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Enjoy a luxurious Bathing Experience?

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Do you enjoy treating yourself to quality bath products? Do you enjoy pampering yourself by having a nice soak in the bath, and perhaps using bath salts for a soothing and relaxing bathing experience?

If you do, you might want to visit the San Francisco Bath Salts Company. They have a wide assortment of bath salts, dead sea salts, bath soaks, and several other bath, body and spa related products for sale at their online store.

Browsing through their bath salts section I’ve found a number of scented and unscented bath salt products. Many are formulated for specific purposes, for example their citrus bath soak has been created to refresh your body, relax your muscles and sooth your skin.

elements15.jpg Whereas their sleep bath soak has been created to help give you a good nights sleep. This bath soak has a blend of moisturizing plant oil, lavender essential oil and detoxifying mineral salts. All of which will help soften your skin, ease muscle aches and release tension.

The regular prices for all of the products sold at the San Francisco Bath Salts Company’s online store are reasonable, and they do have some items on sale. If you enjoy pampering yourself, or perhaps need a great gift idea, visit the site and have a look around. I think you’ll be impressed with their line of products.





Chris fell down and went boom

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I’m usually the one in this household that has weird accidents.

Remember last March when I fell flat on my face and tore open my chin right to the bone and wrenched my jaw, or last July when I tripped on a weird curb and tore a ligament in my knee?

This morning Chris was leaving for work and he was fixing his lunch bag as he got to the end of our walkway. At the same time a female jogger was going by and she was looking at her runners watch to see what her pulse was and how many kilometers she’d run.

Well, as you can imagine, the jogger crashed into Chris as he turned from our walkway onto the sidewalk and he fell to the ground. On the way down his right shin hit the short wrought iron fencing that we have around our garden bed that is beside the walkway. The pointy top of the wrought iron fence, a Fleur de Lis, poked into the middle of his shin.

He apparently had a good dent and tear in his leg as a result! I was still in bed at the time and didn’t see the damage.

The jogger stopped and was quite apologetic for knocking him over. She said to him “You’d better go to the hospital!”, and Chris showed her his employee I.D. that was hanging from his neck and said “Well, I was on my way.”.

Chris came back in the house and cleaned up his wound, and then hobbled off to the hospital which is luckily only a few blocks from our home. Instead of reporting to the O.R. Recovery area where he works he went into the Emergency department and got stitches.

He’s been told to stay off work today and tomorrow. The ER doc that cared for him knows him quite well, and knows Chris is a hard worker who’s always on his feet. So he enforced the two days off rule with a note for the occupational health department.

Since he hit his leg hard and the wound was deep I wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up with a bruised shin bone as well as bruised tissue around the wound. So I’m back to being a nurse today, reminding him to elevate his leg and giving him ice-packs to put on his boo-boo.

I just hope that no one else has fallen into the our wrought iron fence in the past. We aren’t aware of anyone hurting themselves in front of our house. Perhaps we should re-think our choice in garden bed fencing and get something with a smoother top edge.

Great reading at Dan Rua’s Florida Venture Blog

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I wanted to take a moment today to tell you about Dan Rua’s Florida venture capital blog. Now, I know, I’ve just said venture capital and you’re probably thinking that the blog is all about business and finance. While that certainly is part of what this blog is about, that’s certainly not all.

Dan is a managing partner of Inflexion Partners, and being in the business of venture capital he does talk about some very interesting technology startups from time to time on his blog. If you have an interest in the internet, technology, social media, cool new companies and gadgets then I’m sure that you will enjoy reading about these things on Dans blog.

I really enjoy Dans writing style. I’d been to his blog from time to time over the last 8 months or so, but over the last few days I’ve taken the time to read pretty much all of the posts that he’s written so far this year. His writing style is engaging, and you can tell that he’s quite passionate about Florida, the Florida Gators, Innovative technology that’s developed in Florida and elsewhere, entrepreneurs and enjoys what he gets out of life.

