burt’s Bees Carrot Day Creme - ugh, ugh, ugh.  I love the look and idea of Burt’s Bees stuff, but I found the Carrot Day Creme to be horrible (even worse than the Marshmallow Vanishing Creme).  It sat on top of my skin and made me look orange!  I’ve placed my order for Trilogy Energising Face Lotion.  I like that it’s described as having a ‘light texture’ - sounds good, but I’ll have to wait and see.

A random thought came to me while eating my lunch - when did rubbish collection start, and what happened before?  Talking to The Parentals, when they were young they had very little household rubbish, and the scaffie had a very small truck.  WasteOnline has an information sheet which satisfied my curiosity on the history of rubbish collection.