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What's in a Diaper

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Early this morning, after an exceptionally impressive diaper explosion, I put the sheets into the washing machine. Later when I went to switch the sheets to the dryer, I found some of that gel goo that is inside of disposable diapers. At first I thought that the force of the explosion had propelled some of the gel (or let's just be honest, an extra organ) out onto the sheets. But as I kept picking out more and more of it, I realized I had accidentally thrown a disposable diaper in the wash with the sheets. I had no memory of doing this, but then again I don't remember much in my sleep deprived haze.  I must have considered changing Little P's diaper in the wee hours during one of her let's-get-up-at-midnight-and-play episodes, but never got around to it. Anyway, I pulled the sheets, diaper, and lots of little gel fluffs out of the washer. Which made me wonder what that fluff is. After Googling, it is sodium polyacrylate, a chemical found in most disposab...

Country Bumpkin - driving in the city

When I was a kid........ Growing up as country bumkins, my brothers and I had a quite a few things in the world waiting for us to discover. One of them was the fact that many interstates have more than 2 lanes. One year we took a road trip to Denver, six hours away. We were flabbergasted when the interstate turned into 3, 4, and 5 lanes! And all the cars! There is one behind us AND one in front of us! Hey, let's wave at them! Wait, better yet, let's make faces out the back window! Wow, so much fun. At one point, I remember we decided to act like we had never seen cars, buildings, and signs before. I don't think we had to act much. Well, low and behold, when I graduated from high school, I moved to the big metropolis of Rapid City, South Dakota. I have never really loved driving, and to add to my lack of confidence,  merging, stoplights, and one way streets (don't ask...) were all new to me. My greatest fear was having to take the interstate. Which meant I...

Midnight Meanderings

A little insight to my thoughts last night while feeding Little P at 12:30am. Usually I either don't remember or quickly forget my dreams. However, last night I made a point of remembering the dream I was dreaming when I got up to feed Little P. I am neither an expert or dream fanatic, only stupefied as to how bizarre dreams usually are. So, in my dream I was on the ranch I grew up on, out in the corrals. There were horses in one of the pens, but one of them had gotten out through a hole in the fence. (OK, pretty normal. What is weird is the horses that were there were ones that we owned when I was about 10, and could not possibly still be alive. Weird how my brain put those particular horses there.) Then, this guy is there with a pickup and trailer. On his trailer is an airplane. (odd, who drives around towing an airplane?) He gets into his plane, apparently to find the horse that got out, and attempts to take off. After failing, he ditches the plane. Then...

Something's afoot in Vancouver

This post has nothing to do with me, Wayne, Little P, or anything remotely related to us. But I did f ind this artic le very interesting. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/another-foot-washes-ashore-vancouver-continuing-eerie-trend-021754311.html "...the latest in roughly dozen such cases since 2007" "Police so far have no theories about how or why the foot ended up in the water" "In previous cases, police have said it appeared the feet separated from bodies naturally in the water and foul play wasn't suspected"  Let me get this straight.  1)No one knows why the feet were found in the water.  2)This has happened about 12 times in the last 4 years.  3)Human feet 'naturally' separate from their owner's body in water. Interesting fact.  4)Foul play is not suspected. Hmm, so another day, another foot in Vancouver. A human foot is bobbing along the shore and it's normal? I have to assume then that there is ...