Paul's Journal

09/10/2010 23:49 #52703

Giovanni hot chocolate sugar scrub
Category: chocolate

I don't even know what this stuff is for but it smelled more amazing then anything I ever smelled so I bought it.

Ingredients: organic sugar, Safflower seed oil, Theobroma Cacao (cocoa beans), honey, polysorbate 20, Silica Dimethyl Silylate, Kukui nut, shea butter, vitamin e, Walnut shell

Instructions: Scrub. Under a warm shower, dip into jar and then rub across body to exfoliate all over. Rinse.

Cost: $10.99 but I think it seems like it would last a long time and the smell is so good.

lilho - 09/11/10 16:45
its for exfoliation, if you have dry skin, scrub over slightly moist skin then rinse off and follow with a moisturizer after shower.

paul - 09/11/10 11:09
It at wegmans in the natures food section by the shampoos and stuff. Its $10 but I think from testing it that it seems like enough to last a long time.

I added cost, ingredients and instructions to the post.

tinypliny - 09/11/10 07:41
Gets rid of rough skin and calluses? Some sort of exfoliation mix.

tinypliny - 09/11/10 07:39
I recently got a cream made of 70% cocoa beans and cocoa butter. It smells like I have smeared chocolate all over. The trouble is I am now tempted more by the small chocolate pieces they have in the reception office of the department - especially this devious brand called butterfingers. I hope the office people keep thinking I have taken a shine to them and not the goodies in the bowl.

Where did you get this?? I want it too! How much is it?

09/10/2010 23:03 #52700

dragonfruit
Category: food

Has anyone ever tried a dragon fruit. I could not get myself to spend the $6.50 but now I feel like I might have missed out on something magical.

These ones came from vietnam, but how crazy that is really native to central america and was brought to vietnam by the french.

The dragonfruit is native to Central America. According to Aztec literature, Pitahaya fruits date back to the 13th century. In Vietnam, where it is extensively grown, Pitaya fruit is known as thang loy. It is believed that the fruit was introduced to Vietnam by the French and today, the average yield per hectare is 20-25 tonnes.

More info can be found here:

metalpeter - 09/17/10 16:55
I have had drinks that say they taste of dragon fruit, SOBE used to make a dragon fruit flavor with a dragon on the bottle. Often though juice and fruit don't taste the same, let alone some drink that claims the fruit..........

paul - 09/11/10 11:15
Oh wow, it is pretty cool: :::link::: Now I feel like I missed out.

paul - 09/11/10 11:14
Its not a cactus pear. I and the tortoise love cactus pears, which are called prickly pears here. This is much bigger, more the size of a software, softer and the outside has layered leaves like it is the base of some sort of palm plant.

tinypliny - 09/11/10 07:45
I have had this before (only it was not called dragonfruit). It looks like the cactus pear from Mexico. It's mildly sweet, doesn't really smell like a pear and rather pleasant. If it is indeed the cactus pear, these must be old ones; the skin is a lot more tighter in fresh "fruits".

09/10/2010 16:15 #52696

I was programming today
Category: music

...and this song randomly came on. I thought it was funny in light of (e:paul,52411)

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

tinypliny - 09/10/10 20:18
Nevermind the sound of silence. The first 10 seconds are the sound of two words.

09/08/2010 22:02 #52685

Unbalanced
Category: houses

This is the back of a house near (e:Heidi)'s. Theft window placement is so unbalanced it makes me think it was larger before or something.

tinypliny - 09/09/10 19:22
Yeah - it does look odd. I noticed when I was helping (e:Heidi) move.

09/06/2010 19:26 #52673

Swimming at the beach
Category: swimming

I am so glad I got to go swimming. I have no pictures but (e:heidi,52672) , took some. Just like when it is warm out and the super shallow is super warm, today that part was super cold. Once it was deep enough to swim in the water was about the same as usual. The water temp doesn't fluctuate as fast as the air. It was so great to swim without the lifeguards present. You could actually go out to where you could swim instead of wade.

I really feel like they need to change the whole system during the summer. Make it swim in the lines in for protection or swim outside at your own risk. Even if it is 18 and over something but I would really like somewhere you could just go out and full on swim. Seems like every other city on water has beaches like that. It makes me hate Buffalo sometimes.

lilho - 09/09/10 14:09
lets runaway to the caribbean...

metalpeter - 09/07/10 19:14
Well that swimming out side of the lines at your own risk wouldn't work. What is a lifeguard to do just watch you drown? Even though it says at your own risk if they could save you morally they are obligated to. But also legally I think they would be also. If you want to swim you can do so between those lines though. Hope everyone had a good time!