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Thank you Julie! She made some soaps, and offered to send them out to some folks and I am one of the lucky recipients. They smell heavenly, and one is in my shower now. I'd actually gotten them last week, but I think my husband may have stuck them on a high shelf after I brought the box in, to keep it out of Kevin's reach, and I just found the box yesterday.

I hope this post goes through. Having trouble with the internet today.

I got the letter from HR at work, I test for the position I applied for next tuesday. I hope I do well, but even if I do... it's no guarantee of putting me at the top of the list. It sure would be nice to get that job though. I am ticked off for a friend of mine though... she works in the office where this job is at, she has the same job classification as I do. They sent her a letter telling her she would not be invited to test. WTF? She's just as qualified as I am. I don't get it. She told me that she thought her boss didn't like her. I have to wonder now if that was it... seems awfully petty if it were.

Also next week is Kevin's surgery. I'm getting cold feet. I am paranoid now. If you all don't hear from me thursday evening, something bad may have happened and I am in jail for murdering the surgeon.

Oh. So our state just passed a law that there's to be no smoking in public buildings now, with a few exceptions (casinos). The law was passed in response to Illinois passing a similar law (though their casinos were not exempted). While on the surface, I'm happy about it because I hate walking into restaurants and smelling smoke. I'm slightly disturbed by the trend of legislating this kind of thing. How far does it go, when does this kind of thing stop? Someday will it be illegal for fat people to buy candy or ice cream? I don't know... I don't see a perfect solution. Someone locally posted an idea that made more sense to me... treat cigarettes like a controlled substance... like alcohol is treated. Then make restaurants and bars buy a cigarette license the way they do a liquor license. To me that makes more sense, that way there would be some restaurants and bars that people can still smoke at, and others that choose not to offer that option. Sure I don't like to be forced to breathe second-hand smoke, but I don't think that should mean that every single entertainment venue in the state must be smoke-free and that people can only smoke in their homes, cars and a certain number of feet outside buildings. And casinos.