i'm not sure there are many things in this world better than a bubble bath.

maybe eating icecream while you are soaking in the bubble bath...

Words cannot express how green with envy I am right now. I love taking baths, have a Lush bath bomb someone gave me as a gift just SITTING there waiting to be used and I DON'T HAVE A BATHTUB. This is when NYC kinda sucks...

I used to schedule weekly bubble baths. When I was looking for an apartment, saw lots of great ones. Well almost great because they didn't have tubs. Just so wrong.

Anyone who listens to Kenny G while in the tub deserves to have the radio tossed in.

Um, what was wrong about that? There is NOTHING wrong with self-pampering at any time you deem necessary. If you had been sipping champagne during a noontime bubble bath, eating chocolate-dipped strawberries while watching some bad soap operas - um, I had a point, but I forgot it as I got caught up in how nice that would be. Except for bad soap operas, I'd be watching the Food Network.

Don't spread this around, but I like Danielle Steele. Ya gotta respect her success!

I'm with Gloria - there is NOTHING wrong with self pampering. In addition to the bubbles I like to add a little bit of the lavendar body oil from eo products - guaranteed to be one of the most relaxing baths ever!

OK, I feel much better about my self-indulgent habit.

Gloria & Dagny, I should have known you two American Princesses would be down with the tub.

Meghan -- Even here in LA, where space is in greater abundance, there are places without tubs. I remember I saw one and once I saw the bathroom sans tub I was like, Uh, thanks, but there's no bathtub and the guy looked at me like I was crazy. But in NY I remember I saw tons without. I can't believe you're coping.

Drew-- While I have not read any Steel, I have a soft spot for Dominick Dunne, who's basically her equivalent. Again, so wrong it's so right.

Vanessa -- I will have to try this lavender oil.

And Carolyn -- I haven't gone to food in the tub yet, but perhaps it's the next level of indulgence I should try out.

After you have tried the lavender oil, I'll mix a blend for you. I'm partial to a mix of rose, jasmine, musk, and ylang ylang.

I am so jealous. You have a fabulous new blog and you are soaking up the good times int he tub. And I have been too busy working to even update my blog!

I love the new blog. The pink is great.

I foudn time to update my blog this morning - while listening to your Summer Mix CD. I like to listen to it while I am working and pretend that I am actually at the beach and not slaving away for the man.

Wait, so this isn't an actual excerpt from a DS novel? But I thought for sure it's _Once in a Lifetime_, in which the main character falls in love 3 times (she's not unfaithful, it's just that her husbands keep dying, and she needs a father for her deaf son).

Baths are wonderful, if a little hygiene-challenged. Mike took one just last week, and when I went in the bathroom later, I saw that he'd moved a couple of candles in there. If he hadn't been soaking his hernia, I'm sure he would have thought "this is the life."

I love a good bath. Sadly, the place that I've lived for the past 11 years has a really shallow tub where you have to choose between knees sticking out and freezing, or upper body sticking out and freezing. I just gave up & now take a bath once a year in my parent's huge clawfoot tub at Christmas. (A clawfoot tub that they almost scrapped in favor of a pre-fab when they remodeled until I screamed at my mother. So they got it re-enameled instead)

This makes me miss my big garden tub... I mean my ex big garden tub. I used to live in FL. and I had this huge bathroom with a big tub that overlooked the preserve. Now I unfortunately live in Boston where my bathroom's smaller than the actual ex big garden tub. :(

BTW great site, I love the movie When Harry Met Sally.

I have no bathtub in an otherwise great apartment, something I will never, ever do again. I just miss it too much.

Sometimes I ask hubby if we can go away for the weekend, just so I can sleep in a hotel where there is a bathtub.

By the way - what were those objects that were photoshopped out of the picture? I just notied them and am curious.

Hmm, I have no idea what those things are. I stole the photo from somewhere else. Interesting. The shapes give me some idea, but I won't share that because my parents sometimes read my blog.

Listen to John Coltrane not Kenny G! I recommend Coltrane for Lovers, fine bathing album. Or, alternatively replace thoughts of "this is life" with realization of the illusory nature of life. This is a strange website and I don't know how I found it, but I can't think of a better way to live than in a cabin... maybe a tent or something... or a bridge... hmmm good luck anyhow.