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I've been feeling pretty over-stressed lately, and all I wanted last night was to relax a little. I just wanted to sink underneath six inches of bubbles in a nice hot tub and spend an hour reading the latest installment of anything that isn't my life. (The latest books of choice are a series by Lynn Flewelling, currently "Hidden Warrior". An excellent series if you get the chance.) I put the youngest ones to bed and ran the water. In retrospect, I should have locked the door, but because we have only one bathroom I didn't want to "just in case". BIG mistake! I wasn't in there too long before my teenage daughter walks right in, leaves the door wide open (letting out all the nice heat and steam) and announces she'd like to go to her friend's house over the weekend; can I drive her? Are you kidding me?
"This isn't the time to ask me, I need to talk to your Dad", I say.
"But Mom...", comes the inevitable whining reply.
"If you need an answer RIGHT NOW, it's NO!", I snap at her. "Close the door!"
I'm just getting back into the story when my husband walks in. Has EVERYONE forgotten how to knock???
He proceeds to get his stuff out of the cabinet to shave. So I'm like, "Can I at least finish in here before I get INVADED by my family?!?"
"Uh...oh, sorry.", he says. Geez. Can't a girl take a bath and read a good book any more? Alright, well, moment's over. Mood's ruined. So out I get. Oh well. 
My friend Bekka (bless her heart), let me borrow her book called "The Bath Gourmet" by Rhonda Van. I think it's time to take a page (pardon the pun) from it, and do the "Nutty Bath" on page 59. Looks like fun...
Ingredients:
3-5 pounds unshelled walnuts
2 tablespoons almond oil
2 capfuls black walnut extract
2 capfuls vanilla
Garnishes:
Apple slices & peanut butter
Instructions:
Rinse the walnuts and throw away any that are badly split or broken. Prepare your plate of apple slices and peanut butter (or any snack you love and haven't eaten in years) to munch on while you're in the tub.
Run the bath and add the almond oil, walnut extract and vanilla.
Add the walnuts last. 3 pounds is about 100 nuts, and is the minimum you'll need for an average size tub, but 5 pounds is better. The nuts float and are a fun alternative to bubbles. Make room for yourself and climb in, making sure there aren't too many behind you before you lean back.
Here's my favorite part --
Now sit back and relish the silliness of it all, or go ahead and enjoy your multitude of bobbing bath toys. Try fishing them out of the water using only your toes. Put a few under the sole of each foot and roll them along the bottom of the tub. Balance them on your head. If anyone knocks on the door and asks where all the clink clink noises are coming from, just yell, "I am Count Oog Oog Oog!" and let them wonder.
Ha, ha, ha! Too bad I don't have any walnuts.
~L
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Posted by LARed on 2008-08-01 15:20:31 | Rating: | Views: 51
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ha ha, love this! I am a bath nut - - I have to take one every night!!
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Posted by TheAlreadyJaded
on 2008-08-01 18:13:01
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Lol I know exactly how you feel. I was on vacation ands the only break I got was a bubble bath while my kids were taking a knapp, except shocking I got to finish my bubble bath. I wanted to fall asleep in it. Don't give up my friend Take care. A good bath will soon come your way.
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Posted by michelle8angels
on 2008-08-04 23:38:59
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