Baby Products

Because I, like most youth obsessed women, am a sucker for beauty products, years ago I bought Paula Begoun's "Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me." I talked about it first here. For years, I used this make-up Bible to clean out old products and purchase new non-irritating make-up. Well, Paula just came out with the 7th edition of the book and even though we do not have it yet, you can view some youtube clips of her book tour here. Knowledge is power.

We also use her face products because they are basic and inexpensive. We even just started using her shampoo, which is great, and in our last order DG got me some of her constant color lip paint which I love so much that I just bought a bunch more colors because it is on clearance for $5!

Now I am going through and looking at the baby products that she reviews. I am just so annoyed with stupid companies making crap products for us to put on a baby's skin. Why do they call it "sensitive skin formula" when they've put a bunch of ingredients in it that cause irritation? It's more annoying than poison oak on a hot summer day. You can read the baby product reviews here. The main one that I see we use is Butt Paste. We got it mostly for the great name, but have been using it occasionally if Hadley gets a little red. We've been lucky that she hasn't gotten full blown diaper rash. **knock on the diaper changer** But now we have to toss it.

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I have not dyed my hair since approximately June 2006 (left), right before DG and I got married. The reason being that I didn't want anything to hurt our chances of getting pregnant or staying pregnant, regardless of the arguments pro or against hair dye.

That being said, what you see is what you get these days. And try as they might, when my parents were in town, they could not find ONE gray hair on my head. HA.

Now that spring has sprung, and I am coming out of my cocoon, I am looking back at pictures of me with lighter blond highlights and thinking about refreshing my look for the summer. See how old and tired I look with dark hair (right). Tell me what you think by taking the poll below.

 Should I dye my hair again?

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  Yes, it will make you look younger.


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  No, and stop being so vain.


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  I don't care, now go post some more baby pics.


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  If you want, but you are pretty just as you are.


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  Sorry, I stopped in looking for girls who pee themselves.

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How Did you Find Me?

Once a month, I go through my Google Analytics to see how many hits I've been averaging. For the most part it remains pretty consistent. On occasion, I like to look for trends. How did someone in Estonia find my sight and why are they coming back for more?

Analytics actually helped us once when the buyer for our last house mysteriously backed out of the sale 4 days before closing. His realtor, his mortgage person and he lied by saying he had funding problems, but we knew better as he had already been pre-approved. Because he had a good excuse to back out, we were required to give him back his deposit. Needless to say, at 3 months pregnant, it was a stressful time as we were left to scramble around and come up with some creative financing to be able to close on our current house. I didn't know until 30 minutes prior to closing that we were approved. We also had to carry two mortgages for several months. *ouch* That being said, we Googled the buyer, found out where he worked, and were able to track the day that he hit both of our blogs. He ended up reading something he didn't like about the neighborhood (the power of the internet) and tried to unethically get out of the contract. We were able to confront his realtor with the facts and they ended up admitting to their lie and we got to keep his money, which didn't even begin to cover our losses. I think my exact vengeful words were "Google works two ways Mofo!" (See what a family friendly site we are now?)

That was a long tangent to get to what I really want to talk about, which are search strings that people enter to find this site.

Top search strings:

1) The most popular string is: "Love of Mine, Someday You will Die" which goes back to a post I did about one of my favorite Death Cab for Cutie Songs. Who knew that so many people would find this site from one line of lyrics?

2) All things bee: beehive, beehive cake, beehive hairdos, bee keeping: These people must be surely unhappy when they come and find out that there is really nothing to do with what they are looking for.

3) Pabst Blue Ribbon baby onsie, Pabst Onesie, etc.: Ooops, maybe I should not have called the PBR booties so tacky. There are actually quite a few people out there who are looking for them.

4) Ultrasound big head, big headed baby, baby ultrasound overbite: Poor Hadley got such a bad rap.

5) Boobies full of milk, milky jugs, engorged jugs: Ahhh the joys of nursing. Not exactly the fetish filled site they were looking for, I suspect.

6) Christy wears diapers, Christy Pee pics, Girls who enjoy pooping their panties in public, I was incontinent in my knickers today blog, fat girls pooping and pissing, and cheerleader crotch shots: Gawd knows what I wrote about to end up in these search strings, but I actually feel bad for the guys that are lonely on a Friday night, who have gone out and picked up some mountain dew and porn at the 7 eleven, and are getting settled in at the computer, ready for hot girly action, and instead they find excessive baby pics and diaper talk. Nothing like a cold shower.

Don Imus in the news

I do not usually comment on newsworthy items, but this one is getting everyone a bit fired up. Here are a few of my thoughts and a few I've stolen from my dad:

1) Ok, Don Imus "shock jock" was inappropriate on the radio. Let's talk about where he got that phrase he used. I can almost guarantee you that Don Imus, as a 60+ year old WHITE man does not run in circles where the term "Nappy Haired Ho" is used with regularity. So my question is, where did he get this term? My guess is: RAP music, or interviews with Rappers, or Snoop Dogg coming to him in his dreams. All of which take terms such as this and turn them into what popular culture today deems as ok to say in public. I think if he had just used the term "Smelly Pirate Hookers", this wouldn't have turned into such a racial issue.

2) CBS and NBC who have profited off of Don Imus for something like 20 years are a bunch of low profile spineless idiots. We should all boycott CBS anyway. I mean what would we be missing out on anyway Two Men and a...Is that show still on?

3) Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson are media whores. They are using Imus as a scapegoat instead of addressing the real issue: Rap Music. They are playing these women as martyrs who due to 3 measly words, have lost everything, including their basketball season, their game, and even their lives. What Al and Jessie instead should be doing is turning their attention to the real devil known as rap music. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about hip hop, but there is so much more to this culture that pushes the envelope of what is acceptable. And it has become so main stream that it makes it seem ok for the average person to use the terms that they use in the music.

For more reading, here is a great article written earlier this week by Jason Whitlock a columnist for the Kansas City Star.

People are People

But why is it that the DMV and the SS office seem to have lines and lines of the worst of the worst? It's like people got out of prison and went straight to the DMV so they could drive themselves to the liquor store. No pimply faced kids going for their first driving test, no soccer moms renewing their license, no hipster getting an address change, just 100 people, who are all very cranky, and have a lot of problems bigger than I can try to figure out here. Convicts, the lot of them.