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I saw lots of posts about removing sunscreen from your face, but nothing for the body. I'm headed to the beach this week and be using lots of sunscreen. I already have trouble with mineral/physical sunscreens drying out my already extremely dry skin terribly and it seems like I always have to scrub hard with a washcloth in the shower to really get it off. This makes my skin sad and hurty. Chemical sunscreens aren't as drying for me but they still seem hard to remove, so basically the same problem.

Tips? Recommendations?

So, here's the deal. I have tasked my very artistically talented mother with designing and calligraphing our invitations. My first issue is that she is going to hand draw/paint/calligraph the artwork and text, so it's not automatically a digital file that can be uploaded. We have a scanner at work that I can use to scan it to a PDF, or will the quality not be good enough and I'll need to have it professionally scanned? Is there any particular type of paper my mom should use for her original art? And is there a standard size for invitations? Initially we were thinking of doing it on a standard 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper but now I am realizing that might be weird, and might not work with the inse

Two months ago, my doctor prescribed me generic Celexa, 10 mg. I cycled through some of the common side effects like dry mouth and upset stomach for a few weeks and then things settled down. I was feeling better but still experiencing some of my usual anxiety symptoms so my doctor upped the dose to 20 mg. I had another week or two of the side effects I had previously experienced, though much milder, due to adjusting to the higher dosage and then everything settled down. I am now doing so, so much better with my anxiety – for the first time in a long, long time, I feel good.

Now, for the TMI part. My period was supposed to start on Saturday, and on Saturday afternoon I had a few drops of blo

My doctor recently prescribed me Junel Fe 1/20 (28), or as I understand, the generic version of Loestrin Fe to reign in my period. I am 38 years old. My periods have always been regular, almost like clockwork, but the heavy days are pretty heavy and over the past few years they have been getting incrementally worse. I now rely on ultra absorbency tampons and I have to change them at least every few hours or certain disaster. I can't sleep through the night anymore without having to get up in the middle of the night to change them. Plus, I have to travel for work several times a year, during which time I am very busy and on the go as many as 15 hours a day, which means controlling my heavy pe

Or, better yet, adopt him!

I doubled the mushrooms, added some frozen artichoke hearts and black olives, and then served the dish over whole wheat penne with a little shredded mozzarella. I generally don't like slowcooker recipes where I have to cook things separately in advance (I mean, what is the point of using the slowcooker??) but I did brown the pork chops and threw in the onions at the last minute to soften them. I didn't bother pre-cooking anything else.

Whoops...here is the recipe.

I know this is a long-winded post, but I am having trouble dealing with the death of our two cats within a short time span. We also need some advice on adoption. Skip straight to the bottom if you want to avoid the depressing pet loss story.

By way of background, we lost our cat Frank in April as a result of a urinary tract blockage. We had brought him to the vet on a Friday morning after we observed he was having difficulty urinating. After catheterizing him over the weekend proved to be minimally successful, the vet strongly recommended performing a perineal urethostomy on Monday morning. Unfortunately, complications arose later that day due to the wea