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[Va]

Howdy.  I'm pregnant again, due in late February.

[AugustWest]

Congratulations!

[V-Adore]

Congrats! Best wishes to you and yours, and may the new baby be as lovely as Lydia was/is.

[wombat]

Resurrecting the Wen review:  Today I used it again and followed the directions very carefully.  My hair looks quite nice.  However, I think the conclusion is that this product may really only be appropriate for the celebrity endorsers, who don't have to get to work early in the morning and can justify standing around in the shower for 3-5 minutes to condition their hair.  I don't know about you, but I don't usually have the time.

[KeithHernandez]

I don't know your shower technique, but when I conditioned I washed my hair, put in conditioner, washed my body and then rinsed the conditioner.  I am off to do this now, with out the conditioner part.

[wombat]

That is of course the rational procedure which I generally follow, but apparently I am not usually so dirty that it takes me 3-5 minutes to wash.  This is a demanding hair product, requiring that you stand around doing nothing and wasting hot water to get its full effect.

[linnea]

Damn, wombat! Even in the Marine Corps you get three minutes to shit, shower, and shave. How in the hell are you in and out of the shower in less than 3-5 minutes? Washing my face, using frilly shower gel with a girly shower puff, and shaving takes at least 3 minutes. I'm a fan of long showers.

[wombat]

Yeah, but the stuff has to sit on your hair for the whole five minutes, it seems.  Even if I shower for five minutes, you have to subtract the parts where I am washing the hair - slowly because the stuff doesn't lather - and when I am rinsing it, also slowly because it seems hard to tell when it's all gone.

And perhaps this is too much information, but I don't shave at times of year when all the hairy parts are covered up by clothes. I suppose I can save the Wen for the summer, then.

[wombat]

By the way, I am tickled to know that there is one task in my life that I perform up to Marine Corps standards.

[CortJstr]

Damn, wombat! Even in the Marine Corps you get three minutes to shit, shower, and shave. How in the hell are you in and out of the shower in less than 3-5 minutes? Washing my face, using frilly shower gel with a girly shower puff, and shaving takes at least 3 minutes. I'm a fan of long showers.

It takes me that long to find my place in the book, let alone actually acomplish anything. And my showers tend to fill the time available. If I wake up 10 minutes earlier, I'll just stand in the shower for an extra 10 minutes trying to get the water to help me wake up. That plus listening to traffice and weather on the 8's.

[jough]

There's no way you can shit, shower, and shave in under 5 minutes and do all three effectively.

Men in the Marines would be constipated, unclean, and partially shaven, I guess. That doesn't sound right.

[theinevitable]

I can confirm, my friend in the Air Force had 3 minutes to do all three during basic training.

[wombat]

Now I understand why they have to have such short haircuts!

[linnea]

Now I understand why they have to have such short haircuts!

When my Pa was in basic training at Camp Pendleton and then Vietnam, they also had to tie their socks around their ankles to wash them at the same time as they were showering.

[jay-ell]

Aside to Va:

Welcome back, and congrats!  Your avatar pic is adorable, Lyd's grown so much!  I guess P has too, though. 

I think the difference between inev and Va re: the minimal shampoo and soap thing is ten years and a c*ck.  By which I mean, age and gender have a lot to do with your skin, so what works for one isn't likely to work for the other. 

Also, I would like to note that I consider a cool ten minute shower to be "long and luxurious" while Pedro considers the same to be "cruel and unusual punishment."  My dad, who has never been in the military, regularly takes showers that last (literally) ninety seconds, two minutes tops.  I don't know why other than some unknown childhood trauma involving my excessively frugal grandmother and the water bill. 

But, I have passed the point of "checking in" and have entered into the arena of "procrastinating on my homework," so I'd best bid you all adieu.