August 31, 2006
My feeble brain is making an appearance in this week’s Thursday Thirteen.
Thirteen Things I’m Currently Pondering
- Why is it that when I don’t need help with anything at Target, there are always a handful of nice employees offering their assistance. But when I do need help? I get the one jackass to answer the call button.
- Why are there fifty spoons and no forks in the kitchen at my office? (You’ve got 10,000 spoons and all you need is a fork…).
- How is it that I have been using WiFi for almost three years now, but I just learned what it stands for (Wireless Fidelity) this week?
- Is it possible to overdose on frosted mini-wheats?
- Why is it that the two WORST diaper failures of Nikki’s life occur when she’s wearing Huggies instead of Target generic? There was the Shoe Carnival incident and then yesterday there was the Poop All Over the Living Room Carpet incident. (Which, incidentally, almost became the Dogs Ate Baby Poop incident, but I got there in time). Both times? Poop escaped out the leg portion of the diaper. Do Huggies suck? Or is this just us?
- Where is my damn watch? I took it off in my car one day because it was irritating my wrist. That evening, I went to get it out of my car and it wasn’t there. Did someone break into my car for a $30 Ironman?
- Why do I need an Ironman watch? I mean, is it really necessary I keep track of my time when I’m running? Do I need a watch to remind me that I run a 13 minute mile? Or would it just say SLOW AS HELL? Or maybe YOU WALK FASTER THAN YOU RUN.
- Am I officially a grown-up now that I’ve started listening to NPR in the mornings?
- Why is my face so greasey today? Did I mix up my soap and CRISCO for chrissakes?
- Why can I never remember how to spell Tuesday? (Teusday?)
- How is it that Dr. Wil is positioning himself to win BB All-Stars in the EXACT SAME WAY he won BB 2? And everyone is still falling for it? AGAIN. Even when they saw it the first time?
- Why was US Weekly THREE TIMES more expensive than TV Guide in my sister-in-law’s fundraiser? TV Guide at least has valuable information and substantial interviews. US Weekly is total crap in terms of content because it’s just a tabloid. Oh wait, I answered my own question there.
- If Nikki broke our TiVo and then I “had” to buy a new one with a dual tuner? Would you believe it happened by accident or that I maybe got the idea from someone else’s “tradedy” and possibly placed my TiVo in harm’s way on purpose?
I can answer number 4. Yes. Your body may not be happy with all that fiber.
Gotta love Tivo. And yes, for number 11, can you believe it? I mean, how dumb can they all be???
Zoot, I myself don’t have any kids, not yet anyway, but my friends all RAVE about the Sam’s brand diapers. They say they work just as well if not better and are so much cheaper! They say the membership is worth it’s weight in gold just for the diapers!
And I LOVE WILL. I too hated him at the beginning and loved Janelle but I love the puppet-master!!! Long live WIll!!!
My hub likes to snack on the brown sugar and the vanilla mini wheats. and yeah, be careful of the fiber! LOL.. i’m always telling him, PHEW! LOL
My T!3 is up, first time in a long time… all about mail order catalogs… If you have a favorite??? let loose! LOL
Please answer this question for me: How is it that you can have grey hair, wrinkles (fine lines), and ZITS???
On #4, my sister-in-law (mother of 3) says that Huggies suck. She will not buy them at all.
Did you read that Erin may have dumped Will? The fact that I did prolly says a lot about me ummm.
Huggies suck. Second that on the Sam’s diapers. My sister and sister in law won’t use anything else.
Hope you find your watch.
#4 Oh yes it’s possible. Beware the maple and brown sugar ones!
#5 Yes, Huggies suck. Try Luvs.
#9 Must be in the air, because I’m having the same problem. blech
#11 I KNOW! I keep yelling at the TV! Stupid morons!
#13 I’ve had the same thought. But I think I could get away with it as long as my husband doesn’t read these blogs.
blasphemy!! never talk that way about tivo or it will just go on strike like mine did last year!! two weeks of nothing on the Now Playing list…
you better say some little tivo-god prayers right this second to cover your butt!!
#5 - huggies have tiny leg holes so if nikkiZ has chubbier legs that could be the issue. My child has skinny little chicken legs that she seems to have inherited from her father, so Huggies are the ONLY brand that don’t cause explosions for us, but then agian sh eis only a month old (that makes me cry, she is growing too fat already!!!!) so i still have time to become disenchanted with them…
oh and #4 - yes, especially if they are the new fabulous strawberry ones!
I will ONLY use Target diapers or White Cloud…anytime I use anything else my son leaks…as did the two sons before him!!!
I am going to 2nd (well, probably more like 5th, lol) the Huggies suck thing. I also suggest the Sams diapers too. When my girls were babies, we couldn’t use Huggies on either of them and one was a teeny tiny premie and the other was the fattest baby in history, LOL. They just suck that bad. Oh, and I liked the White Cloud too. Just my 2 cents
It is not just you. Huggies suck rocks. Pampers RULE THE WORLD baybee!
