Lava
A couple of weeks ago, my child's last fish died. Until then, I had been using his aquarium light as a night light for the room. With the tank being empty and future plans being made to use it for hamsters, I decided to drag out my old, dusty lava lamp I had packed away in the basement. A friend bought it for me from Trivet's in Cincinnati, way back in my hippier days. I used the heck out of it and now I'm glad to see it back. I pulled it up from the basement , dusted the incense dust off of it and set it up on a timer in my kid's room. It burns from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. and it still works great...even after being boxed up for 7 years. The kids love it too. It lights up the room with a cool, blue light and the baby will stare at it as I rock him to sleep.
So you can understand why this blog entry by Blogger "The In Crowd" struck a chord with me:
http://learning2share.blogspot.com/2007/09/love-for-lava-lamp-and-box-it-came-in.html