Orange You Glad?

Tall order: Fresh orange booty.

I get a lot of e-press releases about new products. I recently called in a sample I really liked....the Tocca Italian blood orange scrub below. And keeping with the theme, the same week, a box of orange-hued Alexia frozen Artisan Sweet Potato Rolls arrived at my door, shipped in dry ice from California via UPS Next Day Air. [You warm the rolls in the oven; they were tasty, with notes of gingerbread spices. But they weren't out of this world.]

A juicy roundup:

• Brian Atwood Electra Suede Laser-Cut Open-Toe Boot. A spring trend I was alerted to via the Neiman Marcus shopper's email list. Preorder, $1,750. Gorgeous, but A. quite sure they would not zip over my calves and B. that's close to our monthly mortgage payment. But get your fun dose: Check the LINK.
• Tocca Stella Esfoliante da Corpo. A sugar-based body scrub with the heady scent of Italian blood orange--with grapeseed, safflower and olive oils, which left my skin soft. I love that in a scrub; I want to feel pampered, not Brillo-ed. Pricey, $32 for 6.8-ounce tube, but addictive. When you go to tocca.com, definitely, definitely check the Laundry tab--I first found Tocca sweaters @ Bergdorf Goodman many years back and then discovered the Laundry Delicate, which I adore. I need to get another bottle.
• Neutrogena Deep Clean Gentle Scrub. This drugstore product, which Figgy asked me to buy @ Walgreens on partying Duval Street in Key West, is really refreshing and smells like just-peeled orange to me. I'm not BSing when I say I can't wait to go wash my face now, and that's coming from a lazy nighttime beauty slug. The 4.2-ounce tube is about $5.99. 

Sweet vitamin-C dreams.

TCOY  

1. Walked Sug down to hobbit houses today. Even though it was brisk, we enjoyed ourselves. I could tell by Sug's jaunty prance. But I could also tell she was happy to get back into our warm house, b/c she pawed at the door when we got there.
   
2. Nap.
3. Work tasks.
4. Candlelight and rainbow chard for dinner--taught Figgy how to cook it--and whole wheat ravioli from the freezer at Whole Foods.