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		<title>Facecream &#8211; Don&#039;t Do It!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life's Vicissitudes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hand cream]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My once normal skin has become a desolate dessert waiting for the next dew of the god's to moisten it's dried and cracked fissures...
The mouse I can replace (and have - thank you) but what of my hands and face?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently tried applying hand lotion / face cream to the spot on my nose where my glasses sit.  It was sore and itchy and I thought the cream might mitigate the situation.</p>
<p>It worked.</p>
<p>I started using the stuff more and more.  Bit by bit. -I didn&#8217;t just do the bridge of my nose anymore.  No.  I started putting it on my forehead, cheeks, neck, and even my arms if there was a little extra on my hands.</p>
<p>Then I started noticing a disturbing trend.  My face and hands were so cold outside.  All that moisture in my skin was acting as a giant wet blanket transferring my body heat into the great wide open.</p>
<p>That wasn&#8217;t my only problem, though.  Far from it.</p>
<p>I started rolling back my usage of the cream &#8211; only to discover that my hands and face had grown used to it.  Now i can&#8217;t go without.  My once normal skin has become a desolate dessert waiting for the next dew of the god&#8217;s to moisten it&#8217;s dried and cracked fissures.</p>
<p>As if that wasn&#8217;t enough&#8230; (and speaking of rolling)  the cream is why the track ball on my mighty mouse doesn&#8217;t work anymore.  The poor little thing has just been exposed to too much. Its crisp plastic insides have become a sloggly sluggish bog of gooey cream.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know where to go from here.</p>
<p>The mouse I can replace (and have &#8211; thank you) but what of my hands and face?</p>
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