My parents broke their Tivo. Since they’d had it so long (4+ years), the nice Tivo people sent them a new one for free! Maybe they’ll do the same for you?
I go for the Kroeger or Costco brand generics, they work just fine. If I feel like splurging, it’s Pampers, but Huggies work OK for us.
My daughter (15 weeks) had her biggest blow-out ever last weekend. I was at a funeral, saying some words about her great-grandmother’s passing, and she exploded in her front pack. Everyone heard it and started giggling. It was even in her shoe! And all over the carrier I needed to wear in the airport that afternoon. Ugh.
*Thanks for telling me what WiFi stands for. Maybe now I will be motivated to join all y’all in the 21st century and go wireless.
*We were always Luvs enthusiasts. Of course, my boobies never worked properly, so we were dealing with relatively solid formula poops, not epic explosions of breastfed fecal magma.
*I’ve been listening to NPR my entire life, and I’m pretty sure I’m not fully grown up yet. You do get maturity bonus points the first time you cry in the car while listening to a human interest story, tho. Those “StoryCorps” oral histories? Guaranteed waterworks.
*TiVo? Slow down there, missy. I’m still trying to wrap my head around “Wireless Fidelity.”
I will never buy Huggies again. I still have half a package in the closet because I refused to use the rest of them after the epic blowouts.
I will never buy Huggies again. I still have half a package in the closet because I refused to use the rest of them after the epic blowouts.
(oops, forgot my name last time!)
I always thought I’d be a grownup when I had kids…and lord knows THAT never happened!
First off, Huggies suck!! I use Pampers and my son has never had a poop-plosion as we call them around here. Even with stomach bug. All poop stays in the diaper.
And second, I would totally know you broke your TiVo. In fact, do we really believe Noah broke theirs?? I love that my DVR records 2 shows and might sell my son if he broke it.
OMG, I do not miss the leaky diaper phase! Actually, I don’t miss the diaper phase period!
HUGGIES SUCK! I hate then
Nough said
HUGGIES SUCK! I hate them
Nough said
Huggies do suck. We buy the store brand. Right now we are using the ones from Toys’r Us and they work really well.
I had to learn the hard way that Huggies suck. I couldn’t understand why my son kept peeing on me until my inlaws told me I should switch to Pampers or Luvs. I have never looked back.
With #13, if you don’t tell your husband about the other entry, we won’t either, and I wouldn’t blame you one bit.
Huggies are the worst. I used them once with my first because I couldn’t find any other brand preemie diapers and vowed never to use them again. It’s been Pampers ever since.
You are correct. Huggies suck. I’ll never use them again. When I hear that people use them and love them I’m very confused. Some people have babies that never poop outside their diapers… maybe those are the people who like Huggies?
Huggies suck! I used Huggies a long time ago, got ti free from babyshower. Leakage only happened when my baby was wearing Huggies.
NPR is crack to me. They suck you in with their weird, offbeat stories that you just HAVE to sit in the driveway to listen to. I think they even sell a CD with past stories on it called something like “Driveway Moments”. I bought all the “All Songs Considered” CDs from the NPR website because I loved all the music from the “All things Considered” segment. Yes, I am a total geek and grownup too.
Huggies regular do suck, as everyone else has said. I will buy Huggies Supreme though, because they work nearly as good as Pampers Cruisers (my personal fav).
Grey’s Anatomy (I know you hate it but stick with me) is going to be on at 9 p.m. on Thursdays as is The Office, not to mention ER is right after all that. I tried to explain the logic behind the dual tuner to my husband last night. He wasn’t buying it. I’m thinking I might have to blame the kids!
I lurve the frosted mini wheats too! I ate a ton of them when I was pregnant and the goodness has kept on going after having Grommet, despite the fact that I wasn’t a big cereal eater before. And we are on our first Huggies experiment since our local store ran out of Pampers. They’ve handled pee okay but the one time Grommet has pooped I was glad I was right there ’cause in the three minutes before I changed her it was already starting to seep a little from the leg hole.
#2-Your coworkers are throwing them away with the empty Lean Cuisine carton.
#5-We used Pampers Swaddlers until Kaitlyn got to size 3, then I suggested we try the Target ones, and we loooove them. Never had a blowout. Not once.
#6-I assume you already looked under all the seats? Then hmmm, it could have been a theft.
#8-Love NPR! Yep, we’re grownups now
I run a 12:50 mile… I totally beat yuou!! thank god there is someone out there.
Yes, yes, yes, Huggies totally suck!
I used Huggies for all three of my kids and loved them - I foud when they were ready to move up to the next size, they leaked.. so try her in a bigger size huggie