When I read a post like the one he wrote as a recap for the Florida Venture Capital conference I begin to wonder if I’m in the wrong field. He traveled to Boca Raton, stayed in a luxurious resort, got to play golf on a fantastic golf course, had a nice dinner, wine and gambled on a yacht, and of course learned about some new, interesting, and up and coming businesses.

I do hope that you like Dan’s blog as much as I do. If you do I know he’d appreciate it if you’d subscribe to his RSS feed, or his newsletter.

I’ve actually signed up for his newsletter. I signed up because I like his blog and I’d like to be updated about his latest posts or whatever else he might choose to discuss in his newsletter. I’m not sure how often his newsletter comes out, but I suspect it’s once a week or less.

The other reason I signed up for his newsletter is because I have also created an account with the same newsletter program – Z0okoda – that’s he’s using and I haven’t taken the time to set up my newsletter yet. I’d love to see what he does with his newsletter, maybe I’ll steal an idea or two.

As I said, I really enjoy his writing style so I’m sure his newsletter will be both informative and entertaining.

Visit Dan’s blog and play the games. Maybe you’ll get an idea and end up making a game of your own too! While your there spend a bit of time reading the posts. I hope you’ll find that this is a blog worth reading and take the time to subscribe to the newsletter.

My neglected Garden

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Thirteen Things about My Garden  

This is Thursday Thirteen #38

1…. I love my garden. It’s where I go to de-stress and or collect my thoughts.

2…. My garden is also where I get one of the best workouts! Cutting, bending, digging, squatting, standing up, bending down, amending soil, adding mulch, lifting heavy bags or shovel fulls of soil … for hours on end? Yeah, that’s a workout!

3…. I’m still not feeling well due to the Crohn’s so, while I say the garden is a workout, I haven’t gotten much of a workout lately as I’ve been ignoring the work that needs to be done in the garden.

4…. I still need to prune at least half of my roses. I have more than 60!

5…. I bought some veggie seedlings and annuals a week and a half ago and I still haven’t planted them.

6…. The cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuces, beets, carrots, beans, and annual flowers need to be planted soon!

7…. Once I’m done planting the new plants, and likely buying more since I only bought a few, I’ll have to get busy putting the red cedar mulch down.

8…. Ok, I told a fib a minute ago, I haven’t totally ignored the garden – I have been keeping an eye on it.

9…. Lately my visits to the garden my include my camera.

10…. Each time I go into the garden I must take at least 100 digital photos of the flowers that have been blooming. I’ve been showing off some of those flowers on this blog, my gardening blog and my photoblog.

11…. We live in a fairly small house, so we created our garden and use it as additional living space.

12…. By this I mean, we entertain our friends in the garden, we have barbeque’s and dinner parties, or just use that lovely space to relax. I even bring my laptop out to the garden at times and do some of my computer/internet work while in the garden.

13…. My favorite time in the garden is coming soon. The roses and other scented flowers will soon bloom and it’s almost intoxicating to be in the garden surrounded by so many beautiful scents all at once. I can’t wait.

Wow, I didn’t realize how long it’s been since I’ve done a Thursday Thirteen Post. It’s about time that I did one isn’t it?

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Satin sheets and I don’t mix

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The other day I was talking about our too small bedrooms and our old double bed that we used to use as our bed when we lived in our apartment. For some reason that made me think of the satin bed sheets that I still have for that bed.

I don’t know if you have, or if you’ve used satin bed sheets before, but they can make the act of getting into bed quite interesting, let alone doing anything else in bed!

The first time I ever used the satin sheets on the bed I think I made the mistake of also wearing a satin nightgown. Now I’m a big klutz so it should stand to reason that me, satin sheets and a satin nightgown were not going to mix well.

I think I probably bought them and put them on the bed to set up a romantic evening for Chris and I. I don’t remember all the details and some of them I won’t get into in this post, but I don’t think I have to tell you that my attempt to get into bed, freshly made with the new light pink satin sheets, in my satin night gown were something that could have come from a classic comedy.

I think I slide across the bed and fell off the other side on my first attempt to get into bed. When it came to the next attempt I believe I was a bit more careful and only slide to the middle of the bed. LOL I’m sure I came out of that experience with a few bruises.

After that I never combined two satins again!

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